Pb (ook)
2009-07-17
As promised, another artists' book. This one is Radio-active Substances, by Susan kae Grant, and is made entirely of lead. It's meant to be "an interpretation of Marie Curie's graduate dissertation..." The 15 pages are made from a pound of lead, and contain photos and summary text relating to the discovery of Radium.
I had a few shots that give a more overall view of the book and case, but what I really like about it is the malleable metal pages, so I chose this shot over the others.
[ last year - http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/Year1/i-bsHGpHj ]
![<span id="date">_03/30/10_</span> <span id="title">Fat Koala Waits for the Bus</span>
Um... yeah. The title pretty much sums it up.
I decided to walk home from work today (4 miles) and happened upon this. I took a photo, kept walking...
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![<span id="date">_11/19/10_</span> <span id="title">Rotunda</span>
Here's my first super wide angle daily, using the Tokina 11-16 I rented. I had promised another for yesterday, but I did my entry for <a href="http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=183504">DSS #64</a> instead.
This is the rotunda in Powell Library at UCLA. It's pretty vast, so it's a good subject for an ultra wide lens. I shot a few other places on campus that I thought might benefit from this lens, but conditions were pretty bad.
This is the last SLR daily photo for a week - tomorrow we fly to Hawaii! Thanks for all the well wishes. I'll try to keep posting daily photos via iPhone during the trip.
Cheers!
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![<span id="date">_08/25/10_</span> <span id="title">Tea Strainer</span>
Water flowing over/through a tea strainer. See the <a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Utility/Setups/8246339_SpVpq#982954794_43Nxc">setup</a>.
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![<span id="date">_06/07/10_</span> <span id="title">iPad Portrait</span>
My work got an iPad, and I'm putting it through it's paces. This photo took forever to get framed right. I think it turned out well in B&W.
Any of you have an iPad? What do you do with it?
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![<span id="date">_09/02/10_</span> <span id="title">Hearty Pages</span>
Get it? The pages look like a heart. It's very clever. I am sure I am the first person to have thought of it.
Sarcasm aside, it does look cool and I wanted to give it a try myself. Turns out the pages don't align themselves very well when you do so many, although that might be due to the super-thin pages of this Bible that I used for the shot. I actually kind of like the irregularity.
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![<span id="date">_11/18/10_</span> <span id="title">Coworker Mashup</span>
This is my entry for <a href="http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=183504">DSS #64</a> - Nine. Check out <a href="http://challenges.smugmug.com/Other/DSS-64-Nine/14676359_FvfAp">this gallery</a> to see how others are interpreting the theme. I've always wanted to participate in the dgrin contests but somehow I just never had.
I work with or near all these folks, and they were all kind enough to pose for the project. We have quite a range of ages and ethnic backgrounds going on, so that's pretty cool. I used my 50mm lens at f/9 and got close to fill the frame. I used red eye reduction on the flash to make sure the pupils weren't too big. Then I spent a long time tediously cutting each of these squares from each person's portrait and put it all into a Photoshop document using Smart Objects so I could easily swap out nose/eye/mouth to get the best balance. Finally the B&W conversion gave an overall sense of much-needed continuity.
HUGE thank you to my models - Alicia, Ayumi, Dayna, Ivette, Judith, Juan, Kelli, Melina, Russell, Sayan and Teresa - and my apologies to those whose lovely faces I didn't use in the final draft.
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Christine
on July 19, 2009Great b&w- love the shallow dof and the tones.
Karina Boese
on July 19, 2009Very nice artsy B&W shot here. Love the simplicity!
fotomom
on July 19, 2009Heavy reading...funny Chuck. Yes, it is lovely how the pages bend and flow. Great capture.
Chuck Beehner
on July 19, 2009Nice composition...sounds like the book is some heavy reading.
fotoeffects
on July 18, 2009Nice comp.
sbarge
on July 18, 2009Cool shot! I really like the lines - very interesting
pacvjwv
on July 18, 2009Very interesting. Thanks for the explanation. Wish I could have shown my students.
349390pitchingwedge33
on July 18, 2009interesting....
219352dedmanshootn
on July 18, 2009cool!!