because i cant resist

BOKEH :D

z is for...

DRUM ROLL PLEASE
for once ive actually finished something i started xD
took me long enough.
but i did it.
so heres z

Zip your lips

I had a little trouble making the zipper look like it was actually part of my face, lol
so its kinda stupid looking xD
but there it is.
Z.
as in, the end. lol

poinsettias

yay.
Merry Christmas :]
more photos laterrr

im not dead

IM ALIVEEE lol
Hopefully by the end of the month I'll finally have a Z picture. How hard could that possibly be? xD

Anyways, Merry Christmas everyone :] Today my siblings made some cookies and so I finally broke out my camera for the first time in a few weeks, lol.
I haven't taken ANY winter pictures yet. o.o"
I mean, I've taken pictures but not any decent ones, lol
Every once in a while I just have to put the camera down for a week or two
And I'm not dedicated enough yet to get out there and shoot some of the beautiful sunrises x3 Too bad the scenery has to be ugly suburban houses, lol. oh well.
hopefully I'll get back into the swing of things. With Christmas Eve service tonight and Christmas tomorrow I'll try and get some good photos up and posted.





it looks like hes blessing his cookie dough, lol xD but he isnt,

Oh, and I was trying to use manual mode on my camera and there were these two annoying spots on the pictures =/
Anyone know why that would happen just in manual?
I know I NEED to get my camera cleaned but the store I was gonna take it to just randomly closed, lol
sooo i dont know what im gonna do now...

y is for...

youth

x is for...

X

Or would it be X^5? I dont know.
X, as in... unknown. lol.
because if I cloned myself it would probably involve some Xs.
Because I'm that unimaginative creative. :D
If I come up with something better, I'll post it but I wanted to post this too xD


my photography teacher just called, all excited because she thought my photo was so awesome
she loved it. it was pretty funny xD she was just going on and on
she also told me to tell parents i deserve a night out to dinner ;] no cheap mcdonalds either.
my photography teacher says so. lol.

w is for...

WOAH

This isnt the one i wanted to post -.-
i wanted to do 'watching tv" but they didnt turn out
and the one i edited made my head hurt
sooo
you get this one.

i figure i should finish the alphabet eventually.
In other news



I LOVE THIS PHOTO.


Everything is wrong with it, and it goes against all the rules of photography
and i love it.
i cant decide which one i like better
but i love them both.
and i dont know why.

and its weird
because even full sized they look pixelly and crappy
whats up with that?

lets try real full size >.<




THEY STILL LOOK LIKE CRAP D:
i am beside myself lol
i dont know what to do anymore.
so.
just forget it.
they looked cooler when i was looking at them in the folder and in gimp.

all these things that ive done

I wanna stand up, I wanna let go
You know, you know - no you don't, you don't
I wanna shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand

these pictures were really fun to take, lol
NO I AM NOT DOING DRUGS these are actually creatine caps whatever that means xD they smell gross. but they look cool
but anyways, yeah fun times lol
and killers lyrics so you cant go wrong :P
click on the one of my eye so you can see the reflection better xD its the bomb.
so yeah
im working on W but it has to be darker outside in order for it to work the way i want.
so i think i can bribe a sibling into being my subject, lol

smile like you mean it

save some face,
you know you've only got one

self portraits

the last two have that annoying thing going on where they dont look as good as they did when they were bigger, lol
Maybe thats just me, but whatever xD
The last two are a bit grainy too, it was dark if you couldnt tell, and i was messing around with apertures and shutter speeds

v is for...

vitamins

These were kind of confusing because i had this idea in my head how i wanted it to look and then i couldnt seem to figure out how to do that. It was awkward looking when i tried to use my hand and just wasnt coming out the way i planned, lol.
So my dad volunteered to be my hand model since i obviously needed a few more pairs xD

The capsules I used were kind of cool, and my dad was just going to throw them away so i might save them and take more pics later if i come up with anything xD


I need some backdrops that are not bed sheets or curtains and arent all wrinkly xD
I also need some lights.
And while I'm at it... I need a studio too xD with lots of space.

crystal clear

wow. i swear these looked cooler in the editting process xD
they do look cooler if you click on them to see the full size

even more fun with apples :D

Well I had a photo here that i wasnt happy with but I messed around with it some more and i decided to just take it off this post xD
Im really digging the brown background
and my new motto is "When in doubt, play with the curves" lol

more fun with apples

The background was a pain because it was just a pillow case and it had been folded for a while so it was all wrinkly xD
but i think these came out pretty cool

u is for...

unoriginal

lol xD
i got the idea from the cover of the book Twilight.
only i didnt have a red apple and i couldnt figure out how to make it a convincing red color. SO i settled for the green.

t is really for...

tippy

I have recently fallen in love with manual focus. Since I dont own a macro lens (yet. its on my christmas list. im crossing my fingers) sometimes I can get cool shots with the manual focus and for some reason it never occurred to me until my dad mentioned it, lol. So yeah. The other day my cat was being sleepy so I just started snapping away messing around with shutter speeds, aperture and of course, manual focus. yay.

Im not completely happy with the second one. I like the idea but I think her nose looks weird.



EDIT: i colored her nose pink.
i like it better than the original coloring for sure, lol
It just might be a little too vibrant ;] but i kinda like it

t is for this better work.

Okay this isnt officially my "T" photo. But today I went out and had this great idea I would shoot raw because I've heard people talk about how great it is and read about it a little bit. I took about 200 photos and I came back inside and my computer couldnt find them to download so I had to manually move them all and THEN i couldnt see them or anything xD SO i freaked out and asked for help on a photography forum I'm on. I installed Picasa 3 and it seems kinda cool. But I was not happy that most of my photos looked like crap D:
I still have to figure out how to upload pics straight from Picasa. I am all confused now and I have a head ache xD So this is a test. Im not that happy with raw right now. And its too late and too dark to go out and take pictures again at the moment >_< its kinda really bumming me out

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