Photography | Golda Raphael

Mask

In my efforts to become more creative in my photography, I’m dipping into my archive of ‘abandoned images’ and reprocessing them in the hopes of reinventing them as art.
It’s actually a really enjoyable process looking through images I had given up on long ago and breathing new life into them.
This was originally a photo taken of a mask in the British Museum. It was under a hard florescent light, and was taken as a wide shot resulting in a lot going on in the background.
I took the picture and then rather embarrassingly realized I was in the gift shop, not in the museum itself … ha ha.

Plaster replica aside, I’m please with the result.

Published on 29th April 2012 2:45 PM.
Filed under: Instagram

Peace

I was going to delete the original image as it was badly shot against the light, but had a sudden flash of inspiration. I cropped it, added some filters and artificial lights for effect.
All done on the iPad.

Published on 28th April 2012 6:45 PM.
Filed under: Instagram

Remembering Jukkasjarvi

This photo is from a trip I took a few years ago to a small Swedish town called Jukkasjarvi. Population is less than 600 people.

Published on 8th April 2012 2:11 PM.
Filed under: Instagram

Actors Acting in New York Times

A post by The Inspiration Room caught my eye …

The New York Times photography feature, Fifteen Actors Acting, has won a Gold Cube for photography

at the Art Directors Club global awards held in New York. Fifteen actors are captured in black and white

by Norwegian photographer Solve Sundsbo.

More images …. … view the rest »

Published on 30th April 2011 1:33 PM.
Filed under: People, Photography

Photography Update

In full photography mode this morning.

Spending the next hour or two planning out my new ‘people’ photography project. In 2010, I took a lot of photos of things. This year, I want to focus on people.
I also want to explore photo processing techniques in a lot more detail. So far, for me, processing has been about minor tweaks and colour correction. I want to see how I can use more advanced techniques to create more art-like images.

My big FAIL for 2010 has been not posting enough of my work online. That is all about to change. Will be posting a lot more, work in progress as well as finished work.

Stay tuned!!!

Published on 6th February 2011 12:06 PM.
Filed under: Me

30 Day Challenges

I will be participating in the following 30 day challenges …

EVENT: Script Frenzy
CHALLENGE: Write a 100 page screenplay in 30 days (rules)
DATE: April 1st – 30th
LINK: http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/

EVENT: SoFoBoMo (Solo Photo Book Month)
CHALLENGE: Produce a Photo book in 30/31 days (rules)
DATE: June OR July
LINK: http://www.sofobomo.org/

EVENT: Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month)
CHALLENGE: Write a novel in 30 days (rules)
DATE: November 1st – 30th
LINK: http://www.nanowrimo.org/

I love doing these things. At any given time I have 100′s of ideas rattling around in my head, these challenges help me focus.

Anybody else doing these?

Published on 3rd April 2010 12:36 PM.
Filed under: Me

Portraits of the most Iconic people of all time

Webdesigner Depot recently published this post with over 100 portraits of the most iconic people of all time (or the most iconic images of all time – depending on how you look at it ).

The images are large and clear and many are stunning.

What is also interesting, are the comments, which had to be closed due to the intense debate on who should (or shouldn’t) have made the list.

Check it out.

Published on 26th July 2009 2:13 PM.
Filed under: Art, People, Photography

Evelyn McHale – The Saddest Photograph

This photograph is of Evelyn McHale. On the 1st May 1947 she jumped 86 floors from the top of the Empire State Building. She was 23 years old.

On the ground below, a photography student named Robert Wiles managed to capture the scene minutes after her body landed on top of a parked limousine.

You can read the story behind the photograph here.

Published on 26th July 2009 11:57 AM.
Filed under: Featured, Highlights, People