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“I choose to be me, for now, and forever. I will live my life for me and by me. This is my life and I will live it how I please.”
- Avina Celeste
Model: mybluelight-stock.deviantart.com/art/summer-127956100
Paint too.
I used tecnics of the airbrush.
finally I'm uploading something! I don't understand where this entire month went, but man, I did a lot of shooting for myself. Usually I rush to edit something and immediately write up about it and put it online for all to see but I think I just needed to make some work that made me think a little bit. Does that make sense? No, probably not, but it does to me. Sometimes you create these pieces that are meant to evoke discussion, allow people to analyze the meaning behind it, or even why you made certain decisions. I didn't want that. Everything was so damn corrupt around me; I was creating these characters in my mind as a way to change the scenario and understand why things happen for myself. It's like that moment when you zone out for a minute beyond what others can see, snap back, and realize you've just created an image. Those people that tell you you have ADD when you do that are just lame. Everyone truly needs their time to figure themselves out, whether you do that through art or just living.
So here I'm gallivanting around Boston and I see someone holding a small tag sale outside their apartment. Thought this broom was awesome--bought it for a dollar and figured I'd use it in a photo. Got a lot of stares on the way home! But it gave me a Mary Poppins feel, even though it's no chimney sweep. I got this idea to take these really dirty, grungy, smokey portraits of this mysterious sweeper. No one knows who he is, but he wanders the streets when no one's around and cleans up these shambles, possessing the most interesting combination of life's lights and shadows. I thought of it as like my inner psyche sweeping away my own messes and allowing myself to have a clear, clean mind.
i had never wished this strong to have a wide-angle lens.....
before that i do not even have a single-lens reflex camera!
but soon i'll buy a brand new canon camera (EOS digital kiss X) or nikon D80.
still thinking which to get... :(
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Hold my hand and take me there. My eyes are squeezed shut, as it looks like I'm squinting. I can see it now. The visions of our memories, the feelings we once shared- our past life. It's all right before my eyes. I can feel it. I can taste it. It's not there. I open my eyes, and I see nothing. I keep blinking and blinking hoping something will appear before my eyes- yet nothing is there.
SO DO MY THIGHS! I PROMISE I'M NOT HUGE :(
Also, a special thanks to Anna, Sam, Breakdown, and Jordan for their awesome testimonials! Thanks guys, I enjoyed reading them.
Part of my dream series (3/?)
Playing around with the Alpha 380, morning light coming in the hotel room, getting ready for the surf :)
50mm f/2.8 Macro
One of the biggest thing's that i pride myself on is using in camera techniques and doing all my photos like that to create effects and not ever using photo shop to add in extras -thats a no no in my books all my motion,blurred, throwing object's, flares, double exposures, circle thing-e, reflections floating clouds (ect) and Light Painting photos are all done in camera. I really try to make sure of that, and its like a challenge to me to figure that out and keep trying ideas as ridiculous as they seem.Every time i pick up my camera i hope to learn something and on day 12 this is what happened.
I knew i wanted something abstract and some color for day 12 and wanted to give the "oil in water" attempt some hours worth of my time. So i grabbed some colored blue and red paper, a yellow o henry and orange reese pieces mini chocolate bar (for the background color) i did eat them after :0 and i set up for this shot.
Its a glass dish raised up off the counter with 2 mason jars(you can see the mason jar and the glass dish with the oil and water on the right side of the frame, have a look-- so cool it came out in the double exposure) and underneath the glass dish with the oil and water is where i added in all the colored paper and chocolate bars,--Thats how you get the different blends and color for the photo. The slightest movement and camera angle will give you a whole different look, its great fun to get lost in that world of abstract colors and bubbles. So after i had all the water and oil set up i did a bunch of photos of just that and then i got the idea of adding myself in there somehow with a double exposure. So here we go"oil and water" was right now to add side light on me and try to position myself at the right place so i would be inside that floating bubble. (Lets just say it was harder then it looked) but after some testing testing and more testing everything started to come together and to top it off i got myself inside that oil bubble and even got the placement for right eye (camera left eye) to be in the spot where that group of little bubbles were floating. And then guess what, as i was going in to take the next photo i bumped the counter and the whole big dish of oil and water went flying through the air like some kind of slow motion movie and slammed on the kitchen floor exploding everywhere. Wow did that clean up for sure not rank in good ways to end a photo shoot.
Specs and Strobist--
1st exposure SB-800 (bare)Zoomed 35 fired at background paper 1/128thpower
2nd exposure Sb-800 (bare)Zoomed 35 fired camera left(because of the flip around for the double exposure) at 1/128 power both fired via nikons cls,
as well i underexposed each frame by half of a stop to compensate for the double exposure and balance the light.
All in camera(sooc)