Ceci*5

When Going Out For Shots Isn't Fun

The Face of Ceci

Aiming for a more "painted" quality to the final photo.

[Photo Credit: Emily Gerst]

Alles Gut zum Vatertag!

NES Art Repro: The Legend of Kage

Samurai Warrior Coffee Break with Baby

Cecilia Jane: The First 7 Weeks

Prints: Farm Fog

Back in October of last year, I went on the Hidden Studios Art Tour near Amherst in Wisconsin. That morning there was a heavy fog hanging in the air. Super ominous, but totally comforting at the same time. It was one of those fall days that was damp and cool, comfortable as long as I kept moving. "Crisp" would be a generous description. The damp gets into your bones if you sit still for too long. It was that kind of morning, something only a true child of the north can love.

One of the studio sites was in an old barn in the Amherst area. One of those barns that had tons of character to it that can only be carved into each plank by long exposure to the ever variable Wisconsin climate. I captured a few great shots and threw a cross process curve over the top of the images in Photoshop. Below are the resulting images, and the prints displayed fully framed in their new home in my living room. The images were printed on metallic paper stock which is brilliant in the right light, the photo below does not do them full justice.

I'M STILL HERE

Have't posted in what has felt like forever.. fell into some heavy freelance photo retouching work and have not had time to post. Closed the Etsy shop for now due to the heavy workload. Hoping to continue trying to sell prints in the future once the extra work clears up. It may not though, which is also fine… with a kid on the way, I'm not in much of a position to turn down opportunities to bring in some extra income.

Caricature: Patterson, jacked up on cake.

Monogram Note Cards

First design idea for some monogram note cards. Background is the city we live in (including a the streets we have lived/live on), overlaid with our monogrammed initials. Not a wildly original concept, took direction from some other ideas my wife found inspiring and combined them into one design.

The map works, but is just the current computer generated map from our city's website. What would really be slick is if we can find an old hand drawn map from a hundred years ago or so when the city was still expanding and being engineered.

Monogram note card with city map background

View From the Kitchen Window

View from the kitchen window overlooking Easy Street, sunset.

Mushroom Hunting!

So not a morel.

Totally a morel.

Adepticon 2013

A giant hand made non automated robit display.

Bits merchant.

Crystal Brush 3rd place winner. "Touch of Death" by Raffaele Picca.

Midwest Gaming Classic 2013

An absolutely stellar event that comes to Brookfield WI every March that draws in hundreds from around the country. Unlimited free play on all sorts of pinball machines, arcade cabinets, computers, and consoles. A vendor hall with some of the best deals on used gaming everything and anything. Ladies and gentlemen, a selection of my favorite pics from Midwest Gaming Classic 2013.

MKE Winter Sunset

Springtime Spigmarious

Carlo Cruisin with the Fam

Photo credit goes to Garrett Wilk. Second run using my new approach to pixel bending.

Oat Cakes

This is attempt number one in what will be a series of attempts to define a new approach for my photography. Taking a photo and carefully massaging it to have a more illustrated or painted quality to it. There is no magic Photoshop filter to achieve this. A bold new frontier in pixel bending (probably not though, I'm sure someone else has done it already or at least something similar). Since Photoshop CS2 is free from Adobe and I was too lazy to go downstairs to the mac, this was all accomplished in that super old Photoshop environment on PC laptop that does not have a calibrated monitor. I'm friggin living on the edge here folks.

I feel like the technique can probably be pushed quite a bit farther, but I'm pretty comfortable with this first attempt. More to come as this approach evolves.

Angry Coffee With Em