Photographic Themed Tattoo

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Photography themed tattoo.
Photograph of a Ship.

 

[Eric Rose]

f8 and be there

 

[tomalophicon]

Make sure it's as awesome as this tat!

 

[Worker 11811]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lulaph0tography/4897312008/

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I know , quality tattoos costs very expensive , more than expensive photo gear. They price it with per square centimeters and people who wants a good tattoo , uses lots of money to visit good tatoo masters.
And you might buy your ink before going to studio. If the ink is low quality , when you go to sea , sun tan , it makes allergic reaction and all your skin to turn bloody mess.
And every skin and blood react to ink with different colors. If you want to be sure the quality of your tattoos colors , try small dots at somewhere at the body.
I dont like color tattoos but blue black ink of pasific island traditions. Some pasific islander youths die from the shock of their adventure of full body tattoos.
Buy many many different tattoo magazines .
If you havent 4000 dollars at your pocket , dont try it.
Non permanent tattoos are dangerous also and make you allergic to some chemicals at your entire life.

Umut

 

[resummerfield]

.....If you havent 4000 dollars at your pocket , dont try it......

:eek: I think I'd just buy another (large format) camera, and use the negative as a template, as jnanian suggested.

 

[Roger Cole]

In the US at least quality tattoos, while expensive, are nowhere near THAT expensive. I have none but my girlfriend does and is in the process (two sittings will be required and she's done one) of getting a large shoulder piece which will cost a total of about $400 from one of the best artists in Atlanta. No reputable artist here, and I know several, is going to tattoo you with ink you bring yourself. Way too much liability.

I know people who have regretted them and people who have had them for decades and don't. Its a very personal thing.

 

[removed account4]

i figgir richard avednon did it when he was a kid, its probably not a bad idea

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I googled little bit and there is airbrush option. It stays two days to two weeks and may be cheaper.
You can change your tattoo whenever you want with this option. And I found tattoo decals , if you google non permanent tattoo decals classic look , you can find 10 inch to 6 inch decal for 10 dollars or less. Google is strange and when it searches different results for different words compositions.
Dont try Hena , its allergic and ugly.
Look for decals with FDA approved . BW Dragons are lovely.
And I advise you to visit tattoo removal sites , when you see the peoples skins look like they are recovered from major accident , you will think again about permanent tattoos , that bad , terrible.
Try airbrush or decal.

Umut

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

resummerfield ,
aaron ,

Look at here :

http://www.inkwear.co.uk/userimages/Extra-Large-and-Luxury(1823916).htm

I dont think you can find better than this site.

Dragons are great. Go to main page also and you will be impressed.
I will do it also , thank you reminding me my forgoten hobby.

Umut

 

[SkipA]

It is not uncommon that people who warn about regretting tatoos several years down the road don't actually have one, or if they do, they didn't think it through before getting inked. My tattoos mark transitions in my life. I've had my tats for 18 years and they are just part of me. I can't imagine them not being there. I'd hate to try to think about my skin not being there. It would be like imagining my face without my nose or my eyebrows. I'd feel like something important was missing.

If you ask me, and I could be wrong, a tatoo should be about you. Something about your nature, not about your passions. If a tattoo is right for you, you'll know it. When it is, then to hell with what anyone else thinks. Do it.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Thank you SkipA , I think your words cover all of us. I am happy , your tattoos are looking great for you.
I love tattoos very much since 10 years old and I was trying to inkjet pigments to my skin with syringes.
Internet is my biggest friend and I found my hobby there again. Tattoo is an art piece and style is very important , I think best artists kept inside of jailhouses. I think senses , wishes , dreams and danger is great there and an artist turns to a master. Yes , you can jail a man but you can not jail art.
I remembered Camille Claudel , was a better artist than Rodin and they sent her to asylum for 30 years and preventing her to draw or sculpt anything. I think She created thousands of pieces in her mind and only 90 sculptures remaining from her.
Your words enlighted me , what isthe most important thing for me , it is a aluminum blood red rowboat which was a subject at national geographic magazine at 1986 , Sea Tomato , designed by Ned Gillette.
They went to Antartica with it in 30 meters high waves.
Its its 25 th year and I think I will order a tattoo in high sees to my left arm.
I never be sorry for it.

Thank you.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

 

[grahamcase]

I have a photo tattoo and am very happy with it; I've had it for about 2.5 years now. I wanted to go with something more abstract, and not worry if other people had no idea what it was. I've attached a picture below, but for anyone wondering it's the shape of a hasselblad negative (to 1:1 scale).

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[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Excellent idea , may be you add a little 500 c to nearby.

 

[cowanw]

Or get a tatoo of the back of a view camera. That way, when the skin sags you can say you are applying movements to change the percieved perspective.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I liked this thread very much.

 

[bblhed]

get a negative and tape it to your arm or wherever you want your tattoo ..
and go to a tanning salon ... you can have a non permanent tattoo of you favorite
negative ...

I like that trick, I will have to try that.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I had been posted a link at the thread listing . I learned that they custom print decal tattoos. One A4 sized multiple tattoo decal cost 15 pounds or so. Anyone can try this and look to the final design if suits its taste or nerves. You can get discount if you order print more. By this way , for every 1 or 2 weeks , you will have a new tattoo.
You must draw or find the drawing or photograph or whatever you want and send them by e mail and they post from England in a tight box.

That is the best way I could find to tattooed in a good way.

I ordered National Geographic 1989 January Issue from Virginia , I will scan , cut , crop it and send to them , a tattoo where 30 meters wave hitting a red aluminum dory and wash the rower

Umut

 

[aaronmichael]

Or get a tatoo of the back of a view camera. That way, when the skin sags you can say you are applying movements to change the percieved perspective.

Hahah - priceless.

SkipA - Thanks for the words of wisdom.

 

[Mark Fisher]

Ag......hopefully that would be timeless....

 

[moki]

Wow, I seriously love the idea of applying a temporary picture to my skin by means of a negative and tanning... never thought about the living skin as light sensitive material, though it definitely is. This really gets my imagination going.

The ISO is probably too low for photography, but contact printing should work allright


The tatoo of the iris diaphragm posted earlier is lovely too. It's not too geeky and looks good, even to someone who doesn't know what it is. I think, I'm getting something similar when time and finances are right.
I wouldn't want some camera on my skin for all eternity or any reference to a company or real product for that matter... Nikon, Nike or Coca Cola, it's all the same: some kind of messed up advertising (and you pay for it instead of being paid!)
Just draw it on in waterproof marker or get one of those decal tatoos to see if it fits you and how people react to it. Many ideas that seem good at the moment change a lot when you think about it for a few weeks... and if you're going to have a picture on your skin for the rest of you life, a few more weeks or months of waiting and thinking won't hurt at all.

 

[BrianShaw]

Jimmy Buffett describes this as a "permanent reminder of a temporary feeling."

Warren Buffet probably feels the same way after buying a new company!

 

[ntenny]

Tattoos are cool now, but in a few years they won't be.

I delayed getting one for a long time because of something like this sentiment---it's something Other People do, it's a Trend, the Trend Will Pass. Eventually I decided that "everyone else is doing it" was a bad reason *not* to do something, for the exact same reasons that it's a bad reason *to* do something, and I went out and got the tattoo I'd been saying I wasn't going to get.

They are permanent. The kids you're not currently thinking about having, should you eventually have them, will want to know about them. The coroner probably won't care, but will see them. Before you get something permanent done to your body, reconcile yourself to things like that.

All that said, there are lots of directions to take the broad concept of "photography" in. Chemistry: I'd be astonished if there aren't people out there with tattoos of the pyro molecule. Optics: lens cross-sections. Commercial history: I wouldn't want a "branded" tattoo personally, but some people are so bonded to a specific manufacturer that they would. The idea someone posted of a negative with the sprocket holes is cute---it doesn't work well for MF shooters, but LF people could include the notch code.

IMHO, chew over a lot of ideas, let your subconscious work on it, and wait a good long time to pull the trigger. (I've always waited until I looked in the mirror and felt like something was *missing*.)

-NT

 

[aaronmichael]

I delayed getting one for a long time because of something like this sentiment---it's something Other People do, it's a Trend, the Trend Will Pass. Eventually I decided that "everyone else is doing it" was a bad reason *not* to do something, for the exact same reasons that it's a bad reason *to* do something, and I went out and got the tattoo I'd been saying I wasn't going to get.

They are permanent. The kids you're not currently thinking about having, should you eventually have them, will want to know about them. The coroner probably won't care, but will see them. Before you get something permanent done to your body, reconcile yourself to things like that.

All that said, there are lots of directions to take the broad concept of "photography" in. Chemistry: I'd be astonished if there aren't people out there with tattoos of the pyro molecule. Optics: lens cross-sections. Commercial history: I wouldn't want a "branded" tattoo personally, but some people are so bonded to a specific manufacturer that they would. The idea someone posted of a negative with the sprocket holes is cute---it doesn't work well for MF shooters, but LF people could include the notch code.

IMHO, chew over a lot of ideas, let your subconscious work on it, and wait a good long time to pull the trigger. (I've always waited until I looked in the mirror and felt like something was *missing*.)

-NT

Thanks for the response. It would probably have to do something with optics or like I said before, the technical side of things (shutter speeds, apertures,...etc.). I don't think I'd get anything brand specific. I don't think I want something directly analog related either, such as the film with sprocket holes or a 4x5 negative with the notch code. Even though I do love film and it's what got me into photography, and it's currently what I'm shooting at this point in my education, I do shoot a lot of ::whisper:: digital. Therefore, something that could apply both to analog and digital would be nice. I'll definitely think about it for a while before I get anything. I'm not in any sort of rush and won't make any irrational decisions about it.