I find that strangely sexy :O

You're not the only one o.o

Oh baby Lol x3

*blushes*

My lappy killed my videocard ;_;

At least its not as bad as my friends laptop, her driver got f-ed in the a and after that every time her laptop would boot up, it would show her desktop, sandwiched into the top 1/2 of the screen with an exact copy sandwiched into the bottom.

._. sounds like some dual screen setting botted up

Yeah you'd think but either way. Jesus I haven't been on FA in ever

I has lots of purdy arts :D I never posted the picture I drew of us though

Yeah, no need for imagination here...

As for the shot, something to try is bouncing the flash off the ceiling to diffuse it to prevent a shadow. It's not easy to do because you have to ensure no direct flash hits the object. You could also use a slave flash to kill the shadow, but that's getting pretty expensive.

Awesome that you're taking a class. I learned at the University of Hard Knocks with an old Mamiya 500DTL, and about 100 rolls of film. Oh to have had digital...but then again, I'd have never learned as well as I did.

Keep up the good work. And don't mind those of us with our minds in the gutter.

Thanks a lot :D I know the flash was actually an artistic choice on my part. I agree that the shadows are distracting, but I intentionally turned the flash on since I really liked that quality of the light bouncing off my fingers along with the kind of strangely hospital/documentation/sterile feel it gives to the photo. Wait till I put up some later stuff that I start before the day the assignment is due xD

Yeah, the flash looks good. I'm beginning in studio photography myself and have the benefit of access to cursory advice from a true artist. I try to avoid getting advice though since I'm a stubborn old bastard. I hope you don't mind me dishing it out.

I will apologize in advance if I do not remember or follow up on your later shots...lead paint fumes do not mix well with a photographic memory, or a functional memory for that matter.

Keep up the good work. The class will teach you the methods, but no one can teach you how to have an eye for it except yourself. Remember that one thing and you'll have fun and create some beauty in your career or hobby as a photographer. It truly can be an artform.

Haha thanks a lot eitherway I feel like the artistic part of photography is the most difficult thing for me. Usually I can look at most pictures and say, oh thats underexposed, thats blurry, that needs to be cut out, but its hard for me to say if its an actual "art" photo or just a really really good looking picture. Either way, you learn more from your mistakes than your successes. My art teachers really bugging me too since I do apparently a lot of "commercial photography" and he is into the more intimate photography that looks like it belongs in a museum for just being a lil bit more weird that everyone else's work.

Not saying ones better than the other, its just the difference thats hard to find :P

Looked like a blue glove with black flames in thumb-pictures. I was like 'oooooo' when I saw it till I got to see it full sized XD

STOP FINGERING YOUR CAR! I know you're a motorhead but sheesh! It's not a Murrrcury Mistress!

:P XD

I think what would make this really cool is if you can get just the oil part in black and white in photoshop, and have the hand part out.

Too much fisting :|