what do you see like: 2012

love those. i noticed sunset towers was a bit different there.

ha, busted. not sure which I like better.

i've started straightening some photos out in photoshop, especially ones with an ocean horizon.

that last pic of ava is incredible!, michael

i was admiring one of the askew-horizons in one of your fb pics, grady (some people were submerging another person), go easy

Cute little guy, hanging on a retired rig off Pensacola.

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tons of really nice pics in that set, Dr. C. must have been a great trip. Chikan looks pretty cool!

hey, thanks rent! It was a great trip - got very lucky with weather, the student morale level was high, and our Mandarin-speaking guide (an old TA of mine from back in the day) was ridiculously on-the-ball and in control of every situation. So that made it easy to focus on the itinerary and our architectural priorities etc. Definitely a huge eye-opener for me both within my field and just in terms of "hey, there's this country called China, you should probably know something about it."

Finally finished posting my pics yesterday, OOF! Next up: unfinished India film from three years ago. It's so bizarre switching back to scanned negatives after being in digital mode for eight months...just a totally different look and feel, and things seem to need so much less futzing (not counting dust and scratches which I'm inclined to just ignore at this point in order to get semi-caught-up).

a volleyball game where the kids just cheer for each other too illustratively and which you suspect never really ends...

this is fucking wild. great stuff.

ha, yeah. it was weird. thanks!

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Sorry if that's too many things at once.

Blogger (schlump): Not normally that keen on pet/animal photos but the two dogs one above is great.
The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku): Nice!

hey that's one of gr8080's!, via his link.

those phots are killer anyway michael, the first & fourth particularly for me, they're really perfectly isolated & intriguing

Oops! Thanks for highlighting it then!

This one, I really owe all to the light and the place I was standing. It would have been difficult to take a crappy picture there and then.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8283/7803756294_3fb367aaf3_z.jpg

This one, I give myself a little more credit for.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8438/7803785726_68ed692d25_c.jpg

And this one is so striking it's surreal, even though it's just an alleyway.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8446/7803779960_e0d07a8833_c.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7118/7804953414_8e346c32e5_z.jpg

back to working with film negatives after months in my digital playground - - - Lightroom makes it really hard to deal with scratches and dust stuff (at least, compared to Photoshop healing brush) and I'm taking that as a sign to just not fuck with it for a while, embrace the junk, or at least just let it pass in hopes of someday getting caught up with my image backlog. I can always do more painstaking, fussy treatment of any images I want to get prints of or w/e.

I found a roll of film in my gutter??? how do I shot

In the near-infrared. My Hoya RM72 filter just arrived!

Apologies for the boring subject matter.

http://i50.tinypic.com/sfktw4.jpg

woah, pretty cool though!

ya, love it!

whoah

whoah

― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 18 August 2012 17:54 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i need to know what it does to skin tones

Schump, I can point you to a number of interesting sites. In general, it reduces blemishes (ferckles etc) while making the top layer of skin semi-transparent. Here's a portrait in ultaviolet, visible, and near infrared:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/UV_Vis_IR_Portrait.jpg

Just adding a used filter to an unmodified digital camera, as I did, won't work well for people shots, however, as while camera sensor CCDs and CMOS are pretty sensitive to IR, they are always covered by a "hot mirror" that rejects nearly all IR to prevent color cast. So while I was in bright sunlight, ISO 1600, and only stopped to f4, that exposure was for 1.5 seconds, as I recall. You lose about 8 stops of light so your subjects would have to remain very still. Useless for landscapes on a windy day.

It doesnt cost too much to have the hot mirror removed and replaced with an IR filter or UV-Vis-IR glass (used w/ external filters), around $240, or you can do upit yourself if you have a dust free environment, but I'm not ready to make that sort of commitment just yet. I am watching for cheap used camera bodies though.

As for that otherwise banal image of mine from this morning, it was white balanced on grass, and the blue and red channels swapped in post processing. Otherwise no fiddling.

Forgot to add, once the camera's hot mirror is replaced, it becomes about as sensitive to IR as it was to visible. Some people do IR flash candids and street photography at night to remain discreet.

those white trees are so beautiful!!
not boring at all.

Love the IR!

Girls are art-directing themselves now...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8430/7822231242_13e90ff3b9_z.jpg

That's great!

CVS is terrible at color scans i have decided, but this turned out ok

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/391286_863858323836_608592696_n.jpg

great shot imo

yeah rad. it feels reductive to throw in eggleston for colour photography but i think it is the fashions that make me think of it. your colours match so nicely, the blue w/the plantpot & the flower w/the dress.

gr80 yer profile pic is film right??

thanks dudes

Fooling around.

http://i46.tinypic.com/wty36e.jpg
Self-portrait in a PaperMate Profile 1.4 mm ball point pen

gr80 yer profile pic is film right??

the one in the valley? nope that's iPhone :)

haha I was very impressed by the dynamic range on that (sorry to get all film geeky)

HDR setting is pretty dope if you have a steady hand!!

guys check it out I'm the best amateur photographer in Honolulu:

http://honoluluweekly.com/story-continued/2012/08/best-people/

:D

that's awesome man

should just email u directly but if i don't want to use paypal would it be cool to send u a check/money order to order zines??

yeah thats fine!

gr8080 @ gmail

digital

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sweet jesus, you guys have me ready to throw in the towel, all of those last two posts are amazing.

gr80 do you do lab scans? I love the smooth tones.

here's some ocean that looks like manhattan:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8289/7864479296_ee100fb5cb_c.jpg

gr80 do you do lab scans? I love the smooth tones.

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, August 27, 2012 4:09 AM (2 hours ago)

i do-- i'm actually kind of bummed with how most of this last batch came out though! for example, the 1st and last ones in my post are especially grainy, when similarly shot rolls usually come back way smooth (i think?)

Doctor Casino, you gotta be kidding. Been a fan of yr film work for years; I know how daunting the RAW>LR workflow is to begin with but I can't believe you're not doing awesome work with the 5D2 already.

working on layouts for my next zine
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really dig the left two pictures especially. blur your eyes and they look like reflected images.

5yo daughter goes off in a huff at busy railway station. Dad takes a picture.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7253/7876438740_5024a48cf2_z.jpg

awww, thanks Michael, that's kind of you to say. I've done some okay stuff so far with the 5D2, see the China pics I posted above, but haven't yet broken through to awesome necessarily. Got some really cool stuff coming down the pipe though, someday...