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Entranced and enhanced
the flame is beguiling
Beautifully cutting
her look slices through the night.
- a fragment
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Freedom
It can be from constraint
Or permission to act.
It can be an unleashed tongue
Or the power to move
Without thought of how others
Could look askance.
Movement
and attitude
Matter naught when spinning
with unconstrained joy.
- a fragment
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Lake users have been "restocking the microbes".
Processing notes:
Contrast enhanced with a "Daidoish" preset (contrast increased, clear view increased, blacks decreased, tone curve adjusted to crush blacks and blow highlights)
The chaos of life is filled with knots ant diversions,
splits and support.
Tension can pull us taught
or the path can reveal multiple divergences.
What's right in front of you
can be a tangled mess.
While your overarching direction
fades into the mist.
- a fragment
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The vibrance of Pride
makes one sing out loud.
Sing free and strong
while dancing in the crowd.
- a fragment
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The seasonal Van Cleve park hockey rink has become like a pond due to unseasonal weather. Through weeds it reflects the neo-brutalist apartments converted from a pre-brutalism concrete grain mill.
Utata's Iron Photographer challenge 240 asked for compositions with:
1 - a card (ace)
2 - a small figurine (is a non-functional robot too much license?)
3 - square format
The '70s US TV show "Kung Fu" depicts Master Po referring to his student, Kane, as "Grasshopper".
Subtractive filter Harris shutter effect (subtractive filter HSE, SFHSE) constructed from three sequential images.
Details
This modified Harris Shutter Effect image generates colored "ghosts" on a black background. Things that move and other differences between three more-or-less sequential photos are emphasized while static features turn black. Weak colors and soft blacks made more intense by modifying brightness in HSV space.
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Sliding and spinning
while the music flows around her
Life is good
and her joy fills the air.
- a fragment
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I stumbled upon a newly opened restaurant, trying to make a start during the lean summer months (when the college students are absent).
[Uncorrected out of camera jpg.]
Update: two months later they no longer served coffee.
Walking and shooting, practicing Daido Moriyama style imaging.
A "Daidoish" preset was applied (contrast 90+, clear view 50+, blacks -40 or less, tone curve adjusted to crush blacks and blow highlights)
Much of what I do
is done because it drives me.
I have goals,
I have desires,
I have get pleasure from the act.
Some people want to show
and others want the experience.
Each person on the stage
is there for reasons of their own.
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In-camera focus stacking of back-lit mandarin peel, stretched over a ~2cm flashlight, and covered with the mesh bag it came in.
I'm looking outside at the maple leaves I should be raking and can't think beyond something 'orange' for the challenge.
This moving-subject-registered version of Liminal Viewing No. 2 gives a static seeming subject and moving background.
This composite is from a sequence of photos taken at a Walker art center. I imagined viewing an installation through the 'ghosts' of passing people, as generated by the Harris shutter effect, might express the liminal experience of people interacting with the art.
Details
This modified Harris Shutter Effect image generates colored "ghosts" on a black background. Things that move and other differences between three more-or-less sequential photos are emphasized while static features turn black.
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Read how to construct this type of image from three sequential photos.
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This backlit Rubik's cube is about 5.5cm across each face, and each segment is about 1.7cm across. It seemed a formidable challenge when the logic was new, in 1980, but now it is easy to learn algorithms.
The night unleashes us.
In the evening glow
we can shed the day's stress
and let loose
through our personal flow.
We can create.
We can move.
We can live in the moment,
or we can plan
for moments to come.
- a fragment
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Whorls, loops and lines;
the creator's fingerprints
are plain to see from afar.
But many wander
through the artwork
with nary a glance around.
- a fragment
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College students include chemical structures in their graffiti.
Processing note: Daidoish contrast adjustment (adjust curves to blow highlights, clip blacks) followed by Analog Efex (classic camera 5 preset). This combination happened to make the graffiti a lurid red.
I was walking through a railroad underpass one rainy day and noticed a passing pedestrian, so took an intentionally blurred photo. It was only at home that I noticed the graffiti, which lends a menacing underworld vibe.
Processing note: The low-key image was finished in Topaz Studio, using the KC Sunset preset with 20% normal blending mode, accentuating the walls and light glare.
Howl at the coming night,
Your hot breath
Flaring up across the fading light.
Raging in isolation,
Sinews taut
Against the evening's cold deprivation.
- a fragment
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Whorls, loops and lines;
the creator's fingerprints
are plain to see from afar.
But many wander
through the artwork
with nary a glance around.
- a fragment
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slow shutter speed, large aperture, camera close to the ground and movING towards the subject makes a poor "man's dolly shot", giving a kinetic feel to foreground elements while directing attention to the central area of greatest sharpness. The effect is similar to a zoom blur (poor man's zoom blur?) but can be accomplished when auto focus can't be disabled.
Stefan Jansson frequently visits That Old Tree, and this one is beginning to feel similarly like a friend of mine. It's in many images, even if not actually shared yet.
Processing note:
Silvermax Film simulation (DXO filmpack) follwed by increasing exposure (+0.85) and adjusting curve to crush blackest blacks.
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In American sports a benched player is not participating in the game. These shoes were removed while practicing in the dojo (high key).
This was an exercise in photographing a subject (shoe) from an obstructed perspective, necessitating imagining the camera's perspective while focusing and framing.
Processing Note:
Two different high key images were prepared in Silver Efex pro with good details in different areas, so these were blended to give the result. This was necessary to preserve legibility of the Converse All Star logo (without local doctoring).
I first learned of Lee Friedlander's selfies and shadow selfies from Eric Kim's street photography composition tutorial, lesson 9:
erickimphotography.com/blog/2013/11/11/street-photography...
I sought to imitate his technique for Macro Monday's 6/2/25 challenge "Watch".
A polarizing filter was used.
Processing note
I was shooting towards the sun, expecting the camera meter to be overwhelmed, and much detail to be underexposed. The benefit I saw was the bright reflection highlighting the rails to the horizon. The RAW image has very little contrast between the greenery, the browns, and the backs of the kids. Monochrome conversion with Silver Efex (cool tones 1 preset) gave good subject/background separation and darkened the edges sufficiently to obviate cropping of distracting elements.
Whistling just past his ear
the hot breath of the orb
spun with intensity and intent.
Whirling through the night
he danced with fire
barefoot on that hot cement.
- a fragment
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Utata's weekend project asks us to seek out "unintended art" in its diverse forms. This image was generated from a rainy day photo walk a couple of months back, as the allowed archival shot.
Chasing raindrop splashes with the high speed JPG mode (High speed 1, 15 FPS at 3MP) trading FPS for resolution.
Processing note:
This camera needs noise reduction. I used DXO prime. Contrast enhanced with DXO filmpack (AGFA Scala preset) yellow filter and a homemade Daidoish adjustment (exposure, contrast, and clear-view increased; blacks increased and whites decreased in curves to clip blacks and highlights).
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Relics of a lost era
cut a path through the wheel of time.
Memorial, tribute or
conceptual representation,
It matters not
to today's eyes.
- a fragment
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Processing Note: The image was contrast enhanced with a "Daidoish" preset (exposure, contrast, and clear-view increased; blacks increased and whites decreased in curves to clip blacks and highlights).
Bell & Howell (Canon) Dial 35 (this one)
4 year expired Kodak gold 400
Shutter priority (1/125), focus distance approx 7-10', aperture ?
Camera thoughts:
The camera meter is accurate enough for flatly lit subjects but is unsurprisingly fooled by backlit subjects or large bright spots. This image was made to see how a high dynamic range subject might look as the underexposed areas fall apart. Noise in the dark, underexposed areas is expected to be bad and is unpleasant. My older noise reduction software cannot deal with it without heavy detail smudging.
The second problem, distortion of nearby objects due to a (relatively) tilted focal plane, is also obvious. Here, the distance is 10-15 feet.
I suspect B&W film would be more pleasing, to my eye, when using the built in light meter to judge a scene. A straightened version with Agfa APX 25 BW filter applied in DXO filmpack is below for comparison.
Conclusion: This camera is quite limited in features. There are only four shutter speeds (1/30, 1/80, 1/125, 1/250) but these are paired with an aperture covering f2.8-f22 on 28mm lens. Fast film on bright days can be overexposed and slow film in dark situations can be underexposed with these limitations. But I found it was actually fun to carry and use this camera, much like the Canon IXUS/Elph and I got some photos I might otherwise have missed - along with several I will never look at again. Learning to accurately judge distance in low light situations will be a bit of a problem, so I imagine my common use will be in daylight with a fine grained BW film. It will be fun to eventually add a flash and explore the possibilities.
Several people have reviewed this re-badged camera, or the Canon original, online. I'd suggest Mike Eckman for one who does it better than me:
As day flows into night,
and the world grows dimmer
through the fading of the light,
A few turn to warm fires.
while the pale moon's glimmer
gives others what they desire.
- a fragment
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Utata's Iron Photographer Challenge 302 requests:
1. A Tub (washing machine)
2. A Warming Beverage (cocoa, albeit blown out)
3. A large area of negative space (subjectively large)
The morning fog is so thick that, occasionally, you can see a cloud of droplets wafting through the air. This morning the sun cooperated, briefly giving backlit sunbeams. A blurred car seemed better suited to the scene than a sharp one, thus low shutter speed was used.
(Processing: Lightroom was used to correct distortion, exposure, and straighten before Kodak Tri-X film was simulated with DXO Filmpack)
I named this after a Bob Dylan song at the instigation of UTATA's iron photographer 101 challenge, needing to include:
1 - pavement
2 - a shadow (non-human)
3 - title from a Dylan song
Otherwise this would be "Morning fog (1 of 3)"
How to make it:
This image resulted from practice, although I didn't know I was practicing at the time. I had several foggy days to tinker with. Early on I found the contrast under the trees was interesting. When the opportunity to shoot sunbeams arose I tried it with just trees. I liked that but it seemed out of balance, even without the sun in frame. I was on a busy road, so I added passing cars to the image. None made it better until I tried blurring. I thought I had my image but, to be certain, I tried several with the sun in frame and found this. In short: I found something I liked (sunbeams) and tried more variations than I thought I needed before the opportunity was gone.
The swing, the beat, the rhythm and flow;
The music lifts our pulse and our glow.
The soft humidity of the night
cushions the clash of the Zildjians
While the soft melody of stroked keys
floats above our heads.
In a dark room with low lights
with the poetry of sound flooding around us.
And the murmur of soft conversations
fill the silences between sets.
- a fragment
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Take a dive in the deep end,
I'll keep a watchful eye over you.
Swimming under the stars
is as safe as can be.
Nevermind the chop,
the turbulence, the changing winds.
I keep a clear eye
on the swimmers in the sea.
- a fragment
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