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another snip test, this is Ilford Delta 100 in my homemade developer Redinol formula 4.
i think i overprocessed this by a bit, so it is kinda washed out... but i like it for that too, i s'pose.
cheers.
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My new photography blog has yummy ice cream you can download! And fuel additives you can add to your car to triple your mileage!
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If you’d like to view my images larger… While I only allow my contacts to view my larger images (I generally upload at least 800px images on the long axis)…
a quick workaround I might suggest is to view my photostream as a slideshow. Works well for me. This is frequently how I view others’ ‘streams, and it will put a large image on black. just click the projector screen icon next to the stream or set. : )
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on 01 jan 2010, I began a new journey w/ a flickr 365 group that i formed. The idea is that I strive to push myself daily; by exploring techniques, ideas, and experiments.
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The sun painting exhibit at the Exploratorium had these prism-projected color bars on a wall, this is basically a straight OOC JPEG.
Installation of a residential wind turbine is filmed for an episode of the DIY network show "This New House". Bob Hayes of Prevailing Winds and his crew install a Dyocore SolAir 800 I wind turbine which integrates two small solar panels into its design and is capable of producing up to 800 Watts at 12 mph. The two solar panels produce up to 45watts. Redondo Beach, Ca, USA
San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Jahja Ling Conductor, Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego, California (SD)
This is part of what made this lens my #1 top priority when choosing my first prime on Sony E-mount. The round circular bokeh of lights, and the ability to work one type of harsh shooting situation with beauty.
You'll notice the leaves aren't doubling, color remains vibrant, center is sharp at f/1.8. No real issues with fringing or CA or blooming. Only the small leaf right about the stem of the flower shows any characteristics of "nervousness" IMO. Mostly that's due to overexposure. VERY well handled for a tough condition.
another new homemade developer recipe, i'm calling this one Duofine.
i had the last half of a 1.5L bottle of red wine to use up... so, i've a bunch of snip tests, since i had partial rolls of several films...
only prollem is my scanner doesn't seem to be focusing very easily... auto, manual, whatever... i'm scanning some of my neg strips over 30 times and not getting a sharp image. sigh.
cheers.
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My new photography blog has yummy ice cream you can download! And fuel additives you can add to your car to triple your mileage!
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If you’d like to view my images larger… While I only allow my contacts to view my larger images (I generally upload at least 800px images on the long axis)…
a quick workaround I might suggest is to view my photostream as a slideshow. Works well for me. This is frequently how I view others’ ‘streams, and it will put a large image on black. just click the projector screen icon next to the stream or set. : )
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on 01 jan 2010, I began a new journey w/ a flickr 365 group that i formed. The idea is that I strive to push myself daily; by exploring techniques, ideas, and experiments.
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Amanda with fire fans, what an awesome tool for photo images! Defined fire trails with intricate patterns. I definitely would put this tool right up there with poi and hoops. Thanks Amanda, awesome performing!
imethinks a shot like this- while clearly not spectacular- really shows the shifted focal plane.
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Alright, so I don’t yet have my homemade cherry wood pinhole camera totally completed for test shots… just waiting for final gluing to cure after I needed to make a few last minute adjustments last night and very early this morning. But after Steven asked a bit about my plans for my future (and much more ambitious plans) to eventually build a tilt-shift camera… I figured maybe it is time to upload a few sample images of what my homemade tilt-shift lens is capable of. all shot at f/4.
These are simple test shots I just took a couple hours ago while I was walking my dog. Since I really need to work on focusing distance, I was hand-holding my tilt-shift lens in front of the camera- I did NOT secure it to the bayonet mount. Using the front Nikon F-mount bayonet mount on my ‘plunger-cam‘ style homemade tilt-shift adapter, I used my old manual focus Nikon Series E 100mm f/2.8 lens on my Nikon D300 for all these images.
I am prolly able to get nearly 20 degrees of shift and about 14 degrees of tilt. I haven’t measured, so I’m just guessing here. Yeah, some curious light leaks and flares and ghosts on my D300. No big dealio to me at this point. Maybe, kinda cool.
Cheers.
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on 01 jan 2010, i began my journey w/ a new flickr group i've formed, ~365: experimental
the idea is that i strive to push myself daily; experiment, learn, & develop my photography skills further by exploring techniques, ideas, and experiments. hopefully, some of you might consider joining and we can work on our journey together! cheers.
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San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Jahja Ling Conductor, Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego, California (SD)
Dang. Haven't posted in 15 months! So, I'm trying to get back into shooting. Still the same janky Sony A3000 that is awesome. My nice, trusty Sony 20/2.8 pancake lens that I'll probably need to sell to help pay my Nov or Dec rent. Thanks all for visiting.
Shot at Fresno State's glass blowing department. Awesome stuff they turn out. It really seems like Prof. Joe Morel leads an awesome program. I hope to go back soon, and maybe make some more images.
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So, lots of change is happening in my life. I'm efforting to create a new Fresno artists' collective we're calling Fresno Creativists. No website at this time, join other local creativists! Join my flickr group!
We're efforting to help cultivate art & culture here in the Fresno region. Painters, photographers, sculptors, musicians, crafts, culinary, audio/video, fashion, graphics, ... Join forces with us!
Fresno Creativists Group on flickr.
A week ago I had a chance to meet Benjamin Von Wong, hang out w/ him a bunch, and here he is at his shoot. My Zeiss Jena 80/2.8 using tilt effect. Ben is "sponsored" by Broncolor, so I just saw a photo opp. Hey Broncolor, contact me if you wanna buy my images. lol
I'm trying to help coordinate an AMA (Ask Me Anything) live chat for Ben on flickr. Hang tight, I think this can happen in August. If you ever wanted to directly ask a question to Ben (and other prominent photographers)... I'm trying to make this happen.
I'm actually considering starting a photography meetup group in SF. Yeah, I know they're a dime-a-dozen... But I'd strive to offer a heap more, hopefully making a great community. In talks w/ some photo organizations right now...
If you aren't familiar w/ Von Wong, well... His work is amazing, please check him out. On flickr, SmugMug, 500px, his interviews all over the internet (like dpreview, fstoppers, petapixel...), or his youTube.
a few first images from my new "virtual film swap" experimental project with Gabriela (madswisscow).
my many thanks for her permission, allowing me to use her images in my double exposures... i have been a big fan of her work for several years now... here shot with Lomo 100 color film.
you can view her (untitled) buildings image here. personally, i find her work very inspiring and interesting. check out her photostream!
cheers.
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My photography blog has yummy ice cream you can download!
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If you’d like to view my images larger… While I only allow my contacts to view my larger images (I generally upload at least 800px images on the long axis)…
a quick workaround I might suggest is to view my photostream as a slideshow. Works well for me. This is frequently how I view others’ ‘streams, and it will put a large image on black. just click the projector screen icon next to the stream or set. : )
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on 01 jan 2010, I began a new journey w/ a flickr 365 group that i formed. The idea is that I strive to push myself daily; by exploring techniques, ideas, and experiments.
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I went out to shoot on Saturday with Andrew, tangent on flickr.
Quick flip of my camera settings as I saw this truck roll up to a red light and waited for it at the intersection for a panning shot.
I hope you'll check out Andrew's photos from our day. He's awesome to shoot with, and inspires me with his work.
First shot shows very nice bokeh elements, especially from a pancake lens. This ain't a Canon 85/1.2L nor Nikon 85/1.4 G. But not too "nervous" either, esp. for a tough scene.
The table legs in the middle ground aren't doubling, the lights in the background are pleasant enough. There's no CA or fringing or blooming. Overall, quite good IMO.
And hey, if you care for any of my long-winded reviews/observations, please give me a shout... Or comments, or whatever. So I know. Otherwise I sometimes feel like I'm just "burdening" people with my incessant drivel.
Cheers.
another "virtual film swap" image with Steven Monteau. i used his image as one exposure in my double exposure here.
thanks again to Steven for the permission to do this, and if you haven't seen his work... check it out! very creative, very inspiring.
cheers.
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My photography blog has yummy ice cream you can download!
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If you’d like to view my images larger… While I only allow my contacts to view my larger images (I generally upload at least 800px images on the long axis)…
a quick workaround I might suggest is to view my photostream as a slideshow. Works well for me. This is frequently how I view others’ ‘streams, and it will put a large image on black. just click the projector screen icon next to the stream or set. : )
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on 01 jan 2010, I began a new journey w/ a flickr 365 group that i formed. The idea is that I strive to push myself daily; by exploring techniques, ideas, and experiments.
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What is it like backstage of a fashion show before the start?
A lot like this.
From the FCC Recycled Fashion Show 2016.
I'm curious about the Crest. I know they're trying to raise funds to renovate. But what will it become? I want it.
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The Crest Theater opened in 1949. More info on historicfresno.org
Woolly Pocket vertical garden hangers at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles and is part of their Woolly School Garden program. The Woolly Pocket hangers are created from 100% recycled materials. The school uses gardens to teach students gardening and also has a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds, a small greenhouse and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA
A week ago I had a chance to meet Benjamin Von Wong, hang out w/ him for about 20 hours over a weekend. I think this shot kinda captures his energy and dynamism while at work. Also: Jaron (fStoppers) and Bonocore (SmugMug).
I'm trying to help coordinate an AMA (Ask Me Anything) live chat for Ben on flickr. Hang tight, I think this can happen in August. If you ever wanted to directly ask a question to Ben (and other prominent photographers)... I'm trying to make this happen.
If you aren't familiar w/ Von Wong, well... His work is amazing, please check him out. On flickr, SmugMug, 500px, his interviews all over the internet (like dpreview, fstoppers, petapixel...), or his youTube.
Watering plants. School Children learn about and tend the vertical garden at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden is provided by Woolly Pocket and is part of their Woolly School Garden program. The Woolly Pocket hangers are created from 100% recycled materials. The school also has a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds, a small greenhouse and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA
Here's more steel and glass added in, more reflections and harsh contrast. Handled pretty well IMO.
Pleasing bokeh is in the handling of tough edges, like the upstairs floor to the glass to the stainless railings to the light reflections. Or the stair railing directly into the lights over the bar countertop. Those contrasty edges are the ones most prone to showing signs of awful bokeh ("nervousness") in my experience.
Solar array on rooftop of Asian Pacific Health Care offices with Hollywood Hills in background, Los Angeles, California, USA
so, i had been wondering all of last season why Torres was using two different bats- oftentimes even in the same game.
one, i think is a maple wood bat. just beautiful... dark stained barrel, gold stripe, light stained handle. the other i think is an ash wood bat, light stained almost sanded to no stain all over.
i had a chance to ask him, personally. he said, "oh, it just depends which one i feel like." they're the same weight, i think... but no real reason- just whichever he 'feels good with'.
and this year, it looks like he might've even switched bats- to a black stained barrel and light stained handle.
he has a lot of potential- with 4.1 speed, spectacular center field coverage. i think he'll remain a major leaguer for a solid career. although, come trade deadline, he may no longer be a Giant. he should be an everyday player within a year or two- somewhere i think.
cheers.
another new homemade developer recipe, i'm calling this one Duofine.
i had the last half of a 1.5L bottle of red wine to use up... so, i've a bunch of snip tests, since i had partial rolls of several films...
only prollem is my scanner doesn't seem to be focusing very easily... auto, manual, whatever... i'm scanning some of my neg strips over 30 times and not getting a sharp image. sigh.
cheers.
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My new photography blog has yummy ice cream you can download! And fuel additives you can add to your car to triple your mileage!
---------------------
If you’d like to view my images larger… While I only allow my contacts to view my larger images (I generally upload at least 800px images on the long axis)…
a quick workaround I might suggest is to view my photostream as a slideshow. Works well for me. This is frequently how I view others’ ‘streams, and it will put a large image on black. just click the projector screen icon next to the stream or set. : )
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on 01 jan 2010, I began a new journey w/ a flickr 365 group that i formed. The idea is that I strive to push myself daily; by exploring techniques, ideas, and experiments.
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I haven’t yet been able to develop my first test frame in my new pinhole camera… so, for today I had a little time to go back and look thru some rolls of film where I haven’t scanned all the images. And these are a few frames that had slipped thru, until now.
This is one of my first exposures on my initial caffenol snip test. For the redder tones, I used the Fuji NPS 160 color film profile on silverfast AI pro. Personally, I find the color too rich and red for my taste- even considering this is developed in coffee.
Cheers.
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on 01 jan 2010, i began my journey w/ a new flickr group i've formed, ~365: experimental
the idea is that i strive to push myself daily; experiment, learn, & develop my photography skills further by exploring techniques, ideas, and experiments. hopefully, some of you might consider joining and we can work on our journey together! cheers.
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A week ago I had a chance to meet Benjamin Von Wong, hang out w/ him for about 20 hours over a weekend. Here's Chris MacAskill "Baldy" (founder of SmugMug) on location.
I'm trying to help coordinate an AMA (Ask Me Anything) live chat for Ben on flickr. Hang tight, I think this can happen in August. If you ever wanted to directly ask a question to Ben (and other prominent photographers)... I'm trying to make this happen.
If you aren't familiar w/ Von Wong, well... His work is amazing, please check him out. On flickr, SmugMug, 500px, his interviews all over the internet (like dpreview, fstoppers, petapixel...), or his youTube.
for a long while i have been considering a switch to the Sony Alpha mount. why?
zeiss auto-focus glass with image stabilization.
and some sweet crop & full frame sensors.
oh yeah, and IMHO the best 35mm film SLR ever made is the Konica Maxxum 9. faster flash sync speed of 1/400 sec. 1/12,000 sec shutter. all kinds of goodness.
this is a shot i took comparing the Sony's Zeiss ZA 135mm f/1.8 lens on an A900 against my Nikon D300 and Nikon 135mm f/2 DC lens.
i can promise you, in every way you can compare... the sony zeiss beats my nikon 135 DC. sharpness, color rendering, tonal rendering, edge/corner sharpness, saturation, vignetting control, and most especially in longitudinal CA. bokeh is about equal, perhaps. oh yeah, it is also a stabilized lens on a sony body!
this was shot indoors, ISO 1250, 1/160 sec, f/2 in JPEG file format on an Alpha A900. focus on the sharp white lettering of AF/MF switch.
oh yeah, for my contacts... you can view a 1900px X 1262 size image of this.
cheers.
Here's what my in-camera b&w image looks like from the water drip tray. The patterning is just incredible, looks like some sort of wild star constellation or something otherworldly to my eyes.
2783 panel Solar Array at the Hill Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant. The Array provides about 15% of the facility's energy needs. Camarillo, Ventura County, California, USA
i can honestly say that this one roll of fuji reala i shot 4 years ago made me fall back in love with film. before i met my holga, before all my experiments and mods, before caffenol or chai-lenol.
not even in to my 'top 5' images from this roll of reala. but hey, the beautiful blue sky color, the accurate color rendering of the GGB, the deep shadows on the underside of the bridge retain great detail and depth... each image from this roll just amazed me.
cheers.
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If you’d like to view my images larger… while I only allow my contacts to view my larger images (I generally upload at least 800px images on the long axis)…
a quick workaround I might suggest is to view my photostream as a slideshow. Works well for me. this is frequently how I view others’ ‘streams, and it will put a large image on black. just click the slideshow icon next to my stream or set. : )
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on 01 jan 2010, i began a new journey w/ a flickr 365 group that i formed, the idea is that i strive to push myself daily; by exploring techniques, ideas, and experiments.
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Another of my "how a comet is formed" series of images from the Exploratorium. Shot w/ Sony a3000 and Konica AR Hexanon 40/1.8 pancake lens.
Why fuschia? Dunno. Just wanted a strong color palette, and I found others (like teal and purple) just didn't punch as hard. YMMV.
So today I got out early for an HDR meetup group, thanks to Robert for organizing this. I brought my Hexanon 40/1.8 I wanted to shoot with- but ooops, I forgot my Konica AR lens adapter was still attached to my Viv 200/3.5 from going to three Giants games this week.
I FINALLY!!! got a vertical sweep panoramic, most give me an error message. I figured the gyroscope in-camera didn't like vert axis panos. This looks like a moo card, neh?
So, all my shots were with my Sony 20/2.8 pancake. Most with my Neweer 0.45x wide angle conversion lens screwed on the front. Can't tell? Just look for the wonky bending and warping, it's sure to be at 9.5mm with the ultra-wide conversion.
Oh, and MASSIVE softness around the edges. Like, if you dropped a raw egg, it wouldn't even break it.
another of my sumatra coffee bean shots on fuji NPH 400, developed in coffee (caffenol C). i gotta use my nikon N80, which prolly hadn't run a roll for at least two or three years! since, usually i use my nikon F100 for 35mm film.
cheers.
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If you’d like to view my images larger… while I only allow my contacts to view my larger images (I generally upload at least 800px images on the long axis)…
a quick workaround I might suggest is to view my photostream as a slideshow. Works well for me. this is frequently how I view others’ ‘streams, and it will put a large image on black. just click the slideshow icon next to my stream or set. : )
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on 01 jan 2010, i began a new journey w/ a flickr 365 group that i formed, the idea is that i strive to push myself daily; by exploring techniques, ideas, and experiments.
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Installation of a residential wind turbine is filmed for an episode of the DIY network show "This New House". Bob Hayes of Prevailing Winds and his crew install a Dyocore SolAir 800 I wind turbine which integrates two small solar panels into its design and is capable of producing up to 800 Watts at 12 mph. The two solar panels produce up to 45watts. Redondo Beach, Ca, USA
a couple more scans from my first test of homemade redscale film using fuji NPH400.
i find the exposure latitude to be a lot less than shooting regular. i was metering for ISO 160 (+1 1/3 stops) and still some frames didn't come out at all.
plus, scanning is a bit problematic, because the colors are so shifted. but i think this frame represents an honest look at the redscale of this film stock. i think next i wanna try redscaling the DNP Centuria film... could be a real good one!
oh, BTW... this is part of the exterior of Danielle Steele's home. it is likely the most expensive mansion in all of san francisco. she's an author of romance novels, but i can honestly say that not a dime of her mortgage was paid for by me. LOL.
this home used to be owned by the Spreckels family, the sugar magnates. no idea how much it is worth, since it hasn't been on the market in years. but i'd guess $45-65 million. an old friend who is a special agent w/ the IRS argues it is probably worth at least $100 million. i disagree... but he does property seizures for a living, yeah... whatdoiknow?
cheers.
With Proposition B, in Los Angleles, the city's Department of Water and Power (DWP) will place solar photovoltaic systems throughout the city and connect them to the city's existing electrical grid. A roof mounted, grid tied Solar Voltaic solar panel array (10Kw) on top of the Santa Monica Library. The Library was built in 2005 by the architecture firm Moore Ruble Yudell (MRY) and is a LEEDS Certified building. Los Angeles County, California, USA