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Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir

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1 year ago

PurePhoto - A promising alternative to Flickr ?

Figured I'd take a brief moment to tell you about a new site called PurePhoto, which, as the title of this post suggests, could be an exciting new alternative to the vastly popular photo-sharing site most everyone is familiar with by now, Flickr. I've been using Flickr for just over six years now.  I owe a great many things to the site. It definitely helped to boost my carreer early on, [...]

1 year ago

Cloning yourself

Some days I literally wish I had an extra me. This backup Rebekka (shown above pouring the beer, not the absent-minded one on the right) would be put in charge of housework, answering emails, and worrying about the financial side of running a one-person art business,  so that the real me could  concentrate on creating the actual artwork,  finish putting together the books I've [...]

1 year ago

The Creative Process (part 1)

I graduated from Icelands Academy of the Arts in spring 2009.  That last semester, aside from writing the dreaded BA thesis,  (a terribly fascinating read, translated roughly to english as "The staged photograph: Fictional reality and modern day fairy tales"), I was faced with the far more exciting but very daunting prospect of creating one final project, a crowning masterpiece (or so I [...]

1 year ago

The Wandering Tree project

This rather odd series of photos came about in the summer of 2008. I'm no longer sure why, exactly, but I decided it would be cool to spray-paint a couple of large branches white, and lug them around to various different locations and shoot long exposures with them in the foreground. For two months I worked on this idea, which was pretty tiresome—the branches were heavy and difficult to [...]

1 year ago

Creative long exposure techniques

A few months back, I wrote a detailed article on here about extreme long-exposure landscape photography.  Today I'm going to take a look at how LE can be used for creative portraiture. Playing ghost I'm going to assume that most people at all interested in selfportraiture, will be familiar with the work of Francesca Woodman.  It's difficult not to be moved in some way by the effortless [...]

1 year ago

10 silly mistakes you probably want to avoid

As we all know, making mistakes is part of the learning process.  More often than not, you just have to learn things the hard way.But if you're lucky, someone who has already done something stupid will tell you about it, and thus spare you the bother of repeating the same mistake.  For example: *  Leaving the lens cap on when preparing to take someones picture.  This is [...]

1 year ago

Keeping it real

If I had to name one photography project I've done in the past five years that I'm most proud of, the 2010 series Excess  is probably it.  What started as a bit of a joke turned into a very ambitious and technically challenging effort.  It all started with the cake idea.  My mom had given me a large vase from Ikea when I moved into my current apartment, and I kept thinking [...]

1 year ago

Exploring Iceland, pt 4: Up North

As the subtitle of this post hints at, I'm going to let the pictures do most of the talking in this fourth entry of an ongoing series, in which I'm attempting to highlight some cool points of interest for travellers on their way to Iceland.  Mostly because this area (indicated on the map below) is one I'm not quite as familiar with in detail as the South and West coast, but also because I [...]

1 year ago

Square format landscapes

As most people are probably familiar with, "landscape format" refers to images wider than they are tall.  As the name implies, this has traditionally been the more common approach to photographing landscapes, and is obviously a somewhat logical way of interpreting ones surroundings.  When viewing a spectacular scene spread out before you, it's likely that one would want to capture as [...]

1 year ago

Exploring Iceland, pt 3

So far in this ongoing series, we've looked at the Reykjanes peninsula and the south coast of Iceland. In this third installment, I'm going to take you on a short trip from Reykjavík up to the Snæfellsnes peninsula.  As you can see on the map below, this outcrop is bypassed when travelling along Þjóðvegur 1 (National Road #1), shown in yellow. This is also called [...]

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