TannieSpace (Posts about digital)

Fall.

Tanja — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:40:55 GMT

This makes 3 out of 4 seasons, only 1 left. I've made them pretty square so far, however, I will tweak some more and make them all into desktop-backgrounds (normal and wide).

Cameras and such.

Tanja — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:35:26 GMT

My mom commented recently about how many digital cameras I have. I have my trusty Canon Powershot A620, an older Canon Ixus 400 and a Minolta Dimage 5, plus ofcourse the Sony Ericsson K810i phone and my iPhone. She didn't notice The Other Cameras, all analogue. I have two Lomo LCA's (one old, it says 'USSR' and a newer one) with a macro, tunnelvision and fisheye lens and a colour-flash, a transparent actionsampler, a pop9, an orange supersampler, a Polaroid 600 and a Polaroid i-zone. I may still have forgotten some (my Kodak Brownie comes to mind). One might say I have too many cameras, and I cannot disagree there.

I loved and love making photos, of ordinary stuff, of strange things, of my dog. I'll make functional photos (of my garden) but I have a thing for the randomness of just shooting (the Lomo-philosophy, basically). Buying film and having it developed and cross-processed and all costs a lot of money (not to mention the nasty chemicals). As my main camera I've used a digital one since around 2002 (had one before, but didn't mainly use it), which has that 'instant' effect that I love. I've also absolutely loved my phone's camera, despite its lack in quality, or perhaps because of that. On my trip through Europe, years ago, I snapped a bunch of photos with my phone-camera and send them as a collage on a postcard.

Yesterday I browsed around and looked for a few iPhone-apps that would satisfy my 'funky' need. I had already downloaded and used QuadCamera which reminded me of my old actionsampler (and the supersampler). I also found CameraBag to add some effects to photos (some vignetting, adjustment in colour etc) as well as CameraKit. And ofcourse several Polaraid Apps of which I currently like ShakeItPhoto the most. The part of me that enjoyed my analogue cameras so much has awoken and bounces up and down, left and right, off the walls. I wonder how much sleep I'll get tonight...

The drawing habit: day 3.

Tanja — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:35:37 GMT

I played around with VectorDesigner and made a digital drawing for my daily drawing. Mostly an exercise in using my tablet and drawing vectors.

summer

Tanja — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:11:25 GMT

After winter comes... summer! At least when I draw it :) When I turned winter into summer I decided to create an image for all seasons. I still have to work on fall and spring.

Winter

Tanja — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:07:25 GMT

A sketch made during the time I had to wait for my food in some restaurant turned into a soft digital drawing. I very much like how this turned out.

Redesign and some refound images.

Tanja — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:54:49 GMT

With the year nearly to an end I decided to redesign my web-site. I quite like how it turned out, even though some things may not work as I liked (oops).

I wanted to put more things I made on my web-site, so I searched my hard-drive for images I had previously made. I stumbled into this one, I like it a lot.