The strange beauty of my unbrushed hair (2/26/09)

Sorry if this seems a little narcissistic, I was just taken by the way my hair looked through the camera. I normally hate to take my own picture unless I can focus on little details like this. This idea will probably get revisited in the future, possibly with a model (like who? I don't know) so I have more control of the shots.

Flash!

By the time I got home today it was dark, so I busted out good ol 430exII and scooted around a little. Can I just pause and gush about that flash a little? It is a good one. You know, everyone goes on and on about the 530exII and stuff, but my little 430 is a trooper! And its smaller. And its awesome. Canon users, I recommend it. Nikon users, you are out of luck. For several reasons. (I kid I kid!) So I took some flash pictures of the rose hips, which made them look pretty eerie to me.

Also, check out my guinea pigs. They are always cute. Sweetpea (the black one) is always so hard to photograph because she is so dark, she absorbs all light and the rest of the picture is horridly overexposed. Its tough being a piglet I guess.

One last thing: The outlet. For some reason that plug looks really ominous to me. Maybe that means I'm turning into David Lynch. I mean, that'd be cool. Sorta.

Rainy Day and my website

The first frame is from Mad Max. Took a picture of the tv.

Also, in Centa-news, my website is up: http://www.centaschumacher.com Look at it, bookmark it, love it, tell me what you think about it.

Studio Grid

Portrait shoot on Friday. Which famous photographer was I imitating in these images? Our assignment was to emulate an image from art history.

My lovely model was my partner Elisa. She ended up using me as her model too, which resulted in this image:



Yeah yeah my lipstick is a little smudged. This picture amuses me a little though, I never see myself in this way. When my boyfriend saw this picture he said, "This is pretty, but it doesn't really look like you."

I like studio class though.

Spider in the garage

I was a little late, but here are a few grids in a row again.

Today's Grid

Today was sort of a hard day.

Grid for 2/15/2009

Mostly the flowers I got for Valentine's Day. :)