Time to get ahead
(for those of you who are keeping score, this one and the next three are all shot on film)
Circus Dolls: The delightful Pinky D'Ambrosia
Last, but not least.
Circus Dolls: Slammity Clam
Wouldja look at that accordion? Miss Oblivious really did a gorgeous job on these.
Circus Dolls: Chameleo
In answer to a question from one of you lot: Yes, of course, these are available for purchase as prints, at my very reasonable rates.
heather, on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 9:51 PM:
I love the clarinet - well made and well photographed!
Circus Dolls
Remember those photos of the Circus Contraption Band cd release party? In the booklet for the CD are a series of photos that yours truly took of the band members. Sort of.
The photos are actually of dolls made by the excellent Miss Oblivious, and I had the privilege and challenge of coming up with some way of shooting them that did justice to her work. See if you think I succeeded.
This here is Armitage Shanks himself. And here's Miss Oblivious snapping a photo of Armitage from the CD Release Party.
Circus Contraption Band CD release party
Today: 35 photos for the price of one!
Or, if you like, you can just go to my Circus Contraption Band cd release party flickr set.
This is not pipe photography
Tim, on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 6:28 PM:
aaaahhhhhhh!! So it's "flexible conduit photography" - very cool!
heather, on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 11:17 PM:
Totally tubular photo, dude!
This is not street photography
nocklebeast, on Monday, April 28, 2008 at 10:59 AM:
I see they've given up on lead-based paint in Seattle too?
Tim, on Monday, April 28, 2008 at 12:24 PM:
yeah ... definitely the look of a parking lot
Mt. Vernon 2
heather, on Friday, April 25, 2008 at 7:58 AM:
Oh. THAT window!
Tim, on Friday, April 25, 2008 at 3:00 PM:
What door?
Sarah, on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 7:42 AM:
Yep, you two were made for each other. :-)
The doors and windows of Mt. Vernon
heather, on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 10:30 PM:
What windows?
Tim, on Friday, April 25, 2008 at 3:01 PM:
Oh. THAT door!
Amazon schoolgirl fish
Since The Kid is a big fan of fishies, we of course had to visit the Vancouver Aquarium.
My favorite part of the whole place is their Amazon exhibit, where I found what must be somebody's fetish. We'll see from the server logs, oh yes, we will.
Sarah, on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 5:19 AM:
Even though it's been over three years since the original post, "toe cleavage" is still the No. 1 search string for Saedigh.com. People are really, really weird.
Sunset tree 1
heather, on Monday, April 14, 2008 at 8:05 AM:
Pretty in pink!
Have you done this building before?
david adam edelstein, on Monday, April 14, 2008 at 8:44 AM:
i'm pretty sure i haven't photographed in that part of vancouver before, but it's possible i'm spacing it.
Rooftop geometrics
Another fun game to play from your 18th floor hotel room.
Homage to Rodchenko
That would be Alexander Rodchenko, the guy whose photography taught me what it means to be a designer and photographer.
ejuana, on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 11:28 AM:
So what does it mean?
david adam edelstein, on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 11:35 AM:
Shadows are cool.
Tilt-shift 3
And... three is about my limit for this kind of work. What else did I shoot in Vancouver? Tune in tomorrow.
heather, on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 5:22 PM:
that open window in the middle totally looks like one of those little tiny lego windows :-)
nocklebeast, on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 4:37 PM:
I just got some film back from the photo lab, where I try to get some sort of tilt-shift effect by loading film into a 35mm panoramic camera the "wrong way." I just uploaded my best results onto flickr.
Tilt-shift 2
Tim, on Monday, April 7, 2008 at 9:35 PM:
nice one!
heather, on Monday, April 7, 2008 at 9:42 PM:
this is just such a cool technique. I read the wikipedia description you linked to in the previous post but I guess I'm still curious as to why this technique actually works - cause it does, beautifully! The brain is such a curious thing :-)
David Adam Edelstein, on Monday, April 7, 2008 at 9:58 PM:
Honestly I don't understand why it works either. I suspect there's something about it confusing the brain's assumptions about focusing on something close-up, but that's just a guess.
Tilt-shift in Vancouver
We spent a two days in Vancouver a couple of weeks ago, and stayed on the 18th floor of a hotel. Aside from giving the Kid a nice view of the seagulls flying over the city, it gave her dad a nice vantage point to shoot fake tilt-shift photos from.
Conservatory 12
Paging Signore Fibonacci... Signore Fibonacci... please call extension 1-1-2-3-5-8.
nocklebeast, on Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 9:59 PM:
13-21-34!
Conservatory 11
Why, it's my old friend Monstera!
Conservatory 10
heather, on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 8:43 AM:
No idea what this is but it's cool!
david adam edelstein, on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 9:53 AM:
Banana!
Conservatory 7
heather, on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 9:33 PM:
What a cool looking plant! I like the black thorny tips and the pale green. Pretty contrast.
Conservatory 4
heather, on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 11:30 AM:
I like this. It looks like a closeup of braided hair.
Conservatory 2
Laura, on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 4:58 PM:
This is beautiful. I feel like if I reached out and touched it it would feel real.
13 days in the Volunteer Park Conservatory
OK, we didn't really spend 13 days there, just 30 minutes or so (hello, antsy toddler) but I ended up with 13 photos I like enough to post.
We gotcher color, we gotcher black and white, a few more literal, a few more abstract, somethin' for the little lady, y'all step right up.
Uncle Vinny, on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 9:35 AM:
I wish you were having a white sale on smoke-damaged furniture.
Aquarium 4
A Smith, on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 3:22 AM:
Awesomely surreal!
Sunfriday, on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 9:39 PM:
10...
9...
Yet another diner with beautiful light
Of course, in this one we were waiting for our doro wat to show up.
Damon, on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 7:02 AM:
That's beautiful.
Glory road
Tim, on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 7:31 PM:
OMG DAVE!!!!
....oh, road ...
That looks like it stung a bit
maya, on Monday, March 17, 2008 at 7:54 AM:
ouchie!
Tim, on Monday, March 17, 2008 at 9:29 AM:
That's gonna leave a ma... ERRR ... that left a mark!
My messy desk at the office
Just before I got fed up and tidied.
maya, on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 7:16 AM:
Dude, that's nothin'.
Tim, on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 2:23 PM:
the coffee cup doesn't even have a skanky ring around the inside ...
Laura Z, on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 2:49 PM:
Yeah, dude - this is like nothing! Unless, of course, this photo does not show the whole picture. :-)
I like the subtlety of the shadows and contrasts here.
heather, on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 9:17 PM:
there is no amount of artsy black-n-white photographing that one could do to make my office look even half this pristine and productive.
Star explosion
Inspired at least partially by Paul Caponigro's wonderful apple.
Savannah, on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 4:24 PM:
This one gets a big smile!
A typical view of the Smith Tower
heather, on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 12:00 PM:
heheee... how true.
Somewhere to kick back
heather, on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 10:43 AM:
And a handy brick wall against which to bang your head. What more could anyone need?
Stepping stones
Sarah, on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 5:38 PM:
As Alexander Keith would say, those who lichen, lichen a lot.
Grass 3
heather, on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 12:58 PM:
I love that one bright blade of grass; it springs out of my computer monitor. I can almost touch it.
Grass 2
maya, on Monday, March 10, 2008 at 7:28 AM:
oooh, this one is lovely.
Uncle Vinny, on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 8:12 PM:
That reminds me... I need a haircut.
Grass 1
Christina, on Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 3:29 PM:
That is amazing!
A few color photos from the Kubota Garden
We went to the Kubota Garden last weekend and I took the opportunity to shoot some photos in — gasp — color.
heather, on Friday, March 7, 2008 at 11:32 AM:
While I do enjoy your black and white, your colour photos are always a real treat because your colours are always really quite subtle, different and beautiful. Artful. I love the greens and pinkish brownish beige in this. So serene and pretty.
Laura Z, on Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 8:31 AM:
I like the subtle hues here.
BW Flora 5
heather, on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 9:32 PM:
The first thing that came to mind for me for this one was silver filigree.
Sunfriday, on Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 10:24 PM:
Beware when wandering the dark and twisted forest. The swirling miasma can suddenly coalesce into crystal sharp forms. One must draw on all strength of conviction to disbelieve the illusions.
Oops. Was that out loud? I meant to say “That’s a nice photo.”
And now for a change of pace: a little black and white flora
The subject is more natural, but the technology is more digital than the last few days.
There's a lot in that gaze
Remember when I talked about penalizing the moment of capture in favor of ease of processing? This photo is a good example of why that ease of processing is so seductive.
Since I do all of my dust and scratch spotting on a separate "layer" in Photoshop, I can show you this map of all of the spotting I had to do. And there was plenty of it.
nocklebeast, on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 5:42 PM:
I was kinda wondering when I read, "In which I return to an old love" if you had to deal with dust when scanning the negatives (and how much of it). When I was more into scanning film about 4 years ago, it did kinda drive me crazy (especially with all the pocket lint in the plastic mini-Holga spy camera).
More recently I've taken my film to Bay Photo and told them to develop it and make me a photo CD, which I've been fairly pleased with. A couple times there has been a weird blob in my digital photos that weren't there on the original film. Once recently, I dusted of the scanner and put the film in it. There was soooo much spots in the scanned digital file, I gave up on it.
Spudnuts
ejuana, on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 4:04 PM:
you are a spudnut
Now I can find my way home
maya, on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 7:04 AM:
good one!
heather, on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 1:44 PM:
I dunno about home, but at least you can figure out where your kite got stuck.
rfkj, on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 6:23 PM:
You may be able to find your way home...as long as someone's not just stringing you along.
New film!
There wasn't anything brilliant on the first couple of rolls of film, but there were a few frames I was pretty happy with.
Tim, on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 5:28 PM:
ummm... if that garment can not keep a mannequin warm ...I would probably think twice about purchasing it....just sayin'
Sarah, on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 5:36 AM:
Yes! Why do mannequins always have that permafrost look? You could cut glass on those things.
Tim, on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 4:00 PM:
You could put an eye OUT!
Old film 3
heather, on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 10:14 PM:
I like this one. It's sweet :-)
Old film, new scans
In anticipation of getting film back from the lab for the first time in a couple of years, I decided I needed to polish my mad skanning skilz, yo.
In the process — and it was a complex process full of wrong turns — I discovered a few photos from the last batch of film I had developed that, on reconsideration, were actually pretty interesting. Here's the first of three. Next week: New film!
Tim, on Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 9:23 AM:
A little late in the day for nap, eh?
