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5 days ago · Great group photos need a strong composition, a flattering pose and good light. The opportunities to photograph great group pictures are everywhere. From family portraits to sports teams to the formal portraits at a wedding. Great group pictures help freeze that group dynamic in time.
1 day ago · A new mural reflecting the evolving world of work in Market Harborough has gone on display at the town’s museum. The piece was inspired by the classic Ladybird Book series, ‘ People at Work,’ which was released sixty years ago by the then Loughborough-based publisher. Earlier this year, the ‘Harborough at Work’ exhibition looked at ...
Self-Portrait (Dou, New York) Self-Portrait. (Dou, New York) Self-Portrait is a 1665 niche painting by Gerrit Dou. It shows the artist at the peak of his fame, holding a palette and surrounded by studio objects. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. [1]
21 hours ago · A new mural (pictured above) reflecting the ever-evolving world of work in Market Harborough has gone on display this week at Harborough Museum. The piece, which has been co-curated by local residents and Leicestershire County Council’s Culture Leicestershire team, was inspired by the classic Ladybird Book series, ‘People at Work,’ which ...
21 hours ago · The identity of the sitter in another portrait remains unclear – she could be either Isabella Rich or Lady Isabel Rich, both of whom were related, by marriage, to the Howards – but her pale yellow standing collar helps to date the painting, or at least provides a probable terminus ante quem for its completion. Yellow collars enjoyed a vogue at the early Jacobean court, but rapidly fell out ...
21 hours ago · Boyer's second tip is one that experienced shooters use for all sorts of wildlife photos and human portraits as well; namely "focus on the eyes"—even if other parts of the bird aren't critically sharp. That's because "as humans we connect with a bird, or any animal, through the eyes." Rule #3 is all about vantage point and camera position as ...
21 hours ago · Saoirse Ronan is not an idiot. Before she turned 26, she had won a Golden Globe (for Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age comedy Lady Bird) and accumulated four Academy Award nominations, the first, when she was 13 years old, for her portrayal of precocious teenager Briony Tallis in the film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s Atonement.
