View allAll Photos Tagged Fail
This was such an awesome concept: hanging from a tree in my favourite skirt looking all carefree... but everything about it failed:
1. there were like 10 people standing around watching me, and that made me nervous and embarrassed.
2. The sky got really cloudy just as I got started.
3. I really wanted to use my fiddy, but I had a rough time framing the shot with my camera so low to the ground.
4. I couldn't reach the branch from the ground.
5. when I climbed the tree I realised that I wouldn't be able to swing down without falling.
6. I tried to hang from my knees but the skirt kept getting caught up so my underwear showed.
7. I couldn't actually hang because of the angle of the branch.
8. I scraped my knee getting down.
9. I didn't even get a half-decent outtake :(
Feh. I hate it when I have a great concept and it doesn't work out! I have to do chores now and don't feel like reshooting. I'll try the concept again on a clear day.
But! for FGR: I'm rockin' out in a tree.
...but not because it doesn't look good now, because it does. Annie was supposed to be a redhead from the beginning but, when I tried this wig on him when he had his first faceup (that I accidentally destroyed) this wig looked AWFUL on him! Like, SUPER DUPER AWFUL! I then gave this wig away to my Volks School D boy. But, I decided for curiousity's sake to try this on him now and see what happened. Unfortunately, it looks friggin GREAT! But, I already gave the wig away to another character and I now have a completely different idea for his new wig. So, he will remain a temp blonde while I remain bitter that NOW he looks good in red. LOL! :D
The 50x70cm poster "Dr.Fail" is our participation for the SEEAR Exhibition 2013 themed "Superheroes".
The brief was to create a character and visualize him through a poster.
-
The poster exhibits the origins of Dr.Fail through three basic timelines. Two of them are centered around his personal life and events, that inspired him to build machines and weird inventions, most of which failed miserably. The third timeline is focused on his relationship with Megumi, the girl who unwillingly broke his heart and transformed him to a super villain.
-
The idea behind the poster is not to show the character itself, but instead allow the viewer, through an emotional association, to visualize the character based on similar experiences. The color theme and the choise of the data circle, was inspired by the character's japanese origin, which is enhanced by the use of english and japanese languages for the legend and text of the poster.
—
Check the whole project here: bit.ly/IrOadu
As Oscar Wilde might have put it: “To have one unit fail may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two fail looks like carelessness.” This view shows 304006 stabled on the Folly Lane branch alongside Runcorn station, having failed earlier that day while working a local service between Liverpool and Crewe. Although it blocked the branch, this was the only available place to stable the failed unit, as the siding next to the former wagon works was already occupied by 303053 which had failed the previous day.
I always shoot RAW and up until now I always shot with Nokon gear only. Hence I have only used Niks excellent (its a love or hate type of software) Capture NX to process my RAW files. Recently I bought a Fuji X100 so with that I needed to search out a RAW processing program for it. Natural choice was Adobe Lightroom. New version just out, many revisions and also hugely popular.
I installed the demo version and went ahead and learnt how to use it. While it had many features that I would never use, the main thing of converting RAW files worked well and I achieved good results without too much effort. Lightroom though was very slow on my not so new but not so old system. But I could live with it.
I looked at the pricing and in Australia its sold for $187 ex GST (ie download version). In USA its $149. Being an Aussie I get charged 25% over the USA price. Not cool. I tried a quick method to fudge it and "pretend" I am American but that failed. I know I can setup proxies, mail addresses to get around this but I didn't feel like going to these lengths just to buy a product.
In the end I gave up on Lightroom and tried different RAW processors. None really caught my eye too much, plus they were quite expensive. It wasn't until late last week I came across Corel After Shot Pro. Based on the old Bible Pro, I decided to give it a go. Impressive, very impressive. Not as polished as Lightroom, but also not as bloated, and much, much faster. The best bit is that I pay same price whether I am in Sydney, San Francisco or Hong Kong. And the better bit is that the price of $53 USD (using coupon code "ARTCOREL10" for 10% Off ) is about $80 cheaper than the Adobe stuff.
Fail Adobe. And I hope this enquiry will result in some changes. Some Adobe execs need to realise that if you buy a coffee in Sydney they will be charged the same price as the Aussie dude standing next to them or the Chinese woman sitting reading the paper sipping her coffee...
There are people that are processing E6 slide film with a B&W developing stage followed by a normal c41 process.
My 2 attempts failed this was developed in 1:1 Xtol 40 minutes at 40c, no fixing, exposed to sunlight and then through a c41 process to reverse the image. While result had mostly noise in the blue and channel and a very noisy red channel, all over a very dense but thin positive.
Backstage apres performance. www.flickr.com/photos/astrovinni/5019142/sizes/o/in/set-7... Touched By Your Presence www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLdtrQ7vPOU&feature=related
OK, so I dont have video of Allan riding it round my garage (before I told him the brakes were actually a homeopathic remedy)
PAKTYA PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Sept. 24, 2010) - A vehicle used in a failed insurgent attack sits on the road outside Forward Operating Base Gardez, Paktya Province, Afghanistan, Sept. 24. Forces engaged the vehicle as it approached the base, killing the driver and destroying the vehicle. Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces defeated a complex attack, killing at least five insurgents and capturing one. (U.S. Army courtesy photo\released)
This was supposed to be a gingerbread house . . . I failed! After it collapsed, I just more or less threw sprinkles at it.
Pathetic attempt at star trails... forgot to turn the noise reduction off, so instead of stacking 230 images, I stacked 115 with plenty of gaps.
This photo free for use under a Creative Commons copyright (see link for details).If you have time, I enjoy it when I am left a note saying where the picture was used.