mercredi 19 mars 2008

Random thoughts and photos of a random guy

Yeah, it's what came to my mind while browsing the internet and especially photoblogs or just blogs.
It's funny to see how the Internet has developed the communication but reduced it for most of its users. I mean, exchanging informations is not a problem, publishing shit, making ads is easy to do, but to be really listened is something which is that hard on that media, in the ocean of blogs your voice just get lost because we're flooded by informations and ads. Best example : That blog. it's just my lil voice in the universe Blogger.com, who really cares?
I don't mind being a random guy with a random blog, I just like to write down some (stupid) thoughts and upload photos that my friends can come to download.
Ok enough with mental shit harrassement, I've got some fresh photos to show :

At the lab/studio, Jean-Mi who was preparing the spotlights and camera settings for a session that week end. I ain't the photographer as you gonna see.
Me being unfocused, bah it's rare to have a photo of my face I don't censore lol.

The umbrella spotlight. Who never played with light provided by those or by any lamps to get an abstract result?
The colors of the trays reminded me the famous green/yellow/red combo.
The lighting box gave me a soft light and the shoot turned out quite well.

Those red lamps have always fascinated me, well , so still do the whole process.
I apologise for that uninteresting photo cat, but couldn't prevent myself to upload one lol.

allright, 1h30 AM, big day tomorrow before week end. I shall go to bed.
Oh
And before I forget : Support radiodio.org ! It's a local and independant radio station which actually have some troubles and which runs the risk of being closed down. it's the only radio I shall listen to, so far as there are no ads, good and varied emissions. I'm pretty pissed off with listening to the popular shit so keep up one completely free radio station!

mercredi 12 mars 2008

It's always a pain in the ass to find a title when there's no content in the post.

Soo yes, I really have a problem with titles and introductions, sorry for not being a good narrator.
What's up then?
I plan to go back to Amsterdam with some friends and maybe if I've got some days off I might go to Sweden aswell ! But for now it's just some projects I wish to realize soon. Hopefully I'll get the money and the time to realize them.
Photographically speaking (is it a good translation?), I've been working and learning a lot but one day per week in the darkroom. 1 day/week , it's fucking not enough ! I also don't spend enough time outside shooting whatever I find interesting, so don't expect a long post.
Ok, after one hour of vain tries and failures, I finally came out with this :

Ilford HP5+ 400

Yay for the 1st print !! Of course I've been helped by the nice Francois. But I'm kinda disappointed, it's not as sharp as I expected it to be. + it's misfocused. Ah yes the 'model' is one of my uncle.

And now back to more usual stuff, some photos of darkest pub of Saint-Etienne, the Smoking Dog. Again ... the damn 350D can't go up to 1600 ISO and that's a shame, I opened the best I could and I got that horrible photo.

Same for here, those pints deserved a better photograph (and also a better photographer)
Right, I hope some of you will somehow enjoy those photographs. If I go back to Amsterdam, I'll be bringing back fine art for sure ahah.

Have a lovely day or at least a good night. Cya