I make things on occasion. When I do, I usually enjoy showing them off while fishing for compliments and criticisms (yes, both!). Here’s where you’ll find the goods.
(While this ties in closely with my Art and Writing pages, those feature only my best works.)
I love taking pictures of people. It’s a conclusion that I’ve come to time after time, as well as the fact that I would love the opportunity to take more pictures of more people. It’s why I’ve just registered elysekufeldtphotography.com, so I can centralize my efforts and have a website I can point people toward who are even remotely interested.
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On Saturday I took my friend Natalie out to Gasworks Park in Seattle for a little photo shoot. We had to spend a little bit of time getting her to loosen up in front of the camera, but once we did, she had a lot of fun and offered up a lot of great opportunities for shots. With her hair, her clothes and her general disposition, she had already lent a wonderful vintage feel to the photographs which I enhanced with a little bit of processing. Here are some of my favorites:
I was recently charged with taking senior portraits for Randy’s younger brother Dusty. It was an unusually humid September day when I finally dragged him out and about with my camera. He was not the most cooperative of subjects, which is really too bad, considering how naturally photogenic he is. He spent most of the time swearing at me about how lame and “gay” the whole thing was. When he wasn’t complaining, he was either doing an “Abercrombie” pose or an over-done smile.
Read more of this article.If I could wish for one web application, it would be a complete online agenda app. There are very specific things that I want to be able to do without having to keep track of paper and without necessitating a gazillion different web apps to achieve the same goal. Why do I want this? In a nutshell, I want to be all organized in one location, available everywhere, all the time. So, let’s get started with functions.
Read more of this article.I work as a Voice User Interaction Designer at a small, voice recognition software company in Bellevue. Oddly enough, none of our team of three have been to school for interaction design of any sort (though I do intend to pursue that degree at UW’s iSchool). Over the last month or two, our team and a collection of other interested people have been meeting every other week to discuss tenets of interaction design with the help of About Face.
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