Scratching Post

Was thinking about old art-like project-like things and started looking for old working film-based cameras a few weeks back. A place on Etsy had some and I ended up buying myself an old 1953 Pony 135 Model C. For really damn cheap.

The thing with this camera is that the viewfinder has nothing to do with the finished image. You look through a glass square above the lens and set the settings and hope for the best. You have no idea what the finished image is going to look like until you develop the film (which is harder to find and find places to develop than you would think, btw).

We went out and took a few pics at a nearby park and recorded the settings and developed them to a CD. These are a few of the finished images, undoctored except to shrink them to a journal-friendly size.

( Below a cut because I care. )

Mind you, some turned out as not much more than blurs, and some turned out pretty damned awesome, especially when you consider this sucker is over half a century old. All had a slight yellowish tone to them, which may be from the coating on the lens... which is supposedly radioactive, btw, so don't, you know, touch it or lick it or such. No, I am not kidding.

Anyway, kinda looking forward to playing with it some more, even if there is such a delayed gratification as it takes a week to develop actual film-film now, instead of digital pictures.

14 days, 14 images of awesome women for halfamoon!

In order of posting:

For Her the Bell Tolls – Old Kingdom LJ | DW

To a Strong Amazon Nation – Xena LJ | DW

Darkness Within – Merlin LJ | DW

Who Needs a Doctor? – Doctor Who LJ | DW

Thief – Highlander LJ | DW

Parker – Leverage LJ | DW

For All – Sanctuary LJ | DW

Molly – Sherlock LJ | DW

Perceptions – Fringe LJ | DW

Protector – Stargate: Atlantis LJ | DW

Nothing in the ‘Verse – Firefly LJ | DW

Bones – Bones LJ | DW

Thrace – Battlestar Galactica LJ | DW

Chosen – Buffy the Vampire Slayer LJ | DW


And with that, I successfully completed a random goal I set for myself this year. Whoo hoo?

Day 13 of halfamoon.

Kara Thrace is a trash talking, cigar smoking, Cylon blasting hotshot pilot. She's been screwed over and screwed others over in retaliation and is quite likely to disobey any order given to her, especially when doing so happens to save what's left of humanity.

Her endgame is a little bit iffy in canon but, suffice it to say, she's probably flying around out there, hearing nothing but the rain.

Preview:


( Battlestar Galactica - Thrace )

Feedback is always welcomed.

Day 12 of halfamoon.

Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist. She gives faces to the dead and brings peace to their families. She solves the mysteries and explains the unexplained. She also writes mystery novels and has some of the most awesome friends around.

She is Bones. Plain and not so simple.

Preview:


( Bones )

Feedback is always welcomed.

Day 10 of halfamoon.

Teyla Emmagan led her people, saved her people, save the strange new people, befriended the strange new people, saved them some more, and then helped save an entire galaxy for good measure. Because she could.

This is a mini-tribute to the tiny little "alien" woman who fought the Wraith, and won.

Preview:


( SGA - Protector )

Feedback is always welcomed.

Day 8 of halfamoon.

Molly Hooper works in the morgue at St. Bart's hospital in London. She is quiet, unassuming, loyal, and quite brilliant in her own right. She tends to have unfortunate taste in men, at least when it comes to them showing her the respect she deserves and/or not just using her to try to get at their archenemy. She is often times overlooked, and I do believe that could one day prove to be the downfall of someone who finds himself far too important.

In short, she's Molly, plain and simple, and this is a mini-tribute to her.

Preview:


( Sherlock - Molly )

Feedback is always welcomed.

Day six of halfamoon.

Truly and utterly my favorite character on the show Leverage. She is brutally honest, has no internal filters, and may quite possibly be nuts - what's not to love?

Tonight's art-like post-like this is all about Parker, because there needs to be more Parker-love in the world.

Preview:


( Leverage - Parker )

Feedback is always welcomed.

Okay, so I had all these grand plans for an awesome "Redheads of Doctor Who" type thing for all the awesome gingers on the show. And then I had problems with both finding the images I wanted and with GIMP cooperating and OMG, River's hair is a nightmare to edit.

Um, yeah.

So, I must admit that I am not 100% happy with this one, but truly cannot get a better edit at this point and really want to keep up with the whole image-a-day thing I have going on for halfamoon. I do rather like how the border turned out though.

Preview:


( Who Needs a Doctor? )

Feedback is always welcomed.

Day two of halfamoon. I could not resist doing something for Xena. It and Highlander were pretty much my first fandoms, and I wrote more for it than I will ever admit to here and luckily won't have to since my site is dead and no one can find them anymore.

I know the joke is old at this point but, really, Xena totally turned me gay. Or at least got me oh so very interested in hot chicks that are awesome fighters. I mean, really, look at Ephiny and tell me you can't see how much she rocks.

Preview:


( To a Strong Amazon Nation )

Feedback is always welcomed.

So I have been attempting to draw on the iPad lately, with mixed results. The stuff I posted here was made using the .harmonious app, and I have since tried the one called Paint Gallery. It was okay, but has this little glitch in which it randomly closes everything without saving and pisses me off to no end (twice now when I was almost done - really annoying).

Anyone have any other ideas? I have only used the free apps to date, but would not be adverse to shelling out a couple of bucks if anyone has a particularly glowing review.