Rail Bridge 15 on Pickerel Lake

Rail Bridge 15 on Pickerel Lake, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

When I try to make a composite panorama, I don't look at what I am photographing in a very artistic way after I've decided what field of view I want to capture, I mostly think about if I've adequately covered that area of view yet. As a result, when I see the photos large, I am often surprised.
That's the benefit of just clicking, clicking clicking.
There is of course a benefit to setting up each shot carefully, but without manual focus there's only so much of that to be done.

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PICT0133.JPG, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

It's not the camera, it's the photographer.
However. Doing close up macro stuff, it's the focusing that makes the shot, and with a point and shoot, the focus is all out of your hands, and very touchy. So largely it's luck, or a willingness to hold up a little camera to its subject and take the photo over and over.

sepia cat

sepia cat, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

Digital StillCamera photo, no filters, just brownish lighting and brownish subjects.
To me this looks pretty slick, but it is a pet photo. I am not ashamed that I like my pet photos. Okay, maybe a little.

Monarch egg

PICT0011, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

I'm jealous of extreme macro photography, but even just what a standard point-and-shoot can capture can be evocative.
Moreso when I actually explain what you are meant to see, in this instance.

Peep-eye rose

PICT0005, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

Taken with a five dollar apartment door peephole lens fitted over my point and shoot's normal lens. I have misplaced or lost the apparatus, but there's obviously plenty of motivation for me to find it! Look how blurry, distorted, even discolored the background is! This is glass, but they sell Holga macro lenses for pretty cheap on ebay.

Bright Chicago

DSC_0392, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

Hello!
Recently ebay has taught me that people DO want to throw me a little change (as in money) for a few pictures of mine, and I appreciate this!
I certainly don't want to discourage this!
Now, I don't want to sell all of my artwork in multiples and cheaply, which is to say, some work I'd prefer to just sell once for a higher price.
But I can definitely get behind selling certain pieces multiple times for a very low price.
It encourages me to try and make more than one kind of photo, and it gives me a reason to look through all my old stuff!
So. At this time I'm offering that you can purchase, for personal use, any picture featured on this blog for whatever price you feel appropriate.
Simply paypal thelotusduck@gmail.com and note what picture you'd like to have in a digital copy.
If you're not a paypal person, we will have to work out some different commission basis.

Remember skills?

Wastemold removed, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

I'm focusing (and I'm applying the word very loosely) somewhat away from sculpture, but making a waste mold and bust was one of the most cool things ever, and I'm positive (no pun intended) that it wouldn't take nearly as long as it did. When I made the original positive, I spent two days putting in details that were not going to come through in the mold and cast process. I also made the waste mold ridiculously thick, which made it tough to get off and contributed to me chipping right through the nose I made. Knowing this, I'm somewhat less likely to make those particular time consuming mistakes, so I can say that if I got some clay I could make another bust far more easily than I did this one, and hey, with 2D art the gallery expects you to provide a frame, but with sculpture, they don't expect you to buy a pedestal, right? You just give them the art, so that seems far cheaper, as gallery expenses go, and what's stopping me from building the original out of play-dough? Oh, nevermind, playdough is far more expensive than clay.