Knuckledragger

I love the Mac G5 as a media server.

17-40L at 17mm, F/5, 1/60, ISO 100. 17-40L at 19mm, F/6.3, 1/180, ISO 50. Pure silliness at this point. I attatched my Nikon 75-150mm F/3.5 E to my IR-modified 5D and did a "macro" shot of a plant growing in my front yard. The lens was wide open and I shot in aperture priority mode (as one does with fully manual lenses most of the time.) I then processed the image in Photoshop ...twice. The first time I did some basic contrast adjustments. The second time I converted the photo to black & white using a high contrast filter then duotoned it with a quad tone. Then I did some further levels work (I can't really call it "correction" at this point.) Finally, I combined the two images at about a 25/75 ratio. Why? I dunno, it's just how the work flow went.

That's some vintage HeadRoom there on the upper shelf.

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...and if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into miau.

The previous post was supposed to be longer, but I'm having some issue posting multiple images from Flickr to HC. Yes, the irony of that statement is not lost on me. The stream at the edge of my property. I spent considerable time framing this shot. 35mm F/2 at F/8, 1/60, ISO200. It's just a bunch of trees. Converted to black & white in Photoshop using a high contrast blue filter, then duotoned. I also tweaked the curves a bit and then cropped it to 5:4 (which has been my favorite aspect ratio for a decade now.) The vignetting is organic, and not done by a PS plugin. It's an artifact of how the EF 50mm F/1.4 USM transmits IR. F/8, 1/100 ISO 160. 17-40L at 17mm, F/7.1, 1/100, ISO50. 17-40L at 19mm, F/6.3, 1/80, ISO50. Moar later.

Sym-miau-try.

So over the last month I've begun a slow return to photography, after 5+ years of near complete inactivity. I started with digging out my old camera gear, blowing the dust off and charging my batteries. Said batteries are all over a decade old at this point and very quickly it became clear they didn't have the moxie to keep my DSLRs happy. They could keep my ca. 2002 IR-modified PowerShot G2 running, however: Taken with a 17 year old, 4 megapixel point & shoot with a wide angle adapter that was meant for (SD) video. Slightly thereafter, I placed several orders to AMZN and got my IR-modified 5D up and running.. My initial adventure wasn't very far ...my side yard. I used my EF 50mm F/1.8, the vintage 1987 Mk I iteration (which is mechanically superior, but optically the same as the plastic "nifty fifty.") Converted to black & white with an blue filter and then duotoned in Photoshop. Taken with my EF 35mm F/2, which has a wonky AF motor but usually works on the 5D. Converted to black & white with a blue filter an duotoned in Photoshop. I pulled a tick off me shortly after taking this photo. Straight out of the camera. No edits at all.

1965 Opa Dual 1019.

Doesn't really fit in any of the -porn threads. Path in Pampas, Argentina.

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Steely & Clevie's Dubbist, and man is it ever a disappointment. Steely & Clevie are a reggae/dub production duo who have been around for ages. One of them died about a decade ago. They're most famous for the update they did to Dawn Penn's Classic "No, No, No" in 1993. Now credit where credit is due, in all versions of "No, No, No" 90% of what makes the song work is Dawn's vocals. That said, the production Steely & Clevie did rises to the task and is, as the millennials say, infection AF. What I cannot understand is why their 2002 album is so BAD by comparison. They use cheesy "mid 80s Casio preset" synth tones that are like lukewarm Velveeta. The whole album is incredibly amateurish sounding, especially compared to what they did a decade prior.