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Hopefully with more practice I’ll become close to that feminine image I wish to achieve! Loving this time as Michaela!
Raw* photo taken while practicing for the In This Moment Tribute Concert.
*No touch-ups or re-colors have been done. This is the way Firestorm saved it.
A Loyola tennis player practices with her teammates.
Photo taken April 13, 2011
© Loyola University New Orleans
Photo: Tyler Kaufman
Rolleiflex 2.8F,
80mm Xenotar taking lens with Rolleinar no 2,
Bergger BRF-400 film, ISO 400 (out of date),
Developed in Rodinal 1+25 for 7.5 mins at 20C,
Scanned at 3200dpi using Epson F-3200 scanner,
Processed in CS3
I recently acquired a, quite rare, Rollinear no2 close-up accessory for my Rolleiflex 2.8F twin lens reflex camera. The Rolleinar comprises two auxillary lenses. One lens fits over the main taking lens of the camera and allows closer focusing. A second lens, with a prism, fits over the camera's viewing lens and allows you to focus correctly and compensates for parallax.
Normally, the closest focusing distance of the 80mm Xenotar taking lens is about 1m. With the Rolleinar no2 attached, it will focus in the range 33cm to 50cm. You can also get a weaker Rolleinar no1 or a stronger Rolleinar no3. Using a Rolleinar drastically reduces DOF.
This picture is from my first roll using the Rolleinar no2.
Just practising using the new lens and experimenting with some new Lightroom editing techniques. :-)
"Imperfect" is the photo prompt for today. Much of what I do is imperfect, but I wanted to capture a moment that reflected the summer time with our grandsons. ....Wressey practices his trumpet...often imperfectly...but each time is closer to perfect!. #cy365 day 167 #practicemakes perfect
I tried some new things on today. I LOVE this sweater. As I wasn't wearing makeup, I photoshopped my face from a pic last laptop onto my face from today.
I'll probably wear this sweater next time out, along with a denim skirt.
Worship team practice on Sunday morning before the service.
Some of the songs we did include:
10,000 Reasons - Matt Redman
Magnificent - Matt Redman
God Is Able - Hillsong
Worship The Great I AM - Gateway Worship
Give them a listen on YouTube.
Viewfinder app settings: 4x5 camera, 150mm lens, Ilford FP4+ emulation. While I wait for a recently purchased Zone VI camera to arrive, I figured I would take advantage of the Viewfinder app to start teaching myself to see in the aspect ratio, and to get accustomed to the field of view of a 150mm lens in this format. This is at Filoli on the eastern slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Quick edit in Lightroom app for iPad.
Soldiers from 2nd Canadian Division practice drill on April 7, 2015, in preparation for sentry duty at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The National Sentry Program will see sentries posted at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from April 9 to November 10, 2015.
Des soldats de la 2e Division du Canada exécutent des exercices militaires le 7 avril 2015, en vue de leur affectation à titre de sentinelles à la Tombe du Soldat inconnu. Dans le cadre du Programme des sentinelles, des sentinelles seront postées à la Tombe du Soldat inconnu du 9 avril au 10 novembre 2015.
Photos by : Cpl Wesley
Directorate of Army Public Affairs
Ouzo practicing his dives as he's getting ready to attend Barker Days for the fourth time next Saturday - it's the day we've both been waiting for - when the local pool opens its gates for dogs for a day filled with fun and wet dogs :)
I found myself so angry this morning while reading people’s excuses for using Ai. So many people stating they use it to do creative tasks because they’re “not ✨talented✨ like the rest of us.”
I stand behind the idea that with most people whose work you appreciate, it’s not a matter of raw talent blessed to them by the gods. It’s WORK. It’s pure drive, effort, stupidity, and the willingness to do things over and over no matter how bad your results may be until slowly they’re not so bad anymore.
I am so tired of seeing Ai and thinking about it, let alone hearing lazy people (and I mean this with as little harshness as I can manage, people are being made lazier by the day by these sorts of things) make excuses why it’s ok for them to not try and to just get a dopamine hit from that social media like/favorite.
I spend so much time practicing in different photography conditions, trying different settings on my camera, & experimenting with techniques. I am not just naturally talented, although I know I have an eye for composition/framing. (Which, again, as evidenced from my film scan of a 1995 sunset & powerlines sky photo I recently posted… I’VE HAD TO PRACTICE AT FOR YEARS.) The same goes for my illustrating, my sewing, my style/fashion projects, my writing, and my small forays into music making.
I am a creative person who tries everything and does their best to hone various skills so I can best combine all facets of my creativity to create multi-media art. Sometimes that means YouTube videos, sometimes that means collage work, and sometimes that means doing styling/hair/makeup, setting up a scene, photographing it, creatively editing it, and making a collage from all of that or illustrating digitally over my images.
None of it is just raw unfiltered natural talent, it’s skill borne by constantly making bad art, taking bad photos, and writing shitty songs or stories.
The entitlement behind these excuses is infuriating. The more I see people lean into instant gratification demands instead of just being new to something and learning, the more I worry about the fate of people’s mental states. I know it’s disheartening to want to “be a great photographer/illustrator/writer” and start in at it and not instantly be applauded for how earth shattering your work is, but know that the people you admire have been putting in the work.
Some mornings I go out to practice night photography and I’m being lazy. I don’t want to take the tripod or use my remote and on those mornings I come back with nothing to share because I took a bunch of blurry grainy photos. Sometimes there is nothing to come of a photo session/walk but a learning experience and I am frustrated but grateful every time.
I took 3x as many shots this morning than you’re seeing here but this is all that came out even semi-acceptable for me because I didn’t want to dig out my remote and the settings I was using meant every little wobble, no matter how imperceptible, caused blurriness.
Please, when you have someone in your life who is destroying the very planet we live on, the only one we have, and lining the pockets of the corrupt ultra wealthy who run these scam Ai sites to “make art,” sit them down and talk to them. Lead them away from it.
Talk openly about your struggles as a creative, show the work that goes into taking your photos that people love. Be transparent and helpful to people who are interested in getting started and please, never ever play it off as just “natural talent.”
ODC-Essentials
With Covid-19 looming over us, social distancing has become an essential in our daily lives!
My oldest child takes piano, she practices (almost daily) with encouragement ( :
I have some baggage concerning this however, when I was her age my mother also wanted me to play piano, I even took some lessons, but I just wasn't interested-I had better things to do. Well guess what hindsight is always 20/20 right, I wish I had stuck with the lessons. I do tell my daughter this "keep it up, you will be thankful one day" I wonder if she believes me! Hopefully so.