Toni Ahvenainen
Changes
Day 26 of 365
When I'm tired it affects my field of view. The sight it covers decreases and edges turn darker like I would experience some sort psychological vignetting , at least it feels like it. Even bright lights don't look as bright as before. Instead they look like in some photograph where one has recovered too much highlights with a post processing software, a bit gray, flat and artificial. Then my sight starts to feel heavy. Any high contrast view with a large dynamics feels bad to look at and bright lights hurt my eyes. First it's the eyes and then it goes inside my head. If I can't escape light to some dark place, it will intensify and eventually turn into migraine which will, if I'm unlucky, continue overnight. Next morning the pain is gone and eyesight feels normal, but head is still a bit rickety and yoghurt. It takes full 24 hours to recover from this.
I've been running this blog now for 26 days and update it with a new picture and text every day. While it has been a fascinating project and I've been creating pictures I would never have done without it, I now have to admit that my original plan has been too ambitious and I have to change my concept somehow to make this work. The trouble is, with a unfinished thesis, freelance work, family life, everyday things and other routines to take care of, the blog has to be run at nights. No matter how I try to organize things I find myself post processing pictures, writing texts and updating the blog usually at two o'clock in the middle of the night. After 26 days, I can say that this doesn't work in the long run and if I want to continue doing this, and I do, I need to change my rules. I'm still working on with a new plan, but in practice it means I won't be updating my blog on daily basis. More info to come in a next few days.
Year of the Alpha – 365 Days of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com
Changes
Day 26 of 365
When I'm tired it affects my field of view. The sight it covers decreases and edges turn darker like I would experience some sort psychological vignetting , at least it feels like it. Even bright lights don't look as bright as before. Instead they look like in some photograph where one has recovered too much highlights with a post processing software, a bit gray, flat and artificial. Then my sight starts to feel heavy. Any high contrast view with a large dynamics feels bad to look at and bright lights hurt my eyes. First it's the eyes and then it goes inside my head. If I can't escape light to some dark place, it will intensify and eventually turn into migraine which will, if I'm unlucky, continue overnight. Next morning the pain is gone and eyesight feels normal, but head is still a bit rickety and yoghurt. It takes full 24 hours to recover from this.
I've been running this blog now for 26 days and update it with a new picture and text every day. While it has been a fascinating project and I've been creating pictures I would never have done without it, I now have to admit that my original plan has been too ambitious and I have to change my concept somehow to make this work. The trouble is, with a unfinished thesis, freelance work, family life, everyday things and other routines to take care of, the blog has to be run at nights. No matter how I try to organize things I find myself post processing pictures, writing texts and updating the blog usually at two o'clock in the middle of the night. After 26 days, I can say that this doesn't work in the long run and if I want to continue doing this, and I do, I need to change my rules. I'm still working on with a new plan, but in practice it means I won't be updating my blog on daily basis. More info to come in a next few days.
Year of the Alpha – 365 Days of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com