The number: 917-720-8305 Current topic: Silent Rave (Deadline is midnight Tuesday EST)
Your message doesn't have to be about the Union Square Silent Rave but it helps. If you want to tell me how stupid you think it was that's also okay. Just leave me a message, dammit!
How does a priest know how many Hail Marys and Our Fathers equate to your sins?
Category: Religion and Philosophy
It's a bit arbitrary, don't you think? I demand to see the conversion chart! Is it like those charts on the back covers of composition books? How many farthings in one Hail Mary? And why is prayer being used to punish you? Doesn't that send out a mixed message? Isn't prayer supposed good or something?
If I ever step inside a church again I'm asking these questions!
Silent Rave Photos (Video By the End of the Week)
Category: Art and Photography
Here's a random selection from my haul that night. You can find the rest here.
Let's get physical.
Gang signs?
There was a lot of the hair tossing.
This one is precious to me. It's more difficult to capture someone dancing without it looking stupid than you realize!
There was nowhere to plug in a machine so we had to blow our own.
You will have to watch an upcoming video for an explanation.
All the photos are naked in a sense. I didn't PhotoShop them or anything. What you see is what was there. It's not that I have anything against PS, it's just that I don't have the time for it. At least not now. If you want to see some amazing photos that have been so molested (in the good way), then look no further. If only I had the time...
If anybody has anecdotes they want to share from the silent rave leave me a voice mail so I can include it in the video. Your deadline is Tuesday.
I worked on another photo. This was taken at the first annual New York Comicon. The next one is in April but I don’t think I’ll be going. There aren’t that many cosplayers at NYCC and that’s the very reason I go to nerd cons. I was never happy with how dark the photo turned out but I liked the costume and wanted to try and fix it.
She’s so cute! The costume turned out nice and I was able to bring out more of the face thanks to Adobe Lightroom. If it’s possible to make the photo look any better I’d love to know how.
Click here if you would like to watch your YouTube videos in BETTER quality.
Category: Web, HTML, Tech
If I’m the last to know about this then whatever.
Click here and choose the most obvious answer. That’s all there is to it. Now the videos look a lot better. If the video uploaded was an flv then it won’t work. Perhaps this is why they recommended wmv as source video? It’s been known for a while that YT keeps the source video.
This was my first time color correcting a photo and I think I did okay. [NYAF]
Category: Art and Photography
Nevermind why I’m still awake at this hour, just humor me and look and this:
Here’s the story behind this. I was at NYAF and complaining--as I am wont to do--about the lighting. BASIIK suggested I adjust the light mode on my camera. I wasn’t about to ignore her. I mean afterall her photos look great! But she also has one of those heavy duty digital SLR things. Her camera might be better at it than mine. All I know is I ended up with a lot of pictures that looked cold. I don’t blame you BASIIK, I was going to learn that lesson sooner or later. That’s the thing, everything I know about photography I’ve learned by making mistakes. Regular readers of this blog (all six of you) have probably figured that out by now.
I won’t go into the details of how I did it (hi, Google), but sufficed to say I’m happy with the result. I’m sure it could be better but for a first effort I think I did okay. Though, I don’t plan to toil in Lightroom playing with levels for hours on end. I rather work on my shooting and not have to correct it later.
BUT! I will be fixing a few other NYAF photos because they’re totally worth it. They look really good and like to be able to print them out and display them.
