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These are all the things in Siobhan's archives tagged as "photography". If you want to narrow it down, you can use more than one tag, seperating them with a space.

On Honesty, Self-Projection, And Photo-Thievery (of sorts)

I find it very difficult to write about things in a structred way these days. I think that perhaps, in the past, I used to have deep angerisms running through me that needed to be vented, and, along with an in-house Curran-vetting process (my Ex) I could come out with a stream of vaguely constructive prose about a particular issue that irked me.

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Curious Picnik

Alan Levine pointed me in the direction of a rather neat little browser-based photo editing app this morning: http://www.picnik.com/[1]. I've never been one to explore such things before, preferring my usual Photoshop/iPhoto workflow, not wanting to add extra steps into the mix.

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Self-Portraiture Tid-bits

Aside from my little sojourn into my personal clothing fantasies of late, and slipping back into my 'tutorial' head for a moment, I thought it might be of vague interest if I shared a couple of the 'mechanisms' of my self-shoots. I presume all of us have our own little ways of doing things - and I wouldn't for one second suggest that my way is 'right' - it's just that I've found that certain things help whenever I'm plonked in front of a camera, and maybe someone might find them useful too...

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On Photography

I am not, nor will I ever will be, a photographer like > April - someone who can master a scene around them, manipulate the light and people to create a tableaux of gargantuan expressiveness. Someone who's camera becomes an extension of themselves, and who can capture the essence of a moment in vivid, crisp starkness, pushing people to see themselves in a completely new light.

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Photoshop Tutorial #1 (version 2)

You may have noticed that there's a particular style to a lot of the photographs that I take of myself. Most of the self-portraits are quite pale, and there's what appears to be something of a glow about them.

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Shit

I am, obviously, a fan of user-generated content. The old models of top-down publishing within the creative arts are defunct. Because of sites like Flickr and del.cio.us, the web is bristling with new forms of creativity - communities and identities springing up all over the place, exuding life, spontanaeity and 'art'.

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CurranMagick

Perhaps I'm wanking my own ego a little too much here, but I like to think that there's a certain 'recognisable' style to the self portraits I've been doing recently - a kinda 'softness' to them. Perhaps.

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Pruning And Self Editing

(Or "Trying to Counter the Post-Photoshoot Euphoria")

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Portraiture

There's been a consistent rumour floating around that the next Video iPod will have a screen that fills the whole, um, front. Regardless of what I happen to think about these "OMGWHATISAPPLEABOUTTORELEASE?!" exercises (I think they're pointless and serve only to over-hype things, personally), and regardless of the fact that ever single "secret development photo" that gets posted online usually turns out to be a fake (see this), The Register pointed to some rather convincing pictures this morning...

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For The Record

I realise that it's a consistent moan of mine - and one that I really probably could do something about if I set my mind to it - but I'm always lamenting that the day-to-day format of this blog means that if I do something I consider to me A Cool Thing™ and mention it, within a couple of days it's slipped into obscurity.

tag code portfolio stuff-i've-done film photography

A Blatantly Personal View About trannyflickr

The problems I have with the current situation in trannyflickr aren't limited to the notions of "shit in the pool" that I ranted about last week. It's not even, I have to say, a question of "quantity over quality" for me. I'm reading through the discussion that's going on at the moment, lamenting over the demands for a "dumping ground" or a place "to host our pictures", and even though there are - in amongst the bleatings - some wise and considered words, I haven't seen too much discussion about "intent".

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Studio Photography In Second Life

(Because that's what I'm interested in at the moment)

tag photography secondlife howto

Self Positioning

(In which I try to remember what I was talking to myself about in the car the other morning)

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Influxes And Tipping Points

I'm not entirely sure exactly what I'm trying to say here, but it's something that's generally occupying my head (in a fuzzy way) at the moment - the whole mass democratisation aspect of the 'new web' (as it were). My general concern, at this exact moment in time, is that I'm going to come across as some kind of 'snob' - but fuck it...

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