Photography – Designlab by Geir Akselsen

My latest images

Its been pretty bussy lately after I also started with photography, this is of course a positive thing!! After 1 year of concentrating on photography i’m pretty happy with the outcome. The feedback on my images has been better then I could ever have imagined! I really appreciate and would like to thank all the people that has featured my images in articles and for all the comments. Here is some of my latest stuff, hope u like it.

Some of my latest features:

Photography served | Fresh works from leading creative professionals

1x.com | The best photo’s of the web Onexposure is an artsproject and a photo community with a difference.

Image of the month at Advanced photoshop.co.uk for zero gravity, The image was also published in advanced photoshop’s UK Magazine

featured at Artists of photoshop

A few blogs I would like to thank for featuring me 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Give their great blogs a visit here.
Gr8tfate.com features lots of great artists in photography!
Designwannabe Lots og great design info defenitely worth a look!
raw.cat A great collection of awesome images!
Pixelstarter Lots of great and usfeful info!

The greatest motivational poster ever?

Millions of copies of the “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster were printed on the eve of World War II, but never displayed. Now the message has taken on a new lease of life in our troubled peacetime.

The simple five-word message is the very model of British restraint and stiff upper lip. Keep calm and carry on.

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Beautiful 3D Futuristic Scenes

With all those gigantic buildings, flying cars and space travel. We’ve seen it in the movies, we’ve seen it in books, and now, we get to see it in sweet computer graphics! – Click here to visit >>

Inspirational Advertising

A great place to look for inspiration is the adverts all around us everyday. Whether these be clever photos or cleverly manipulated photos they are usually visually stunning and catch our eye (which is what they are there to do!)… Get some inspiration over here 🙂 Click here to visit >>

48 Mind blowing Examples of Photo Manipulation

Photo manipulation is one of the most creative artforms to come out of the digital age. Here we showcase ten masters of this technique and 48 examples of their stunning artwork, blending real photos with synthetic elements for a surreal result.. A great article certainly worth a look if youre interested in awesome photos!! 🙂 Click here to visit >>

New site in the makings

Hi everybody, sorry for the major lack of updates. I’ve been rather bussy with photography lately but now i’m starting a major overhaul on the Designlab site. There will be a more efficient design and more post’s coming up in year 2009 so stay tuned for a new and improved site! Also I wish you all a merry christmas and a kick ass new year!! 🙂 Below are some of my photos i’ve been taking taken from my Flickr account – hope u enjoy them!

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Zero Gravity:

Guitar Hero

Concentration

Lasse jr.

Hillbillies

MR.X Photography team

Lots of very cool images and image manipulation images here, a team of photographers with some very creative and great portfolios worth checking out! Click here to visit >>

Beautiful Black and White Photography

Indeed, beautiful black and white photography doesnâ€™t attract with its play of colors. Here close attention to composition, lighting, perspective and the context it is shot in are important. Hence, before considering the photos presented below please prepare some patience and time. This post presents some truly excellent examples of beautiful black-and-white photography…Â Click here to visit >>

34 Stunning Abstract Designs

These images are summed up in one word; â€œSTUNNINGâ€. The designs offer a brilliant mix of images, elements and a unique sense of balance…. Just plain beautiful!! Click here to visit >>

Create amazing photomontages

Nik Ainley shows you how to make a splash, blending two very different images to create this amazing underwater effect, complete with a dissolving figure of a man… Hot damn awesome tutorial!! I cant wait to test this stuff out on my images!! Click here to visit >>

Awesome Photorealistic Coloring Techniques

In this tutorial we will color a black and white photo using gradient maps, solid colors, and the “color” blending mode. Using these techniques, you will be able to hand color any black and white photo in a way that looks photorealistic. Another great tutorial! Click here to visit >>

35 Fantastic HDR Pictures

Applied carefully,

High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR)

can create incredibly beautiful pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion…

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I have a gallery with some HDR Images i’ve taken if your interested over here at

www.supafly.no

feel free to give me feedback 🙂

32 Amazing Inspirational Pieces of Graphic Artwork

A great list from Spoon Graphics with some awesome graphic artwork, check it out and get inspired!! :o) Click here to visit >>

Michael Muller

An awesome portfolio indeed! Check out Michael Muller’s photography for some divine inspiration :o) Click here to visit >>

Cool images of everyday people

Check out these great photos taken by Bill Sullivan of people going about their everyday things at the subway etc.. way cool images and idea! :o) Click here to visit >>

Top 40 Photoshopped Images

Sometimes they can be funny, sometimes thought provoking, other times they just mess with your mind… Nice list of some cool Photoshopped images here :o) Click here to visit >>

30 Photos That Inspired Me to Learn Photography

Being a graphic designer has made me fall in love with all things creative, including photography… Nice post with some very inspirational images, i’m in the process of making my first little homebased photostudio with all the works. This post just makes me want to finish up my studio even faster and get started testing out all the great stuff one can do with photography! :o) Click here to visit >>

20 Beautiful HDR Pictures

There are some photography techniques that really give me the goose bumps, but the good ones. HDR is one of those techniques… Hot damn! Check out these awesome pictures! Click here to visit >>

12 Essential Photographic Rules

From Sunny 16 to Moony 11, 8, and 5.6, these facts, formulas, and photographic rules can get you out of a jam and help you get good shots when nothing else will… I need all the tips I can get! :o) Click here to visit >>

Beautiful design and art from Behance Network part1

I’ve been looking through some of my favourite designs over at Behance Network and decided to make a little post with some of them, there are so many great artists over there that I have to slice this post up into different parts. Here is part1 hope u enjoy it :o)

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Martin Miller Photography

You will not find a single human figure in my work, but it is nonetheless very much about the human condition â€” our fears, our dreams, our history, our creativity… There is something about this style and the images that is so captivating and beautiful! Worth a look! Click here to visit the gallery >>