From Darlica's Drawers

[Darlica]

I work as an Illustrator, so I draw things for a living, but I also do all sorts of other creative things.

I write some, I sometimes make jewellery, I draw and paint, but my favourite hobby is photography.

I intend to put up some of my doodles here as well as links to my Flickr page and my home page (when I finally get that online).

Comments are of cause welcome!

/Darlica

[Darlica]

These are some of my photos, hosted on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/21661703@N07/

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Desolated buildings





miscellaneous

[Bruder Cuzzen]

I rather favor #6 the and the last two...very nice.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Wow! You are really good! I really like the toad and snow-covered feather grass.

[Darlica]

Thank you!

If anyone here want a printable version for some reason just PM me and add your e-mail and I'll send you a high resolution JPG.file

[anthrobabe]

I like the buildings--- I've always enjoyed photos of all types of buildings.

One of the best photos I ever took with my old Minolta was of a doorway in the French Quarter in New Orleans--- not a really great photo ( I was 13) but still striking and I like architecture.

[Darlica]

A dingbot for Scrible!



http://www.flickr.com/photos/21661703@N07/2219840695/

Sorry for the huge ©... but when I put drawings up on flickr I like to make them less attractive to grab. It will be better when I get my own page up.

I made it a little less than a year ago. I even made an Easter egg version, unfortunately I dropped the egg when it was almost finished but I plan to try a again this year.

[Opsa]

Ooooh! Very nice drawing. I love the photos, too. Especially the frog (he's really looking at the camera!) and the snowy fruit hanging on the branch.

[Aphos]

I have got to get a digital SLR one of these days.  I love my old Cannon AE-1, but film is kind of a hassle.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

God yes. I'd sell my soul for a digital SLR.

Darli, that's freakin' awesome. He's so cute and confused! :squee!:

[Darlica]

  Thank you!

I got inspired when I started reading GG, I had read other Steampunk stuff before but I found the playfulness of Foglio's drawings and the humour realising in some odd way. 

Scrible, if you want a cleaned up version for the Blog I'm game, as long as I get my ©  , just PM me your e-mail address, it would be nice to contribute to it in some way.


And don't go sell your soul, You know that will give you problems with automatic doors...
DSLR's comes in quite affordable prizes now days, especially if you're not going for one with all the bells and whistles.

For me getting a DSLR was a new beginning for my interest in photography. Before that I had almost stooped taking picture because developing them was so expensive and they never came out like I wanted them to anyway since developing/copy machines usually sets the exposure values for the whole roll on basis of the first two or three pictures.

I use a Nikon D70s, I bought a kit 1 1/2 year ago with body and two lenses (Nikkor 70-300mm and Nikkor 18-70mm) I'm very happy with it and I plan to keep it for many years even if newer cameras have may more pixels. If I use the highest available JPG resolution I can make prints the size of A3 with out visible pixels (if I use RAW I think I can do A1) and that's good enough for me.

My first SLR was/is (I still have it and it still works just fine) a Nikon FG-20. I don't know if that's why I prefer Nikon to other brands. It is a bit heavier than for example Cannon and IMHO it feels less "plastic" and the Nikkor lenses isn't as flimsy as the budget lenses for Canon.

If you buy a DSLR second-hand be aware of that the shutter can get worn out after about 40-50 000 exposures. You can see how many picture a camera has taken in you take a pic load it over to a computer and then check the EXIF data that comes with the pic.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

kanaloa.the.squidly@gmail.com
I'd love to have that as our logo, and of course you would retain the copy right. It's your work, and I most definitely believe in giving credit where it's due.
I will have to investigate what I can get once I'm a little closer to my birthday (I have some relatives that forgot my 18th and graduation, so they can make for it now). I'll keep in mind what you said.
I have a regular old SLR, a Nikon X-370s. I have no idea how old it is. Got it from my grandfather a few years ago. We have a non-DSLR (Canon PowerShot S2 IS) that I really like, and while I still want a DSLR, I'd be happy with something like it.

[Darlica]

If you are used to a Nikon stick to Nikon. Honestly.

My old SLR Nikon has no motor or AF the only automatic feature on it is the shutter time.
I took a lot of pictures 15 years ago and felt that I needed a fully automatic cam with AF and motor.
A Nikon was out of question because it was too expensive so I bought a Pentax MZ-50 which was good but slow, since it wanted to adjust things after I had pressed the button to take the pic...

Taking pictures of things that was moving in high speed got nearly impossible (and I used to be good at that with the old Nikon). Any how after almost 10 years I decide to trade up (or that was at least my intention), my SO got the Pentax and I bought a Minolta 505si. It had a lot more bells and whistles than the Pentax but was even more stubborn when it came to moving objects, so I kept using my Nikon for more difficult shots since it was much faster and easier to work with in manual mood than any of the other cams.

I bought the D70s about midsummer 2006 and one of the first things I did was taking pictures of a Road Racing competition, Motorcycles driving past in about 200 km/h, most pictures turned out if not perfect so at least a whole lot better than they did the last time I attended with my Minolta. Keep in mind that DSLR's are supposed to be slower than film SLR's...

It feels right in the hands, it's heavy enough to be stable but light enough for me to hold in the same position for several minutes and it seems like my reaction speed and the D70's trigger to release where synced from the beginning.

I'm hooked, I'll stay with Nikon!

Btw it also works fine in -20°C and that is quite unusual for DSLR's. 


Can the dingbot wait until I'm done moving? I'm swamped right now, I'll dig up some Road Racing pics then too.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Of course! Whenever you get around to doing it is fine with me. I just wanted to get you the address so you could send it along when you got a moment.
I'm attached to my Nikon, but I like cannon, too. I'd be fine with either for a DSLR.

[Darlica]

I hate insomnia...


http://www.flickr.com/photos/21661703@N07/2221179019/in/set-72157603422763256/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/21661703@N07/2221970752/in/set-72157603422763256/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/21661703@N07/2221971152/in/set-72157603422763256/

6 more on my flickr site just follow the links.