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Chopsticks aren’t hard to use once you get the hang of it. As with most things in life, practice makes perfect.
Asha Alvira and Cherry Beach Sunset are wearing the two dresses I finished this week using some new fabrics that were an impulse buy.
Practicing lighting setups for the "Divas & Dreams workshop" - it is so much fun.
And who to practice on if not yourself? It is also a good way for me to learn how to pose and to get to know the other side of the camera, I think that is good experience if you are going to photograph models later on :)
Practicing social distancing - the fences at the work site for the new Preston Western Distributor Road linking the M55 to the A 583 at Windy Nook where work continues despite everything. Its on my walk along the preston Guild Wheel
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Sketched quickly from the imagination (really just plop down the washes and let it go where it may). I'm using these to practice technique without getting "attached" to the work. I think I'll be doing quite a few of these for a while.
Daniel Smith and Winsor & Newton watercolor in a 9x12" ProArt watercolor sketchbook. Just Ultramarine, and Raw and Burnt Sienna.
A water polo player relaxes before it is his turn to take another practice shot.
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Just a random scene of Old Chouchala Sea Beach, Halishahar, CTG- from 2017.
চৌচালা সি বিচ, হালিশহর, চট্টগ্রাম।
The players were preparing for competition.
Taken with Samsung NX300 provided by Samsung Electronics.
I've been using Samsung camera for around three years and I bought four Samsung cameras. Now Samsung provided me with a new Compact System Camera NX300 so I went out to test it last week.
On the St. Charles Streetcar, New Orleans, Louisiana. He was playing that umbrella like a clarinet. Maybe practicing for a later gig . . . .
A water polo player takes a practice shot to warm up for the UC Irvine vs Cal Lutheran match.
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I found myself so angry this morning while reading people’s excuses for using Ai. So many people stating they use it to do creative tasks because they’re “not ✨talented✨ like the rest of us.”
I stand behind the idea that with most people whose work you appreciate, it’s not a matter of raw talent blessed to them by the gods. It’s WORK. It’s pure drive, effort, stupidity, and the willingness to do things over and over no matter how bad your results may be until slowly they’re not so bad anymore.
I am so tired of seeing Ai and thinking about it, let alone hearing lazy people (and I mean this with as little harshness as I can manage, people are being made lazier by the day by these sorts of things) make excuses why it’s ok for them to not try and to just get a dopamine hit from that social media like/favorite.
I spend so much time practicing in different photography conditions, trying different settings on my camera, & experimenting with techniques. I am not just naturally talented, although I know I have an eye for composition/framing. (Which, again, as evidenced from my film scan of a 1995 sunset & powerlines sky photo I recently posted… I’VE HAD TO PRACTICE AT FOR YEARS.) The same goes for my illustrating, my sewing, my style/fashion projects, my writing, and my small forays into music making.
I am a creative person who tries everything and does their best to hone various skills so I can best combine all facets of my creativity to create multi-media art. Sometimes that means YouTube videos, sometimes that means collage work, and sometimes that means doing styling/hair/makeup, setting up a scene, photographing it, creatively editing it, and making a collage from all of that or illustrating digitally over my images.
None of it is just raw unfiltered natural talent, it’s skill borne by constantly making bad art, taking bad photos, and writing shitty songs or stories.
The entitlement behind these excuses is infuriating. The more I see people lean into instant gratification demands instead of just being new to something and learning, the more I worry about the fate of people’s mental states. I know it’s disheartening to want to “be a great photographer/illustrator/writer” and start in at it and not instantly be applauded for how earth shattering your work is, but know that the people you admire have been putting in the work.
Some mornings I go out to practice night photography and I’m being lazy. I don’t want to take the tripod or use my remote and on those mornings I come back with nothing to share because I took a bunch of blurry grainy photos. Sometimes there is nothing to come of a photo session/walk but a learning experience and I am frustrated but grateful every time.
I took 3x as many shots this morning than you’re seeing here but this is all that came out even semi-acceptable for me because I didn’t want to dig out my remote and the settings I was using meant every little wobble, no matter how imperceptible, caused blurriness.
Please, when you have someone in your life who is destroying the very planet we live on, the only one we have, and lining the pockets of the corrupt ultra wealthy who run these scam Ai sites to “make art,” sit them down and talk to them. Lead them away from it.
Talk openly about your struggles as a creative, show the work that goes into taking your photos that people love. Be transparent and helpful to people who are interested in getting started and please, never ever play it off as just “natural talent.”
Two young firemen take the hose during training in a parking lot in Richmond, Virginia…They were actually under an overpass on the edge of the parking lot shooting at different junctions of the understructure.
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds Soccer team practicing before their Friday game against Cleveland airing on ESPN 2. Practice was special today because 4 development team players were brought up to practice with the pros and they used the opportunity to adjust to the speed and intensity of professional level players. Drills, like "Tag" emphasized agility and mobility. Head coach Bob preached spacing, quick decision-making, and playing forward.
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My slush-fund is now just six weeks away from providing me with a Canon macro lens, so the odd shot may appear of either new or archive, as in this case, attempts at macro using a zoom lens (heresy, I know :-) Any guidance would be very welcome - maybe via Flickrmail if I need to choose another area of photography altogether!
Free to wander nowadays :-) I sometimes post daily, so perhaps you might take a quick look @ the previous two shots? Thanx - muchly, Phil
To all who view and/or comment on my pix; each is a help and a pleasure in equal measure. As I use wide or super wide lenses a lot, I feel that my landscape shots benefit from viewing after pressing L and then F11
The practice Moon! I am practicing for tomorrow nights moon and if it happens to be overcast i got some great photos tonight. I used 3 different camera bodies and 3 different lens set ups an tried to do some time lapse photography that did not turn out to well.This was taken with the 7D Mark 11 using the new 100-400 mm 11.