Tag: photography
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One second every day, 2019
You’ve probably already seen this if you follow me on some of the other dumb social media sites, but one of my projects this year was to take a second of video every day, to make one big video of the whole mess. Here’s the link on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iURF0m4MEQg I did this with the app…
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Film, travel, whatever
I’ve been shooting more and more film. I got back my second batch of 35mm last weekend. I have this Canonet GL17 GIII rangefinder that I bought in 2014 that I haven’t been using, because I have some intangible hang-up about it. Maybe it needs a different strap or it’s too hard for me to…
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More Film, and digiFilm
I got my first batch of film back from the shop the other day. I sent in six rolls, 36 exposures each, for a total of $76 for developing and a quick scan to CD. The shots from this Vivitar I bought are tremendously weird. I mean, they look like they were all shot in…
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NyQuil, Cameras, DNA, Writing
NyQuil season has started. Despite my persona, I don’t actually drink the stuff unless I’m sick, and that started last week. I can usually tell when I’m about to get a cold because the bottom completely drops out of writing and I can’t answer three-line emails in under an hour. So trying to update this…
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360 Photos, Ricoh Theta V
I bought a new camera recently, a Ricoh Theta V. It’s a 360 camera, which uses two fisheye lenses on a small thing about the size of a TV remote, and software inside stitches together the two images into a 360-degree sphere, which can then be hosted on various online things like Facebook or Flickr…
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Mendocino, Fort Bragg, Glass Beach, etc.
I’ve been back almost a week, but here’s a quick trip report on the tail end of what I wrote about last time. So I stayed just south of Little River. They have a town hall and post office that are in the same building as a two-pump gas station. So the whole town is…
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New Camera
I finally upgraded DSLRs last week. This was a nagging thing with a convoluted thought process, something like this: I should save a ton of money and get a full-frame DSLR / that’s too much money to blow on someone who doesn’t take a thousand pictures a day. I should upgrade to the newer version…
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Flickr Magic View
The other day when I posted about Google Photos, I mentioned how I hoped some of its features for image discovery and auto-categorization would come to other tools like Flickr. Well, I should probably log onto my Flickr account more often, because it looks like they did. Flickr now has a feature called Magic View.…
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Google Photos
Anyone else here trying out Google’s new Photos thing? They announced this new service the other day, a “gmail for photos.” Traditionally, Picasa had a quota, like any other cloud photo storage service, and then you paid for more space. Now, they offer an unlimited amount of storage for free. Also, unlike G+, this isn’t…
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The Death of Aperture
So Apple has killed off Aperture, the photo program I’ve been using for the last few years to slog around the 30,000-some pictures I’ve taken. iPhoto is going to die soon, too. They’re replacing both with Photos, a dumbed-down port of the featureless picture program that’s on the iPhone. Oh, but that has The Cloud,…