Update: You may have noticed some changes around the site. I’ve just recently migrated my photoblog and journal to Pixelpost (from MovableType, if you must know). Some functionality has changed, the design has changed (albeit subtly), and I think it’s all an improvement. Especially the wider (700px vs. 620px) photos! Anywya, I’ve moved over the most recent entries — comments and all — so we don’t lose our place. However, I’m entertaining the idea of perhaps separating my photoblog from my journal, thereby making my journal a little less public. It won’t be secret or anything, but it’ll be a separate entity from my photos such that I can give the photo address to my interviewers without having to give them my journal, too. It would mean, though, a few more clicks on your part to stay up-to-date on both. What to you think?? Now back to scheduled programming…
I cheated on this one. That’s right. I sprayed water on these tomatoes to make them look more exciting. It took much swallowing of pride to admit that — gosh darn it — vegetables just look better with water droplets on them. You’re probably saying to yourself, “Who in their right mind cares?” My response: Purists everywhere. Nate, this includes you; Uncle Charlie, perhaps you too; maybe all of you. I can’t know that. All I know is that I had a heavy conscience the first time I pulled the trigger on that little water bottle. Pretty much the same feeling as the first time I converted a color photo to black and white and liked the latter better. With my D70, though, I don’t have a choice; there is no “Black and White” setting. It assumes you have Photoshop. And I do. Version CS2, if you’re interested.
Too much addressing the reader. This isn’t your journal, after all. Though sometimes I have my doubts. I’m only kidding; let me describe a metaphor that I came up with last night. And don’t take this to mean I’m depressed — on the contrary, I am quite happy right now. I mean this metaphor in the lightest, least intense way possible.
In New York City, I’m going to be a housecat. I will be living predominately inside, content with the various fun things I can find in different interiors around the house (the city, for those of you who are having trouble following me), eating a lot and getting soft. Unless, of course, I find a gym where I can sharpen my claws and bat things around, for the sole reason of curbing the boredom that comes with sleeping and eating and roaming. I am, by choosing to stay in the “house”, ensuring a safer — and perhaps longer — life, but I won’t be living the life that nature intended. For this reason I will always look out the windows in the living room and hope that one day, someone will leave a door open and I can sneak out and live the rest of my life the way it ought to be lived.
Woohoo!
8 Comments
August 23, 2005 at 12:05 am
For the last half dozen or so pictures I’ve been using a new sharpening filter for Photoshop; Are you guys noticing that my photos are better now (sharpening-wise) or are they too over-sharpened?
August 23, 2005 at 12:05 am
Well from the 200% crops I’ve been looking at, there are a few sharpening halos, dude.
So in other words, no, they look great. And so does the freakin’ bokeh in this shot. My God…
Nice metaphor, too. Do you every write anything? Like short stories??
August 23, 2005 at 11:41 am
i like the new style, especially the larger picture. there is only one that i like more about your older site. it was more palm friendly. but probably no one else but me cares. it’s not like you ever pay any attention to me anyways. haha. i’m done now. sometimes i enjoy being a girl. (before i get yelled at, i’m not saying that all girls are like that or that no guys are like that. it was just a general statement. i was just rolling with things as they came to my head. then i thought: “wow, that really sounded like a girl that i used to date.” but the thought process continued from there. i realized that i would never date anyone that annoying (so i guess i could never date myself…too bad) and realized that the person that i was thinking of was not a girl that i had dated, rather an annoying person that has kinda been hanging around for a few years. so becca, i dedicate this comment to you. now correct my grammer. over.
August 23, 2005 at 11:45 am
dude, josh, were you drunk when you wrote that entry? because seriously, that was a lil harsh…yes, i am defending becca…so becca, ignore josh…i think it’s ohio getting to him. -allison
August 23, 2005 at 11:55 am
Yeah, Josh. Better lay off the sauce.
August 24, 2005 at 11:49 am
Cogbills, I appreciate your support, but I actually found Josh’s comment very amusing. And the grammar actually looks pretty good to me!
August 24, 2005 at 1:39 pm
True, the grammar is okay — but he spelled it “grammer”! Was that on purpose? He would probably say so. Meanwhile, I’m still going to make fun of him.
September 7, 2005 at 11:14 pm
This is very cool.
Strange but true observation. Lots of stuff look more interesting with drops of water on them. (Glass and skin come to mind)
As to the purists, who cares? You’re not out to capture plain, unevocative photos of stuff you encounter throughout the day. Plus, those end up being unrealistic and dull looking, nothing like what pulled you in to take a picture in the first place. I think photography is partly being able to recreate the feeling you experienced when you first saw the magic or intrigue of an object, a scene, a person, etc. Beauty and art are subjective things, and you do what it takes to achieve your vision.
Plus, why do professionally edited movies look professional and home-made movies look homemade? It’s not just their cameras.