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A young Ecuadorian girl is carrying her baby brother on her back. Such a sight is not uncommon in South America, where kids as young as six or seven attend to their younger siblings needs while the parents work. This is a scan from a 35mm slide. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—--
Ok before you think I’m totally full of myself…. I have been asked by a couple of prospective collaborators and potential sources of in…
Ok before you think I’m totally full of myself…. I have been asked by a couple of prospective collaborators and potential sources of income to get all the RedBubble projects I’ve modeled for in one place so that they can check out ‘my range.’ So please forgive my seemingly ego indulgent post! Michael Alesich Darryl Anderson David Barnes Adrian Carmody Mark German Wen Lim Helen McLean Christina Norwood James Price John Robb Jessica Tremp Paul Vanzella Paul Louis Villani Melissa Vowell Chris White Contact / jo.obrien@hotmail.com / Based in Melbourne, Australia Specifics / No tattoos / Pierced ear lobes / minor scars and freckles Measurements / Height: 170cm / Dress Size: AUS12 / Chest: 94cm / 37” / Waist: 80cm / 31.5” / Hip: 103cm / 40.5” / Shoe: AUS10 Party Tricks / Juggling / Tight Rope Walking (not after red wine) / Climbing things such as street lights and walls / Previously had a ropes ticket for safely stringing people up! Performance Experience / Stage and Screen acting / Theater Sports and Improvisation / Busking inc. Mime, Singing, Circus Tricks / Opera and Classical Singing / Yodelling and Folk singing / Extensive Choir Work (First Soprano) / Jazz Improvisation
Is he angry? Or just very very embarrassed? To this day, I do not understand why some Chinese statues feature red faces – or, for that matter why some Indian statues feature green faces? I thought this complements, in a way, my other image, Slightly embarrassed Chinatown, Singaapore. January 2009. —-
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For the last year or longer, I have been dabbling in HDRI High Dynamic Range Imaging (or so I thought). I have been reading articles, bo…
For the last year or longer, I have been dabbling in HDRI High Dynamic Range Imaging (or so I thought). I have been reading articles, bought all the proper software (Photoshop CS3 Extended and Photomatrix which were both good choices). I have been autobracketing my photos (I started with 3 photos, 1 EV (stop) apart and then moved up to 5 photos 1 EV apart.) I use a tripod, lock my mirror, and use a remote to trigger my camera. I shot all my photos in RAW, which starts you out with a higher dynamic range. So far so good. However, yesterday, I got the long awaited book that I preordered (before production) “The HDRI Handbook” by Christian Bloch, hot off the press (it can be ordered through Amazon.com). I couldn’t put the book down. I have been reading it in all my spare time. It has a lot of technical aspects in the beginning, but without that portion, you miss out on a lot of incredible information. Now here is where some true HDRI photographers are going to be snickering. I am going to list some of my mistakes so that others don’t take the same dumb path I took on their way to HDRI. Mistake #1. When I autobracketed my shots, I used Aperture mode (OK go ahead and laugh HDRIers). So for all 5 shots, the depth of field changed. This is crucial, you must be in Tv (shutter) mode to bracket your shots. If your camera doesn’t have an autobracket system, you have to do it all manually. / Mistake #2. I should have had 2 EV (stops) between shots instead of one. Mistake #3. I should have locked the focus or switched to manual focus. Mistake #4 On a couple of occasions I took 1 RAW image and processed it 5 ways and then ran it thru Photomatrix. Hmmmm. This is similar to dumping a pint of water into a gallon container and calling it a gallon. You don’t end up with a HDRI. Mistake #5 OK, I switch back and forth between Photomatrix and CS3 extended to see which gives the best image (that is ok, because it varies between programs and images). My big mistake….. I tone mapped the HRDI right away instead of saving the original in a 32 bit format. I also should have edited it in CS3 Extended in the 32 bit format. So, I now have a 8 bit image (I actually did save some as 16 bit image), that shows up great on the Internet. Except for the fact, that my HDRI’s didn’t look as good as others. (See here for an example) So all of this I have learned up to page 126 of the book (less than half way thru). I will keep you posted as I restart my journey into HDRI. And to all of you that have been doing it right, my hats off to you. I am just getting into the “how to”part of the book and have a long way to go. Many people might say, who cares, I am not going to be doing HDRI. Think again. The pixel race is over and the camera manufacturers got smart. The race for HDR is on, and just around the corner.
The horrible big sisters strike again! Photo taken by said big sisters!! (c) Sarah Moore 2008
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I used to get seriously ticked off when faced with them, the conceptually challenged. Then I got really good meds. These days, I’m either “not amused” (as I say when with my guide) or rather benignly wry (as I often comment to them directly). The former is reserved for the times I would have been pissed but can’t quite savour the full intensity of that feeling because of my “better living thru psycho-pharmacology”. The latter is more ‘hit and miss’: it always works when a 3rd party is listening but your chances are less than 50/50 when you try it on the CC’d alone. If they are TRUE CC’s, they won’t get it anyway so you’ve got to be prepared to take whatever you get. Today, I ran into a member of the FAKE CC club. These people are usually following orders, distracted by multiple conflicting stimulus, or reading a script. They are inherently at work in boring customer service positions that they know they are more qualified for, overworked, or newbies with a trainer breathing down their neck. I try to forgive all of them immediately; it’s not really their fault. And you can tell right away if you offer that wry comment and they grin because they known damned good as well – just as you do – that they are saying something so asinine it’s funny. The receptionist I met today was obviously over-qualified but trying to be game about her current assignment. I had to pay a co-pay for a doctor’s visit that was $15 which I paid with a $20 bill. She said, “I only have $1 bills and would that be OK?” Huh? She could raise my co-pay to $20, making change unnecessary? She could offer me 500 pennies? She could assume the $5 was a tip for her being forced to suffer thru a line of patients longer than her patience? I took the risk offered, “OK, as opposed to what?” I was rewarded with a smile that confirmed my assumptions about her being a thinking person caught in a non-thinking situation. ‘I’m going to have to give you five $1 bills as I’m out of $5 bills’ would have worked just fine but when bored out of your mind, the FAKE CC falls back on the same dumbass thing heard from the TRUE CC’s for-freaking-ever. However, the above image belongs to the work of the TRUE CC. The FAKE CC actually could not have been this challenged and gotten away with it. This person had CLOUT and a CONCEPT that was not to be questioned. After all, this person’s work has been forever immortalized in PAINT and SIGNAGE. That stuff infinitely outweighs a non-thinking and passing comment. “Danger Overhead Powerlines Above”. As opposed to what? Overhead powerlines under? Underhead powerlines above? I can’t even guess how all those words got on this sign in this order. Nor can I guess what sort of proof reader deferred common sense to appease the CC Extraordinaire. Maybe an up-and-coming supervisor wanted to be a manager. Maybe the CC was dad. It could just be ‘me’. I’m an ass. I freely admit it. I can imagine underwater ski-jumping with a straight face. I can picture deep sea sky diving and not crack a smile. I can even imagine colour photography in true absolute darkness without winking. But somehow “Danger Overhead Powerlines Above” makes me sigh, close my eyes, tip back my head, and wonder if the writer is one of the people BUILDING THIS HOSPITAL – MY HOSPITAL. Later, will there be signs instructing me to ‘wash my hands before drying them’ in the restroom??? Is there humour in art? I’m betting this shot is not art. Finding the droppings of the TRUE Conceptually Challenged is sadly just a part of everyday life. Life isn’t art. Art is life. Kindly featured in LMAO ART – Your funniest work
I took this picture of a friend’s cat, who answers to Kitty Kitty, during her grooming ritual. I keep trying to get pictures of cats with their tongue out, but you can’t snap the shutter when you see it because it’s gone by the time the camera shoots. So you just have to snap away and hope. I did not get a tongue in the pictures in this episode, but this one was too adorable to pass up. Kitty Kitty looks like she is embarrassed and hiding her face. It would make a delightful “belated” birthday card, a note card for an apology, or a shy valentine card.
Just one of those magic moments.
On rare occasions she won’t cooperate. :) /
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Mom seems to have been embarrassed by her little babies … uh oh where is that little troublemaker? Guess he’s the reason Mom is dunking her head!!!
Shot with Nikon L18 / / / © 2009 Rebecca Bryson. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited. My work does NOT belong to the public domain. It may not be used in any way, shape or form without my prior written permission
Poor pooch! Her owners daughter gave this girl a hair cut, leaving jagged scissor marks throughout the coat of this B / “Bear Coated Charpei”,. She almost looked embarrassed as I took her photograph! / Photograph taken in Monticello, New York, USA /
A really bad joke with two answers. / What’s black white and red all over? / a) Last week’s newspaper / b) An embarrassed zebra Also a self portrait; I’m the one in red. / The original is in oil pastel on Ingres paper
Two dogs get to know each other in a shopping center
Roxy today – she came in with this big black mark on her face… she wasn’t impressed I wanted to photograph it!
A take on childhood concern. Crosby Beach, Liverpool, UK. One of Antony Gormley’s sculptures; a bronzed Adonis, muzzles into a family shot totally unobserved by Grandad who’s blushes are spared by the quick thinking of my daughters. They all failed to notice the Martian craft ‘parked’ in the background. This was totally unrehearsed which is more worrying for me as Rhian took a firm grip of the situation! Rusty, Crusty and falling to bits – the sculpture was in good nick though. The martians had stopped for a lolly-ice. October 2005. Come to Sunny Crosby and meet the locals… /
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