hoisted the thumbcutter up on the window and took some backyard photos. looking past all the exposure problems, these shots feel so wild to me even though they're so mundane. feels like there's lots of depth, sense of space? idk
the previous strip of good exposure in a sea of darkness is now a strip of clip with a small gradient of good exposure around it, then quickly fading off, but with much better corner details than the indoor shot.
i do believe this is a scanning problem and not a lens one, because looking back at the scannographs with my nikon lens in them reveals that those tiny image circles also possess the top-bottom vignette. interesting.
while i still do not fully understand the scanner ive seen mentions that there is slight parallaxing as the scanning head moves. maybe this means that at the top and bottom the light comes in at a shallow angle, and suffers loss, then head-on in the center where it's picked up nice and bright. how is this counter-acted? probably through modifying the scanner, which I cannot do with my houses printer/scanner :P
i hunted some thrift stores today but they have piles and piles of combo printer/scanners, no dedicated scanners. soon. soon progress will be able to be made...
fair warning im very sleep deprived right now and may soon catch the flu from my housemates so maybe this is all the ramblings of a mad plushie before certain doom.
trying out some blend of local contrast edits and agx anddd its overcooking the images a bit, but i think maybe i can work with it. i think if i can tame it agx could be a quicker way to slap some S curving on my images before doing local contrast detail work instead of using rawtherapee for curving
oh and yeah, there are shooting ranges in malls in america. because apparently everyone here fantasizes about firing off guns in the mall and needs an outlet to do so.. safely. i guess. (first one is a lightgun sorta deal and the second one is an airsoft range so, no gunpowder, but still uh. still a bit weird.)
it hurts
i know how horrible it feels to want to be seen so i carry a camera and shoot this feeling out of others? and masturbate with it too?
also what the fucccck i forgot i had found my favorite hat in march after having lost it for months... then it disappeared shortly after once the housing panic started. god damn........
also also fuck i used to dress a lot more fun. and go out more. ugh. it's too hot and non air conditioned in here for me to think anything like that though. i'm barely more than a corpse right now. it's all so heavy. so so sos os so so os so heavy. there's still so much to do. fuck.
birdflight ending
shapness shapeneeness pshshshah shapes
;)
fun camera
i felt the individual balloon photo was too busy so why not make it worse
view of it in darktable before export second
playin around with darktables filmic rgb again. its soooo finicky its almost an intuitive way to do S curving but then on some photos its just kinda a nightmare of tweaking numbers hoping for something good.
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