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As of right now, this is the standard for all of my double exposures. Yeah, I get some good results that don't look like this, but why wouldn't you want every one to look this good? The conditions were perfect for double exposures that day: cool temperatures, great model, overcast skies, and black and white film. I need to duplicate those settings to see if I can come close to this goodness again one day.
A fellow photographer on the trip and I had a challenge to get a picture with as many zebra as possible w/o any of the ground, etc. showing. We saw thousands of them but they were never together in a tight cluster . . . but, finally, I got one!!!
"How Many Roads" är min tolkning till tema ”Många” för Fotosöndag.
En symbolisk tolkning med första textraden "How many roads must a man walk down” till den legendariska protestsången ”Blowin’in in the wind”, som sedan följs av en serie av retoriska frågor om fred, krig och frihet.
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"How Many Roads" is my contribution to theme "Many" for the photogroup Fotosöndag.
A symbolic picture releated to the famous protestsong "Blowin'in in the Wind" where the first texline is "How many roads must a man walk down” .
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Gaviota inmadura, tal vez enferma, que parece expresar soledad y desamparo. (Octava de una serie de 10)
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This is all I can produce. I am so short for time.
I might be buying a rabbit soon, so I have something to distract me.
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Come back in a few million years and you will likely find this grass and these seed pods as fossils. Flash floods wash mud and sediment down an arroyo and dump it on top of the vegetation where it stays burred. Small arroyo in San Juan County, Utah.
Will you let her to join us?...
Dont be afraid, i think she's vegetarian...
Good, lets go!
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INI Tweaks
6 Shots
Downsample
Mods :
DCE, Geralt Human Dopler, Hair - Increase LOD, PhotoMode 2inOne, Spawn Companion, The Appearance Menu, Ultra Grass 3000, Ultra Lighting
For kneeling idle, you need this Witcher Modding Tutorial for extract game data to found animation that you want then use DCE.
Poor little Anole was blowing back and forth, clinging to the top of this Mountain Mint with all its might!
It was on the hunt for lunch, but the strong breeze kinda got in the way, and it never got to show off its Master Hunting Skills which I'm sure would have been most impressive.
** Seen in The Children's Garden at Dauset Trails Nature Center.
The Emett clock in Nottingham. Or the aqua horological tintinnabulator as it was named by Rowland Emett OBE in 1973
New Year's Day is always an outdoor day for me. I use to stay up late on NYE but over the years I have begun to favor an early bedtime in order to get a head start on the fresh year - generally heading out somewhere to be in nature. This year saw me hiking Silver Falls State Park. But I have talked about my New Year habits in previous posts over previous years. The thread of today's image is actually involving Harman Phoenix 200 - the film used to make this image.
I will say, I have not completely made up my mind on this film, though my opinion of it has evolved since my first roll with it. It is definitely interesting stuff and I am glad Harman is making it. How long it remains available is still to be seen though. But even if it is phased out, it seems like that will be just to make room for a newly evolved color film.
But it does surprise me sometimes how film photographers don't quite seem to realize how malleable a material film is to work with. I see it sometimes at work. Customers will drop off film and then be amazed to discover how much work we can do to an image at the printing or scanning stage. Some think the image is more or less baked into the film and there is only one possible way that it will come out of a printer. But this also happens online too, especially with the rise of home developing and home scanning. Folks will develop a film like Phoenix then scan it (sometimes poorly) and characterize it by the results they get as if those are the only results possible. One example of this is the fact that Phoenix has a purple base. Most color films have a dusky orange film base. But Phoenix must share technology with XP2, a black and white C-41 film also known for a blue-purple film base. This purplish base makes it trickier to scan since a lot of film scanners are calibrated to see, and negate, the orange film base. And since we are dealing with negatives where everything inverts, that purple base of Phoenix inverts into a yellow-orange color cast in the positive scans. That is to say unless you work to correct/calibrate for it. My initial tests with this film only had modest color corrections and I just kind of let it be yellowish. But then I saw some optical prints we had done in our lab where our printing tech had put in a bit more effort to see if he could correct Phoenix to something a bit more neutral. The results impressed even me and at first I did not even realize the prints I was looking at had come from Harman Phoenix. So having seen this as an example of what the film could do I spent more time scanning my next couple of rolls. Specifically I used the Nikon Coolscan's ROC (restoration of color) feature to automatically correct the color cast. It did an impressive job but also had a tendency to add too much contrast. So lately I have been dialing in the color corrections manually and ending up with results like this image and without the heavy yellow tinge of my earlier images made on Phoenix.
I guess my point is multi-pronged. One - be careful about rushing to conclusions, especially when you have relatively little evidence to work with. Two - don't believe everything you read online because the folks giving you info might be failing at point One. Three - Remember that you are blind to your own blind spots. Meaning you have them, but you cannot see them. And it is easy to forget about something you cannot see. I had begun to characterize my own expectations of this film without realizing it and it took the print work of our lab to make me conscious of the bias I was forming about Phoenix. Four - keep your mind open and be curious, don't stop asking questions and don't stop looking for the answers to them, even if you want to think you already know those answers.
Anyhoo, just some Phoenix-related thoughts that may or may not be applicable in other ways.
Hasselblad 500C/M
Harman Phoenix 200
If you ever wondered how animation films are made... this 2 mins video explains the process of animating a character.
SHORT EXPLANATION
- Make or use an object
- Make an armature (=skeleton with bones)
- Parent the object to the bones
- Then give the object different poses at different frames in the timeline (an animation is just a rapid succession of frames).
Done.
LONGER EXPLANATION
1. Start from an object/character you made.
2. Then make an armature, i.e. bones, which is like a skeleton for your object. Obviously your bones will have to move in a clever way, for instance when you bend the knee, it will have to bend forward, not backward. This can be done with inverse kinematics which is an object constraint you can add to a bone, that has to affect a chain of bones.
3. Then you parent the object to the armature (skeleton) you made.
4. And finally in pose mode, you can keyframe different poses in a timeline. For instance at time zero your character is in its default pose. At frame 5 you move it down and make it bend its knees, keyframe that. Then move frame 10 and move it up and to the left, keyframe that position, and so on.
(I added a plane and some colours)
5. And then you hit the play button!
Doe and buck hare (on the left and right respectively); enacting an age-old ritual common to us all. She looks a little grumpy and unimpressed to me...
I didn't come this far for you to make this hard for me.
And now you want to ask me "How?"
It’s like - how does your heart beat, and why do you breathe?
How does your heart beat, and why do you breathe?
Why did you come here?
You weren't invited.
You were on the outside - stay on the outside.
And now you want to ask me "why?"
It’s like - why does your heart beat, and how do you cry?
How does your heart beat?
And there are some things that I’d like to figure out.
There are some things that I can do without -
like you and your letters that go on forever,
and you, and the people that were never friends.
With all the things that you could be,
you never could learn how to be me.
And now you want to ask me "how?"
It’s like - how does your heart beat, and why do you breathe?
How does your heart beat, and why do you breathe?
This is for a friend who is “ still out of sync, out of focus, out of tune. Still feeling out of sorts, and blue, and off her rhythm". Hope she gets her rhythm back in no time!
A quartet of CSX EMDs had an eastbound rock job rolling along the B&O at Point of Rocks on a warm morning in 2008.
The "Dark Future" paint job was starting to show itself as seen on the second motor; the shopping cart [CSX] logo would soon be saturating the fleet.
'How Green is my Valley' or
'The old house is still standing
Though the paint is cracked and dry
And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on
Down the lane, I walk with my sweet Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home'
Today's musical selection: Mogwai - How to Be a Werewolf (in Thirty Century Man)
Mount St. Helens area, WA
It is pretty incredible how these birds can fly/maneuver in the skies. This looks fake almost, but is 100% real. They were fighting a bit back and forth, and I managed to capture some of the action. Although it was about 1/4 mile away again, like my other image. Huge crop.
Contrasting height information is on offer for those approaching Burntisland via Seaforth Place.
A Scotrail class 170 passes above the marine industry of the dockland, on Friday 7th June 2019.
Superb coloured 'then' image dated 1906 and courtesy of the Bristol Historical Resource FaceBook page, 'now' photo taken by me a few days ago.
We can all look back at the working docks with rose-tinted glasses, but the reality is the redevelopment of the harbour has been a great success.
Thousands of new homes have been created along with all the businesses, cafes, restaurants, shops and companies that service them.
Public access has been improved with new paths and bridges, polluted sites have been cleaned and the water quality of the harbour has been transformed.......there are now fish!
There are many fine leisure attractions now and all businesses, offices, call centres, cafes & restaurants, attractions, gyms and service companies employ far more people than were ever employed when it was just a dock.
Compared to the desolate and derelict place I remember wandering around as a schoolboy in the 1970s, the area today has been greatly transformed for the better.......