Tupac
Just saw Tupac Resurrection. He was a talented man with a big heart and a soothing rap. We will miss you, Drew on iPad2 asketch app while watching.
Self portrait
I noticed my reflection in the glare on the iPad screen. This is why I have a kindle reader. However, I traced la línea con my finger on the asketch app, this is the result.
Ocean Beach - Symphony on Yellow and Blue
Horizontal bands of color, a converted beach scene ala iphone, reminds me of a Rothko-esque fantasy world.
Boarding the Ocean Beach Ferry
I used tadaa app, then applied tilt shift effect. Selective blurring places the focus and emphasis on the face, creating a very introspective feel.
Horses in Hamptons
Taken with Tadaa app on iphone, then converted to Charleston sepia tones. A western setting in sepia monochromes creates a vintage look. An extreme close up is a true portrait. One can sense the horse's personality.
Lobsterman at the Pines Hotel
An environmental portrait. Placing a portrait in contextual surroundings adds interest and plot narrative.
Fashion Show at Invasion of the Pines
Repetitive forms with sunglasses is good. Reminds me of a famous photograph from the fifties of people in a 3D movie.
Merman
A man dressed as a sea creature during the Invasion of the Pines. Taken with Canon 40D, 580 EX II flash, and 24-105 L lens
Lobsterman
At the Invasion of the Pines, 2012. An annual tradition, drag queens from nearby Cherry Grove on Fire Island arrive by the ferry and walk down the red carpet. The event began after a group of cross dressers were turned away at a lady's night event at the Pines, with the blunt dismissal that they were not real girls. In protest, a small band staged an invasion by water the following year. Every year the invasion has grown till now, when about 500 queens arrived together.
Sunset on Fire Island
As the sun sets over the Great South Bay, a smooth aerial transition of color takes place, as burning reds shift gently to greyish blues of twilight. The otherworld transform of the tadaa app desaturates all other color, allowing us to focus on and marvel at the spendor of the setting sun.
Steven
A self portrait, using tadaa app with transform called souvenir. Yes, it does remind me of an old postcard, perhaps faded, or even colored in a bit with watercolor.
Hair on Fire
Graininess and texture. color inversions, destauration effects combined help to create another watercolor like portrait. Motion, repetitive forms and colors, unexpected vantage points help to produce a dynamic composition.
Fire Island Ferry in HDR
Impossible to avoid motion. In HDR, or high dynamic range photography, two images of different exposures are merged. A tripod can help prevent motion, allowing for precise overlay of the same image. On the ferry, buffetted by strong winds, this was all but impossible. Fun was to be had, however. With HDR pro app on the iPhone, the interior of the ferry, otherwise darkened in shadows by the setting of the twilight sun, is illuminated in the warmth of surreal lightening, create a glow to math that of the twilight afterburn.
The Artist
In Fire Island, taken with iPad 4 S app called Tadaa, sought of like instagram. I then transformed the picture using the otherworld option. I love the way it creates a water color like effect.
Les Parapluies, Renoir
I drew this with my second right finger using the iPad 2 Inspire Pro app. I applied thin layers of varying transparencies, of blues , greens, and yellows mixed into the flesh tones to reproduce Renoir's signature method.. This face is in a large painting of many people, with umbrellas, hence the title. It is one of any large full length portrait studies introduced today at the Frick Museum, NY.
The Eye
Drawn with Art Set app on iPhone. When drawing an eye, always begin with the globe, or eyeball. Get it right. Shade it as you would a sphere. Then wrap and drape the eyelids over the ball, conforming to the shape of the rounded object. Do not forget to show the light reflecting off the inner part of the lower lid. Also, use a drop of red along the medial canthus. Shading can create a sense of depth, as the eye sits deeply within the orbit.
Drawing by Max, age 4
A clown face perhaps. Max chose the color for the background and the figure, with a little prompting. I like his touch of green, boldly standing out against the purple. His read purple combination adds much subtlety.
The Rennaissance Portrait
The Rennaissance Portrait (click on this link to see NY Times Gallery of this show)
During the early Renaissance, artists working in Florence, Venice, and the courts of Italy created magnificent portrayals of the people around them—from heads of state and church to patrons, scholars, poets, and artists—concentrating for the first time on producing recognizable likenesses and expressions of personality. The rapid development of portraiture was linked closely to Renaissance society and politics, ideals of the individual, and concepts of beauty.
During the early Renaissance, artists working in Florence, Venice, and the courts of Italy created magnificent portrayals of the people around them—from heads of state and church to patrons, scholars, poets, and artists—concentrating for the first time on producing recognizable likenesses and expressions of personality. The rapid development of portraiture was linked closely to Renaissance society and politics, ideals of the individual, and concepts of beauty.
Botticelli Portrait
Painted on asketch app on the iPad 4S. This Botticelli portrait is on display at The Metroplolitan Museum of Art, in a magnificent exhibit titled Portraits of the Rennaissance.
Violinist and Celloist at Central Park Boat Lake
Movie - Click to Listen, originally uploaded by lionheart613.
Please click movie to listen.
Accidental Sky
I was using the SlowShutter app on the iPhone 4S. I propped up the camera to stabilize it, so as to blur the people walking by in the park, without blurring the background. The camera tipped over and fell. Luckily, it fell on a soft patch and no harm was done. The slow shutter however accidentally captured the sky, blurred and swirling to wonderful effect!
Bethesda Fountain
HDR lets us see the angel statue outside, as well as interior detail, without blowing out the highlights.
Harlequin Elephant
Camouflaged patterns are effective. The eye must work to reveal the form of the elephant in this window display at Louis Vuitton.
Mannequin
Taken with iPhone: Used TiltShiftGen app on iphone 4S to selectively blur background. Then used Cool fx app to apply masks. I used the glamour app and white diffusion to selectively make a warm glow on the mannequin's face.
Agent Provocateur
Agent Provocateur (movie, click on arrow to see mannequin come to life), originally uploaded by lionheart613.
Click on the arrow to see this Pygmalion come to life.
Front Street
In HDR, a scene capturing the revitalized look of South Street Seaport. Old New York at its very best.
Volley
Love the intense rusty green, and the motion effect of the players. Shooting from behind a fence creates a voyeuristic effect.
Howard and Crosby
A colorful street scene, could be Paris, but on a charming intersection of Crosby and Howard Streets, at the Mondrian Hotel, a chic boutique hotel in soho.
The Streets Have Memories
The HDR pro app needs two pictures to align, taking each at a different exposure. However ghosts of people are created when individuals walk into view while the camera was still taking the preliminary photos. Those shown here are all immersed in cell phone activities and seem present yet very much apart from one another. I think that when you are with another person, or even walking in the street, if you are immersed in your personal iPhone or other smart device, you avoid all the interactions that make us the social animal we are. You become a ghost, an invisible non-being, a person non-persona.
Newbury Street
Taken with iPhone 4S, with HDR app, dynamic light, photogene. I warmed the tones with dutch light effect, and used extreme overcooked HDR.
Chinese Restaurant
I placed the fork over the edge of the table to recreate the trompe l'oeil effect of a still life from Amsterdam.
Ice Cream Shoppe
Another beautiful HDR photo, a small little ice cream shoppe on main street in Rockport
Rockport
Created with iPhone 4S and Dynamic Light together with HDR pro apps. It reminds me of a hyperrealistic watercolor painting.
Model in Chinatown
HDR creates a brilliant surge of ultra sharp vibrant color, and motion, to beautiful effect.
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