Lighting

I must appologize for not putting this up yesterday/ eariler. Saturday was the town's "fall festival" and my family was one of the venders there so I was manning a booth all day. And eariler we were finishing putting our basement back together after a month of renovating it. But excuses aside-on to the images!

This one was taken in the morning. The pine tree lives beside my driveway. You can see the disfused light and no harsh shadows.

This one was taken around noon time when the sun was at its and the harshest. You can clearly see the fade out edges from the harsh light cutting into the tree.

This one was taken well...at night as you could probably tell. I had the flash on for this one because of the darkk, yet despite that I rather enjoy the creeping in darkness it provides.

So I learned that there isn't much lighting differeance outside (these are only 3 of like 7 I took). Controled lighting is much easier.

Color Themes

Well it's been yet another week. Working on a pony that's driving me nuts and I was dumped yet again, but is that going to stop me? NEVER! So this week's assignment a was to take two pictures to example two of the three color themes correct? Well, lets see what I've got...

On tuesday my mom found 4 baby (tuebed out to be 5 later) and their momma mouse in a cabinet. My dad caught them and we sorta dumped them into a trash can and watched the for the rest of te day (we fed them too). They were just so cute and yet icky, but cute still. We set them free accross the road before it got dark.

This is an example of monochrmacy because the mousies are all gray/ gray-tan tones that are realatively similar to the coloration of the plastc can they're in, and the dust/dirt that was in the can too.

This one is an example of complememtary colors. I was looking for an anagulous example and I was thirsty, so I grabbed my VAULT bottle to make myself juice, and it just sort of dawned on me how funny it was that I was making red juice in a green bottle. Luckily we've a rug the same color, so I photographed it all in this set up for complementary coloration because red and green are opposites.

So koo-koo-kachoo. Working on the lighting part b assignment; will be up tomorrow. Have happy friday all!

Kat

Macro Collage

Well, as promised, I did it once I got home...then I sorta had to go to sleep. So now that I'm free from tearing appart the basement walls, here's my nifty collage!

I used the "multi exposure" option in the collage menu, then after it was exported I played around with "basic fixes", "tuning" and the "effects", and I thought that this looke really neat. You can still see te carpet fibers andthe pine needles real easily. I'm pretty sure the white block was caused because of the fact that a few of my photos were portrait, but it lets you see the texture of the house siding texture. I just thought that it was neat. ^^

Kat

Macro Comparisons

Well I'm writing this as I'm babysitting, so my collage picture will be available tomorrow. Today though, lets do a little comparison of my macro shots, shall we?

Well, first I need to say that we're cleaning our rugs, and so where better to put them up out of the way and in the sun than on the car that were trying to sell and thus don't use, right? And the car sits under a couple of trees, so you end up getting tree seeds on them. I was trying to get a picture of the fly that was on here the second before hand (see next picture) but it flew away and all I got was the seed.

I like how the in-focus fibers in the middle ground are so clear and crisp, yet the ones in the foreground are slightly fuzzy, yet you can see the tactile texture. You normally can't when you're standing on and looking down at a rug, now can you.


This image was taken a moment before the first one, for you can still see the fly on the rug. This one was taken from above the carpet, so you cannot see as clearly the texture of the carpet fibers, yet you get a better feeling for the pattern. And from the size of the fly, you can get a feeling for the size of the rug itself.

I'd wished I'd zoomed this in more, but I didn't want the fly to fly away. I do like how you can see the rug's patterning though. And admittedly, from this shot you can see the wear on the rug, even in this small patch of it. That's pretty neat.

So as I said, I'll post again tomorrow with the collage picture. Many more (and interesting) macro shots in my flikr thingy for you to take a look at if interested. I had fun with this one.

Still recovering a bit from the Los Lonely Boys concert in Hampton Beach that I was at last Friday. I'll go through those images later to see if there might be anything worth showing here.

That's it for now.
Peace out!
Kat

VelvetSky the Los Lonely Boys My Little Pony

Well, I am a customizer of hasboro's My Little Ponys (meaning i repaint/rehair/redesign them). This pretty little girl I just finished on Tuesday, for a concert I'm attending on Friday. Her design was inspired by Los Lonely Boy's song "Velvet Sky".

First I took a series of 360 shots of her. This shot best described her display side (from now on DS) and allows you to see the gradation down across her body, and clearly see the blue highlights in her tail. It however, does not show off the blue highlights in her mane as clearaly. Dude to the distance (this being a long range shot) you cannot see the pale yellow of her iris. The flash was on for this shot, and due to the distance it didn't white out any of her foam, though it did highlight the jewels somewhat.

In this second shot, I was trying to get a detailed shot of her head so you could better see the detail in her eyes. However, the flas whited that out to some degree, and magnified the painting mistake the jewels were suposed to be covering up. From this close up, slightly elevated angle I think you get a nice perception of her back/body, and you can see the connecting coloring in her body gradient to the layers of feathers on her wings. you can also better see the blue highlights in her mane, even though this is again her DS where the mane doesn't fall.

I choose these two shots to display because even though I like both of them, I fully understand the faults with the second one (ie. the flash white out, the room background). This was a way to show that there's a correct and a not-so-correct way to doing this.

And for anyone interested, she took 2 days to paint/rehair/curl hair. Was orignally a 25th anniversary Starshine.

Good Ra I've a "blog"

Wow, never thought I'd see the day when I'd have a real "blog". But here I am, and all for the quest of knowledge. Ain't it grand? So why not start this party off with a picture, ne?

This image was taken in the spring of '07. It was my senior year of high school and I was living alone in Rockingham, VT at my mother's old farm house so I could attend the local high school. This apple tree was half dead and hadn't borne fruit in years when I first moved in. However that fall and this fall it had apples. I believe the tree was happy that I was living there with it. I love my apple tree.

So there we go. First blog post, with picture and boring story included. Yippie for me! Stay posted for future lame storys with weird pictures.

Peace out!

Kat