Here's a picture of a kid named Brayton, jumping.




He's crazy.

You can vote for this to go into JPG magazine if you like it.
(just click the picture to see a larger image and vote)

Do any of you submit to JPG?
You should link me to your stuff, I'd like to see it.

Here are a couple shots from the Bookmill in Montague, MA.
This is one of Rin and I's favorite places in the world.
I took the first pictures with my 20D here, some of the first ones posted in this blog, of Hannah.



Sorry about the quality on these film scans.
I don't have my own scanner yet.
These were done by the shop that I brought my film to in northampton.

Oh, I've also got a Flickr now.

So it's break now. I went home for a couple days for thanksgiving, but I'm back in savannah for about a month and a half of home alone time. I've stocked up on soup and canned goods and frozen foods and regular foods so I should be all right to survive at least. I'm going to be doing some work for scad and some work for some small papers and some work for a magazine.

Rolleicord shot scanned by the photo shop. No snow up north yet, just chilled treebones.

So far I don't really know anyone from school who is still around here. It seems like I might be spending the holidays alone. I'm single now too.. I would have liked to stay together, but I totally respect how she feels and I'm sure we will make great friends too. It's gonna take a little time for me to feel totally up and up though, I suppose.

Anyway, some people have asked me what I wanted for Hanukkah/Christmas/my birthday since it's that time of year again.

I've got clothes, food, plenty of entertainment (internet, books ala town dumps, haha, you know, free things), so the only thing I really need is.. well, film I guess. No matter how much I buy I can always use more.

If you have old 120 film that's outdated, I can use it for a project. I don't really shoot 35mm anymore. If you're feeling really giving or you are my little sister and almost always get me a gift card, you can get me one for BHPhoto so I can order stuff in bulk or put it towards the film/print scanner I'm saving money for

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=mainbanner&A=getpage&Q=giftCard.jsp

My Address is
Ian Adams
Boundary Village
Box #101
231 W. Boundary St.
Savannah, GA 31401

(in case you want to send a holiday card or a marshmellow or something)

And I want your address, cause I think I'm gonna do cards this year, it might help keep me in high spirits till school is happening again and all my friends come back.

I've got a new (old) camera! It was my grandmothers, then my mothers and now mine. So it's been in the family a while. It's probably due for a check up. The ground glass has a crack in it (won't effect the images), and I had to clean some dust off and out of it. I'm going to buy some film right now and I'll be testing it today. I'm very excited. I've never been a camera collector, but getting a high quality older camera like this as a gift will always make me excited (plus I was sort of in the market for a 6x6 medium format camera).



It's a Rolleicord V, made between 1954-1957.

Production Serial Numbers: 1.500.000-1.583.999.

My Camera is #1.511.106

Lens: f3.5 Schneider Xenar #4008733 (I'm pretty happy about this)

Shutter: Synchro0Compur MXV. 1-1/500 B&T.

Filter Size: Bayonet 1.

"This is the only Rolleicord with a large focusing knob on the RIGHT HAND side. All previous models have the smaller knob on the left hand side. And all subsequent models have the large knob on the left. EVS system. MXV synchronization. Film type reminder on the focusing knob, coated lenses and bayonets on both lenses."

I think I lucked out on having this particular model drop into my hands. I don't really like that the focusing knob is on the left on the earlier and later models, and this one has flash support and a sweet ass lens. The earlier zeiss lenses aren't as sharp, actually. So yeah, sweet little camera.

The new issue of CMYK magazine is out.


This is one of the three photos of mine in this issue.

You can also vote for some of my images to be published in JPG magazine.

re:Caravaggio


The Calling of Saint Papercut

Here is a project I had to do for Digital Imaging. Well, I didn't have to do it exactly like this, but I did have to do a compositing project, you know the deal. I can handle shooting for compositing, and I know how to do it, but I'm not really a fan of actually doing it.

I'd rather spend 8 hours behind the lens in the camera or processing out a whole set or show of images versus taking the same time to make a composited image look really slick. It can look really cool if done right and I know people who do amazing things in photoshop, but it's just not as much fun for me. Working to make something look surreal in a straight photo is more exciting to me than working to make something unreal look acceptable to the eye.





900px tall jpg behind cut.

The file was created to make a 20inch to 40 inch tall print, so even as a large jpg it's not really viewed as intended.

I've got some large projects on the burner right now. Here are a couple images to hold you over.



The second picture is a shot of Michael in front of a blue roll of paper (improperly lit in this shot, btw).
Using a vibrant color like that makes it easy to extract subjects from the background for compositing images.
I've got a compositing assignment coming up for digital, so I was shooting in front of that the other day.
Michael was helping me out, even though he was feeling a little sick. Highly recommended person.

Three of my pictures have been selected for the international Family of Man 2007 traveling exhibition, starting in Luxembourg!
Youth from all over the world submitted photos, and the best ones were selected for the exhibit and the book being published in 2007.







So if you are in Europe, maybe you can check the exhibit out, if not look forward to that book! I'll let you know when I find out more publication details.