(The picture of Tammy dancing has been moved to the “Breakthrough” theme.)
Archive for February, 2007Blogger forced me over to the “new blogger” today, and while I can live with it, and like the addition of labels (but am still considering switching entirely to wordpress) it was *not* my idea for it to republish the entire bloody blog to the RSS feed. Just got back from the first field test of my birthday camera, and the results are promising, but not yet certain. While the beach test went fairly well, I need to get some people shooting in before the 200 exposure and 14 day limits on returns are up. This was kind of an impulse trip, so I packed a *very* light camera bag (for me, anyway. Only 2 cameras? Such restraint!)
Today’s Adventure Pack
This card is slow, but was very cheap. I probably won’t buy more, though, becuase the 10 MP RAW files are big enough and waiting for the camera to finish writing is annoying enough that if I keep the camera I will be investing in some high speed cards. For someone who has been using SLRs for years, point-and-shoots are not intuitive, especally ones with as many options as this one’s got. This is my favorite camera, and favorite lens, that I can practically operate in my sleep, it’s such a long time companion. I know 50mm is supposed to be the closest analog to human sight, but this lens is definitely the closest analog to my personal vision. My favorite low-grain black and white film. Slow as snot, and totally worth it. This was actually an outdated roll my boss gave me. (Playing around with outdated film is fine. Shooting paying clients with it is not.) I wanted to see what effect the “Vivid Color” would have on this gray, overcast day; I’m hoping to have this roll back by the end of the day, and will post more from it later. The Ilford will stew until I get a chance to swing by an appropriate lab. I gave out two of these, both to dog owners I *think* I got cute pictures of. with all important “go home now” alarm set, in case of too much fun it’s windy on the beach, dangit! And the chocolate orange is so tasty. Also, I wore a light grey sweater and black jacket that could be removed to use as reflectors/gobos when necessary, though it was cold enough that most of the time I decided it wasn’t necessary. (I may regret that decision when the film gets back from the lab…) But you’re here for the pictures, aren’t you? These have not been photoshopped, but have been tweaked in Camera RAW for artistic (not necessarily naturalistic) effect. They are not cropped; this really is the native ratio of the camera, which I think I could really get stuck on.
I am definitely mostly pleased with the quality so far; shooting in RAW at 100 ISO solved most of the widely-reported noise issues, with a couple of exceptions, but I cannot yet rule out operator error on those. Definitely this is not a camera I would give to the average consumer (the 10MP HD ratio format being overkill on one side, and the necessity of shooting in RAW format to control the noise being too post-processing intensive on the other.)
Feb
13
2007
Throne of Fey offered up at Mike Ford AuctionPosted by: admin in photoillustration, showsIf you are heading to Boskone 44, check out the Mike Ford Auction & Extravanganza. They picked “Throne of Fey” (which is one of my most popular pieces) as the piece of mine they’d like to have for the auction, and it’s the first time it’s been seen on that half of the continent in years (and probably won’t be again for quite some time, as I’ve pretty much stopped doing mail-in sf cons past the continental divide), so if you like it, buy it for a good cause.
Not going to Boskone? Buy any one of my pieces OR commission a new one (via Jeliza.net, jeliza.etsy.com, e-mail, phone) through the end of March and tell me it’s for Dr. Mike, and I will donate 15% of the price to the John M. Ford Memorial Book Endowment.
Feb
12
2007
I made the cover of Atlantis Vogue!Posted by: admin in photoillustration, works-in-progressWell, I’m not on the cover, Anna is. But I created it.
Clothing: also by Anna. More coming! I haven’t been this productive in a short period time since, oh, I had to put together my thesis show. Aren’t deadlines wonderful? This piece has been stuck at work in progress for close to a year now; with the inspiration from the workshop I’m taking with David Julian at Luminous Works, I decided to bring it back out and whale on it a bit, adding a lot more color and complexity.
Model is Jaime. There is still something I’m not happy with in the relationship of the figure to the rest of the piece, and I’ve lost all hope that my Elements series is going to be visually cohesive. Then again, if I only finish a new one every 18 months, does that really matter? (I have *sketches* for at least 5 more, but casting, scouting locations, and everything else in my very tight schedule means, well, prolific I am not.) |
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This is an almost-done work-in-progress, done entirely in or as homework for the two weekend workshop on visual stories I just took with 
