February 5, 2008

self portrait

hands1x.jpgi got a lensbaby to play with for christmas and i tried it on my digital slr, with some interesting results in colour, but when i tried it on my film slr it brought home to me the differences, this is something i continue to think about, or perhaps worry at dog to bone style.

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  1. Cooper on February 5th, 2008 at 11:06 am

    Hey, CFers, doesn’t Alek have the most amazing hands ever?

  2. Amy Mabli on February 5th, 2008 at 11:17 am

    Yes, I was thinking that earlier. They are beautiful.

  3. Brandon Hobson on February 5th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    That’s really cool. What exactlyis a lensbaby? Is there a link?

  4. Cindy Scroggins on February 5th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    Beautiful photo, beautiful woman, beautiful hands.

  5. Alek Lindus on February 5th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    Um, merci beaucoup… i was telling cooper how much my son hated my hands because they are ‘revolting and veiny’ veiny he refers to as fleves whether he’s speaking English or Greek,
    Brandon, heres a link, i’ve got the 2 but the 3 is better because you can fix and hold the focus you decide on. I’m not sure about the results, i like it here but it gets a bit visually tedious. it slightly affects the colour on my Dslr, but in a way thats more often pleasing. its an odd lens because it sticks you right up close to whatever you point it at.
    o yea the link:
    http://www.lensbabies.com/

  6. Sheila Ryan on February 5th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    Alek, I am confident that the Squirt has many fine qualities, but he is quite simply and quite radically mistaken about your hands (by which I can always recognize you even when you assume an altered or anonymous guise).

  7. India Amos on February 5th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    Hands? What hands? All I see are Alek’s eyes.

  8. Sheila Ryan on February 5th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Here is a place where you can re-view Alek’s self-portrait in the context of additional works of hers. Many of you, I hope, know this place (enigma janitor) already. Go now, whether it is familiar to you or shiny and new.

    Oh . . . and Alek has Something Else underway (online), but I think I’ll leave it to her to give you the directions in her own good time. Something to anticipate . . .

  9. Deron Bauman on February 5th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    India: Hands? What hands? All I see are Alek’s eyes.

    Deron: ditto.

  10. Michael Grant Smith on February 5th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    Lovely photo, Alek. My hands are pretty gnarly looking — yours are just fine.

    Stop looking at me like that.

  11. Rick Neece on February 5th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    Lensbabies! Deron, is that how you bring us those wonderful shots of yours?

    Alek! Honestly I’m without words. I followed Sheila’s links today. Not that I haven’t looked before. Honestly! Your work speaks. It talks to me way deep inside me.

    The images I see here, the words I hear from all y’all. I’m talked to…way deep inside me.

  12. Deron Bauman on February 5th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    Rick, the lensbaby is a tool used to enhance the qualities you are seeing in some of my pictures (but no, I’m not using one). In the images you are talking about, where you see the similarity, I am using my (regular) lens at its widest aperture. What this means is the lens can let in a lot of light in a very short time. This causes what you have focused on to be in focus, but areas around what you have focused on to quickly lose focus. If I made the aperture smaller, then more time would be required in order to properly expose the image. The longer it takes to expose the image, the deeper the areas that are in focus, regardless of where you have focused specifically. I hope I’ve not confused the issue.

  13. Rick Neece on February 5th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    Not confusing, but I’m just limited with time to work with it. I admire the work, here, to no end.

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