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I have the IQ360 for hats. Also working on 3D images for the back of Aluminum business cards. Not bad on the RF laser but probably better when the Fiber gets here. Still need to actually build that jig since I never set up the camera in the laser.

I have another post identical to the one I just made, but first it's a detour into a nightmare. I've known two guys named Eddy and Jair for over 20 years now. Of all the photographers I know, Eddy is the one whose work is going to end up in a museum. He does one thing and does it well. He takes street portraits with medium and large format film. He's also bipolar AF, drinks and smokes heavily, and is morbidly obese. I like Eddy a lot, but I recognize he's not going to live forever. You should check out his work while he's still around. The January of 2007, Eddy and Jair were walking through the woods and stumbled upon some hunter's Bushnell remote game camera. Being they miscreant teenagers (they were actually 20 at the time) that they were, they ganked it. The trail camera produced really noisy, crappy 640x480 images. It also had some serious rolling shutter issues, which were not normally a problem on a camera that's not supposed to move. During that January, Eddy took, or more to the point, the CAMERA took a bunch of weird and very bad photos. There's no shutter control on trail cameras. Just a few settings, either motion activated or timed. I think one shot every 5 seconds was the fastest. I ran a select few of the images through Topaz GigaPixel AI and in a couple cases Topaz DeNoise AI as well, but did almost no other edits to them: This is the moment the pair stumbled on to the camera. It's like something out of a found footage horror film. That will be a recurring theme. Two self portraits Eddy took in the bathroom mirror after he got the camera home. There's a very strong rolling shutter effect on the second one. A triptych taken during one of their many visits to the remains of the infamous Belchertown State School. The grounds were very accessible in the mid 00s. These are demonstrably terrible photos, but there's something about the lo-fi horror movie aesthetic they have that I quite like. The testarossa in them is Eddy's younger sister Rosie, who is a bit of a nightmare herself.

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I used Ref ormed Film Lab out of Florida to mail some rolls of film not too long ago. Price was reasonable, turnaround was quick and their in-house scans were pretty good to my un-tuned eyes. This was some Fuji 200 that expired in 2012 I think, on my Dad's old OM10 with 50mm lens.

In no particular order: Finished another roll of film. The first one I put through my Rebel K2 in 15 years(!) Still have no idea where I'm going to get it (and the other three rolls I have) developed. The only photo from my ferry ride back from the mainland that I've bothered to edit. Departing from MV. Those are some very Vineyard weather conditions unfolding. Makes for ethereal imagery. Fussing around with a circular polarizer on my 17-40L. The combination is a PITA to use because I have to adjust the filter with the lens hood off, re-attach the hood and then frame the shot. Testing out my 5D IV the first day I got it. Taken with my 50mm F/1.4, which I hardly use because I prefer my OG 1986 "Nifty Fifty" 50mm F/1.8 in every regard. A young buck across the pond. It is with great restraint that I avoid shopping for Canon 400mm or 500mm L prime. Wildlife photography is where dreams and bank accounts go to die. The contractor working on our house is ...quite a character. He's either greatly over or under medicated for his ADD. He's got a really nice doggo however. Her name is Turkey and she's an English Bull/Boxer mix. She has a gorgeous brindle coat. Watching her dart around my yard put me dangerously close to wanting a dog. A study of the tool shed my grandfather build in the 50s. Futzing with the 85mm F/1.8. Absolute silliness with the 17-40 at the wide end. From my first test of the nutty Suntar 135mm F/2.8 M42 lens I bought for under $20. It has an amazingly long minimum focus distance and an aperture that only increments in full stops. This was taken at F/5.6 or F/8 IIRC. I ran this images through Luminar 4 and applied a LUT to it. Did I mention I bought a Holga HL-C 60mm F/8 in Canon EF mount? It's enormously silly. I got a Asahi Super-Takumar 50mm F/1.4 in the mid 00s, as part of a lot of M42 lenses I bought of eBay. It's quite expensive now. I find it to be reasonably sharp when stopped down, but never particularly contrasty. I post processed the above two photos extensively in Luminar 4 and Photoshop. This is Sweetened Water Pond, which is the one across the street from where I live. It's normally a Vernal pond, going dry in the summer. It stuck around for all of this year and the ducks were quite happy about it. You've heard of Turquoise Hexagon Sun? This is Orange Hexagon Lens Flare. The Takumar's element coatings are decidedly a product of the 1970s. The CZJ Sonnar 135mm F/3.5 once again proving it's the best actual lens amongst the army of 135mm primes I own. Early evening moon. 85mm F/1.8 again. It is a really good lens that I don't use nearly enough.

These are great, but I think this is more effective with a small crop.

Been picking up more photo books, but the one I was most excited about this last month was the title I thought best captured those early pandemic days. Maybe a bit on the nose, but how do you show the lonely alienness of those first 6-9 months? Anyway, Andrew Rovenko's The Rocketgirl Chronicles (Backyard Space Travel)

Well, it didn’t take long for AI imagery to step over the line. https://petapixel.com/2023/11/07/adobe-stock-is-selling-ai-generated-images-of-the-israel-hamas-conflict/