friday afternoon, right before taking off for the weekend…

^^^experimenting with some textures here.

^^^ be careful in the kitchen! (you might get spanked)

^^^an old polaroid of new alice in our old backyard. she looks so white, and so small.

have a good weekend, folks! 😀

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4 Comments

1. Kiala, August 4, 2008:

   OMG cute apron. CUTE.

   Also, I’m so glad you understand the value of a good angle on women….i.e. not from below but from above.

   Unless it’s upskirt.

2. stoogepie, August 5, 2008:

   The textured pic of Crissy is awesome. Is that a photoshop filter, because I’m no expert but it doesn’t look like one? The funny thing is that it makes the picture seem two dimensional everywhere but Crissy’s eyes, where the cracks are no match for the underlying image.

   The kitchen pic is excellent not only because Crissy looks so great, but the framing, colors, and sharpness are perfect. The reflection on the pot lid is amazing, and you don’t show up in it. Were you standing on a counter?

   I love polaroids. I love how the colors are always a little too blue or green or yellow. For some reason, a shot like your shot of Alice would just not be as great if it were not framed in that polariod border and if the colors weren’t a little off.

3. Dingo, August 7, 2008:

   Wow, Ken. Just wow. These pics are incredible.

   The textured print of Crissy is just haunting. It reminds me of finding boxes of old photos in my grammy’s attic. The texture gives the photo life and you are mesmerized by all the possibilities, joys, tragedies, and living that contained within the borders. That’s how I feel about this photo. Of course, I’m also imagining Crissy saying, “Hurry up and take the picture, Ken! My chardonnay is getting warm!”

4. Ken, August 11, 2008:

   @ kiala:

   she’s actually not wearing anything under that apron. i shit you not.

   @ stooge:

   it’s not a filter per se: it is another picture of a paint-cracked wall which i’ve overlaid on top of the first to give it texture. in fact, there are two different overlays with two different textures. i partially masked off the effect in the eye and lip region because it was just a tad too strong.

   i was not standing on anything in the kitchen pic… i’m just tall. 🙂 the effect is primarily due to a photoshop filter called lucisart, which is a pretty cool plugin (albeit kind of expensive). i think the price is actually going up much higher as they release a new version and change their licensing terms.

   i totally agree on the polaroid comment. there are a couple of key things about p-roids: 1) they are inherently square format, which almost completely changes the way things appear in the frame, 2) the cameras are generally low cost, and the optics are not quite so tack-sharp, 3) the development process often results in color shifts and casts.

   @dingo:

   thanks for the kind words. some people really abhor pictures that have been obviously fucked with. the photographic purists, if you will. i find their arguments boring and irrelevant. 😀 there is a very long history of artists shrugging off the responsibility of being strict “documentarians” and i am no exception. objective truths (if such things even exist) are never as compelling as the subjective ones. if the photo evokes some kind of response–like it did in your case–then to me it is a success.