Day 251 of 365 days. Finally got my pinball shot in the set. I’m a huge pinball fan, although I don’t get to play as often these days as I did when I was younger. I don’t think I would have survived college without pinball. Anyway, I really wanted to get a shot of me…
Day 250 of 365 days. I really only had one goal today. I wanted to go to an arcade and get a shot of me playing pinball. I love pinball. I used to have a Twilight Zone machine in my living room. Years ago, my car broke down and I had to sell it, because…
cwd143 – Square Foot. The entire content of your photo must be 12×12 inches (~30x30cm). What? I’m talking about the entire frame. So, first…your photo must be cropped square (non-square images will be removed from the pool). Second, if you enlarged the photo to 12×12, it would be a life-sized photo. Am I making any sense yet? Perhaps an exmaple. Let’s say your subject was an 8.5×11 inch sheet of paper (boring…don’t you dare do it) – that’s less than 12×12, so there would be some space around the piece of paper. Now let’s say your subject was a person. People are bigger than 12×12, so you might have a head and a shoulder. Or maybe a couple feet and ankles. Get it? Bottom line: if you blew it up to 12×12, it would be life-sized. Obviously, I don’t expect perfect precision on the whole 12×12 thing…but if it’s obviously 20×20 or 5×5, I’ll boot it from the pool. Get as close as you can to 12×12. The goal of this assignment is to alter the way you look at things. Footnote: Please, no photos of rulers.
a 365 reject of my Day 249 shot.
Day 249 of 365 days. Made a few more minor changes to www.chrismaverick.com today. It really is the best website in the whole wide world, everyone should bookmark it and link to it from their websites and in general just make me world famous. I still don’t get why the media isn’t all over me…
Day 248 of 365 days. Spent the whole day working on my website. That’s right, I’m up and open for business. I still have a lot of other stuff to work on with it, and its not "Internet Explorer 6" compliant yet, but if people want to look at it and let me know what…
Day 246 of 365 days. Long long day. Spent this morning working on my website (I’ll be happy when I finish it, and of course will post a link), and then it was off to Martin’s Ferry, Ohio for a wrestling show. Steph and Jameel were nice enough to accompany me so there were at…
Day 246 of 365 days. I don’t have a whole lot to say about today. I spent the entire day working on my website. Hopefully I’ll be done in another couple of days. I need to buy some webspace to host it on. Which is more money that I don’t really feel like spending, but…
Day 245 of 365 days. TGIF. It kinda loses something when you don’t have a job. Oh well. Spent the morning working on my new website, which hopefully I’ll have done in a week or so. Then spent the afternoon cleaning the old bedroom/new studio. I’m so awful at cleaning. I’m getting it done, but…
Day 244 of 365 days. I was hoping to take a picture outside today while I was running errands, but it was pretty much muggy and rainy and disgusting all day, so I punted on that. Ayway, I spent the day picking up stuff for Steph so that she can use her computer in her…
When I was 2 years old, my grandfather bought new cabinets for my grandmother and he rebuilt the old cabinets into a bar that was a favorite family hang out spot in his house for years. When he died a few years ago and my grandmother decided to sell the house she was going to throw the bar out. Over my dead body. I drove to Cleveland, rented a truck and drove the bar back. Now, it sits in my dining room now as one of my most prized possessions.
This mirror was my addition to bar. It probably doesn’t seem like a big thing, but for some reason part of me just can’t seem to change the bar itself, but I wanted to add something to it. You can’t see it in this picture, but his name is on the mirror in decals. It adds a nice since of "barness" to it and it makes me happy to look at it it. I’m sure he would have approved.
Assignment 2. Mirror/Reflection. A great, though challenging, compositional element is the mirror. Use reflections to complement your subject. Anyone doing a self-portrait in a mirror will be tagged “phoned in.” All other reflections are fair game.
Day 243 of 365 days. Way back in August before I started this project, I had a house party. In fact, it was the grandmama of all house parties. The fabled pajama jammy jam. It was a really good party and everyone had a lot of fun, but there was a small bit of collateral…
For the Class with Dave group. When I did the motion assignment I had already gotten the frozen time aspect down I think, so I wanted to capture something a little more natural. I wish I had had more time to watch the Carrick High School tennis team practice, but it was raining pretty bad and their coach made them pack it in. Luckily though, he was nice enough to let one kid serve a couple more for me so I could get this shot.
Assignment 1. Frozen Time. We’ve played with motion blur, but there is another very powerful way to convey energy, freeze motion in a way that can’t possibly just exist. High shutter speed in plenty of light will give a nice sharp image no matter how fast your subject may be moving. Images will be judged on sharpness.
Day 242 of 365 days. What with being constantly sick and then having a trip to that conference in Boston and then being constantly sick again, it occurred to me that I really hadn’t done anything superinteresting or fun for this project in a while. In a lot of ways I felt like I was…
Day 241 of 365 days. I may be sick as a dog, but that doesn’t mean I had an easy day. I spent most of the day moving things from my old bedroom to my new one. Tonight will be the first night Steph and I sleep up there on the new bed. I am…
Day 240 of 365 days. And I’m home… finally. Not that I didn’t have a nice time in Boston, because I did. But its nice to be home now too. All the traveling has made it harder for me to get over my flu. And Meron was sick too, so I’m really hoping we didn’t…