I like this plume moth. It's actually still there at the moment. I did mess up a bit with the photos though. The tripod was precariously standing on a table that wobbles, so I couldn't have the shutter slower. But then also my FD to FX adapter has terrible aperture control, hence I cranked the ISO. Maybe I'll try again if it's there at some other time.
Yeah I'm not doing very well at the moment.
This was a nice day out, except that I was ill and got horribly sun burnt...
I was experimenting with using a more tungsten balanced white balance with an 85b and black diffusion filter. Definitely could have picked better subjects, but it worked.
I spent a few minutes making sure the RAW processing was working correctly and got this from a DNG, so that works now. I know I keep posting the same things and I'm struggling with that. I'm not sure how to remedy it, especially seen as I haven't been doing well at all recently. We'll see. I'm keeping up with this at least.
I'm slightly confused by the EXIF of this photo, but it isn't an issue really. I could hear magpies flapping around in this tree but I couldn't see them. Also, to address the obvious, I have been terrible with getting these up on time recently, I know. I've been feeling terrible, and very tired, as you can see by a lot of the recent photos being inside or very bland. I will be trying to rectify this.
More messing with motion. I like the results, and the built in ND filter is helpful here.
I am borrowing this camera again. It seems a few CHDK settings were disabled, so unfortunately I didn't get any DNG files for the next few days, only JPEGs.
A bit of a throwaway but I still like it somewhat.
Finally I got a squirrel!
I bet you thought I'd forgotten about this project. Well, I haven't. It has just been way too hot and tiring to exist the last few days. Anyway, one of the few occassions he's still enough for photos.
I like how the sun was hitting them.
A silly harsh flash photo. Don't know why but it's here.
This was the first day I actually forgot to take a photo for OPAD. Luckily, I did take some pictures of an interesting tree we saw. It's apparently related to a type of moth that puts webbing all over trees. It was everywhere in the area. Anyway, I shot a lot of film that day which is why I kind of forgot to bring a digital camera with me.
Not as happy with this photo as I was at the time, and I feel my editing is pretty bad here especially. But I suppose I'll have plenty of bad edits to come before they get better. Another thing is it was midday, so the sun was at it's harshest. This would work better in the evening or morning. I was more focused on shooting a roll of Kodak Gold with a 6x9 folding camera. I'll share the results of that later most likely.
I haven't messed with the full spectrum camera in a while. I really should use it more after all the trouble it was to do.
Some more experimenting with motion and water. I was very tired after the festival, and film development.
First photo from my phone, and you can probably see one of the reasons I don't use the camera on it. I don't know, it's like all photographic ability disappears when I pull this up. Anyway, this was from outbreak festival, and I didn't take many photos on my phone. This set by knocked loose was my favourite by far. I did bring a half frame point and shoot, and will be sure to share photos from it when they're developed.
I was experimenting with motion today, mostly with trains. This is one of the longer exposures I took, but most of them were 1/10 s handheld, which was the main experiment. I'm unsure if I've overedited this or not to be honest, who knows. I think it looks fine.
Anoyingly I reset the settings on this somehow, so it wasn't saving raw files. So uh, this is a recompressed JPEG to fit on the site. Sorry for the quality.
I was trying to think about editing a bit more, but nothing felt particularly good. The film simulations I'd usually use all just looked wrong. I'm not sure what happened to be honest.
I was initially thinking of doing a moody self portrait, but went back on that very quickly.
Wanted to try some static shots of objects, and also a focus stack. This was made with two images. I think it turned out better than I expected but could be better. I used GIMP, but I think the compression definitely harms it.
Went quite a bit further with editing than I usually would. I'm not sure the result is technically good, but I like it, and I won't get better if I don't experiment more than I have been.
I do like this statue as a subject.
Shame I didn't find a good photo using puddle reflections or something. I just didn't really see anything while I was out.
I shouldn't of shot this handheld, but I couldn't be bothered to get the tripod out. I did hear a bee going around some flowers, but annoyingly I couldn't find it.
A pretty lazy cop-out photo today, but at least I caught up on days I hadn't uploaded and took one for today. I have all my fuji equipment back now so maybe I can do something with that now.
I like this photo and this station a lot, but I wish I'd stayed longer and gotten some film photos while I was there... Maybe I'll find a reason to go back.
Sorry this is a bit late, I had to get the files off of my laptop and add the new month. These next few months are going to be a good indication of how committed I am to this project as things are getting quite difficult for me at the moment.