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A. Macarthur

Want Impressive Fireworks Images? Add Contrasting, Opaque Subject Matter!

Via: A. Macarthur  •  2026 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  1 Comments  •  11 years ago

"No concept can exist without its opposite" ... or so it is philosophically pondered. In concrete terms, light is the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible. On the...
A. Macarthur

iPhone HDR Setting Does Nice Job

Via: A. Macarthur  •  2026 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  11 Comments  •  11 years ago

HDR ... High dynamic range imaging in digital photography, maximizes the scope of tones from the lightest to the darkest portions of an image; it's a process enabled by state-of-the-are image...
leonahardware

Christmas Valley, OR Sand Dunes

Via: leonahardware  •  2026 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  7 Comments  •  11 years ago

Yesterday my beloved and I went on a jaunt to Christmas Valley, OR. It's in the middle of the Oregon desert. About 20 miles east of 'city center' of Christmas Valley, are some magnificent sand...
A. Macarthur

Do You Have a Moody Image ... Photography, Digital Work and/or Other Visual to Share?

Via: A. Macarthur  •  2026 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  10 Comments  •  11 years ago

Got a "moody" or "spiritual" image of your own creation? We'd like to see it. I'll start ... A. Macarthur
Larry Hampton

Foundations

Via: Larry Hampton  •  2026 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  11 Comments  •  11 years ago

I had mentioned here a few months back that our small town and my work place will be getting a new hospital; a VERY exciting deal! :~) I thought it would make a nice photography project...
A. Macarthur

MacArthropods? What are They?

Via: A. Macarthur  •  2026 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  9 Comments  •  11 years ago

Arthropods are animals without backbones or internal skeletons. Instead, they have exoskeletons, that is, external skeletons, bodies that are segmented, and jointed appendages. In fact, the word...
A. Macarthur

Effective "Black and White" Images, in My Opinion, Begin as COLOR!

Via: A. Macarthur  •  2026 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  15 Comments  •  11 years ago

Mt. Baker, Washington State, USA A. Macarthur Lots of people agree that black and white (grayscale) images actually gain impact over color images ... at least in many instances. Why is that?...
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Photoshop Phantasy ... Surrealism Using Photoshop Layers

Via: A. Macarthur  •  2026 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  3 Comments  •  11 years ago

Surrealism A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of...
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