2006-08-21 [pixish]: hehe, that is kind of cute ;p!

2006-08-21 [Skydancer]: :) Thanks.. it was a hard theme in one sense, but the hopper fit the bill for me. :)

2006-08-25 [Linderel]: Oh dear. o.O Poor bubble...

2006-08-25 [SimpleEuph]: that is brillant photo marion, I feel sorry for the bubble

2006-08-25 [Skydancer]: Well, thank you very much. It really was a hard one to tell the truth. I could think of many opposites, but how to tell the theme of "attraction"?

2006-08-25 [SimpleEuph]: same here....Im waiting til I can get my hands on a better camera, the one I have really takes awful pictures...its a Toshiba Digital Still Camera....PDR-M4......I really cant figure out why it takes such crappy pics.

2006-08-25 [Skydancer]: http://www.steves-digicams.com/toshiba_pdrm4.html maybe this will help, also make sure it is set for highest quality and that you have lots and lots of light. Most digi cams really need a lot more ambient light than you might think, and also try to find a way to hold the camera absolutely steady as with a tripod or sitting it on a bean bag while it takes the image.

2006-08-25 [SimpleEuph]: oooo....Thank You so much

2006-08-25 [Skydancer]: Good luck!

2006-08-25 [SimpleEuph]: *hugs [Skydancer]* wow that really helps out alot, it was a gift from my father, before I left....and he really hadnt figured out how it worked either.

2006-08-25 [Skydancer]: ah... great. :) http://www.toshiba.com/taisisd/isd_svc/svcdsc/training/m4ct.htm

2006-08-25 [SimpleEuph]: lol.....wow photos look considereably different now

2006-08-25 [Skydancer]: Excellent. :) I must go and do some gardening... spadnaa address will be left running to absorb anything you might like to send along.. :)
spirits bless...

2006-08-27 [pixish]: xD the housework one is fun ;p It reminds me a bit of Disney's The Sword in The Stone :D

2006-08-27 [Skydancer]: chuckle.. it was great fun finding an angle to make the composition work. Suspending those things in mid air took a lot of fishing line. :)

2006-08-27 [pixish]: :D! SOunds like you're having fun ^.^

2006-08-27 [Skydancer]: Indeed... trying to do things using either clever ideas or old fashioned on set effects are definately challenging. :)

2006-08-28 [Elysian Field Originals]: Love your photo's...

2006-08-28 [Skydancer]: Well thank you.. very much appreciated. :)

2006-08-28 [Linderel]: Oh damn. I'm thinking Cthulhu here...

2006-08-28 [Skydancer]: Ah, The Elder Zuchini God... :)

2006-08-28 [CherryBlonde]: wonderful images! especially your days 1, 2 and 6 :)

2006-08-28 [Skydancer]: Thank you.. I am overall pretty pleased with the images for this contest. :) it definately was a challenge sometimes.

2006-09-11 [Adaria_Moonlight]: You're really somting else... How much do you spend in an average month on film and developing? If you develop your own, how much do you spend on the chemicals?

2006-09-11 [Skydancer]: That is an interesting question.. it varies a lot though.. Perhaps from as little as $200 in one month to as much as $1500 one month when I had 6 models in that time.

2006-09-11 [Adaria_Moonlight]: wow... I can't imagine spending that much money on photography right now. Which is probably why I'm using a digital right now. Except it's on the`fritz right now.

2006-09-11 [Skydancer]: Well, figure about $15 to $20 per roll in real money that is spent from the time you buy it, process it, scan it, archive it, print it and so on and typically I might shoot 20 - 40 rolls per model per shoot.

2006-09-11 [Adaria_Moonlight]: My goodness. Yup, totally can't afford that right now. Once I have more practice with photography I may switch to suing actual film for some of my stuff, but I'm just not good enough right now. It would be a waste of money. Digital is good to learn with because you can see you mistakes right away.

2006-09-11 [Skydancer]: True up to a point. There are things you can do with film that digital will very quite be able to do. :) The thing about digital I both like and abhor is that you can shoot shot after shot after shot, without having to stop and really think about what you have been looking at or doing. It is too easy to delete the mistakes and the bad shots, whereas with film, you have them staring at you demanding that you figure out your mistakes, or in some cases, the accidents that make incredible images. :)

2006-09-11 [Adaria_Moonlight]: *nods* I wish I had scanned one of my favorit pictures so I could show it to you but it's back in Calgary. It was taken with a disposable camera on a beach on Vancouver island. Some how the shot got double exposed, so you see my sarong and one of my shoes (I'm walking, so it's blurred, I didn't know I took the picture) and in the darkness of my sarong you can see the trees that lined the shore.

2006-09-11 [Skydancer]: :) very nice accident. :) working with fire, nudes and multiple exposures is great fun too, though you never quite know what you will get, it is always mysterious. :)

2006-09-12 [Adaria_Moonlight]: *smiles* Yes, I've seen some of the things you've done with those elements in various combinations. Very nice. Can't do that with a digital, that's for sure...