Hey Jelly Sea a video by fangleman on Flickr.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
He was dancing with a train
They were all in love with dyin'
They were drinking from a fountain
That was pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
--Pepper, Butthole Surfers
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Photo Recipe
Grater set kitchen on table, with window light in front of camera, reflected on subject. 100mm macro on Canon 40D.
Simple. Easy.
Doors of Reflection
I was leaving the office, and saw this shot. Something about the car's reflection in the glass & the distortion, I liked. I made it a selective color image though the areas I removed color from were already close to desaturated when I shot the image.
Blake CO-AX
Blake CO-AX indicator
Photo Recipe
Strobe on camera, bounced off wall and ceiling.
Paper background.
Running out of ideas lately. Just don't know what to make images of...
It's for sale. Missing the feelers, but it works well still. $150. Message me if you want it.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Black Sea Nettle 2
Via Flickr:
Taken at the wonderfull jellyfish display at Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Happiness Is A Warm Gun - F11 version
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Basically SOOC, but I tried to add some gunsmoke, unsuccessfully I think. What do you think?. I used the cheap Canon 50mm lens, with a +2 closeup filter.
Field of Stars 2 "HERE WE MARK THE PRICE OF FREEDOM"
Straight from the camera, resized only. The camera was actually resting in the water for this one.
The World War II Memorial commemorates the sacrifice and celebrates the victory of "the greatest generation.
The field of 4,000 Gold Stars honors the more than 400,000 lives lost during the war. Their sacrifice can never be forsaken.
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Neptune Pool
If only we could swim in it! This is an awesome sight, and a highlight of Hearst Castle. In my experience it is best to be there for the first morning tour if you want to get a shot or two of Neptune Pool without all the other people in the shots.
It is one of the hardewst things I find when traveling - getting a 'clean' shot without people.
Feel free to comment or critique!
This was taken using my Canon wide angle zoom at 10mm. I've found most often that people around me don't realize that they are in the shot. They don't realize how wide of an angle is in frame. I cropped a little off the right that was underexposed and didn't help the shot any.
I searched Fllickr for similar images. I think mine is better than anything I found.
Welcome to my checkered past
Photography as a whole is a journey for me.
There isn't any specific destination. Some images are started with a specific idea of what it is to become, what the final result is to be.
Other images are started without a clear destination, or are started with a clear destination that evolves into something completely different as the process continues.
Much as the whole of photography is a journey for me, so this image followed its own journey from conception to final image. I had a blurry concept of a sharp image with well defined edges, perfect lighting, using strobes and a white background. So that is where I started.
After I made images that appeared to me near the desired result, I went off plan, and started wondering about other concepts.
From that small seed grew this final image. A photo made through a pinhole lens cap on a dSLR, and processed in software much more than I would normally consider.
What I have created is a pinhole image that is reminiscent of photography of days long gone, as well as art made by the stroke of a brush, pictorialism. So this is where I ended. I much prefer this over the stark sharp, and cold image I initially was driving for. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Below in the comments is a 100% crop that shows the wonderful grain, along with the "dust and scratches", etc.
Feel free to comment! Even if you don't like it...
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Photo Recipe
Place glass of water and blue bottle, or color of your choice, as shown. The lens axis should be centered to the glass and the bottle should have the edge centered to the glass. Separate the pieces enough when looking through the glass the refraction fills half the glass as shown. Use a white or other simple background.
Using a pinhole lens cap, expose for best exposure using a high ISO for the lovely noise, or for a more positive and less negative name, grain. If one has a more diffuse lighting the specular highlights will be missing. In my case, the room lights made clear specular highlights.
Finish in software. I spent a long time with the spot healing brush fixing all the sensor dirt circles. Process for age. I added more grain, vignette, dust and scratches, etc.
Be sure to see the 100% crop below.
Added to the Weekly Challenge: Refraction.
Sleeping Cat
Image from my ancient Zeiss-Ikon manual camera
Using old ISO400 120 color film
Stroud Photo did some work to get the color more correct, as the film was old, but I have no idea what they did. By old, I mean I think it was in the fridge for a year before I exposed it, and in the camera for another before developing...
Image is scanned from a print, with no editing. I can't remember which scanner I used to scan it.
These crawlers were built from 1938 - 1957.
Put Your Balls On It
Some of us aren't 2 faced.
Some of us don't live in a fantasy world.
Some of us aren't delusional.
Some of us don't push lies ahead of the truth.
Then there's you.
Surely you know who you are.
We know who you are.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Supercharged Sketch
Via Flickr:
Supercharged Single Cylinder 4 Stroke Bike Motor 1954 Sketched by my grandfather on a notepad.
Scanned. This was white paper, long ago...
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