progress...

i finished cutting. now i'm formatting the chosen photos for web publishing. it's relatively easy, as it's pretty much monotonous resizing and pasting.

but i still don't know how i'll organize the new site. keep it as-is, by photo type; or change it to category/genre view?

this will take some thought; and maybe some suggestions...

come on, peeps!

ganbaring

work is progressing slowly. my free time is spent helping a fellow artist, a member of my family, get ready for her exhibition. making fliers, setting up portfolios, etc. i hope to finish sometime this summer.

cutoff

i keep taking photos every day, and developing more and more film. while trying to choose which photos to use for the next version website, i realized that i'll never finish, unless i start disregarding the photos that i'm taking while making the decisions.

so i decided to make a cutoff point effective immediately.

finally, i have a finite amount of shots to edit from. maybe i can finally get a little closer to finishing!

april fools

yeah, there is no "japan's top photographer" contest.

but i got a few good shots recently. here's one:

japan's top photographer

guess what, everyone...?
i just won the 'japan's top photographer' contest!!

i'm gonna get prize money of $10,000, plus a guaranteed publishing deal! plus, i'll be featured and interviewed in several of the biggest, most respected photo magazines in japan! this is the beginning of an entirely new career for me. i'm so fucking excited!

organization

right now, my photo site is organized basically by the type of film/camera i used: black and white (film), color (film), digitally altered (mostly shot with digital cameras and photoshopped). plus one more category: figure. i made that one so that people who don't want to see nudity can browse my other photos. but now that i think about it, i'm not sure how logical this organizational scheme is. maybe i'll change it?

but how best to reorganize them? i could do it by subject. for example, people, things, abstract, places, etc. or maybe by "genre": funny, documentary, views, emotive, details, etc. or maybe i should make categories and subcategories?

this is going to take some thought.

scanning negatives

i just realized that the single shot that took the longest to set up of all of my photos is not scanned.

i made a shot of a typewriter in my uncle's apartment several years ago. it was unplanned, completely spontaneous. but i ended up spending about 5 hours setting up lighting and the 4x5 inch format view camera, with all of its settings. i was in the zone that time. except for the fact that it ended up underexposed. but anyway, it's a good shot.

and i never got around to scanning it! time to rectify that...