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Re: Day 195

bryan — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:54:00 -0000

Just read your Day 197 post. Sorry to hear the bad news. I've enjoyed your photos tremendously - thank you for sharing.

I hope things turn around for you. Hang in there.

On a lighter note, I believe the answer to your troubles is "42". DON'T PANIC, and remember where your towel is.

Re: Day 196

Vincent McArth — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:51:41 -0000

Hi Nathan,

thank you so much for your words! I'm honored to be one of the seven.

I know there's art in my project, but lately I don't think so very often. For me there has to be a reason why I take a photo, and some of them are just 'damn it I need a daily photo!' and then looked around in my apartment of possible candidates. The photos including myself are the ones I put my heart and soul into. These are the one I want to share with all of you, I want to tell their stories... and I don't believe I can do this on a daily project.

But there will be other projects! Way too many ideas are stuck in my head, I'm just lacking the ability to express them properly at the moment ^^ Don't know what comes next... Maybe I'm focussing on my analogue photography, or travel the world and see where it gets me!

Vince
(just a random guy from Germany who likes to take photos)

Re: Day 196

Nathan H — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:28:06 -0000

(In reference to Day 197)
While very much just an amateur photographer I only follow 7 people's streams under my 'Photography - Inspiration' group, and you have been one of them since I stumbled upon your blog at Day 17 or so.

So I'm sorry you feel the way you do and hope you can come to a better place.

But before you go I'd just like to say that I have really enjoyed your updates and I think you are selling yourself short by saying you are just taking photos. These really are art and I have derived inspiration from every single one of them.

Good luck for the future and I hope whatever change you make works out for you!

Nathan H,
(Some random guy in New Zealand who enjoys your photos)

Re: Day 186

Andrey — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:20:38 -0000

Love that idea! Good colour and editing

Re: Day 190

Vincent McArth — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:23:15 -0000

Yeah, I kinda cut back on the vignettes ^^
Let me know if you discover a 'new phase'! Sometimes I don't even realize them myself :-D

Re: Day 190

psymon — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:11:16 -0000

eheh i see.. in fact you haven't been adding too many vignettes in the shoots of the last period ;) i'll keep an eye on your blog to notice any other phase! :D

Re: Day 190

Vincent McArth — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:58:19 -0000

Hi Psymon,
most of the time I shoot with an ISO of 200, a tripod and a long exposure time to avoid any noise. It's easier to add noise than remove it ;-)

So I have to add it in post-processing. I love grain and noise, it has always fascinated me (especially in b/w). When I'm shooting analogue it sometimes bothers me that I can't have any influence on the grain/noise after loading a film (at least until I'm loading another one). But I can use it whenever I want in my digital work with my favorite noise and grain style.

Maybe my noise/grain-adding is just another phase like my 'hey, lets add a vignette to anything!'-phase :-D

Re: Day 190

psymon — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:45:16 -0000

Hi Vincent, i would like to ask you a question: in many of your pictures i see much noise and somewhere grain.. do you add it in post because you like it or you shoot intentionally to create some noise?

Re: Day 186

Vincent McArth — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:45:36 -0000

thx!

Re: Day 186

Teutzzzza — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:38:29 -0000

I like it very much! nice colors

Re: Day 178

Vincent McArth — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:47:52 -0000

thx. I think so too. Never thought it would look so good while taking it ;-)

Re: Day 178

ab8wn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:20:48 -0000

Very nice. I love the simplicity of it and the shadow does look surreal given the subject.

Re: Day 172

Vincent McArth — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:35:09 -0000

Flowers are really nice models! Won't move, looks great and smell lovely :-D Too bad with your cat eating the models though ;-) Good thing my 3 little turtles are living in a aquarium. But everything I put in there will be destroyed immediately (even plastic plants!).
I got no real 'studio-quality background' for my photos. For black I use T-shirts, sweat shirts and bed sheets. For white I bought a big piece of cloth in IKEA. Red, green, yellow and blue are covered with uni-colored gift wrapping paper.

Re: Day 172

Marianna — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:45:02 -0000

Beautiful shot! I should do something like that one of these days. I keep forgetting how useful black t-shirts can be as a background.
Not with a flower though. I never buy flowers, my cat has this terrible habit of chewing on them. :(

Re: Day 168

Bruce — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:57:56 -0000

I completely agree on 1984 -- the ending makes sense, and fits, but it was very uncomfortable to read it. Very dismal and depressing.

Re: Day 170

Vincent McArth — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:35:16 -0000

thank you :-)

Re: Day 170

Joanna's Foto — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:33:33 -0000

beautiful shot!

Re: Day 163

Vincent McArth — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:33:51 -0000

Got some 'sharpness issues' lately... not so happy with it or day 162 (unsharp hat on mirror) either. My 'aperture choosing ability' is really bad at the moment :-/
But as I wrote in the description, I ate it all before having a second chance to take the photo :-D But it's good that I found a 'weak spot' in my photography technique, so I can try to improve myself.

Maybe my first mini-project will be food-photography. I like the general concept of it but were never good at it.

Re: Day 163

Lana — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:23:03 -0000

i like the way you placed the "soy sauce thingie", the tilted angle adds something unexpected to the picture.
what seems to me rather unattractive/disturbing is the lack of focus on the sushi pieces themselves, only tuna looks kind of sharp. in my rather humble opinion, food should look sharp because our eyes are attracted to it automatically. or well, so blurry that it doesn't appear as food anymore :)
the reflections of the tiny plastic grass thing are cute :)

Re: Day 160

Lana — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:32:55 -0000

yes, i meant mini-projects as part of your 365, not in addition to it :)

Re: Day 160

Vincent McArth — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:17:32 -0000

Thanks for sharing!

Taking the pictures is not the problem, I never missed a photo except 2 days but there were a reason for that. The bigger problem is choosing one and publishing it ^^ But you're right I should take half an hour per day where I edit and upload my photos.
I thought about mini-projects before but as an addition to the 365, but this could even become a greater burden :-D But a 'themed week' is a great idea!

Re: Day 160

Lana — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:07:02 -0000

Like anything that you _have to_ do regularly it feels like a burden until you develop a habit out of doing it regularly. And even then there is no guarantee that it won't feel like a burden ever again. Try to simply continue without looking back or thinking about future.
One piece of advice i was given is to find a specific time, to dedicate a particular half an hour a day for taking the pictures. Didn't quite work for me :) but maybe for you?
The other maybe useful idea is to create mini-projects for yourself. Like for a week shoot only geometric photographs. Then for a week only flowers. Something like this to give your picture a day a purpose.
Sorry for jumping in and giving advice :) i just know how what you describe feels and couldn't resist the temptation to share my thoughts.

Re: Day 157

andreyd — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:52:55 -0000

Very interesting effect!

Re: Day 156

AlexandreDurand — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:17:53 -0000

Just thought you might like this website: http://www.tie-a-tie.net/

Thats where I learned ;)

Re: Day 154

andreyd — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:17:12 -0000

Good vodka by the way ))