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Well, in my case, my avatar is always my photo ...
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Occasionally, I replace my avatar, but always around these 03 photos:
Smile Jorge
you need to say "cheese" when they press the shutter button :lol:
Wow! What you said, is the same as my family always tells me ... But ... I like spending an idea of "dangerous" ... kkkk.
JaguarElla looks like she is smiling but she is really baring her fangs :snake:
My avatar is from a webcomic I started and never finished called Valeria. A vampire that reincarnates but only transforms sometime after her teen years—in her twenties.
The guy in the hat is an ally (a werewolf) sent by her vampire mother to help her find the truth and break the curse. Her mother, who can't move past the original cemetery borders where she is buried, has part of the truth that has to keep being retold to her in every incarnation.
When I abandoned the webcomic I had a very vocal few who were upset with me but I just thought there were too many vampire TV Series/Movies, etc., and it was all just too saturated. So I moved on....
LOL
BTW my Avatar was inspired by the fact that I "volunteered" to become a Moderator, and felt that my previous avatar of a sweet little girl in Welsh national dress was too cute for the change in status. So for a giggle I did the one you see now as an image, and my friends thought it was hilarious, so it has stayed, and someone even kindly animated it for me. If you see the original full size image you can see that the label on the Mad Hatters hat says "Moderator Hat" and reduced price.
I'd love to see your earlier avatar picture... the little girl...... you know, you are so scary and stern in the present one.... :)
I'd love to see your earlier avatar picture... the little girl...... you know, you are so scary and stern in the present one.... :)
I aged a lot suddenly when I took on Mod status :coolsmirk:
actually she is quite a sweet old lady
Yes, a very sweet old lady..... :)
Has been known to party as well :coolsmirk:
I've been Karibou in a variety of online forums for many, many years. "Karibou" was taken at dA (and here, too, I think?) so I went with the "Boutique" because I loved playing dress-up with the people in my libraries and it made my gallery look like a dress shop. :) Had I known it was going to be my online identity FOREVER, I probably would have chosen otherwise. Most of my other online handles are now KaribouOfDoom, and I've contemplated changing it in my art accounts many times... but then I wonder if anyone would "recognize" me anymore!!
My avatar is a bald wizard because I'm a Bald Wizard! :D
....wheee, flutterbys....
I use this one on my FB account.
I change mine from time to time, but this current one is obviously Cleopatra!
And what a cute nose
Mine is a reduced version of a photograph taken on film, no less. (Film? What's that???) I like playing around with lasers now and then. I discovered that if you take a cheap hobby grade He-Ne laser, bounce the beam off a piece of crumpled Aluminized Mylar, then photograph the result with a time exposure, you get some strange images. The image is not traced like some light show. The image is static. It comes from folding the interference rings around the laser beam. You have to do it in a dark room with a time exposure because the intensity is pretty low. This particular one was taken decades ago. The original title was "Spiderman's Ghost". There's another that looks like a bird.
My original idea when I got the first laser was an invention I called the Projection Laser Oscilloscope. I never finished it. The idea was to play music through the stereo, and have the lasers trace the audio waveforms on your wall. That way, you could sit around and "watch radio." Jeff Spicoli would have loved it! :lol:
Geeky enough?
...I like it.
I still have a film camera. The thing I like about it is the resolution quality is based on the film and negative size, not the camera's pixel density. To get the quality I can with my old SLR would require a fairly expensive digital camera.
Actually looking around at the old large format press cameras, one can take some great photos with them..
I agree, KK -- film is better for many things. I like that there are no digital artifacts on film cameras... but digital sure makes it nice because you have the ability to see your shots before you develop them! (Money saved on blurred nonsense!) I bought the digital version of my film camera so they use the same lenses. Didn't have to buy all new ones.
Megapixels get cheaper and cheaper over time. High quality glass lenses do not!
...that's the other part, besides artefacts, i really don't look forward to purchasing all the gear I already have all over again. The setup I have now would probably run me close to, if not over, 1,000$.
Always wanted a 4x5 bellows camera to do architectural photography with but never got one. I did have a bellows camera with 120 size film and I could move the lens up or down a little but not quite the same.
My favorite camera though was a Mamiya 330 Twin Lens Reflex that I found in a pawn shop in the early 70s. I still have a photo of one of the buildings on my college campus that looked straight up an interesting exterior wall corner with no windows. Camera was placed about 2 feet from the ground, other parts of the building cast odd, sharp angled, shadows and light patterns on the wall. I used the camera's f32 aperture setting and got all the bricks in focus from the camera, to the top of the building six floors up. I blew that 2.25" square B/W negative up to a 16"x20" print, framed it and it's hung on my wall for 35 years. It's the only "abstract" piece of art I own. But once I went digital I never looked back. Sold my $$$$ darkroom equipment for next to nothing as useless antiques. :-(
I even did my own color processing and printing but I hated fiddling with color filters, making a test, re-twiddling to get the contrast or color or saturation just right, futzing with the chemicals and temperature. Even with a color analyzer it was a pain. Waste of f'n time. Digital is the only way to go! Photoshop is my friend. :-)
Some old scans of the laser art. Need to find original photo prints. They're around here somewhere...
Always wanted a 4x5 bellows camera to do architectural photography with but never got one. I did have a bellows camera with 120 size film and I could move the lens up or down a little but not quite the same.
My favorite camera though was a Mamiya 330 Twin Lens Reflex that I found in a pawn shop in the early 70s. I still have a photo of one of the buildings on my college campus that looked straight up an interesting exterior wall corner with no windows. Camera was placed about 2 feet from the ground, other parts of the building cast odd, sharp angled, shadows and light patterns on the wall. I used the camera's f32 aperture setting and got all the bricks in focus from the camera, to the top of the building six floors up. I blew that 2.25" square B/W negative up to a 16"x20" print, framed it and it's hung on my wall for 35 years. It's the only "abstract" piece of art I own. But once I went digital I never looked back. Sold my $$$$ darkroom equipment for next to nothing as useless antiques. :-(
I even did my own color processing and printing but I hated fiddling with color filters, making a test, re-twiddling to get the contrast or color or saturation just right, futzing with the chemicals and temperature. Even with a color analyzer it was a pain. Waste of f'n time. Digital is the only way to go! Photoshop is my friend. :-)
...at the cost of "retooling", to quote Grumpy Cat.... "No".
...but let's get the train back on the track here (and yes I am just a guilty).
I just wish I could buy the lenses here in Australia available overseas
I am going to have to look in to getting a US mailing address it seems, our local suppliers say it is a tax issue for the manufacturers, I would buy here if I could
Amazon will not sell me what I want either as not in America ironically most are made in Asia nearby!!!
http://www.amazon.com/VIVITAR-Vivtar-Fisheye-Digital-Cameras/dp/B002H06U50
is what I want
Mine is pretty self explanatory... Its a fire snake
http://www.camerahouse.com.au/products/Fisheye/Sigma-AF-10mm-F28-DC-HSM-Fisheye-Lens-for-Nikon.aspx
is probably what I will end up getting
I came up with mine because of curiosity and new purchases of 3D content. I had just purchased Cat World Regenesis and Sam and Sadie for Genesis. I love cats, hence the Cat World purchase, and I needed an avatar. I thought it would be a really cool idea to see what the Cat World skins would look like on Sadie. I think she turned out really cute. She isn't perfect. I've learned a lot since then and will probably update my avatar, but I haven't decided if I'll stay with Jaguar Sadie with the new avatar or do something else completely different.
I wish I could add some lofty reason why I chose my avatar. Truth of the matter is I was feeling lazy and used one of those avatar creators. The background is indicative of my love for Japanese culture (not to mention Manga) and the avatar is about as close as I could get to creating myself with the tools available.
I've been wanting to render an avatar for myself, something with a more personal touch. So far nothing has really stood out as worth keeping, but no doubt I'll continue my efforts until I find something worth using.
My avatar is a custom toon figure, inspired by and largely based on 3DU's wonderful work, but with some other talented vendors' work and a correction or two of my own in there.
I resisted the temptation of toons for a long time, but I couldn't hold out forever. Once I bought my first 3DU character there was no going back.
Yeah... I had to explain that to my daughters recently when they saw my old 35mm SLRs and didn't get what they would plug into... Or rather why they did not plug into anything... (How do you get the pictures on the computer?).
In all fairness they are only 9, so digital is all they ever knew.
Remember when you could get a decent SLR for under $200... Now with digital, you can barely touch a halfassed pseudo SLR for $600...
I used to buy broken accessories from a camera supply/surplus store at Canal street in NYC, and I'd repair them myself... I got so much cool stuff for like $5 - $10... Lenses, filters, adapters, diopters, flash units, tripods... Useless to anyone unwilling to tinker.
Anyway... Cool idea about the invention... Would have been very memorizing!
Well, my avatar is of my most successful and loved Amanda. I made her with Daz Studio when I first started in 3D modeling. She is a Genesis base with some morph mods. You can see her more in my gallery, The Sultry Lady;-)