Lee Greatorex Photo/3D blog

This is a very very quick blog update.

I've been wanting to do this for a while but along side my own progress updates for my 3d/ photography I want to now start doing book overviews for art/3d/photography books. These could be guides/how to style books or art portfolio books.

I want to treat these overviews not like reviews but try and explain who these might be most useful for, my favorite sections of the book and maybe even my own goes at techniques shown in the book.

I'll try and gather all these together on a separate page as well so that people can go back to them and check them when available.

The reason for doing this is I think that there are so many options for self learning out there but not all are directly useful if you are wanting to specialise or trying to find a particular route/style in your own progression. I also hope I can show some of the work that inspires me in doing this as over the past few months I got a tonne of awesome art/photography books from true masters of their arts.

I hope these will be beneficial to people and I'll try and get the first one started over the weekend. I'll be starting with books I already own but if people have any book suggestions or want me to cover any particular book please let me know and I'll see if it is possible.

Lee

I've not posted in a long time, been doing a lot of photography work, ranging from Wildlife photography to shots in Lisbon (will upload a few of them on here shortly) as well as working on a new portfolio website - progress can be found here .

3D wise I'm currently using the program Sculptris and will do a couple of tutorials/ show some of my work since using it later this week.

Also as part of 3D work I'm currently going through the Maya Studio Projects: Dynamics book as a kind of top up to the degree (been a while since doing more detailed particles and since university moved to Maya) - you can find the book here

I'm currently working through the flames section (previously done the cloud of dust/ volcano project). I will be working through the whole book, hopefully then will link a couple of effects together to get a little test reel done.

Finally today I've been sketching today, Just thought I'd upload it as is (just changed the contrast/ colours slightly not going to colour or digital ink it yet).

I managed to find an old memory card I used for shooting a few years ago which still has all the photos I took in RAW format. I thought I'd go back to them today and use some techniques I now use within adobe Lightroom and Photomatix Pro. Initially although they were shot in colour when I originally uploaded them (they are still in an older gallery) they were all monochromatic simply because I've always been more comfortable shooting for/in B+W. Now I'm a bit more experimental with colour so here are the results;




Today I also found a couple of books in a second hand book store.

Berence Abbott - Masters of Photography

The Book of Portrait Photography - Jorge Lewinski and Mayotte Magnus


They should be good for some reference work when painting / designing and I've always been fond of Abbott's work, especially as he started as a darkroom assistant to Man Ray (ended up doing similar experimental work at college when I did A level photography).