photo 05 Jan 2007 08:15 pm
Jesus is a Baller
I took this the same night as the train picture. I’m tellin’ you, everything looked cool that night. I should’ve just stayed up all night and kept shooting. I have a few more from that night that are, in my opinion, way better than the two already posted.
In other news, my new group on Flickr has been going well. 19 users and 36 pictures so far. It’s a humble beginning. I started this group on a little bit of a whim. When a group is thematically related (”Absolute Evil”, “Post-Modern Shopping”, “Rainbows”) or geographically themed, I think it’s easier for people to get into it. A technology related group is a little different. I’m a member of the Canon 400D group, but I don’t really visit it all that often. I’m hoping that this group will have some draw since CS3 is still in beta and people will be interested in it.
I finally made some 13×19″ prints with my B9180. I’ve been making prints for people and charging them nominal prices for them, to hopefully recoup some of my cost for the printer/paper (incidentally, HP is selling the printer for $100 cheaper than I bought it a few months ago). My costs are relatively high. A 4×6 piece of photo paper is about 12 cents for me, but the ink for that picture cost almost 3 times as much. The pictures I made for my coworker were 11×14″, but the closest paper size was 13×19″, which runs for $2 a piece. I think the ink works out to about the same cost. I charged him $5 each for them. Hopefully I’ll be able to sell prints of my own pictures someday and help to finance my photography addiction a little more.
There’s a good post over on The Online Photographer today about post-post processing. It highlights some things about doing post work and printing that I’ve been wondering about. After staring at a screen that is emitting light for hours working on a picture, the change to seeing it in print, reflecting light rather than emitting it, is often quite odd. Couple that with the fact that I don’t have a really bright light source in my house, especially not near my computer, and I have some lackluster experiences with prints. John Lehet says it better than I:
The print is of course a different thing than the glowing monitor. It has to live or die with its own reflective properties. We have to let go of the glowing pixels and move into the real world. Those of us who do this know that a glowing monitor and a reflecting print rarely hit us in the same way, and it’s rather an odd thing. Partly we have to use our intuition on-screen to think about the pixels as a future print. I find I often have to go back to the on-screen version and change it—so it’s less optimal on screen and better as a print. The difference between monitor and print is another post. My point here is that to start to make these decisions the old-style light might be more than a little helpful.
I’m gonna get me a bright light or two. And put some shelves around my desk. And learn to play piano.