MY sketchbook

[ivy'sgrandkid]

well since most of my photos are turning out to be experiments and such I'm starting a sketch book

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/broom.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/longcat.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/longcattwo.jpg

[Leukeh]

The 2nd picture is creepy... looks like a very long, very fat ghost-cat with too many legs! =P

[ivy'sgrandkid]

[QUOTE=Leukeh;1643]The 2nd picture is creepy... looks like a very long, very fat ghost-cat with too many legs! =P[/QUO

you're so right!!! wouldn't it be cool to own one though:D ahahaha

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/fromoneasstoanother.jpg

[Gentile]

You've got a lot of blurrs going on here.

[BigRedArrow]

^^ like the first picture alot. i like your focused work more than the blurred action shots..

[ivy'sgrandkid]

second photo just got me an A wheeeeee hahahahahaahaha

[purplerose]

If you ever get a chance to take a darkroom class, I think you would love working with Alternative processes : Van Dyke Brown, Cyanotypes, Inkodyes, Gum Bichromate and especially making Pinholes.

Look into it dude. :)

[ivy'sgrandkid]

omg purple film is one thing I love yet I lack the patience for it! yet lately it's been calling me ! cyanotypes damn amazing urgh i wana take a dark room class and i may just do that!!!!!1

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/lost.jpg

[Gentile]

Work on your blurring. It's really distracting, and can give head aches. I think if this was sharper, it would be a pretty intense picture. The lightings great, with the girl turning into a silhouette.

[ivy'sgrandkid]

Work on your blurring. It's really distracting, and can give head aches. I think if this was sharper, it would be a pretty intense picture. The lightings great, with the girl turning into a silhouette.

maybe I want to cause headaches......:D

[Morbid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/fromoneasstoanother.jpg

You know what Im going to say... get some sharpness in there! ;)

But this is an interesting photograph, I like it a lot for some reason!

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/market.jpg

[Morbid]

Niiice colors!

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/ladyenteringhouse.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/shotfromtheaudi.jpg

thanks morbid :)

[Gentile]

Again with the blurs honey haha.
Dude I love the new building ones with the really bright colors! Sharp and bright. Love 'em ;]

[ivy'sgrandkid]

*slap Gentile!* blurs are here to stay! have backup eyes ready! and thanks hehe :)

[Gentile]

back up eyes? That's quite a request. I wish I had some...

[ivy'sgrandkid]

haHA ME 2!!! sigh we're in the future and we still don't have back up eyes!! grr!

[purplerose]

I like the second one in the last post; pretty trippy.

[ivy'sgrandkid]

thanks purple!!

today's madness

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/12.jpg

[Mr. Mu]

I was actually hoping to see you come back to old fashioned focusing by now...:D

I like how your street photography is evolving. The eye is just right. The blur is debatable.

Different thought. I don't know if you can synchronize flash on the second curtain on your camera, but even if you can't:
shooting long exposures with a flash firing during exposure is a nice way to combine a sharp figure with trails of ghostly transparent images of the same figure in one shot!

See? I am smoothing the way back for you...:D

(btw, if you're smoothing the way for someone, it's much nicer to use the german idiom for this. We say we're "building golden bridges" for someone...:D )

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/chair1.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/chair2.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/outsidewindow.jpg

[ivy'sgrandkid]

thanks mr mui! today's dump:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/car1.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/car2.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/shadowvisitorlikesspring.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/shadowvisitor.jpg

[purplerose]

I really like that first one. Wish the light wasn't cropped out though.

[ivy'sgrandkid]

no light source... just a long exposer tehehe i wish the sun was out :(

[Mr. Mu]

today's number one is a winner! Beautiful, smooth commercial look.

[purplerose]

no light source... just a long exposer tehehe i wish the sun was out :(

not the "light" source, the head "light" of the vehicle.

[ivy'sgrandkid]

ahh those!!!!!!*blond moment* I thin k its around here often il snap another!

[eazym]

thats a clean car there

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/smokingajoint.jpg
I know this last one is shegged aka grainy yada yada but that's the reason I love it
and thanks eazy! :)

[Mr. Mu]

intruigingly strange green glow under his sneakers

Are these some kind of hypernew Nike models? "Alienglow" or something? I want a pair of those!

[ivy'sgrandkid]

It's shows with bling! haha honestly I have no idea how that got there! a little is on his hands as well maybe I had some droplets on my lens from the rain and the light bounced on them or something haha

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/anotherwindowledge.jpg

[ukanfoff]

all these edited by lightroom?

[ivy'sgrandkid]

Yeap, nothing heavy though for the last one just a crop and color correction

[ukanfoff]

ok. imma try that and i cant even find a free trial for aperture...

[ivy'sgrandkid]

I know lightroom you can get the free trail right from the site, aperture never tried their trials , get the light room and I'll hook you up with the rest

[Nike]

Very experimental, that shows you have a lot of fun with your tools! That's what a scrapbook is for. :)

Many of the extremely blurry ones don't really catch my eyes, though. I think that this stuff works, the composition needs to be top notch and the blur has to add to the atmosphere - like showing speed, a lot of motion in a huge crowd etc. - that's not that easy to achieve, but I think it's good to experiment with it either way :).

I really like the first of the carshots and the latest 2 updates. The colors are very nice in these shots and I like the compositions, too.

Keep it up!

[ivy'sgrandkid]

thanks nike lol with the blur I think it's a touchy issue heck I remember one famous photographer whose shots were blurred entirely you couldn't pck out any particular thing and thats what made em fun

[purplerose]

I like the colors in the last one; play around with the cropping some more though.

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/crackcat.jpg
will do purple!

[Morbid]

Ohh, nice sharpness and bokeh!
Love the car pic too!

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/bike.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/flowerinagarden.jpg

thanks Morbid!

today's photos and yes I know noise! duh i caused it to be there

[eazym]

the focus is right on in the cat pic. man look at those eyes

[ivy'sgrandkid]

poor thing looks stoned doesn't it? its owner is a crack head himself

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/bw.jpg

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/thecostofeducation.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/thecostofeducation1.jpg

[Nike]

love the cat! (not as a stilllife though :P)

The latest b/w flower is solid, too. I really like the composition.
If there was only a bit less noise in the bike photo - really like the framing here.

keep 'em coming! :)

[ivy'sgrandkid]

it can soo be a still life! grr@ you anything can be still life... rr

[purplerose]

Nice B/W flower. :) Would try some tighter cropping with it though.

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/strikeapose.jpg

[Ment]

I like your b/w flower, really nice composition.

The cat has great contrast, it looks quite scary. Only the black in the face is a little too black, it blends with the background.

[ivy'sgrandkid]

got a brolly box for my alien today ..can one say scary picture.. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/Iposeforyou.jpg
I have allot to learn about lighting and shit.. I still haven't taken my sb600 off my cam urgh!

[eazym]

the high-key actions isn't bad in the last one. Pretty contemporary-looking.

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/howwearetwo.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/onthewayhome.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/onthewayhome1.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/onthewayhome2.jpg

thanks eazy

[ivy'sgrandkid]

continuation of bread study
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/breadstudy.jpg

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/trappeddoy1.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/trappeddoy.jpg

went to home depot to buy a background stand for an up coming shoot and bam found this guy jumping around in a van

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/selfportt2.jpg
hmm people have stopped visiting this maybe il just move over to flickr for good

[darkchild]

I love the last post. Very nice clear reflection! And no don't move to flickr for good!

[Mr. Mu]

why on earth should you stay away from here?

BTW, the last one is one of the best shots I've seen by you. Simple stopper, very striking.

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/atwork1.jpg

maybe I'll stay around .. a little........

[Ment]

I like your last photo, the colors and compostition are great.
Maybe take one step back when you take the picture, to capture the fire extuinguisher whole.

[purplerose]

I like the tones in the last one and I also agree with Ment's critique. Could be a bit sharper as well.

[ivy'sgrandkid]

was sharp to begin with, i blurred it, you should know me by now guys I don't like purity
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/home2.jpg

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/pixar.jpg

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/pinonedge.jpg

[Ment]

I like nr.1, it has such a delicate look.

[purplerose]

Nice work with the lamp. I like the tones as well.

In response to "purity." You have to find subjects and/or concepts/moods that really shine through with your blurring technique. You have the technique, now you need to find the right subjects. Only then, will your "photo style" be unique and very pleasing to look at. I think the addition of titles would help a bit as well. :)

[ivy'sgrandkid]

in time :)

[ivy'sgrandkid]

Soda from wallgreens
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/boredbottle2.jpg

[purplerose]

Nice tones in that one.

[ivy'sgrandkid]

this one is for you purple...
title....secret
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/secretcopy.jpg

[purplerose]

Hah, love the atmosphere, lots of tension. In a way, the grey works for this, especially with the title. ;)

[ivy'sgrandkid]

what on earth are those little buggers up to haha

[ivy'sgrandkid]

last walk through this crack infested neighborhood
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/catofthenightcopy.jpg

[ivy'sgrandkid]

glass in glass
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/glassinglass.jpg

[purplerose]

nice one.

[Ment]

It's a quite interesting photo, I wonder how you did you do this?

[ivy'sgrandkid]

forks
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/forkcopy.jpg

thanks purple!
and ment it was on a shelf and I turned on the living room light which is just a stand and i got this effect

[purplerose]

The last one is really nice as well.

I must say, the shallow DOF with the tones and the high contrast are really working with shiny and reflective objects. I think you may have found your prime subject matter. Keep at it. ;)

P.S. I see your reflection. :D

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/meloncopy.jpg

something that's not shinny... hmm didnt quite pull this one off but I like the colors, haha thanks purple ! you're right haha I'm def going play around with some product stuff once I have a proper setup in place.. haha@ the reflection I know right! I had to leave a piece of me in it :)

[eazym]

nothing like slick steel, diggin the silverware

[daedicurus]

the "forks" is nice , i like that you almost have to search for the fork and i love pictures where you can see the artist hiding in the object.
the new melon picture was really interesting, after sitting so close to my screen and seeing so many sharp pictures i didn't like the soft focus when i saw it but then i stepped back from my computer a couple of feet and the whole picture changes and i really like it (this can work the other way around as well, i've had some pictures i've really liked but when i printed them and looked from a distance they didn't work any more).
if i could add anything i would probably look into a really slight vignette effect to make the central colours really pop and separate the white line between the green and the red section from the white of the counter top.
but thanks for reminding me to take a different point of view sometimes.

[Nike]

was sharp to begin with, i blurred it, you should know me by now guys I don't like purity
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/home2.jpg

I love this one. Very beautiful colors. You have interesting colorsschemes in all of your pictures - I like that a lot.

forks is an awesome photo, too.

Keep them coming!

[ivy'sgrandkid]

Did some test shots for a catalog shoot for a tshirt site, catalogs are something else, can't wait for the product and editorial shots whoot
the shots form the final shoot will be uploaded soon
everything was shot with a alien 1600 & 800 with 30x60 inch soft boxes
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/prolights.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/popcotton.jpg

the designer wanted low key I think we delivered that, heres on from a test shot earlier on in the week

so I'll post from the final shoot as soon as editing and resizing are done

and thanks for all the wonderful comments everyone

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/popcotton6.jpg

[Nike]

I like the light in the last one a lot - looks prof. and interesting to me. good work!

[ivy'sgrandkid]

Today's gig

stupid me forgot that i had the iso set to 1000 from the night before urgh! two strobes were used for most of the shoot
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/ray9.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/ray8.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/ray7.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/ray6copy.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/ray2copy-2.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/ray10.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/Ray1copy-1.jpg

and thanks nike

[purplerose]

Awesome update dude. Third one is killer. :)

[thorshammer]

i like your achitechtural photos and the one of the yellow vehicle is wonderful...I really like older cars and that shot really works.

Great job so far....I am on the fence though about the blured photos. There are some good dynamics in them but the blur is not working for me (personal opinion of course).

Keep up the good work!

[ivy'sgrandkid]

I will be redoing these later in the week just wanted to get a feel for it , the background is dirty and so is the glass haha just a quick play around

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/glass1copy.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/glass2copy.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/glass3copy.jpg

and thanks thor

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/glasss.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/europeinanally.jpg
europe in an ally

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/stalking.jpg

assignment for photo history class... invasion of privacy .. hmm I spied on my neighbors.. wonder what they were up to with a glove, a wooden block and a gas tank?

[purplerose]

"europe in an ally" is nice.

[Frutsel]

Love the glasses! especially with the blue colours

[ivy'sgrandkid]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/ivysgrandkid/ray3copy.jpg

thanks you 2

[Ment]

The photo's of the glasses are very original and creative, I like them.

I'm not really fond of the edges of the fence, I understand why you left it this way, but the not focused foreground distracts me. The b/w is really great, I like the contrast.

The contrast in the last one is also great, my only point of critisism is that the head of the person floats in space, I miss the rest of the body.

[ivy'sgrandkid]

Thanks Ment and that was the point of it , to float in space, been learning allot from the old days of photography and post modernism , so thought id give it a try