51 Words - Your socks just got knocked off

BAM! Thats right folks....out of no where comes T AND TEN photos for the THE BILLION, GAJILLION WORD PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLANGE OF DOOM. Can you feel that? Yea...its your eyes setting on fire. This blog just exploded and there is nothing you can do. You can try and warn people not to come here, but its too late.....late....its late right now....what time is it....stop rambling and just put the damn photos....damn you voices in my head.

PARANORMAL

night time

Infested

Hunger

enchantment

sound

soul

SERGEY

Reflection

Mirror

Some critiques would be great. Don't hold back, I can always delete the comments that hurt my feelings. If you have any questions about specific photos, feel free to ask and I can try and get to them.

51 Words - Tomorrow

So I thought I would slowly kick this challenge into gear. One of the things that I used to do back in the ol' days, was create desktops. I figured that I was was gonna stare at a monitor all day, I should at least be staring at something I made. Well here is a desktop I made, from a photo I took.

Here I was trying to teach myself color selection, cropping and font selection. I would say this is probably work from 3 years ago.

51 Words - Dwindling, Identity

Dwindling


Identity

I hope in a few days I will get to tell you guys something big.

What will you do this weekend? I will watch a movie, sneeze, take photos, laugh, sing in the shower, sigh, read a magazine article, listen to music, jam on the air guitar, talk with my parents, think about the world, listen to the trees..drift...away.

Have a great weekend and remember to do something positive.

Tribute to a Photographer: Philippe Halsman

As my photographic journey continues to take me places unknown, I come across a few people who share part of my passion.

I came across Philippe Halsman or at least his photograph sometime ago and reminded myself that I would need to revisit this at one point. It has become one point.


Salvador Dali Atomicus Photo by Philippe Halsman

The photograph above does a great job at both capturing the portrait of our intended subject, and grabs your attention and doesn't let go. This was the day of no photoshop. A day where throwing a cat or two was required to get an amazing photograph.

Rumor has it that Halsman was originally going to use babies, but their modeling agency demanded too much pay. The babies have yet to earn any other gigs; they are currently unemployed. The cats went on to do a Friska's commercial.

Essiantly though, it took six hours and 28 outtakes to get this shot. A more detailed article can be found here on how the photograph was produced. So without further ado, for my tribute to Halsman, I will take photographs of objects in mid-air today. I need to practice on how I handle my external flash. For this mini-day project I will be using my amazing Canon Rebel with a Canon 28-105mm lens and the Canon 580 EX II Speedlite. Come on Canon Sponsorship!!!!

And last but not least, our 51-Word Challenge continues.

Splinter


Raw Nature

51 Words - Sidetracked, humans just being

Humans Just Being




Sidetracked


I really couldn't think of what to write so I decided to put up two photos. I am kinda doing something big and I hope it goes through. Will tell more when the time comes.

Also, as you can see I am playing with different ways to write this copyright thing. Man, what if my photos are huge in like Indonesia and I don't even know it...

51 Words - Belief

51 Words - Butterscotch