Taken for the Class with Dave group. The assignment was to take a picture inspired by music. This is about as inspired as one can get I guess. This is Bonfire Night, my friend Lisa’s band. Steph and I went to go see them perform on Friday night. Sadly, Lisa stood in the shadows pretty much the entire time, so the rest of the band shows up much better than she does. Better pictures of her are available in the photoshoot of her I did a while back.
Day 183 of 365 days. Half of 365 is 182.5. That means that today is the first day of the second six months of this project. Looking back on day one of this project and the week that followed and moving on to where I am now, I really do think that I’ve grown as…
Day 182 of 365 days. Half of 365 is 182.5. That means that today is the last day of the first six months of this project. When I first started this project I was unsure of where I was going to go with it. I was unsure if I would even be able to finish.…
Taken for the Class with Dave group. The assignment was to take a picture of anything and use a "non-standard" crop. I’ve actually used lots of weird crops at different points, but that actually made this a little harder. I spent the entire week trying to find something that could really be featured by a really long tall crop. I decided on the lightswitch ot my kitchen, which is really dirty and needs to be cleaned. Ah well. They can’t all be winners
Day 181 of 365 days. I originally actually had a different idea for today’s shot but I never got to it because I was busy thinking about my next photo project. Rather than just rush to finish my highly photoshop intensive idea and do a substandard job, I decided to take a picture detailing my…
Liz with sword Originally uploaded by chrismaverick. So I’ve been doing more and more photography lately. Obviously I have my 365 Days project (available for LJ viewing through the 365mav syndicate — cheap plug). But I’ve also been shooting lots of lovely ladies lately. Mostly I’ve just been attempting to approve my skill and my…
Day 180 of 365 days. I’m feeling a little better today, not that things are really looking up. Maybe its just that I made myself useful today. Went and got my weekly comic books, then did some grocery shopping. I felt all proactive and was looking forward to doing my daily workout and then for…
Taken for the Class with Dave group. The assignment was to take a picture with lots of colors. This was actually tricky for me because even when I don’t do black and whites, I’m not big on featuring lots of colors. But I did have an immediate idea for it. And so, off to the comic book store! I had to hit at least 3 of the following colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. I think I did a little better than that.
Day 179 of 365 days. It was yet another long day filled with mental anguish and depression. A day of constant reevaluation of my life and the choices I’ve made and hoping that it gets better but fearing it won’t. A day of self-doubt. Really I hope I get past that soon. In any case…
Day 178 of 365 days. It was a tough day in Pittsburgh. Last night it got down to -4 degrees Fahrenheit (-20C for metric weenies). I woke up this morning with an upset stomach, only to discover that my hot water pipes had frozen. How the hot water pipe froze and the cold water pipe…
Day 177 of 365 days. I’m still a little sore from yesterday’s wrestling, but I’m healing up nicely. It was nice to be able to sleep in on a Sunday. Basically spent the afternoon working on editing the most recent photoshoot I did (would love to have comments and feedback from other 365ers and fans,…
Day 176 of 365 days. I am oh so sore. Had a wrestling show in Ohio today. One that I thought I wasn’t actually going to be wrestling on. But then when I got there, I found out that one of the BDW tag team champions, the Puerto Rican Wrecking Crew, didn’t show up because…
Taken for the Class with Dave group. The assignment was to take a picture of some sort of architecture in black and white and to share the photoshop settings for the translation with the group. This shot was immediately what sprang to mind when I read the assignment. Its a steel plant on the way to one of the cities I wrestle in. I took the shot on the way home so that it would be darker and the lights would be on. I used a fairly long exposure and a higher ISO to get a lot of exposure detail.
In photoshop I used a channel mixer adjustment layer to set it to black and white with the following settings:
Red: +20%, Green: +35%, Blue: +75%
Then I added a levels adjustment layer with these settings:
input Black: 15, input Mid: 1.0, input White: 240
output Black: 0, output White: 255
Day 175 of 365 days. It was a very busy day and so I had to resort to a last minute back up shot. Slept in, after not being able to sleep last night and spent the day dealing with other things. I did work out and still made it to wrestling practice. Go me…
10-1-06 Originally uploaded by chrismaverick. It’s that time again. Every February is Black History Month. The country spends a wopping 28 days trying to pretend they care about the contributions of African Americans over the course of the last couple hundred years. Mostly by having all the major networks air little promos in every commercial…