About 70 pictures, scanned slides that I took while in Morocco in July. I’m very happy with them and with the film I took with me. It was my first experiment with Fuji Velvia, and I’m in love. The reds, blues and greens fly out at you. Very vivid and bright. I’ll be using it more. I’ve been suprised at how well they turned out, very few are fuzzy, and I do remember generally having very low shutter speeds as the film is only rated at 50… 3 stops on the film makes a big difference.
I’m very impressed with this software Vue d’Espirit. Not that I’m going to go out and buy it, just knowing that such a thing exists makes me all warm inside. The fun that people must have making these intricate, chaotic system based worlds must be enormous. The shots in the gallery are beautiful in that dreamy sort of CG way, and the alien plants are great.
I have sort of been thinking about doing panoramic urban landscapes and maybe these would be nice backdrops. Not as some weird alien landscape, but in creating a kind of hyperreal sky. I like the idea of turning CG architectural comps on their head. Real buildings with fake backgrounds, rather than fake buildings with real backgrounds.
The new B3TA zoo is a collection of animals created by the small gods of Photoshop. At times eerily lifelike and believable, otherwise just silliness packed with a proliferation of bills, beaks, fruit and politicians.
WIll have to subscribe to Make Magazine when Mark Frauenfelder puts it out. Or at least buy copies if I find anything cool in them. His name is really hard to spell.
