Two more behind the cut. ( Read more... )

This is the beginning of my Peep project, although I'm not sure if I will continue working on it until I get another lens.

Peeps Eat Mosquitos


A Peep in the hand is worth two in the bush.


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Who will win? Who will lose? You decide!

Cage Match Featuring Darth Tater Head and Tuborous Tebow!



See the rest of my filing cabinet toys behind the cut.
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What it takes to get through the day:

Just 2.5 more hours until I can loose this place for an entire week!

Lovely pens. Love pens. Steal pens!

So I let things get out of hand and then I stopped caring because I was in a bad place and now I'm back on the good foot and want to start up again.

I come bearing images for my starting over project photo a day.

This time I'm setting a much smaller goal with some guidelines based on an article I read about Photo A Day challenges.

My self-imposed guidelines:
1) Photo a day every day for 21 days.
2) Must be work related but cannot be simple photograph, must have some value to it that either is a story in pictures about an event/experience I had at work OR looking at work things with a new perspective.

So here is Day 1

Four drawers of this...



plus five boxes of these...



went into these seven drawers without room to spare.



The original four drawers were packed so tightly that I could not get the files out without yanking on them. But now all denied files are organized alphabetically.

Sadly I still could not find the missing file.

Last night I went to Danielle's house to meet with her and Sarah to discuss Danielle's portrait. Originally my idea was to make Danielle into a 1950s showgirl ala Marilyn Monroe in "Bus Stop". But as we started talking about and trying to figure out costumes and things, Sarah was doing Danielle's make-up and hair.

Pretty soon Danielle had evolved from showgirl to 1950s MILF (Mother I'd Like to Do Sexy Things With). Then I suggested a tray of martinis and Sarah suggested a pie and the whole thing fell together. We definitely got Marilyn Monroe - but in the kitchen! Now we're going to scout places to take the photo.

Again, originally the "set" was just going to be a white or cream or gray backdrop, and maybe it still will be, but we were giggling and wishing we could find and old stove or something. If we decide to use a prop outside the pie, like an old stove or wet bar, it has to be authentic. At least in my mind it should be. I think it might be too much to mix this sassy 1950s lady with a kitchen from the 21st century.

Working with Sarah is always fascinating. The two of us really brainstorm and pull out some neat ideas. We really play off each other well. It's great.

So in about two weeks I'll start shooting. I'm really excited. I've got to do some homework first - I have no real studio lighting and no flash, so everything is going to be reflectors, natural lighting. This is when I do wish I had a digital so I could stop the shoot, see what's working and what's not, and redirect if I need to. But I guess this is when I'll really be putting my skills to the test. Any hints and recommendations will be really helpful.

So here's a little comparision between my new Mamiya medium format camera that uses 120 film and my Nikon N80 that uses 35mm film. I wish you could see the actual amazingness. The Mamiya has an amazing lens. Everything looks so clear and clean when I look through it. And because of the size of the film, I get a larger view too. ( Read more... )

I thought I had a few more comparison images, but I was wrong. Well...actually I do have two more but I don't think I uploaded them. Anyway, if you want to see some more fun pictures click the cut again. ( Read more... )

I get my first batch of negatives back from my Nikon N80 and Mamiya 345E. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!! I cannot WAIT to compare the two. I'll be doing a lot of scanning this evening and posting and what not. Hopefully my scanner will do a relatively good job of scanning the negs so I can really show off just how different the images from 35mm is from 120 film. 120...man, you guys, I cannot tell you just how clear and brillant everything is through that camera.

Hee hee, the mamiya is the same one that Annie Liebovitz uses! Except that I'm a little ticked off at her about this whole Miley Cyrus thing.