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Today, Today
Jul. 27th, 2011 07:22 pmHow exciting a tag line might I create to lure you into reading this?
Ya, probably not so much. However, I will meander along in what I shall say today. Part of what I shall say is I think yesterday's posting (done only over on LJ) got caught in the DDoS which is currently happening there. Some of this means I truly should get motivated about establishing my own web site. However, then there's all that maintenance work which using DW here and LJ there leaves to the maintenance crew. Some of it means I'm somewhat, not exactly upset, nor exactly disappointed, or a bit of both that the entry disappeared into the ether.
How very Zen, that.
Today Houdini enjoyed company all day long. Not mine, though, as the afternoon saw some Studio 318 time with Chelsea of the Dryad themed session. No dryads this time. Houdini does often accompany me to Studio (such a long commute! 35 metres!) even with live models coming in for the time. Today though I knew thunder to be in the forecast, and that would disrupt the session, and ... well. Live model. Funds outlay. So Houdini stayed in House. We did get thunder. He's OK.
And, he got to run errands with me this morning, into the teeming non-metropolis of Archer. Yea Post Awful stop! Yea feed store! Yea leaving all kinds of markings for those town dogs! But no Studio time.
On the other hand, Studio time for me was interesting. Part the first (yes, there will be examples posted, not today, read on) involved the LED rope lights often used for house decoration at holiday time. My first experiments with this a couple years ago intrigued me; they put out a rather surprising amount of light. That experiment used only one rope. Today we used five, assorted colours, one being an older piece which Herself used to use at certain SCA events. I hung them from a home-wrought ring approximately 30 cm in diameter, so they looked rather like colourful tentacles of some science fiction or fantasy creature. Plenty left over to swirl about on the floor as well.
Part the first finished off with Chelsea's friend and escort suggesting a variation and setting it up. I like collaboration like this. While we worked on this part we also discussed the whole business of models bringing escorts. I am all in favour of this; it promotes a calmer session. This may depend on the escort's behaviour, of course, and in that vein Chelsea holds that it is the responsibility of the model to bring someone who is able to be laid back and participate only if invited. And the last bit of lighted swirlyness might not of occurred without the input, as well.
Part the second we converted to the Hot Lights. There is another manner of lighting I mean to experiment with involving electronic flash (strobe) units. On the other hand, it is also my belief that initial experimentation needs to be done with something or someone other than a paid professional model. Both of us should bring to such a session the attitude that this time is for application, with shall we say extended experimentation, not beginning experimentation. So to the Hot Lights it is.
Part the second, Healing Art. This is a concept I first started working with back in '00. Then the name of the concept got long and drawn out and felt awkward. Reading as I went, because of what I did, lead to the Healing Art name. Specifically, it is become a project to commemorate a friend who died of breast cancer, to promote awareness of that disease, and in a fairly simple manner. So we spent a half hour or so doing three sets of breast self-examination. Not 'how to', but 'portrait of' as the approach.
I've been on a hiatus on this project; feels good to do something about it again. And yes, there will be something posted on this. Not today. Post-production is underway, the early part of that is making sure there are backups of images, with appropriate background data. That's happening while we're 'chatting' here.
Part the third... involves a piece of body camouflage netting. I'd gone to a 'government surplus' store after my last session with Doozer, who'd obtained a gillie suit there to make another fantasy costume. Wanted to price the gillie suits, and may well get one later. For those who don't know what a gillie suit is, it is camouflage usually worn by snipers, though hunters may use them as well. Partially this works by breaking up the outline of the human shape. So does this bit of netting, all black. One could also add leaves or twigs or other such to help with that particular function.
I simply wanted to drape it over a nude human. Based on the couple of wicked grins I got from her, Chelsea really enjoyed this part.
And that concluded Studio Time.
Or not exactly; I spent another half hour starting to experiment with the strobes to varying degrees of success. Varying degrees because I did light the experimental subject and it doesn't look like on-camera flash. Varying degrees because the lighting is interesting. Varying degrees because the second 'slave' light didn't fire off, which may be related to the specific camera I used, Herself's D3000. Using that one because the D70s is on the way to the shop for routine maintenance. However, I am not so sure that the D3000 uses the dynamic lighting system as the D70s does.
After that, pack up and go to House. There I started the post-production work by copying files from cards to PC, embedding pertinent metadata and starting file conversions to provide JPG and TIFF files for processing. Once that's done (about now) those get copied onto the external HD for the first backup. When that's done, time to burn to DVD at least the RAW files for additional backup.
Some time soon, dinner. Tacos tonight.
Ya, probably not so much. However, I will meander along in what I shall say today. Part of what I shall say is I think yesterday's posting (done only over on LJ) got caught in the DDoS which is currently happening there. Some of this means I truly should get motivated about establishing my own web site. However, then there's all that maintenance work which using DW here and LJ there leaves to the maintenance crew. Some of it means I'm somewhat, not exactly upset, nor exactly disappointed, or a bit of both that the entry disappeared into the ether.
How very Zen, that.
Today Houdini enjoyed company all day long. Not mine, though, as the afternoon saw some Studio 318 time with Chelsea of the Dryad themed session. No dryads this time. Houdini does often accompany me to Studio (such a long commute! 35 metres!) even with live models coming in for the time. Today though I knew thunder to be in the forecast, and that would disrupt the session, and ... well. Live model. Funds outlay. So Houdini stayed in House. We did get thunder. He's OK.
And, he got to run errands with me this morning, into the teeming non-metropolis of Archer. Yea Post Awful stop! Yea feed store! Yea leaving all kinds of markings for those town dogs! But no Studio time.
On the other hand, Studio time for me was interesting. Part the first (yes, there will be examples posted, not today, read on) involved the LED rope lights often used for house decoration at holiday time. My first experiments with this a couple years ago intrigued me; they put out a rather surprising amount of light. That experiment used only one rope. Today we used five, assorted colours, one being an older piece which Herself used to use at certain SCA events. I hung them from a home-wrought ring approximately 30 cm in diameter, so they looked rather like colourful tentacles of some science fiction or fantasy creature. Plenty left over to swirl about on the floor as well.
Part the first finished off with Chelsea's friend and escort suggesting a variation and setting it up. I like collaboration like this. While we worked on this part we also discussed the whole business of models bringing escorts. I am all in favour of this; it promotes a calmer session. This may depend on the escort's behaviour, of course, and in that vein Chelsea holds that it is the responsibility of the model to bring someone who is able to be laid back and participate only if invited. And the last bit of lighted swirlyness might not of occurred without the input, as well.
Part the second we converted to the Hot Lights. There is another manner of lighting I mean to experiment with involving electronic flash (strobe) units. On the other hand, it is also my belief that initial experimentation needs to be done with something or someone other than a paid professional model. Both of us should bring to such a session the attitude that this time is for application, with shall we say extended experimentation, not beginning experimentation. So to the Hot Lights it is.
Part the second, Healing Art. This is a concept I first started working with back in '00. Then the name of the concept got long and drawn out and felt awkward. Reading as I went, because of what I did, lead to the Healing Art name. Specifically, it is become a project to commemorate a friend who died of breast cancer, to promote awareness of that disease, and in a fairly simple manner. So we spent a half hour or so doing three sets of breast self-examination. Not 'how to', but 'portrait of' as the approach.
I've been on a hiatus on this project; feels good to do something about it again. And yes, there will be something posted on this. Not today. Post-production is underway, the early part of that is making sure there are backups of images, with appropriate background data. That's happening while we're 'chatting' here.
Part the third... involves a piece of body camouflage netting. I'd gone to a 'government surplus' store after my last session with Doozer, who'd obtained a gillie suit there to make another fantasy costume. Wanted to price the gillie suits, and may well get one later. For those who don't know what a gillie suit is, it is camouflage usually worn by snipers, though hunters may use them as well. Partially this works by breaking up the outline of the human shape. So does this bit of netting, all black. One could also add leaves or twigs or other such to help with that particular function.
I simply wanted to drape it over a nude human. Based on the couple of wicked grins I got from her, Chelsea really enjoyed this part.
And that concluded Studio Time.
Or not exactly; I spent another half hour starting to experiment with the strobes to varying degrees of success. Varying degrees because I did light the experimental subject and it doesn't look like on-camera flash. Varying degrees because the lighting is interesting. Varying degrees because the second 'slave' light didn't fire off, which may be related to the specific camera I used, Herself's D3000. Using that one because the D70s is on the way to the shop for routine maintenance. However, I am not so sure that the D3000 uses the dynamic lighting system as the D70s does.
After that, pack up and go to House. There I started the post-production work by copying files from cards to PC, embedding pertinent metadata and starting file conversions to provide JPG and TIFF files for processing. Once that's done (about now) those get copied onto the external HD for the first backup. When that's done, time to burn to DVD at least the RAW files for additional backup.
Some time soon, dinner. Tacos tonight.
