dan ([info]dan501) wrote,
@ 2005-12-14 23:17:00
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diane,

I'm driving through the endless wheat fields of south eastern iowa. I need to find somewhere to fill up. but the last rest stop was 117 miles ago and didn't serve coffee.

I came across what may be a clue that unravels the mystery of the owls. a girl stepped out of the wheat field. as soon as she emerged, the sky turned yellow and green and she pulled out an axe. I'm not talking about a run of the mill wood chopper. I mean she should be chopping off heads with this thing.

no sooner did the sky turn green and the girl wield the axe, an owl flew overhead and she disappeared. I think this means something.
a minute later, there was an off-ramp with the internationally recognized icon for coffee and pie.

coop



--- or you may prefer the original story... ---
careful with that axe.

with this shoot, I didn't set out with a specific scene I wanted to make. I wanted surreal and david lachapelleish. I think I got some of the first and little of the second.
this shoot was one of the big things in my experience that made me stop and say gosh, photography takes effort.

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[info]kicking_k
2005-12-15 11:44 am UTC (link)
Wow. That is an excellent picture, which manages to be threatening, haunting and dreamlike all at the same time.

That's some axe there...

(I like your icon picture too.)

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[info]dan501
2005-12-15 05:01 pm UTC (link)
thank you. good adjectives.
that axe currently hangs above my bed.
thank you. I cannot take credit for the makeup. the normally-in-but-currently-just-defatigable [info]hobohemian done it.

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[info]toliveistohide
2005-12-15 03:04 pm UTC (link)
This picture is my favorite so far, the colors are awesome and I love her dress. Good work!

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[info]dan501
2005-12-15 05:13 pm UTC (link)
thank you. her dress would look better crumpled on my bedroom floor in the morning

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[info]toliveistohide
2005-12-16 12:03 am UTC (link)
you're welcome and nice link. :P

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[info]skiomachy
2005-12-15 05:50 pm UTC (link)
La belle dame sans merci!

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[info]dan501
2005-12-16 04:08 am UTC (link)
indeed. so I read this and knew what it meant.. but I wasn't positive about merci. so I translated it with babelfish. babelfish says "the beautiful injury without mercy" how cool is that?

yes she is.

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[info]creamfilledrat
2005-12-15 07:58 pm UTC (link)
very bettie page-esque. looks like it could be turned into either a postcard or poster. i think you have an amazing eye.

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[info]dan501
2005-12-16 04:15 am UTC (link)
that would be a strange postcard to get in the mail on day.
maybe I'll start annotating all my pictures as if they were postcards...

diane,

I'm driving through the endless wheat fields of south eastern iowa. I need to find somewhere to fill up. but the last rest stop was 117 miles ago and didn't serve coffee.

I came across what may be a clue that unravels the mystery of the owls. a girl stepped out of the wheat field. as soon as she emerged, the sky turned yellow and green and she pulled out an axe. I'm not talking about a run of the mill wood chopper. I mean she should be chopping off heads with this thing.

no sooner did the sky turn green and the girl wield the axe, an owl flew overhead and she disappeared. I think this means something.

a minute later, there was an off-ramp with the internationally recognized icon for coffee and pie.

coop

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[info]dan501
2005-12-16 04:16 am UTC (link)
actually...

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[info]prince_edward
2005-12-16 01:06 am UTC (link)
that battle axe looks very, very heavy! (maybe it's plastic. haha). very nice shot. did you use digital filters to get the colorized effect? i'm a big fan of nik color efex pro, which can achieve that look.

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[info]slowbob
2005-12-16 03:37 am UTC (link)
The axe was made from the congealed bones of unfaithful horses.

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[info]dan501
2005-12-16 04:23 am UTC (link)
exactly. that's what I'm talking about.
though he never gave me the full story like that before the shoot.

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[info]dan501
2005-12-16 04:18 am UTC (link)
it does look darn heavy. but she's a tough cookie in a red dress.
no - I got the colors by cross processing slide film.

I've sort of looked for a photoshop plugin that can reproduce the crossprocessed look. but what I've seen so far (years ago, granted) didn't really work for me.

ask [info]slowbob.. he made it for me for this shoot. he said something about making it from horses. but I never found out for sure.

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[info]prince_edward
2005-12-16 10:42 am UTC (link)
for a digital cross-processing filter, definitely check out nik color efex pro 2.0 (there are numerous other digital versions of traditional filters in the set). a 4000 d.p.i. negative scan, put into photoshop, and then processed with those filters could easily give you the same look you achieved in that shot, and a very print-worthy output.

slowbob commented and told me about the horses....

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iowa will do that to you.
(Anonymous)
2005-12-16 07:47 pm UTC (link)
magnificent photo. more magnificent story.

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