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MAGAZINE ISSUE 3

COVER

MOTION, MANIPULATION, AND FOCUS:

CAPTURING THE MANY MANIFESTATIONS OF

BEAUTIFUL BLUR MAY 2010

Contents:
06 THEME: BEAUTIFUL BLUR
Embracing the movement and the haze

14 CONTEST WINNERS
The top three photos as
voted on by you and selected by us

24 FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER
Claire Jean talks about inspiration and
her favorite ways to use blur

45 UPCOMING THEME
Get ready to submit for our next issue!

THIS I S S U E B E A U T I F U L B L U R
 CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
01 L. Toshio Kishiyama 21 Paul Phillips

02 Leanne Staples 22 Kelly Kellogg

04 Sawyer Pangborn 24 Claire Jean

06 Kaylin Idora 30 James L. McCluskey

10 Akhilesh Sharma 32 Emily Chaplain King

On the cover: “The Joust” by L. Toshio Kishiyama I Previous page: “E V 6” by Leanne Staples I This page: “Bokeh Blur” by Sawyer Pangborn
11 Diego Albino Rodriguez Contereras 33 Marzia Frank

12 Igor Petrovic 36 Pekka Nikrus

13 Daniel Israelyan 38 Larry A. Henry

14 Chris Driscoll 40 Florian Cervenka

16 Pavithra Meera Ramashubramanian 42 Anubhav Jain

17 Jayme Rutherford 44 Keith Sanders

19 Tom George 47 Joey Colombo

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EDITOR’S NOTE /////
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Email he theme of Snapixel Magazine’s
support@snapixel.com third issue is Beautiful Blur, sponsored
by Lensbaby.com.
Website
www.snapixel.com
The photographs we have chosen for this issue
cover a variety of subjects and styles, but all in
one way or another feature blur. Whether it is
Editor in Chief
Adam Oliver
created by playing with focus by using aperture,
movement by shutter speed, or manipulation
Associate Editor/ by camera or computer, all of these photos de-
Graphic Designer:
Kaitlyn Ellison
pict the world not through a simple sharp im-
age, but through an artistic expression of what
Chief Operations Officer our cameras can be capable of. They capture
Ivan Wong
so much more than just one image at one mo-
Web Director/ ment in time.
Information Technology:
Florian Cervenka We are all about community! All of the photo-
graphs included in this issue were submitted
by users of Snapixel.com, so if you want to get
involved, head to page 44 to find out what our
next issue is about and then visit Snapixel.com
to contribute.

Cheers,

The Snapixel Team

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published here is original.
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of the contributing photog-
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material. No image may be
reproduced without the ex-
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owner.

©2010 Snapixel Magazine. All

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SUBMISSIONS
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KAYLIN IDORA THE WAREHOUSE An abandoned factory on the shores of the Mississippi River, New Orleans, Louisiana

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 LEANNE STAPLES EXPRESS
Metro North train
[50mm, 1/3 sec. at f/5.6]

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 AKHILESH SHARMA AFTER 9.00
There are many beautiful ways to spend an evening. Here is mine...

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 DIEGO ALBINO RODRIGUEZ CONTERERAS THE NIGHT COMES TO A CLOSE - LAST CALL

I’m not much of a drinker. Still, when last call comes around, a hazy romance hangs in the air. And that’s when the room starts spinning,...
and you wonder how you’re getting home that night.
[18mm, 1/20 sec. at f/3.5]

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 IGOR PETROVIC MAHA MANTRA
The street of smiling orange colored people

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 DANIEL ISRAELYAN MARKET
La Boqueria Market in Barcelona, Spain. Although the shop was in
a dark corner of the market, the lighting was ample as the fish were
illuminated for the countless tourists.
[16.5mm, 1/640 sec. at f/5.1]

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KJERSTI JORGENSEN ROLLING STONES
Winter landscape from a Norwegian fjord [11mm, at f/22]
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LENSBABY BEAUTIFUL BLUR

CONTEST WINNERS
1. CHRIS DRISCOLL HONG KONG FROM SEA
Long exposure of Hong Kong’s skyline at night. Shot from on board USS Chafee DDG-90 during western-pacific deployment 2009.

2. JAYME RUTHERFORD WINTER’S DREAM

Dandelion seeds covered in early morning dew

3. PAVITHRA MEERA RAMASUBRAMANIAN TRACTOR WITH FLOWERS

This shot was taken at a 590 acre flower field this spring in California. I waited for the moment when the tractor lined up at the horizon
while the flowers formed a vanishing point. I wanted to blur it to give the photo movement.

[50mm, 1/3200 sec. at f/1.4]

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 THOM GEORGE TUBBS HILL

Tubbs hill is one of the most photographed locations in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, yet most images are sunny and bright. I wanted
a darker, more mysterious image.

PAUL PHILLIPS ROMANCE

Red tulips lit from behind and filtered through textured glass
[22mm, 1/160 sec. at f/13]

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 KELLY KELLOGG AUTUMN TIMBER IMPRESSIONS
This image was created by panning the camera downward during the exposure to give and impressionistic feel to
the autumn forest scene.

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 EXPLORING
LIFE’S POETRY
WITH THIS MONTH’S
SNAPIXEL FEATURED
PHOTOGRAPHER

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 CLAIRE JEAN
“I am french and have spent half of my life in Brazil. I took
photography as a means of therapy ten years ago and it quickly
became a passion. The spirit of the amateur lives inside me and
I am always driven by my enthusiasm for photography.”

A native of France
residing in Brazil, our
featured photogra-
pher of the month
brings a multicultural
world view to a se-
ries of topics ranging
from portraits to still
life to abstractions.
Her strongest photos,
and self-professed
favorites, depict the
naked form in black
and white. If you visit
her website (www.
clairejean.daportfo-
lio.com) you can see
an entire collections
dedicated to this
subject, one of the
strongest and most
unique galleries fea-
tures models cov-
ered in sea life - that’s
right, people scant-
ily clad in octopi and
conch shells. In this
article we place the
focus on her photo-
graphs that employ
blur, but the rest of
her photos are defi-
nitely worth a look.

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 “I use my camera as a tool to explore the poetry of life and satisfy my need for creative expres-
sion. As a poetry, a picture has to contain a mood, an idea, a story, a feeling. The Lensbaby, one of
my favorite lenses, allows me to distort reality in a magical way-giving me more flexibility with the
composition. Beauty is everywhere and I am interested in all subjects, although nature is one of my
principal inspirations. My goal is to work with bodies integrated with nature in a perfect symbiosis.”

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 JAMES L. McCLUSKEY SOLAR HAZE

I took this picture early one morning after

work. I passed by this everyday and could
not help but notice how beautiful it is to
look out over the meadow with the sun
illuminating the fog. It is a real shame
because some construction company came
along and destroyed the scene by build-
ing a cement producer right where I took
the shot. At least I captured the moment
about a year before it was torn up for prog-
ress. That’s an irony, is it not?
[86mm, 1/1000 sec. at f/8]

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 EMILY CHAPLIN KING VENICE AT SUNSET
Gondolas parked for the evening near Venice’s Piazza San Marco

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 MARZIA FRANK UNTITLED

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 PAVITHRA MEERA RAMASUBRAMANIAN DANDELION DREAMS
Taken in my backyard where this dandelion against the sun formed beautiful colors with the background
[100mm, 1/100 sec. at f/2.8]

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 MARZIA FRANK UNTITLED

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 PEKKA NIKRUS MULTIPLE NATURE 95
These apples in Helsinki were my 95th published attempt to make identifiable nature abstractions by multiple exposure. It’s one of the
many endless dances I do with randomness. [85mm, 1/60 sec. at f/5.6]

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 LARRY A. HENRY MOVING ALONG
East Entrance to South Rim Grand Canyon at 60 MPH (trying to beat the sunset)
[50mm, 1/30 sec. at f/4.5]
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 FLORIAN CERVENKA CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR
[75mm, 1/2000 sec. at f/2.8]

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 ANUBHUAV JAIN BIRDS 5
[28mm, 1/30 sec. at f/5.6]

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 13 DANIEL ISRAELYAN
/BigPisces

KEITH SANDERS SUN THIRST The desert sun sips from the world’s fourth largest fountain (Fountain Hills, Arizona)
42 ANUBHAV JAIN
/anubhav

24 CLAIRE JEAN
/claire747

22 KELLY KELLOGG
/specialk

01 L. TOSHIO KISHIYAMA
/toshio

30 JAMES L. MCCLUSKY
/jimmymac

36 PEKKA NIKRUS
/pni

12 IGOR PETROVIC
/IgorPetrovic

21 PAUL PHILLIPS
/iOpeners

16 PAVITHRA MEERA
RAMASUBRAMANIAN
/Meera

11 DIEGO ALBINO RODRIGUEZ

CONTERERAS
/Darc

17 JAYME RUTHERFORD
/jrphotography

40 FLORIAN CERVENKA 33 MARZIA FRANCHINI 44 KEITH SANDERS

/Flo /Marziafrank /sanders0906

32 EMILY CHAPLIN KRUG 18 THOM GEORGE 10 AKHILESH SHARMA

/wideopenroad /thomg57 /akhilesh

47 JOEY COLOMBO 38 LARRY A. HENRY 04 SAWYER PANGBORN

/jdotcolombo /Larry /spangborn

14 CHRIS DRISCOLL 13 KAYLIN IDORA 02 LEANNE STAPLES

/comosaydice /kaylin /ifotog

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