God knows your lonely souls

God knows your lonely souls, originally uploaded by Venn Diagram.

"God knows your lonely souls" - UNKLE / Lonely Soul

With thanks to Threeleaf.com for the skull image - may have to take this image down if he's not keen to have it used - would have waited but he hasn't uploaded since February 2008, so it could be a while before I hear back...

This is my first attempt at compositing, and a revisit of an earlier shot I uploaded. Loaded the skull shot as a separate layer then selectively deleted parts until I got where I wanted to go. A bit of colouring to bring it near to skin tone and a slight edge of transformation to make it fit and Bob's your uncle.

Oooh, ooh, ooh - got a new picture ready...

...well, I say new, it's a re-working of an earlier shot, and I'm just waiting for permission from another flickrite whose image I've used. Quite excited - it's the first attempt I've ever made at compositing and I quite like the end result. The rest of the world may hate it, but hey, I like it.

Hopefully he'll get back to me soon and I can post this monster...

Needless to say, it's a selfie...

Radiohead (Tribute)

Radiohead (Tribute), originally uploaded by Venn Diagram.

[S'me, yet again - apologies if you don't like staring at my mug, but it's the only one that regularly agrees to be involved in my photographic adventures...]

EDIT: Re-reading the title, makes me think of Tenacious D's "Tribute", but there you go...

Just messing about, listening to UNKLE and playing with lights. Bit of a tribute to Radiohead, having just watched their excellent live show from a European festival.

Didn't quite capture the blue as intensely as I'd hoped, but you can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Strobist - Two sidelights, each a 430EXII at 105mm with "Bright Red" Honl filters and a 580EX on-camera as controller with a "Just Blue" Honl filter a
Attached. Ratio was 1:2.33 A:B with the two side lights being group B. Impromtu use of bedsheet to cover up the bookshelf behind my noggin.

Post was Photoship to posterise the image (but you'd guessed that, right?).

Once, we swam in the sea...

Once, we swam in the sea..., originally uploaded by Venn Diagram.

Playing with my 50mm f1.8 wide open at Whitley Bay today. Realised that I'd never really tried to get the most form this lens before, just hung around the edges, using it for IR photography. As I'm toying with the idea the a f1.4 lens would be a good thing (either a Canon 50mm or a Sigma 30mm), I figured ti would be good to see why I thought that was a good idea.

Part two of the experiment was setting my 18-55mm lens to 30mm and taping it at that focal length and seeing whether a prime at the length would suit me. Short answer - yes, it seemed pretty good. So, when I can scare up £380, I'll be looking to the 30mm f1.4 Sigma lens, though that might not be for a while yet.