for the stolen strategies pool

original photo by woojinhan

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Scribe shark looking on......

Sony ILCEO ⍺6500 | Sony 20mm 2.8 (upper panel); Beseler TOPCON Super D | RE, Auto-Topcon ƒ1.4 58mm (lower panel)

I'm slowly building my film photo skills. Unhappy with the scan of my negatives I got from the camera store I decided to digitize the negatives a different way. I don't own a macro lens per se any more, but I have 3 macro filters that screw into some of my Lensbaby lenses. The only lens that makes sense to use (I think) is the Lensbaby Twist 60. Set to ƒ8 and considering the virtually flat surface to photograph I won't get the characteristic Petzval twisty background. The center of the lens is reasonably sharp and that's where it counts. The lower image is the result after I'd refined parts of the process. Makeshift with stuff I had around the house, but it works fine. The film was Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. I feel good about my baby step forward today.

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Droplet, with little to say. I made several macro shots of a chive stem in low evening sunlight, buffeted by a brisk wind. I didn't hope for much, due to the swaying movement, but managed to salvage one or two images and combined the best of each. The 'speech balloon' is a genuine result of flare on the lens.

Gallipoli, vendredi saint

Fauna en Corvera-Asturias-Spain

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Moscow. Manezhnaya square.

Camera: Samsung Vega 77i QD

Film: Kodak Vision3 200t + dev.D-76

Photo taken: 02/08/2017

Scanner: Noritsu LS-1100

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Same photo as the one on the right with just histogram modification.

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processed

Processed With Darkroom

With macro ring

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23x34 acrylic on canvas

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couldn't resist making this look like an old line drawing that scared the hell out of us as kids...

This week theme is Square (Processing)

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I was brain storming for this one, never thought it was going to be so difficult to come up with a picture. I had so many ideas but wanted to do something different.

Last night after I put my 2 little kiddies to sleep, I was looking around the house for inspiration and found a Square box with 9 story cubes. Light bulb!!!!

I was constructed a set by lifting objects on different levels (books in the corners) to get a different depth of field and making the middle square even higher to have it sharpest. I used a 50mm lens 1.8f @ F2.2 and spot metering and used a light box on the side. Processed in PS.

And about the story Cubes; I rolled them and that is what rolled out, now the story begins with: “Once upon a time “ …… start with the first symbol to grab your attention. There are no wrong answers, the goal is to let the images spark your imagination.

Have a go ;)

All comments, feedback and likes are much appreciated

That's hot it looks like when it's stenciled. I always try to improve the design, I forgot to add some bridges to give it more stability…but still looks good.

It is hand cut. I am also using skinny caps for fine stencils.

my first cross processed image (with GIMP)

best viewed on dark background...

Design manifesto (akto project)

Design is an idea that grows like a tree

and flies away like a bird

Grote Markt Antwerpen

a little more colour

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Sunset converted to black-and-white and with rows sorted from lightest to darkest, top to bottom. Made with Processing.org.

Workin on a video. Maybe tomorrow?

the only thing I worked on today, everything else required time in the car and visiting and talking. So this isn't done yet, but you can see the bones...

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