The bad news are that i got some ugly photos. I was invited to a musical from an amateur group, which turned out to rawk nicely, and while I went there two times, the photographic results were..bad. I did not set up my cam right, i used the wrong films, i was in the wrong spot, and the lightning was horrible (for photographs). So I got some LSD-shaken thingies that could pass as photos of alien spacecrafts. I enjoyed my self though.
The good news are, I found about a contest by the Greek Ornithology company, http://www.ornithologiki.gr, that has the most fitting subject; nature photography. I am not going for any prizes or something, but it will keep me moving through the summer, taking good photos and walking in nature as I love to do so. It ends at September, so plenty of time to goof around.
On a last note, today is post day, so check for pics later (probably after 0300 GMT though).
Saturday, 16 June 2007
Monday, 11 June 2007
B/W Medley
Sorry for a tiresome post just then, i get like that when I have a headache.
Some time in my hands, and a scanner working post-format C:/, have reminded me of the time when I had fun at a certain studio with some pals of mine, wiskeyed to the floor, trying out one of my first B/W rolls of film, a certain Kodak BW at ISO 400 if I recall correctly. The results were shaken, not stirred with two olives, and happen to be one of my most appreciated (by me) rolls. Ergo, pictures;
I liked back then to play with my flash, not burying it in a hole in the ground (there lives a hobbit), and I discovered that unlike color photography, it can be beneficial and artistic, instead of a simple detail hunting documentative tool. And I prove that with a set of two individually nice and gloomy pictures of a simple theme, one describing perfectly good the subject, in a mellow way, allowing the background to mix up and back the subject, while the other brings out every detail in a harsh way, that in conjunction with the lightning gives us a single non-flat texture that contrasts nicely with the black lettering, now easily confused for letters shaped from a dark thick liquid that was put upon the surface. In the total absence of background the subject is pulled forward towards the viewer, and looses part of its identity, being able to be mistaken for a gong of larger dimentions, or a cut tree trunk used for hammering, were not for the letters saying its origin.
Pre-flash
Post-flash
Other interesting things that happened that night was the visit from aliens,
and the trip to their spaceship,
Really.
P.S. Scanned with 8-bit b/w scale, no point to 24-bit them. no effects/layers ect.
Some time in my hands, and a scanner working post-format C:/, have reminded me of the time when I had fun at a certain studio with some pals of mine, wiskeyed to the floor, trying out one of my first B/W rolls of film, a certain Kodak BW at ISO 400 if I recall correctly. The results were shaken, not stirred with two olives, and happen to be one of my most appreciated (by me) rolls. Ergo, pictures;
I liked back then to play with my flash, not burying it in a hole in the ground (there lives a hobbit), and I discovered that unlike color photography, it can be beneficial and artistic, instead of a simple detail hunting documentative tool. And I prove that with a set of two individually nice and gloomy pictures of a simple theme, one describing perfectly good the subject, in a mellow way, allowing the background to mix up and back the subject, while the other brings out every detail in a harsh way, that in conjunction with the lightning gives us a single non-flat texture that contrasts nicely with the black lettering, now easily confused for letters shaped from a dark thick liquid that was put upon the surface. In the total absence of background the subject is pulled forward towards the viewer, and looses part of its identity, being able to be mistaken for a gong of larger dimentions, or a cut tree trunk used for hammering, were not for the letters saying its origin.
Pre-flash
Post-flash
Other interesting things that happened that night was the visit from aliens,
and the trip to their spaceship,
Really.
P.S. Scanned with 8-bit b/w scale, no point to 24-bit them. no effects/layers ect.
Wonderworld
Have you ever seen the oldie Disney cartoon about Alice in Wonderland? Probably yes, and if not, I am sure you are familiar with the book and the story in general. Look around you.
You get the picture.
People running around chasing something, people acting strange and irrational in ways that do not hurt anyone but "obstruct" normality and the general smooth flow of things, people just standing there smoking their pipes doing nothing, authoritative figures enforcing obscure laws and the like. The thousand-and-tenfold web of interconnecting goals obstructing and aiding each other that creates a chaotic mosaic for minds to trek, and respective goals to meddle. You get the feeling.
Lest we forget, through chaotic models come infinite possibilities but no evolution whatsoever to the system, and through lawful models arises a infinite amount of possible evolution, though it is through a single "possibility" that defines and is defined as reality. The middle road as advertised commonly is a classical example of a Crusador-istic hard to follow path combining both ways, has been tested and proven to be non existing. Society is a chaotic through and through "system" that achieves its own identity from its own building blocks, trying to create their single one-man lawful cluster of serenity, ending up to being a multifaceted gem, reflecting outwards the outgoing effort of a myriad of single cells trying to stabilise at their own, unique, spot. And from out this gem is observed, despite the fact that it is being made buy the observers from the inside out.
I need to restart my PC now, updated drivers downloaded and installed. Be right with you.
You get the picture.
People running around chasing something, people acting strange and irrational in ways that do not hurt anyone but "obstruct" normality and the general smooth flow of things, people just standing there smoking their pipes doing nothing, authoritative figures enforcing obscure laws and the like. The thousand-and-tenfold web of interconnecting goals obstructing and aiding each other that creates a chaotic mosaic for minds to trek, and respective goals to meddle. You get the feeling.
Lest we forget, through chaotic models come infinite possibilities but no evolution whatsoever to the system, and through lawful models arises a infinite amount of possible evolution, though it is through a single "possibility" that defines and is defined as reality. The middle road as advertised commonly is a classical example of a Crusador-istic hard to follow path combining both ways, has been tested and proven to be non existing. Society is a chaotic through and through "system" that achieves its own identity from its own building blocks, trying to create their single one-man lawful cluster of serenity, ending up to being a multifaceted gem, reflecting outwards the outgoing effort of a myriad of single cells trying to stabilise at their own, unique, spot. And from out this gem is observed, despite the fact that it is being made buy the observers from the inside out.
I need to restart my PC now, updated drivers downloaded and installed. Be right with you.
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