Look Ma', we found farm life.
Macro Monday - Example A - 11/23/09
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Nov 23, 2009
Dru was kind enough to show me that Toronto has its very own green house tucked away just a few blocks away from the busy streets in Allan Park.
It was a great little thing to find just hidden in the middle of the city.
I'll most certainly be frequenting it this winter to escape all the gross cold and snow.
If you haven't noticed yet, I may be a huge huge fan(sucker?) for/of going with very heavy left or right weighted compositions.
This is a fine example.
Doesn't it look like a little planet protected by the petals?
Or an explosions of color deep in a well lit galaxy?
Ha.
Two of my favorite things(lately).
Macro flowers and corner heavy framing.
Oh boy :p
Telephoto Tuesday - To Nice Not To - 11/10/09
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So I completely forgot to mention/thank BlogTO author Ben Spurr for using not one but TWO of my photos on his BlogTO article Daily Radar.
You can read both his articles as well as see the photos used here and here.
Funny thing is both people in the photos used have been noticed by either themselves or a friend and have let me know.
I thought it was kinda funny.
Maybe I have to worry more about snapping random street shots from now on?
Mayyyyybe.
Rainy Day TO
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So at about 7am this morning I'm pulled out of my bed by what sounds like some one taking a comically large piece of sheet metal and bending it back and forth to make those fake movie lightning sounds.
Only thing is they aren't fake.
The sounds are the extreme wind coming from the blackness outside trying to knock both huge sets of windows out of my apartment. We leave our window open a crack at night because its not to cold yet outside but that little crack was enough that with the wind sounded like someone was trying to tear the window right out.
Worse still was once I slammed that shut and ran to my office because the windows were wide open and I didn't want to walk in and find all my camera gear had been recently introduced to the rain.
Lucky for me nothing was wet and once the windows were closed I was able to sleep sound again.
I work five days a week, which is nothing to brag about, but I enjoy my two days off and normally like to use them for whatever I actually want to do.
So when for the last two months it has been nice weather and sunny with the EXCEPTION of every Friday & Saturday(my weekend) when it decides to start gusting winds and become the rainiest days you've ever seen, well, it gets pretty old fast.
Made plans to go try shoot some street portraits?
Yah I'm sorry, that won't work now because there is a monsoon outside.
Oh hey, street art instillation being done at night?
Oh, wait no, pouring again.
Rain really 'puts a damper' on things.
Heh.
Buuuuut.
But I'm taking this time to edit.
Which I think is a huge place for me to improve so I'll take it fully.
The editing time that is.
One year ago, photo editing for me consisted of playing with levels and saturation.
Now I still use all those things, but on a much greater application.
Some days I make things that look crazy, some days I try edit natural so if you're looking at it you can't TELL it has been edited.
I think if it looks good and you don't know I've touched it, I've done the best job I can.
Anyways, this is an attempt at one of the edits I guess I would consider 'making look crazy'.
Pin Up - 08/17/09 V.2
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Sep 21, 2009
Just a quick update to one of the faces that I did for a friend of Erica's a while back.
She wanted it in a format she could print and I thought the rabbit frame would be a neat idea.
Also, whats more rad than a rabbit wearing 3d glasses?
Oh, a long list of things you say?
Well that is acceptable I suppose but a rabbit wearing shades is still pretty rad.
ps: Kid Chameleon for the Sega Genesis is also super rad. SUPER Rad. Just to, you know, really drive that one home.
Pin Up - 09/07/09
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A request done for Trink.
Once more with the inky background just to keep it from looking to plain.
Probably the last time I'll use that.
Hopefully she digs it.
Realistically this will not be the last time I use the ink background.
Heh.
Pin Up - 08/23/09
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Aug 23, 2009
2nd request for a 'zombify me' drawing from my friend Andrea.
This one took WAY longer than any of the other ones(possibly even any two other ones combined).
I think it was the hair.
I couldn't figure out a good way to get the look I wanted for the hair and, as you can see, I ended up using dot shading to get pretty much the look I wanted.
No shading, but the black dots gives the illusion.
I think I like how it works.
Certainly something I need to play around with a little more.
Also, per her request, its a little darker than I would normally make it.
No real problem with that, but I may do a 2nd(coughthirdcough) colorway of some lighter more playful colors.
Then just some random inks to give it a not-so-static background.
Zip baff pow!
If YOU would like to have a picture of YOURS zombified, post me a comment or send me an email(cowboyrobot at gmail dot com) with a picture or two and let me know.
Luke
Pin Up - 08/17/09
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1st "Zombify Me" request done for one of Erica's friends.
Pretty fast and simple one.
Might add some shadows to the shirt eventually but otherwise pretty happy with the color and face.
Whamo.
Done.
Now Accepting
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Aug 15, 2009
So a ton of things have happened lately, and I'm going to try and be quick about it.
Big things first.
I have officially moved to Toronto and have now spent a grand total of NINE whole days here.
Exciting I know.
I have moved in with my fantastic girlfriend Erica.
At time of writing this we have not yet killed each other. Bonus!
Also today I saw a squirrel!
Now he didn't creep in and steal any photo ops from me, but he was big and black and pretty neat looking.
Anyways, we've moved, bought shit, put it together, lived on it, got it all stinky and are now pretty much fully 'settled in'.
All that said, I have my tablet back!
Its here and in one piece... as are all the other key components(read: Computer, Me).
So what I'm doing is now accepting requests to become an Undead Pin-Up, like the one seen above.
I think its the most fun stuff I've done in a while so why not run with it.
If you want to have your face done up just rifle me off an email(cowboyrobot at gmail dot com) with 2 or 3 photos, or leave me a comment with links to some photos, and we will go from there.
Looking forward to it.
Silly faces, people smelling teddy-grams, wearing hats, prosthetic eyes, keyboard cats.... its all fair game.
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