The Darkroom - Coming Soon!

We'll be adding more resources to the Picibee site soon - including the long-anticipated Darkroom.  As its name suggests, Picibee's Darkroom offers photographers unique digital tools to enhance their images.  Photographers can choose from Picibee's extraordinary series of Photoshop actions as well as extensive textures and backgrounds that can be used to enhance and improve captured images.

The Darkroom will have something for everyone behind a lens - from wedding shooters to at-home publishers to mom the photographer.  Browse through Photoshop actions, frames & edges, canvases, photo album background imagery, digital wedding album templates and more!

The Gift of Fantasy

A conceptual or abstract image just means that it is open to interpretation and translation. The opposite of literal. A conceptual piece is only complete with each viewer's added input; the individual eye closes the loop with its unique perspective. Because of this, an abstract image can have so many facets and personas.

With conceptual stock photography, all one needs to do is acknowledge and keep in mind all the ideas, theories and even taboos in classical and contemporary compositions and then look for or create images with lines, shapes and plains.  The mind can create amazing compositions that live in harmony and balance yet tickle our imagination.

Picibee's Wandering Eye

Go anywhere fun this weekend? We did. ;)

Go Ride A Bike

Biking in the fresh air.  As we pedal, we feel healthier and happier. It is as contagious as it is inspiring.  Happy Memorial Day weekend to all!

Love,
Picibee

Maintaining Facades

We admit it: Picibee has a penchant for facades.  Here we see a simple storefront and we like to imagine about what is behind this facade...? After all, so much of what sets Picibee apart is imagination.

Often image texture can be used as a facade in photography. Picibee offers a vast library of facades including surfaces, muslin canvases, walls and wallpapers, everyday objects, conceptual & literal images all with the common idea of supporting final image or deliverable.

“It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.” -Douglas Hostadter


Until later,

Picibee

Imagery that Turns Heads

Our photographers are always asked about how to shoot stock photography. At Picibee, we look for what is missing and what is possible. In our minds, it is critical to reviewing the “big picture” (pun intended) of what imagery is available and what is possible prior to setting out to shoot any stock.  Of course we offer the norm and the expected but when we really think about relevant photos, we know we must strive to showcase the unexpected. 

As part of this journey, our handpicked pool of photographers are always thinking about the outcome; we want the actual experience of browsing through our images to be enjoyable and we take that into consideration with every click of the shutter. 

Walking by a store window, our photographer takes delight in the lifelike ladies of this shop.  

You will find Picibee is a place where one can find that out of the ordinary image. If one still wants the norm...well, we have that too.

The Ubiquity of Picibee

As one Picibee photographer travels the coasts of Europe, another stays domestic to find the uncommon in the common.  At Picibee, we love to identify pattern images in photography. Patterns are nothing but repetition and they are all around us; we don't have to look hard or far. A simple brick wall is a pattern, a tiled roof is a pattern, an egg crate is a pattern.

While Picibee brings you an assortment of the every day patterns and those that are expected, we also try to create our very own originals. At Picibee you'll find an amazing array of pattern images in photography that you would never expect nor find anywhere else.

Check out all sorts of Picibee patterns in our gallery.