Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Julie (8/100) - Minding the entry gate

Jay was reading an airport novel and bored out of his brain. He was making sure that noone entered onto a campus building site without the correct forms. It transpired that his Dad owned the company constructing the new Law buildings and that he was an actor who had just finished a film. He is 25 and a bit gorgeous ...

The choice not taken:

14 comments:

Julie said...

Peter, Peter, Peter ...

The image is now TOO big ... see how the RHS border has been chomped ... help ...

bitingmidge said...

All fixed.

For reasons that I don't understand, your image was posted with a 2 pixel margin. The others have 0!

I've made the column 5 pixels wider and it all fits, except for your first two which are in tables and have a double border!

Pity, this conversation detracted from a really nice shot! 8 shots in and you are capturing "essence"!

bitingmidge said...

OK so how have you got those early posts in tables?

Interesting! Specially when they are not aligned with the pictures! Do you format each post?

P

Julie said...

argh .. yep I go and make the margin 2px instead of the 0 0 10 0 margin that blogger gives me. I will look at your posts and modify what I alter. I will go look at the tables and the double border. I fiddle with all sorts of things on my other blogs to enable me to put the images where I want ... me not professional!

Not sure about the essence: these last two have been okay. Then I tried to change my style and you will see on Friday what went wrong.

This chap was gorgeous (you should have seen his pearly whites!) but he did sort of respond to me as do young folk tend to with condescension to age - I thought I was his mother!!

bitingmidge said...

There's no problem with modifying things, you only come unstuck when someone modifies something you aren't aware of! (like when I changed the template!)

I've always rather liked your layouts.

You done gone and given me some ideas! ;-)

If it doesn't work for you, I'll happily move the template back to where it was.

Julie said...

You dun giv me ideas too, brudder!

I'm happy with how it looks right now: overjoyed, actually. But I need quiet time to check it all out so it doesn't bite me when I'm not looking.

I am starting to think that I have too many things to do to be able to fit in a job! Shame about the lack of income though ...

Ann said...

I'm also finding that work intrudes into photography time. I love this photo. I like the way you are using diagonals. I've tried a couple of close ups which you will see in a few days (mixed results) but your head tilts are something else altogether. He is definitely cute. I'm also finding I'm so intent on taking portraits that I forget to take shots for CDP, though I have lots in the archive so I'll use up some of those.

Julie said...

The head tilts are not something that I am aware that I am doing. However, in photos my own head is definitely on a tilt! Actually, I think it is because my approach bemuses my subjects: dozey ole dame, I will just humour her!

My Friday post is me trying to do a "you" - and it doesn't work!

freefalling said...

So much to love about this shot.
The light and shadow across his face.
The pose, the look (he is giving) - the colours of his clothes.
I think it could be my favourite so far.

Oh - and I love the photos big.

Julie said...

Wu-hoo ... approval from the bleachers ... it is interesting ... this goes in stages ... I can approach potential subjects now, but as soon as I start taking the photos, I can feel the panic rise and me start to rush things and the brain shut down. Today I took photos of a gardener and it did not occur to me to step back and get a shot of him watering. I walked around him and got the bloody back of his head instead ... arrggghhhh!!!!!

PJ said...

I love this portrait, I would say it's fairly rare to catch anyone looking this fully realized without posing them first (Sally Mann's children were usually posed). Are you following all of the rules of 100 strangers, asking names, etc? I know, rules is rules, but that seems daunting to me and to the subject.

Virginia said...

Size DOES matter but I gave up with the fiddling. These are terrific and I am trés impressed with the information you have included. I am afraid I consider "Hello, mind if I take your picture?" enough interaction! I will henceforth try and do better with the "chat"! These are all great but this hunk was worth the tripi over! Whooohooo.
V

Julie said...

Thanks for visiting PJ and Virginia.

Yep we follow all the "rules" as you can see from both the captions and from all the banter. Having three active contributors has made it a very enjoyable and engrossing activity.

To be able to encourage and help each other is priceless.

bitingmidge said...

"Priceless" is the word I think.

I would have given up before asking that first person!