Cajsa's Second Life Flickr Pick: "ItsNotNoah" Creates Spectacular Cinematic Images and Shows You His Process

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Why does ItsNotNoah have only seventy followers, especially when he includes a gyazo video of his editing process so you can follow the raw SL photo to the glorious final product? 

And glorious is the word for his photos which are full of detail, light, and emotional impact. I am guessing he must have another account that hit the Flickr limit… just a guess. Anyway, this person seriously deserves more followers.

From his description, it seems ItsNotNoah does not like this photo, but I love it. It makes me think of a story illustration It feels as though it has been painted. Sometimes the connections between what I see and what it makes me think of are not immediately obvious. For example, this makes me think of The Little Prince though perhaps only because the flowers make me think of stars. 

This untitled photo is ItsNotNoah’s favorite and I see why. There is such sharp detail in this picture it is almost cinematic. The process video shows how he added highlighting and made it a more striking picture. The color pops and makes the picture so dynamic.

Be sure to check out tsNotNoah’s photostream. It is short with only twenty-three photos, but every single photo is striking, showing a true understanding of the power of light and highlights. These are mostly slice-of-life photos and they do a great job of capturing the sites and people of SL.  

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Comments

[Mondy]

"Why does ItsNotNoah have only seventy followers, especially when he includes a gyazo video of his editing process so you can follow the raw SL photo to the glorious final product? "

To me it seems pretty clear. He's clearly talented, way beyong my level at least but he's had his flickr for 3 years, got 88 followers at the time of my writing this and he's followed 1 person back! Almost every photo is in 2 or 3 groups, some in none and there are no tags. That's not the way to get followers.
But perhaps for him, it's all about the art and not about gaining followers anyway, which is how it should be. I know that everytime I get a follow from someone that turns out to be a blogger who has followed 5k+ people and only been on flickr a few months, but not faved any pics after following my stream, I can't help thinking, are they following me just to get another follower or because they *really do* like my pictures? I suspect the former.
I post to flickr for fun. If people like my pics then that's great! ItsNotNoah has gained another follower because his shots are awesome and I'm glad he was featured here. Maybe he'll get more followers, my view is he should, there's some comments by some really well known flickr content creaters on his stream. I hope so.

[kroger feedback]

Cinematography is all about the art of visual storytelling. Aside from skillfully operating a camera and setting up the lighting for every scene, it involves controlling what the viewer sees and how the image is presented to them — by choosing the right shooting techniques that best tell the story.

[Dania Harris]

Technically, cinematography is the art and the science of recording light either electronically onto an image sensor or chemically onto film stock.

Functionally, cinematography is understood to encapsulate everything having to do with the camera — its movement, the images, the light it receives, etc.