My Bokeh-Style, Bright-Light Series of Texture/Object Stocks ~ some are single colored, some multi but all the "blurry" look using a delay shutter that stays open a couple seconds during a nighttime parade.

Two-color Object Texture Stock ~ download for full-size.


100% Unrestricted Stock. Can Make Stock from my Stock. There are additional deviants listed in the header on my profile page that has other deviants who allow stock to be made from their stock. If you want to share the work you do with my stock just send a link and I'll add it to a share journal!

The Spectro-Magic Parade that used to be at The Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World©

For More Information about the Parade and what it is like to work the parade, check the scraps at `Arete-Eirene-Phile where she has several animated gifs that explain her three-years working parades and shows at WDW.

Motivation, When and Where:

This was taken a while ago (Jul 22, 2006, 8:35:27 PM on my first DA bday, this makes it even more special ). I was invited to a gallery opening by Dominic’s (one photographed, also goes by the name of ~fuckartletsdance ) mum, who happened to be one of the hosts, whose work was being featured. Had a blast looking at all the crazy work and i guess had few too many beers. Next thing I knew we were out shooting.

The best part of it all was the fact that I was oblivious to what was going on, Hackney is definitely not the part of London you want to be hanging around with a 500 quid worth of equipment round your neck. Call me crazy but we still carried on, playing pretty much a grown up version of "you’re it" on the way.

I was crazy enough to hide at this laundrette. I was stoked, the backdrop full of heavenly ambient lighting and the cliché washing machines. Hiding behind the bin was bloody hard, yet somehow I managed to wait it out for him to come in without making a sound. And there he was in the doorway, looking around, looking like a punk after a bad nights sleep. And the moment was there. My 55mm macro-nikkor prime never fails , with the aperture set to f/22 and shutter speed at 1/30 of a second I decided to make a break for it. And this is how the image was born. I chose f/22 because I wanted to capture darker tones since I was gonna convert this to B&W afterwards in Photoshop where I would have most likely stripped it off its prior appearance, plus its given me a lovely DOF, and 1/30 of a sec has given me a lovely movement in the picture as Dominic was reaching for the door knob. It is indeed an unusual thing to see a punk "spring cleaning" and seeing "them" in a laundrette would be even weirder so I would say I had captured quite a peculiar moment right there.

Exposure Info:

Model: NIKON D50
Shutter Speed: 1/30th of a second
F Number: F/22 (manual apperture ring, camera couldn't read that off)
ISO: 200

Method of Conversion:
_{Since the d50 doesn't have a monochromatic function, photograph had to be converted in photoshop from Colour to B&W. Now this is my method:}

1. Auto Levels
2. Select only blue channel
3. Go to Greyscale Mode, disregard other channels
4. Go back to RGB Mode
5. Create a New Adjustment Layer, with Gradient Map. Set the gradient to go from black to white, thus #000000 to #ffffff
6. Create a New Adjustment Layer, with Hue/Saturation. Set Saturation to -100%
7. And last and probably most important. Create a New Adjustment Layer, with Channel Mixer.
Tick the Monochromatic option,
Set RED to +34%,
Set GREEN to +118%,
Set BLUE to -8%,
Set Contrast to -8%,
Click OK and you're finished.

Thank You very much for tuning in,
Tom

Entry 1 for the photography contest announced here: [link]

--Sivad

Please, do not post this anywhere or distribute it without my permission or in any other way use this work as it is solely reserved at present for this contest.

7th time's a charm...

Dreams that hold on to tightly to painful things.
I dream to let them go.
let it be.

Had trouble deciding what painting I wanted to "draw again". I finally chose this one cause I felt I can really show how much I have improved. Painted the original in 2006 and wasn't to happy with it so that was another motivation to improve it.
[link]

Photoshop used for color correction and levels adjustment. And that's it.
Taken for an album cover.

A kitten we found...
Hehh.

Latchkey is a rough terrain tracking monster. It's powerful legs allow it to swiftly jump over large obstacles and grab things pretty well too.



I had based him off of a few things; one, my complete adoration of the original monster (the one with the kitty skull) from the short film 9. Second, my want to make some crazy creature with larger feet that it should have. Thirdly, the desire to use my various latch pieces that have been sitting around a while.

It all got tossed together to make this, thing. Hopefully it's recognizable as a creature. If not well, eh, I tried.

Also? About the name? It's totally a latchkey kid. I mean, just look at it.

18"x4.5"x11"

Materials:

Steel stock: 1/4” round bar, 5/8” round bar, 5/8” flat bar, 1/8” flat bar, 1/16” sheet, 1/2” ball bearings 1/16” flat bar . Everything else: 21 door latches, a bathroom sink faucet handle, juvenile coyote shoulder blades, 21mm glass lens small red halogen lamp, plastic coated house wire, extension cord, sisal, hemp cord, miscellaneous nuts and bolts.

I started this costume for 2006 but didn't leave myself nearly enough time to work on it so it got pushed back a year...with a detour to plan my wedding and get married

All of the pieces I made from scratch, NO PATTERNS! The boots are the one big exception, I bought boots at Target and then painted them red and made the necessary additions.

View separate shots of the main pieces here [link]
Download to see fullsized.


Top to bottom, here are the pieces and any unusual work done:
Headband: Made from knit fabric with hand painting of dragon-ish logo
Fake bangs: Since mine are bleach blonde
Hair bands: Pink ones made with purchased blue elastics on top
Earrings: Bought at Claires, took them apart and used the base, added brown suede to the outside
Top: This was the MOST trouble! Hand painting of the dragon on the back that I am VERY proud of!!!
Gloves: Actually they are two pieces. The bottom layer is the red gloves with the cut off fingers glued to cut off socks, with the brown and yellow bands painted on. The top layer is the cuff with the silver ring attached.
Skirt/Fancy Loincloth: Hand painted dragon logo on front and back pieces. Adjusted a pair of white undies to work under the costume, wore them over my nylons.
Boots: Socks have hand painted brown and yellow bands, boots bought at Target and painted red. Added the cuffs on top and brown strappy thing over the top of the foot.
Halberd: For the weapon I used my color guard flag pole, covered it with red fabric, carved holes in styrofoam balls, painted them yellow, made blade out of cardboard and duct tape

I think that's all. Hope you like it, it was fun to finally put the whole thing together after so much work!

*EDIT* I forgot to link pics of the character...btw she's from Soul Calibur II Go here to see screen caps [link]