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Photography Troubleshooting: Capturing SnowThe best of the Wintery weather conditions often come later on in the season, especially here in the UK. The next week or so will hopefully provide many photographers with the chance to capture those snowy scenes. So what’s the best way to achieve them?
I’m sure many will agree that snowy landscapes are amongst the trickiest things to photograph. Exposure is the common problem; temperature is usually a close second! If your camera has a snow or winter setting then this will help override the auto white balance and lower the exposure, so you are already set to go. But if your camera doesn’t have these functions, then you might find these tips handy:

1.Before you head out, check your equipment. The white skies that often accompany a snowy scene are the most likely out of any shot you’ll take, to show up the dirt on your lens. Give it a good clean beforehand or you’ll be spending a long time with th

Photography Troubleshooting: Capturing AutumnFor many Photographers, Autumn is now officially here and is one of the most exciting seasons to capture in terms of colour, change and vistas. Early morning mist, late afternoon sun, orange, red and golden hues - Autumn has a lot to offer in many countries. If you're like me, Autumn often arrives all at once and it can be tricky to know how to make the best of the season before it's over. A couple of days of high winds and rain can ruin the best Autumnal captures by ripping the leaves down before you've even got the chance to snap - so it's great to be prepared for the season.

Leading lines are particularly useful. Yet so many people quote ' Look for leading lines...' or 'You've captured the leading lines here perfectly' and really do we even know properly what they are? The purpose of a leading line is to draw a viewers eye into the photograph and then on a journey - through it. Think of it as a visual narrative. They can be intentional and ind

Welcome to Chat and Forums PE Week!Welcome to the #projecteducate Chat and Forums week!

The aim of this week is to educate deviants on one of the most overlooked parts of deviantART - the +chat and +forum.
A big thank you to the Community Volunteers who are helping out this week:
:icon3wyl: :iconastralseed: :icondekoradum: :iconendorell-taelos: :iconlost-angle: :iconnamenotrequired: :iconneurotype:
Here is the schedule:

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8thMondayAM - Welcome to Chat and Forums Week! by ^ladygagzPM - PE: Breaking into Chatrooms by ^Astralseed
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Community Week Wrap UpHello everyone!

The Community Week scheduled for April 1st to April 7th is now over! We would like to help everyone involved for their effort and dedication they put into these inspiring articles that are a great addition to our community

Here is the recap of this Community Week:
How to design a typeface by *MartinSilvertant
Groups Directory Update by `Infinite-Heart
History of April Fool's dAy! by ^ladygagz
Inner Artist by =Serinji

PE: Interview with `miontre:iconmiontre:
`miontre
Hello `miontre, could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Hello and Bonjour!

Let me first say that I am terrible at writing about myself!

I'm a hobbyist photographer - at the moment I'm really into Abstract and Surreal, but I like all types of photography. My other artistic interests are editing my photos, photomanipulation, graphic design, typography, web design, and 3D art. Some of those I don't do very often, but I find them all pretty interesting!

The only web design work I've been doing lately has been creating journal skins on deviantART - I've never had the opportunity to put my actual web designs online, and so skins are the best way I can do that at the moment!
How did you first get into creating Journal Skins?
I'd always been interested in creating Journal skins, and I'd known CSS for quite some time before joining dA, but I didn't have the patience to learn how to use

PE: deviantART BirthdayWhat is deviantART Birthday?
deviantART Birthday is a gallery exclusively for artwork created for deviantART's Birthdays. This can be a birthday present for deviantART, a tribute to deviantART or something created for an event hosted by deviantART on their Birthday.

For now, the whole gallery is closed for submissions, but will be open closer to deviantART's 13th Birthday!
9th to 12th Birthday [closed categories]
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Previous Birthdays [closed category]
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Project Educate: Interview with ^kingmanchengPassionate animator, dedicated Community Volunteer: today, we'll be looking into the thoughts of ^kingmancheng!
Please tell us a little bit about yourself.
I graduated from university with a BA honour in illustration and animation, having worked at a different university for a few years, I am now a fulltime freelance illustrator and animator.
When did you start animating?
When I was a young teen I reckon! During that time of my life gif animations really took off all over the Internet and so many young animators at that age got ahold of free gif animation compilers, so although I can't give an exact age, I was pretty young at the time!

When/how did you discover deviantART?
When I was about 15/16 years old, one of my friends from school did graphics design work in his own time and uploaded it here. He w

PE: Devious FunWhat is Devious Fun?
The Devious Fun category is for deviations that were created for fun and light-hearted purposes. This category has sub-categories, here are brief explanations for each of them.
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PE: Interview with ^Katara-Alchemist:iconkatara-alchemist:
^Katara-Alchemist
Hello ^Katara-Alchemist, could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
I always fail at these questions. I can talk about almost anything successfully, unless it is myself. I'm 18, (19, come April Fools Day. Yes. That is my Birthday. Honestly. I swear!), and I am attending college to get a degree in Illustration. My favorite band is Black Veil Brides (this really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has visited my page even once...), favorite books are those written by Cassandra Clare with a close second found in the lovely author known as Sarah Rees Brennan who is nice enough to indulge my obsessive nature of drawing her characters with pretty signed books.
I've been on dA six years now (That makes me feel old...), and I've been a volunteer for several months now in the forums. Umm... yeah. That's all I've got. If you want to know anything else feel free to ask. I can't promise I won't bite though. S

PE: Interview with ^ClefairyKid:iconclefairykid:
^ClefairyKid
Hello ^ClefairyKid, could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
You can call me Clefairy or CK, I’ve been here with this account for about 3 or 4 years now. I started using Photoshop in high school to try and retouch photos, and that lead into Photo-manipulation. After I got more comfortable with PS, I started branching out into a huge range of things including Digital Art, Fan Art, Pixel Art (which I’ve now become CV for), Emoticons, Artisan Crafts, Flash, Photography and so on…
I like rainbows, but I’m sure most people already know that ;D
How did you first get into Stamps?
I suppose I just wanted to get a support stamp to help promote my account in general, but was too shy/embaressed to get one made by someone else, so I just gave it a shot. I still have my first one here:

I then went on to make support stamps for a range of my favourite

Groups Directory Update Group Love
deviantART is an artist dream come true and caters to artist from all artistic mediums. I know of no other
online community that is in constant contact with their members and
allows members to run their own groups with specific rules and
guidelines that you have decided for your group.
If you are not interested in becoming a founder or administrator of a group, deviantART has hundreds if not thousands
of groups for you to search and find one or more that is to your
comfort level and liking. Groups are a fantastic way to find other
artist to discuss techniques, share idea's, collaborate and make new
friends.
Question for the Reader; How often do you
search for a new group to join or to find a group that is centered
around your interest Discuss in the comments area of this journal

Below is a sample collection of groups you will find within devian

How-to: The SestinaThe what?
The sestina is a fairly old poetic form, dating back to the 12th century or earlier. (This isn’t a history lesson, so we won’t delve into its creator and evolution.) It has seven stanzas, the first six of which have six lines each. The seventh stanza is a tercet (three lines) to tie it all together. All 39 of these lines are usually in iambic pentameter, although they don’t have to be (more on that later). That’s the basic structure - but of course that’s not all there is to it.
The real challenge of the sestina comes from the line endings. Rather than using rhyming words like many poems, sestinas contain six fixed line-ending words. That is, the words at the end of each line of the first stanza (six of them) are then used to end every line in the poem. Based on the original order they’re in (1 2 3 4 5 6), the words follow a specific pattern throughout the other stanzas:
First stanza: 1 2 3 4 5 6
Second: 6

Breaks: Slam and StyleTo some people, poetry is a quiet medium. It rests on a page. It lies there. It slumbers.
Slam is different.
Slam is about shouting.
Slam, or spoken word poetry, is poetry that is... well... spoken. It might be poetry that doesn’t make sense unless it’s spoken out loud; it may be poetry that just, like Andrea Gibson or Shane Koyczan’s work, sounds better that way. Long poems are difficult; people tend to get tangled up in them. Slam poetry is, in my mind, the contemporary solution for epic poems – it breaks down five-minute sagas into swells of voice, and by doing so guides you through something that it might tire your eyes or mind too much to read.
But slam presents a unique set of challenges to the writer, one of which is that, in writing for an aural audience instead of the usual visual one, the ‘traditional’ method of line breaks is eschewed. It no longer makes sense to break in the places that

PE: deviantART SuggestionsWhat are deviantART Suggestions?
Visual Suggestions
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Why Form?Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
—Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
The history of poetry reminds me of standing knee-deep in the water at the beach. Though you are continually in the water, you are able to feel movement after movement, wave after wave rolling in. You can feel the receding water sucking the sand from beneath your feet, but with the coming of each new wave, you need never fear being sucked into the miry ground. So it is with poetry. There's something intrinsic to poetry—the joy of prosody, of the delightful placement of words, and of the novel communication of ideas—that it keeps bringing wave after wave, generation after generation of poets and styles and forms.
Let me take you back...
I cannot say what came first: poetry or music or storytelling. But I do know that the day man found that he could piece together words evoking

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Introducing Lightpaint

by ~killythirsk, Feb 20, 2012, 4:50:28 PM
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Introducing Lightpaint

you can check out the history of lightpainting photography here
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Lightpainting is a technique in photography by using low shutter speed and a moving light source. The light source is moved by a person or a device so you can acquire an artictic result.

take a look at this example

the sound of music by ~randallcottrell

in the deviation's camera data you can see the shutter speed is low, thats what makes the light captured all

they are many type of different lightpainting method

#1. Drawing
the drawing technique used a light source to draw something while the camera stay in the tripod
take a look at this one

magic night flower by ~orestART

you can add a fireworks in it too, like this one

chiave di violino by ~ilaaaria

is fire a light source too ?
off course take a look at this one

fiery wing by ~killythirsk

hard to draw with the light source ?
well you can make a light source device that has a its own design, its pretty too, and had a neat result, such this one

confused by ~y0h4nes

$Facing the anomaly by ~refract1$

facing the anomaly by ~refract1

how about light saber ?

the force by ~kismet3135

#2. Camera movement technique
this technique used a camera movement to "draw" the static object, the result is an artictic abstract art

Christmas Light Trail by ~stevieB1977

you can attach the camera itself to make "light-streak" effect like this one

light streak by ~cro4ky

#3. Glowing
in glowing technique we dont use flash like any other lightpainting that used to "light" to the object to give the shining result. But the glowing technique used a lightsource to light an object, like this one

ocatrine light by ~marlene-dietrich

glowing melodies by ~killythirsk

how about we combine the #1. and #2. technique ?
see this result

greenbreeze by ~killythirsk

#4. Multiexposure technique
the Multiple exposure technique used a low speed shutter to create repetitive or non repetitive object

look at this one

silho abandonded startrail 2012-14-01 by ~drtongs

silho abandoned startrail 2012-14-01 by ~drtongs

hey i see the startrail result in that photo!
off course the startrail technique use the same key technique as lightpainting : low shutter speed

spotlight artist

~Kaalam has a wonderful caligraphic drawing lightpaint technique with fantastic background

Light and Fraternity - arabic by ~Kaalam

Le silence - Arabic calligrap. by ~Kaalam

tips and trick

1. set your camera setting with low shutter speed (if you had a DSLR you can set it up to BULB Mode), and others element such as diagframe, exposure, and remember to set your focus rightfully

2. draw all you want at first, and try to think about what you are going to draw first and then draw it

3. Used black background to have fully shinning lightpaint result

4. The object musnt move, unless you want to have a blurry effect

5. Used a tripod unless you want to used tech#2

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