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The stubble of the maize crop stays in the ground as the farmer trims the hedgerow, 56094 and 56078 are cleaning again.
I'm normally very clean shaven of face and head. I had a lazy few days and didn't shave. Then I had the idea of a self portrait with stubble. Straight after this I shaved.
Photography: Me (James Jones)
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Beard and Mustache of Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia! Feel Free to use this Flickr picture under Creative Commons online!!
Wheat field near NW Wren Rd, South of North Plains, Or. August 2013. Note: Access permission granted by property owner.
Mike Mozart has been growing out his beard for three weeks from stubble. Here are some more Beardy Pictures! Feel Free to use this Flickr picture under Creative Commons Attribution online!!
There's much to reflect over this past year -- I have no doubt that the same is true for you all as well. I've had a beard, a moustache, been punched through the air, partied with myself and entered alternate universes -- all in my first full year of taking photography seriously (or taking photography for anything at all). I can't imagine what 2007 has in story; nor is that my job. I simply must walk forward with wisdom and patience.
I could resolve to exercise, eat healthier, work harder, send more time with the kids; but in all honesty that ought to be my daily resolution, not merely one to slough off for the new year. Happy New Year my Flickr family, friends, lurkers; thanks for viewing, commenting and supporting (whatever it is that I'm doing).
Did a portrait shoot for a friend this morning - the brief was tight black and white portraits. Shot a roll of trix in the Mamiya 645 which is still waiting to be developed, plus a bunch of digital.
I don't think I'll ever learn to like digital B&W. We've had a little over 150 years to understand what a B&W portrait should look like, and a digital conversion doesn't come remotely close to it. Especially when somebody shoots one with a 5D2 at high ISO and then decides to convert to B&W because he/she is ashamed of having produced a noisy colour image. Lame.
So I've tried to shoot this with as much pre-digi technique as possible. Learning from a previous experiment, I've gone with a real green physical piece-of-glass filter on the lens, and used the green histogram to measure exposure. Serious digital portrait photographers will tell you not to do this, and to just shoot a regular photo and then use the channel mixer in that photo-something program. Serious digital portrait photgraphers also happen to excel at producing fucking shite-awful B&W images, hence the ignoring of their advice.
Have also thrown in some subtle fake grain - early in post, not some shitty sprinkling after everything else is done. And used the B&W filter in CapNX to kill the green cast - it just happened to work better than plain desaturating, or using the GIMP channel mixer, or splitting the green channel out. There's probably room for improvement there.
In the end, it still has that nasty digital fake B&W look. But I like to think that it's at least 20% less lame than the usual fake digital B&W standard.
The fall burning of crop stubble has begun. Smoke from the fires burning unfortunately adds to air pollution. Not Asthma friendly !
Bit busy. Beard. Ginger. Smoking. Me.
Also, planning on having my hair cut tomorrow and beard trimmed at the barber as a treat.
Day 98/365
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Mike Mozart has been growing out his beard for three weeks from stubble. Here are some more Beardy Pictures!
Mike Mozart has been growing out his beard for three weeks from stubble. Here are some more Beardy Pictures!
It's been a couple of years since I last shaved my head, so I decided to go for it again, this time cutting it myself with an electric trimmer and my Gillette razor. The back is hard to get right when you can't see it in process, but I managed to get it pretty even by the end.