{wallpaper} — july 2011 desktop wallpaper. Happy July. To me July always had a chill feeling; hanging out at the lake with friends listening to some good tunes. This was a shot I took of an antique radio using my pin-hole camera. I like the graininess and natural blur that was created… kinda like the smoldering sun on hot asphalt. :)

{wallpaper} — july 2011 desktop wallpaper.

Happy July. To me July always had a chill feeling; hanging out at the lake with friends listening to some good tunes. This was a shot I took of an antique radio using my pin-hole camera. I like the graininess and natural blur that was created… kinda like the smoldering sun on hot asphalt. :)

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{wallpaper} — March 2011 I’ve been back home in Michigan for a quick weekend and hopefully March will bring the spring weather all the Michiganders are wishing for! Size is 1440x900. Currently that’s the only size I’ve been making, hopefully I’ll expand once I can share the files easier on my site. 

{wallpaper} — March 2011

I’ve been back home in Michigan for a quick weekend and hopefully March will bring the spring weather all the Michiganders are wishing for!

Size is 1440x900. Currently that’s the only size I’ve been making, hopefully I’ll expand once I can share the files easier on my site. 

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{wallpaper} — January 2011 I’m throwing out the idea of designing a desktop wallpaper for the 2011 calendar year. My friend kriegs has been designing kick-ass wallpapers and has really inspired me to give it a try. I’ve always wanted too, guess just not motivated enough in the the past but, this is a new year and with that comes new habits (hopefully)!  So, let me know what you guys think and if you’d be interested in me sharing them. I’d have to figure out the technical stuff, but since there isn’t comments on tumblr, maybe like it if you want me to share this wallpaper and future ones to come. 

{wallpaper} — January 2011

I’m throwing out the idea of designing a desktop wallpaper for the 2011 calendar year. My friend kriegs has been designing kick-ass wallpapers and has really inspired me to give it a try. I’ve always wanted too, guess just not motivated enough in the the past but, this is a new year and with that comes new habits (hopefully)! 

So, let me know what you guys think and if you’d be interested in me sharing them. I’d have to figure out the technical stuff, but since there isn’t comments on tumblr, maybe like it if you want me to share this wallpaper and future ones to come. 

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photography — world pinhole day 1] sweet furniture at the lomography store 2] old radio at the lomography store 3] lomography storefront 4] modern building with fire escape 5] reflection in car mirror 6] royal-t parking sign 7] vintage school bus 8] yarn gate opener 9] shopping cart collection » see larger on flickr. Sunday, April 25th, 2010 was world pinhole day and we [yes we, Ryan was sweet enough to partake in a photography event with me] visited the Lomography store in Los Angeles to participate in the festivities. They had informational workshops and a build your own pinhole camera class that was a little more than we had bargained for and was quite the endeavor to complete - the directions were more for how to build a rocket ship, very complex and lengthy - but we were able to complete them in about two hours with some guidance from the helpful store employee. It was so much fun to create a camera from pieces of cardboard, though, and enjoy the results in picture form later.  Here is the beauty I put together! It was a kit by Sharan.  My expectations for the first roll were pretty low, of course I hoped some would turn out, but tackling the mechanics of a good pinhole photograph would probably take some experimentation and time. On the square format camera I built, there are four different combinations: normal, soft focus, normal with a SP filter, and soft focus with a SP filter. So there were a few things to test out and see what the outcome would be, but there is also the whole time issue… how long to leave the shutter open? In most cases it’s a gamble and I had to guess. They do put a grid on the back for the most common times and conditions, but they’re only for outdoor scenarios. So, indoors I ended up just guessing and as you can see, there are no indoor pictures represented above :) Lining up a shot is also fun, there is no view finder, so it’s pretty much a point it somewhere, open the shutter and hope to get what you wanted!  Another big issue is shake. The camera really needs to be anchored on something stable, just holding it in your hands produces a very noisy picture. Didn’t think I shook that much, but I guess I do. I did stress that it was a homemade camera to the photo developer so they would know to go in and select the photos by hand, since they aren’t very even on the roll. Overall, they did a great job with that and didn’t seem too annoyed by the hassle.  Even just getting the handful of fun shots above has me totally addicted. I am going to have so much fun playing with this camera I created and am hoping to come out of it with a fun show/book down the road. 

photography — world pinhole day

1] sweet furniture at the lomography store 2] old radio at the lomography store 3] lomography storefront 4] modern building with fire escape 5] reflection in car mirror 6] royal-t parking sign 7] vintage school bus 8] yarn gate opener 9] shopping cart collection

» see larger on flickr.

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 was world pinhole day and we [yes we, Ryan was sweet enough to partake in a photography event with me] visited the Lomography store in Los Angeles to participate in the festivities. They had informational workshops and a build your own pinhole camera class that was a little more than we had bargained for and was quite the endeavor to complete - the directions were more for how to build a rocket ship, very complex and lengthy - but we were able to complete them in about two hours with some guidance from the helpful store employee. It was so much fun to create a camera from pieces of cardboard, though, and enjoy the results in picture form later. 

Pinhole Camera

Here is the beauty I put together! It was a kit by Sharan.

 My expectations for the first roll were pretty low, of course I hoped some would turn out, but tackling the mechanics of a good pinhole photograph would probably take some experimentation and time. On the square format camera I built, there are four different combinations: normal, soft focus, normal with a SP filter, and soft focus with a SP filter. So there were a few things to test out and see what the outcome would be, but there is also the whole time issue… how long to leave the shutter open? In most cases it’s a gamble and I had to guess. They do put a grid on the back for the most common times and conditions, but they’re only for outdoor scenarios. So, indoors I ended up just guessing and as you can see, there are no indoor pictures represented above :) Lining up a shot is also fun, there is no view finder, so it’s pretty much a point it somewhere, open the shutter and hope to get what you wanted!  Another big issue is shake. The camera really needs to be anchored on something stable, just holding it in your hands produces a very noisy picture. Didn’t think I shook that much, but I guess I do.

I did stress that it was a homemade camera to the photo developer so they would know to go in and select the photos by hand, since they aren’t very even on the roll. Overall, they did a great job with that and didn’t seem too annoyed by the hassle. 

Even just getting the handful of fun shots above has me totally addicted. I am going to have so much fun playing with this camera I created and am hoping to come out of it with a fun show/book down the road. 

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