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"the girl everyone loves to hate."
# Statistics
Favourites: 8; Deviations: 36; Watchers: 17
Watching: 6; Pageviews: 7720; Comments Made: 177; Friends: 6
# Comments
Comments: 28
Keep up the good work, I'll swing by and comment when I'm not about to pass out.
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Personally, I think this whole thing has gone too far. Your boyfriend and I disagree on the validity of digital photography as a medium vs. print photography. That's it. I actually rather like your artwork, especially Claddagh. It's great that you have access to a darkroom to develop your shots yourself. 99.99999999% of film photographers out there do not have such access. Most film photography that is dropped off at the local K-Mart or Wal-Mart and run with the special "Kodak Enhanced Processing" become digital pictures before they are printed, and are run through color/contrast/sharpness enhancements just like I use on my digital photos, only... the photographer has no say whatsoever in the final print... Like you, I spend quite a bit of time on the majority of my prints, until I have the shot exactly the way I want it. I bracket exposures two stops in each direction for the majority of my shots. My digital camera is generally set in either Aperture Priority or fully manual exposure mode (just like I used when I shot film).
I've seen outstanding work from pure film photographers, and I've seen utter garbage. I've seen outstanding work from digital photographers, and I've seen utter garbage. The same can be said for almost any medium. What's more important than the medium, IMO, is how much of yourself you put into your photos. What meaning is conveyed? For that, I point to your Claddagh photograph. Not only is it an excercise in depth of field, but it also conveys a very special message.
For me this entire argument has been expressly about whether or not 's photograph that was moved multiple times should have been moved. Your boyfriends position is that all digital photography should be under digital manipulation. 
I apologize for anything my wife may have stirred up here. I'm not interested in making enemies, I'm interested in showing and viewing art and making friends who share my love of art.
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First off, let me say my husband had no idea I was defending him. He chose to ignore your boyfriends meanspirited, juvenile remarks. I on the other hand am a Biatch and will not let people I care for be put down. My husband has been a photographer for many years using both film and digital medium.
You and your boyfriend are just spoiled teenage brats. He hasn't even had a new watch added to his sight in almost a year, which has to tell you that people come look and say no good ---goodby. My husband has been a Dev since the first of the year and already has more people who want to see what he is doing and enjoy what he is doing. I personally say who cares how many page views you have, it should be more important how many people want to be alerted when you do something new.
This will be the last time respond to you or your boyfriends juvenile behavior as my husband does not approve, believing art should speak for itself not needing to be defended in this manner. As I am the adult here I will just say I hope someday you will climb down off that high horse of yours before you fall.
Have a good life and make great art.. By the way your art is good......
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I think it's so cute how you find other people's opinion so "cute"
you're just sooo precious...
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it's just not the art that should be gr8 when an artist creates but also the artists personality that shows through his/her art.
You are no artist... you mam, are a tosser!
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personally, when i do portraits, which is most of my work...i try to put the subjects' personalities in the piece, not mine. it makes the portrait say more. so really, my personality comes out more in development, as usually my development is close to the same in every piece, i.e., high contrast, negative borders, etc. it brings a continuity to the collection, but each piece does not come out with the same feeling.
but i like how you're trying to argue with me the same way i argued with gilad. it makes you just like me. cute.
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am keeping my mouth shut now... if i spk anymore, i'll most probably be banned
so whatever...
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alright, i've been looking for an excuse to get aim, and you seem more than worthy of that excuse, so i got it and added you. for ease sake just kept the same name as i have on here, because someone else keeps taking 'cameraeye' bastards. anyways looking forward to talking to you soon
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You are going to LOVE Prague. it is one of my favorite cities in the world, and if i ever got to spend a year there i'd jump the chance. i'm not sure if you saw any of my shots from there, but i spent two weeks in a friends appartment there this summer, and with the four of us had the time of my life. Alos the within Prauge Czech is like a second language due to the touristic atmosphere but you meet great people from around the world.
the Czech's are also absolutly insane, there is this director Jan Svankmajer, you should really check him out, he did a version of Alice and Wonderland if thats not the one you are refering to in your favorite movie list.
as far as film i want to make, i'm not sure yet, i'm a huge fan of Surealism, and i just really like movies on the film festival level instead of the box office level. but i'm still trying to find myself, it's already a huge acomplishent for me at this point to have found a direction to aim my focus and energy. Also into film theory, i wrote an essay on Hitchcockian suspens, through the Deleuzian view of how image impacts the body, which my philosophy professor completly ate up and gave me full marks on (our school doesn't have a philosophy department so i found a supervisor in a university) but ya, i'm still really experimental so i'll see where this intrest takes me.
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dominate my message wall all you want, atleast you have something to say more than, thanks for the add.
but ya due to money restrictions i'm mainly thinking of Amsterdam, simply because i've lived in holland for so long now i'm a permanent resident and soon will have a dutch passport aswell, and that makes it cheap, but i'd love to go back to the states. (why you might ask? well cuz i could never work there and i want to live there for a few years of my adult life, i am an american afterall, eventhough i've spent most my life abroad) but if you want to give me school recomendations it would be more than appreciated. i'll be doing research over the summer. because i need a gap year anyways to build a portfolio. I'll find out soon if i got accepted into the one month certificate program in London Film Academy, which will give me a push start, but i'm really excited after a life time of cluelessness to what i might want from the future.
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in my last year at highschool. we have a decent sized darkroom, and me and a few of my friends are the only one's who use it in the entire school, wel mainly me. I even stole the key one day and made a copy. but ya our art department covers the cost of most art materials, so for me that means they buy the chemicals and paper and such, i still pay to develop my film when i'm too afraid to do it myself. but ya i'm pretty lucky for now.
but the main thin photography has done for me over the last few years is lead me to my passion for cinema and film, so i'm going to start making movies from this summer onwards and hopefully get into a filmacademy. i love the image and story telling, and the intelectual side of film theory.
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i completly agree about the darkroom, but it is somewhat romantic now. It is like my collecting of LP's, i'm afraid i will at some point move over to shotting more digital as soon as i buy a digital slr camera, but i'll never stop shooting film. Just as a student the raw materials you need to run a dark room get steep, for now however i can get my school to pay.
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well i wrote that poem in a frame of mind, i'd never want to have again, not for me, not for anyone..
and u know something.. it stung when u said the imagery is for you.. coz i don't wish you to have that.. stay smiling and happy, please.. 
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I know it's alittle late, but thanks for the +fav!
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hiya. thanks for all the comments. so nice of you. ahem sooooooo
when are you going to upload some photos?? hmm?
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never! muahahaha. ...well maybe when i get a scanner or something. who knows. those poor things that ARE on here are a good 3-4 years old. *cries with embarrassment*
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wow. someone found me. yay for the "neighbours" option.
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