My 365 Photog Blog

365 – Year Two Week Two

BabetteKD — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:51:54 +0000

365 – Year Two Week One

BabetteKD — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:49:31 +0000

Making a Return to 365

BabetteKD — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:39:25 +0000

Back in 2010 when I got my D5000, I started this 365 blog to learn the ins and outs of my camera. That project is how I made my friends in the Steampunk community, plus was a mechanisms for getting over a ton of emotional and physical pain I was going through at the time.

There were days and even weeks where I fell behind. Days where I wanted to throw out my camera and bury my head in the sand, but in the end I finished my project. I learned not only photography, but how to approach peple,mow much photoshop is too much and why it is too much, what should not be attempted to be added in post production and more.

I asked on my page, I asked fans if they thought I should make a return to the 365 project, and the popular consensus was yes.

Since I am with my family upstate, I already have to start this project late, but 2012 will have me redoing the 365 projects and (hopefully) keeping to assignments better.

002/365 – Year Two

BabetteKD — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:11:21 +0000

002/365 on Flickr.

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001/365 – Year Two

BabetteKD — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:09:42 +0000

001/365 on Flickr.

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Welcome 2012! I start you off by bowing to my fan’s suggestion of doing another 365 project.

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Diana’s Birthday

BabetteKD — Mon, 16 May 2011 00:05:42 +0000

So Saturday was Ay-Leen the Peacemaker/Diana’s birthday and we celebrated at the local Steampunk bar with performers Psyche Corporation, the Absinthe Drinkers and Amanda the Belly Dancer.

Diana (center) and her brother and sister.

Gunner Tog, Mister Proper, A Count Named Slick Brass and Diana.

A challanger appears!

Event: Diana’s/Ay-Leen the Peacemaker’s Birthday

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(Re)learning Photography

BabetteKD — Mon, 09 May 2011 23:50:53 +0000

I may be an event photographer, but because of a chemical allergy and 99% of all universities requiring a darkroom in their courses, I’ve never been able to take a photography class. Not one. All of my learning was experimentation and reading blogs. And by chemical allergy, I mean “if it isn’t mostly air, my lungs will seize up and I drop to the ground like a lead balloon”.

So when my dear friend found out that not only didn’t I not know how to shoot in manual mode, that I didn’t know what a light meter was, I think he was a bit peeved. Well, I know he was/is. So after about three weeks of teasing, I finally took the film camera he offered and I will be shooting about three rolls like this.

Well, one roll.

He forgot to show me how to load film.

Also, I think the light, tiny lenses are adorable.

A General’s Send-off

BabetteKD — Fri, 06 May 2011 12:47:10 +0000

I don’t know how many of my readers and followers are familiar with the Steampunk community, or if they are, how familiar they are with the Wandering Legion of the Thomas Tew. If you’re not familiar with either, please stay, as the community says a temporary ‘good-bye’ to the General known in real life as Jeffrey Lilley.

photo via makethemlaugh

Now I won’t get political and say whether or not I think people should be sent out or involve myself in any internal steampunk conflicts if there may be any. I just want to say good-bye to someone I know who is brave enough to go out and defend us willingly.

Now if anyone would like to give him a send-off in the comments or say something comforting to his (very new) wife that I can pass along, please do so.

Sakura Matsuri

BabetteKD — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:11:13 +0000

As I write this, the second day of the 20th annual Sakura Matsuri in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is wrapping up. The event happens in the rain or shine, and starts yearly at 10 am. The garden offers American and traditional Japanese foods and alcohol for those who are of age and have appropriate identification. Visitors have the ability to sit under the Cherry Esplanade and enjoy their meals or just watch as people in costume walk about and enjoy the blossoms.

The focus of this post is of the lolita girls that dressed up for the event. Saturday there was the Parasol Parade, named after the parasols that lolita girls typically hold while dressed up. Parasols are an accessory used more to shield one from the sun than from rain.

Event: Sakura Matsuri

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Tagged: candids, in the city, lolita, nyc, people, Sakura Matsuri

I-Con 30

BabetteKD — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:13:31 +0000

I am a nerd. A huuuge nerd. A plus of having an SLR camera is that it gives me the excuse to go to various nerdy events and take lots and lots of pictures to justify having said camera.

I-Con is an event that will always be in my head as my favorite because it was my very first convention. Everyone in my family thought I was strange for liking anime, so when I went to I-Con, I saw that not onl did people like to WATCH anime and read the manga, they would dress up as the characters, conjecture about what one character would do in what situation, as well as have battles on the Physic’s lawn (now no longer allowed).

In the same day I was introduced to the concept as “other people think like you!” I was introduced to LARPing, furries, shadowcasts and the like.

I love kids who dress up at conventions. They are always cute and if you make a suggestion that they do a pose, they can get really into it.

I’m partial to anythign steampunk. I just love seeing what people will do with the designs.

It’s funny, up until I saw this girl, I hadn’t seen any parasols. Then after I couldn’t get away from them.

Is there anythign better than when family dresses up together?

I wish there was someone next to him to show off how TALL he was!

I grabbed this candid because I thought it was funny that he was running by.

Oh, pokepals

The best Grimmjow ever, of all time. Dude, he DYED his hair! No wigs! <3

She works at/for SteampunkFunk! Man, I want one of those hats….

I guess this is something from Homestuck named Aradia (a dead robot). She was dancing to some music and was metallic, so I needed a picture.

KINGDOM HEARTS! Need I say more? <3 <3 <3

I love seeing color added to steampunk outfits. The purple and green were great colors for these to. Extra points for “no goggles on the hat” and the efathers and colored sand additions!

Oh, and the parasol on the left is authentic!

Nice wild west style of steampunk. I love her expression.

I’m not familiar with Star wars at all, but I had to get this.

Darn you…BREAK CHARACTER AND TALK! Nothing feels more awkward to me than trying to talk to a furry whose character doesn’t talk….

Tagged: candids, convention, icon, travel