Yesterday was Art Fair time. I always enjoy the Broad Ripple Art Fair. Even though I can't tastefully decorate a jillion square foot mansion with original pieces, I can still wander around and "
Ooh!" and "
Aah!" at all the pretty stuff, and I usually manage to take home a trinket or three as a sort of souvenir...
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| Expose yourself to art! (Click to embiggenate.) |
A square coffee mug from
Dutch Lake Pottery.
The knife blade is hammered from an auger bit. The handle is sambar stag with a blood jasper pommel. From
2Jakes Custom Knives.
Postcards from
ArtFroH! Including the awesome
Lincoln vs. Washington: 4 Score and 7 of Butt-Whuppin'!
I guess they call that blade pattern "tweaker mouth?"
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love the postcards!
ReplyDeleteExpose myself to art?
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! I'll grab my trench coat and head over to the local gallery!
But what if Art is not amused when you open your trench coat in front of him?
ReplyDeleteI don't know anyone named Art or I'd be able to find out. :(
ReplyDeleteI've seen knives made from all sorts of things but not like that. Pretty cool! I'd hate to get stabbed by a blade like that :)
ReplyDeleteGetting good with the Digital Rebel!
ReplyDelete50mm, f3.5, 1/200 at ISO 100.
Autofocus set near the (seriously serrated) knife. Lots of available light, so stop it down a few to get everything in focus. Maybe f7 or more?
Of course, maybe it was the desired effect. In which case, well done!
Interesting knife, to say the least! :-)
ReplyDeleteG98,
ReplyDeleteI would have used the Sony Cybershot for what is just a throw-away snapshot, but the batteries were dead, and the picture wasn't worth re-shooting.
My feelings are a little hurt by having depth of field explained to me. While no doubt well-meant, it's more than a little patronizing.
(Adjusting the aperture on a DSLR is such a Christ-awful pain in the ass compared to a real camera.)
(1) Every time you talk photography I go "goddam" to all the forces which render the Nikon F impractical in this century. It caused a double vulgarity to be reminded of what a PITA it is to stop an electrical aperature up or down.
ReplyDelete(2)I am not sad about not owning the knife, but the sheath gives me a case of want.
This is how the folks in Portland, Oregon expose themselves to art (man in photo was then Mayor Bud Clark
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Sorry I missed the outing, last year's was a blast. There's another one coming up in June I think in Indy where a friend will have a display at (google artist Jill Nickell).
ReplyDeleteHave fun, see you all in a few days.
Not sure I could drink out of that cup without wearing some coffee.
ReplyDeleteNo disrespect meant, Tam. I wasn't even sure if you were trying to make the DOF narrow for effect, truthfully.
ReplyDeleteJust appreciating the new pics using serious glass and hardware. Can't wait for the next Sunday Smith!
Hey, Tam, I actually took from his post that he was explaining that he appreciated what it took to get the DoF effect, not that he was telling you how. That question "Maybe f7 or more?" gave me to believe that he was inquiring what setting you'd used, and thus was simply checking to see if he could spot your settings.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I misread it, but that's how I took it.
If I got cheesed off at something someone wrote on the Internet, I usedt to go smoke a cigarette and ponder my response...
ReplyDeleteMaybe I should find a different cooling-off ritual.
Sorry, G98... (Scuffs toe)
Remember, as Charles Russell, the Montana Cowboy Artist (caps required) once said, "An Artist is the only thing you can say you is that nobody can say you ain't."
ReplyDeleteAnd +1 to what Jim said about stopping electrical apertures down. Somehow when digital cameras came out the manufacturers decided they were consumer electronics rather than cameras and all the controls were reduced to some @#$%^& ease of use program and they got with the 8-track program where every year the accessories were not compatible with the accessories for the previous years' models.
Where Jim misses the Nikon F, I miss the Minolta XD11. Hell, I'd settle for a digital Maxxim.