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Taken during Free Practice 1 at Circuit of the Americas. Taken with my new Sony SAL55300 while sitting in my seats at turn 4.
Lewis Hamilton drives past in his McLaren MP4-27.
FINALLY settled on the B&W version of this.
Strobist: B400 in a beauty dish boomed over camera axis, f/8. B800 on a 40º grid for background, unmetered.
Triggered by Pocket Wizards.
PP in LR3/CS5
Knox College Prairie Fire football preseason practice, fall 2017, at Stisser Field in the Knosher Bowl.
VC-25A SAM 29000 is used to practice landings and takeoffs from Harrisburg International Airport. When the president is on board this modified 747 carries the callsign "Air Force One."
Practice brush lettering with Pentel Colorbrushes. These were in a sketchbook in preparation for my Expressive Brush workshop.
Image Taken At Oklahoma State Cowboys Baseball Practice, Tuesday, November 19, 2019, Stillwater, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. Scarlett Gooch/OSU Athletics
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.”
This is May 5. In three weeks I will be at the photo-shoot at the Raven.
Everybody will be decked out in the latest of high-fashion. I decided to be different and go in the other direction. I bought this '20s style dress. I figured that this era has beautiful styles and not a lot of people were up on it...
...until they came out with "The Great Gatsby" which debuted in theatres a week later.
I figure that with this dress and the accessories, I will be plenty cute for the occasion.
Capt. B. practices approaches into Tipton in a MDANG aircraft. Tipton was a not an operational airfield at the time.
Please forgive all the b&w images :) I'm in a b&w mood lately, I think. Just another "blown" background for practice.
Just teaching myself how to use Photoshop 6.0. Today is my first day with it. Any suggestions, tips & tricks are MUCH appreciated!
Tiling 'practice' area on the abandoned eastern platform.
With the eastern platform out of action for trains for so many years, TFL began to use it to test out signage designs and tiling methods, as well as lighting and poster glue for advertising.
The ads for DH Evans department store (now House of Fraser) in Oxford Street, Madame Tussaud’s and the London Planetarium dating back from the early 70s were visible on the tour.