Monthly Archive for December, 2006

Portrait or Old Work

Since trying to organize the gallery section a little better I have found myself unsure of how I should categorize my own work. The following image was exposed around 1995, but it hasn’t been printed since until a couple of weeks ago, when I printed it as a gift for the model.  So should it go in old work or portraits?

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Continue reading ‘Portrait or Old Work’

Photoshop Action - Vintage

I spent some time yesterday looking around Adobe Exchange for an action to make some images look old and distressed. I downloaded a few, but wasn’t real happy with them, so I ended up writing my own action (not to say mine is perfect, but it did what I wanted). Below is a before and after:

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If you are interested in trying it out for yourself you can download it here.
The normal installation spot on a windows machine is “Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Presets\Photoshop Actions.” Let me know what you think.

A second dose

Florida still has the death penalty and they (we) like to use it, apparently enough that will use it twice on the same person. Continue reading ‘A second dose’

BRILLIANT!

I figure that folks that don’t grade papers probably get tired of hearing the dumb things that students write. I think it is much like when I worked tech support, people really got bored listening to us tech support weenies jibber-jabber about someone who used their CDR as a cup tray. Continue reading ‘BRILLIANT!’

recent stuff

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First off, an image I shot in Flora, Mississippi. I also shot some stuff of just the sky on this day, really nice clouds. Continue reading ‘recent stuff’

What am I not doing?

Right now I am furiously avoiding writing my dissertation. Continue reading ‘What am I not doing?’