sitting on matted mat
sitting on matted mat chitting the chat mamallapuram india : any blue day 2004 : spinning yarns across hammocks with the long-term brethren of travellers who think one month more is never enough; scratching rickets into old sores, past histories open for public consumption around chillum sessions and midnight fables; meeting people minus their excess, they and I so much the lighter; breathing silty dust from stone-carvers around corners and setting smoking incense piles against the mosquitos; these long nights and hot days in our little huts, side by side, music verberating mp3s from Israeli, Finnish and British/Sri Lankan musical stock ... so many moments ...
posted by highlander islander @ 11:13
3 Comments:
how the hell do you get crisp bold and beautiful colour like that in all your pics, and yet the size of the image is all managably small and web like. what software do you use ... I want to know. ohh love the content too, great shots. regards, jealous.
dear jealous : thankyou for the lovely comment - this pic was a self-timed one taken with olympus muji. as you will see i am quite technologically-challenged. i just don't get byte-this & gig-that - i just want to know enough to do what i like to do. re the pictures : i only like the photographs taken the old-fashioned way with film and all the inherent permanent unerasable perfect imperfect nature of it all. (i love my little digital fujicam but for me its only good for parties). primarily i use a very old canon ae1 and a little square holga and my treasured lomo & my trusty loyal olympus muji & a few polaroid cams. only the olympus has a flash and i dont have any long lenses beyond 60mm - my equiment is old and basic and it makes me work OUTSIDE the box. no cheating. no perfect shots. i develop + scan the photographs - whenever i can find a scanner (i will hopefully have my own soon) and just decrease the pic size when scanning onto computer. so far so good - see how basic i am - its scaryyyyy! for the blog i use hello & picasa to import pics - picasa has some very 'basic fixes' to adjust colour or light etc - i use picasa fixes VERY minimally if at all - the COLOUR is out there! having basic equipment makes me look carefully at my composition - i always think about colour first ... it's all in the eye - it almost doesn't matter about the equipment. i very rarely doctor my pics - i think the real world speaks for itself. EXCEPT the pic today - i did play doctor to that because it was very white and i wanted to use it anyway - so i put some more shadow to disguise my face a bit and cool the colour enough to bring up aqua on the walls. so as you can see i have revealed myself to be completely unexotic in all these pic dealings. cheers, ricebag
well it certainly works. Another thumbs up for the age old adage, Keep it simple stupid!
I always get a washed out look when bringing in my pics. It is a juggle I find between keeping the size of the pic down to a minimum and losing the colour depth. I will now have to investigate picasa. It must have some secret tweak to allow the colour to stay bold yet keep it is a small size. Funny I thought Photoshop should do this as well (where is that manual?). Cheers, head scratcher
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