Another bathroom, another photo
Object d’raison lust
The 1D Mark III - 10MP, 10 frames per second burst, 30 RAW image buffer, ISO 6400, 19 cross-type focus points.
Yeah, I want one…
Daniellynn… I’m your father!
tim: mabye i should contest paterniity
tim: “anna and i hooked up in the back room at nation one night… about 9 months before the boy was born…”
tim: “honestly i thought she was a tranny”
tim: “but i feel obligated to step forward and claim my child”
jj: it’s a girl, not a boy timmy
tim: wha?
tim: its a boy
tim: oh.. nvm
jj: daniellynn
tim: ok.. strike that “boy” and replace with “girl”
jj: yeah too late
jj: busted
tim: yah,i think it’ll work
tim: just need ot figure out how to fake a dna test
Anna Nicole Smith
You read it here first. I bet after the paternity tests are done on the baby girl, it’ll be revealed that NONE of the guys who say they’re the father are a match. With all the bizaarre twists and turns of this ongoing saga.. this is only appropriate… even expected.
Blowoff
Last week I had a party at my house, which was a blockbuster, I originally planned to invite like 20 people, and ended up inviting 50, and over 80 showed up. The only crimp of the evening was that the liquor ran out halfway thru the night. I’ll have to order vodka by the gallon next time.
When the clock struck midnight, the boys and I headed over to the 9:30 club for the monthly “Blowoff” party. While in my room getting my coat, i stood there for a few minutes debating whether I should bring my camera or not.
Lucky (or not so lucky) for you all, I did.
DJ Booth in the back - I’ve noticed that high saturation colors will bloom very easily at high ISO with the 5D. Hopefully the next generation DSLRs will fix that.
Leo, Chris and Jab do the drunk friends pose. Jab apparently can’t keep his head still enough.
Pretty abstract picture of a cheap plastic cup holding $6 worth of vodka and O.J.
The bartender learning the essential signs. Here, she’s learning the “bull” part of “redbull”.
Some guy I thought was cute.
Some random dude, Leo, Andy and some other random dude. Leo has a kneejerk reaction to having his picture taken.
Ooooo! Silhouette pictures rock!
Jab gets it on both tits from JJ and Chris.
“Excuse me sir, your pants have fallen down.”
3 A.M. and the party’s dying down…
Grace
I can’t quite put my finger on why I like this picture so much. Technically speaking, it’s kinda flat and lacking on sharpness. The kind of pictures you get when shooting wide-open, 1/25 shutterspeed under shitty lighting, all of it coming from the wrong direction in a VFW Lodge. And oh yeah, you can see that my thousand-dollar prime vignettes like a five-buck-whore at f/1.4.
But yet, it just keeps banging around in my head, “what pictures do i like the best?” “oh yeah, the barefoot girl in the plaid dress and the shoes cast off in the corner is one of them.” And why do I suppose I like it so much… the slow blur of the a graceful girl bringing her hands and feet together in a classical ballernia pose, her feet freed of the tryanny of ill-fitting shoes and that stray lock of hair falling down her face? and yeah.. the vignetting adds character here, actually.
well anyway, this here is one of my favorites. i’ll be sharing more…
Innocence
Little kids are amazing subjects.
Canon 5D, The King of Making Pictures From Nothing
I shot a wedding last weekend. The groom was a Marine. A lot of his friends showed up in full Marine regalia too. With the evening winding down, the Marines all got together in a huddle and started singing… Marine songs I suppose. I saw a photo opportunity and stuck my camera in between the guys legs and shot blind.
The lighting was already horrible. I was maxing out everything, at f/1.4, ISO 1600 and underexposing by 1EV to get the shutter speeds I wanted without resorting to a flash. The resulting picture I got is below. I initially thought the picture was a loss. There was almost no detail to work with except the in the ceiling - which is worthless.
I wanted to see if I could salvage something. I pushed the RAW image +3EV (equalivent to ISO 12800!) and converted to black and white to kill most of the chromatic noise. And now I have a picture, woot! It’s noisy as hell. Details are pretty much shot, but the mood and spontaneity is all there, eh?
DeafRead 2006 Blog Awards - Did I miss a memo?
This is really f-ed up.
I cruised over to Tate’s blog to check out his latest update and with complete suprise, read this:
Tim Kettering whopped mine in the Best Photography Blog! Congrats to everyone who got nominated even. Keep A-blogging and next year I want to see new stuff up there! I love how our community works online!
HUH? My thought was - “When was I nominated? When did I win? How did I win with a blog that has posted almost no pictures in the last two months? And how the hell did Tate not win, when his blog is far more ‘photography’ oriented than my blog?”
So I checked around. Ah. DeafRead was sponsoring the voting for the Best Deaf Blogs for 2006. And somehow my “blog” was nominated for Best Photography Blog, along with Tate, Claire, and other talented deaf photographers. You can find the page here.
And just to take a look, I click on the link that has my name and it takes me… NOT to this blog, but rather, to the online gallery for ‘Black Friday’.
So not only was I nominated for, and won a best blog of 2006.. it was for a link that isn’t a blog - but a freaking online photo gallery!
So to go over the major points.
- I was never notified I was nominated (so I might have corrected their link).
- I was never notified that I won (dont you usually want to let the winners know?).
- The “blog” nominated was nothing more than a photo gallery of photos taken in four hours on a single (but important) night out of a whole year of people blogging about the deafworld.
- Four other bloggers (whos sites I have recently checked) were in my opinion far better photography-oriented blogs than my blog has/ever been.
To everyone who voted for me I wanted to say thanks for the votes and most importantly, thanks for your support. However I cannot in good consicence accept this award. This award truly belongs to everyone else nominated for Best Photography Blog - not me. Here are the REAL winners:
- thetate - as always, love his work and free-roaming opinions!
- People of the Eye - faithfully covered the protest day after day.
- pictures by der sankt - love his black and white work of new york city!
- All About The Pictures - if i could only do candids and storytellling as well as she could…
The Restroom Tour
It seems like every time I happen to use the bathroom while on a shoot, I’ll do a quick self-shot at the mirror. I’ve actually got almost enough to post a gallery pretty soon. This one is from yesterday during a brief lull in the wedding shoot.