I'm still somewhere

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and so on. I've been somewhere... still here but not doing a lot of arty stuff and not uploading the bits I HAVE done. I'll be doing some painting soon, which is cool, but for now, here's a few hipsta-photos just to get me back into the swing of things, hopefully.

Apparently I'm in a blue and lemon mood at the moment, cause the ones that stood out to me from what I had on my phone were all that sporting lovely blue look with light touches and golden highlights.

More quick snaps

I've been getting into some anatomy and drawing again recently, but I haven't got it scanned in yet, so in the meantime I'm chucking up a few more Hipstamatic shots.

Fairy Lights

Today I needed to take some photos of fairy lights for work, and the first shot I took came out really blurry - it was a much longer exposure than I had expected.

This kind of shot can often look really cool when people play around with lights and drawing stuff. Maybe a cheap trick, cause it's not very hard to do actually, but I still like the results.

I simply cropped this shot and did a bit of color treatment on it.

Hipstamatic 2 - Sky edition

Some more photos from the iPhone app Hipstamatic. This is the "sky" series. Basically I had to wait for a train so I wandered round taking photos, and liked a lot of the skylines I found... thought about some nice framings that would feel spacious and balanced.

I'm not sure if it automatically ghosts the images, but it seems they all have it except for the one highly saturated one I have here... so perhaps my hand is just always a bit shaky? I don't mind it, but it would be nice to have *slightly* higher fidelity. There's a high quality option for the app but it takes way too long to develop shots on my phone (it's already about 6 seconds which tests my patience sometimes!).

Hipstamatic Photos

There's an app for the iPhone called Hipstamatic which emulates an old, analog camera that was made in very limited release many years ago. Basically it's just doing the typical retro/weathered stylings which are perhaps overdone, and purists loathe, as it's essentially hipsters (ahh, the name is quite convenient!) jumping onto another trend.

But y'know, i don't really care... the iPhone camera I have is fairly crappy, and this app means that I can take photos that are kind of cool looking. It's making me look at lighting, composition and other photography stuff, which I haven't done much before, and I wouldn't be doing with the normal iPhone camera, so as far as I'm concerned it's opening up new creative possibilities and that's a good thing. I reckon the random snaps I take will inspire other art I do, be it in color choices, composition, subject ideas, whatever.

Here's a few shots I have taken with it, just during my wandering home from work, or around the house.

Baking

I made croissants last week, and as far as I'm concerned they are as aesthetically pleasing as any art, and far tastier. I love looking at the layers, the flakiness and the unique shape.
The photos were very red due to the lighting but I like it that way so I hardly processed them at all.

Academic achievements

These were some leftovers from when i was trying to typograph-y my resume, and i had to choose some nice typefaces so it would look neat and slightly designed.
I thought you could read all sorts of 'artistic intention' into it... maybe if i write an essay about it I will be able to sell prints for lots of money. But really it's just scrap paper.

Süp

I wouldn't exactly call it practicing photography, but i did try a few different ISO speeds...
and it was good soup.

The resulting photos were pretty average, so i just did a lousy tint on one and worked on the levels a bit... but bad lighting to begin with can't be fully rectified.