Findingviews

Milk and cookies (via Oana Mangiurea)

Photos can take you to an emotional place. Good depth of focus, vignetting and toning gives this a safe and old fashioned feel that can bring up feelings of nostalgia

Here’s a quick and easy tip that has nothing to do with the classic suggestion of running a blog to help people find you.

This one is entirely for content creators, and so seems appropriate for a photography blog.

If you create content – particularly if you are a blogger of a photographer then you should take a look at Zemanta and Apture.

Both of these services do a single job well – they allow for the integration of content from a number of sources into a blog entry. Using Zemanta or Apture can really help a blogger quickly find a reference or image to insert. Of course all of this content has to come from somewhere… this is where you come in. By making your content available to Zemanta or Apture you can increase your chances of being discovered simply some bloggers, somewhere in the world will refer to your work.

Take a look at what these services offer – for a creative person they are potential discovery engines.

red ferraris (via Baby Skinz)

The cars are cool by themselves. Placing them on a diagonal with a a light aircraft flying overhead is really excellent composition

Tilt Shift skyline (via Jeff-C-C)

Using Tilt Shift to generate views that make people look like toys is faitly well known. This image uses it to create an interesting use of depth and focus.

Lightning Sunset in H-Town (via J-a-x)

The difference between the viewer and the artist. The title says lightning - which is nicely caught. But for me this one is all about texture and colour - which are also vital parts of composition

I’ve been considering adding the content from http://sharedcreation.tumblr.com/ to this blog. I’ve now come down on the side of adding this content. Here’s why. What I do with http://sharedcreation.tumblr.com/ is to hunt through the Internet for photographs and sometimes videos that I find inherently interesting. I then pass a few comments on the subject matter, techniques, content and simply what this makes me feel. The idea is that I produce a stream of inspiration that is created by combining the words and images. I try to update http://sharedcreation.tumblr.com/ most days – and this typically works out to around 5 updates per week.

To me this fits in perfectly with the concept of Findingviews being a notebook of thoughts. In Findingviews I like to write about what I am doing, pass experiences on, and pass along ideas. I think adding how I feel about other images and art makes a lot of sense.  It is adding another piece to the puzzle to let you see what is going on.

I hope you find the new images interesting, and entertaining.

You need two on your first day (via Ayoumali)

Simplicity and bokeh are the key to a good picture here. The lack of colour is important too

Jan/23/09 (via NATEPERRO)

3 words for this one

Cool, Noir, Atmospheric

(via a nameless yeast)

Getting up close the gritty face of a city reveals atmosphere

(via itskay [kala])

The photographer wonders what a good song for this picture is.

I’m wondering what happened here - a prime example of a picture capturing a story