just drove down the highway until it got real dark and then wandered around snapping pictures

i usually don't make writeups for my pictures, but i figured i might try for the first time today since this was a straightforward one to make (relative to my workflow)

since i'm noticing a growing pattern in my street composition lately, i want to get back a bit into macro photography and detail processing for a bit

i took this picture of my (fairly shitty) balcony's guardrail, and removed compositional distractions by cropping it in the rare triple square ratio

i worked on the colors a fair bit, to make the contrast more visceral, making it closer to how i feel looking at it than how it "should look". i then applied a slight noise filter on the green channel only to create some texture, then destroyed it with a skin correction algorithm to make it look even more "fake" (i tend to contradict myself while editing)

in the end, i don't think it's a very good picture but it was an interesting experiment

if you read so far, thanks ahah

I love black&white on the Q

living on my parents' deck

putting my glasses in front of the lens lets the camera see the world the way i see it when i wear them. theyre my favorite glasses, the tint looks especially good in wooded areas, giving everything such warm hues

After spending all day trying to nail down how to emulate the Pentax Q's "B&W IR" digital filter, I ended up giving up on getting it exactly right and created a profile I now call CRUNCH. used it to bulk process photos from a road trip to pennsylvania yesterday!

snapped this from the passenger seat of a car, looks pretty good for a shot where I went from "oh cool that plane is flying right by the metro" to "oh shit i should photograph this" to pulling my camera out of my bag, aiming vaguely in that direction, and snapping with whatever exposure i had previously dialed in

working on a series of photos from my local Goatman Bridge

they have a big printer there

how funny is it that there's a Generic American-Themed Restaurant in america (there are many of these)

Experimenting with my camera's multi exposure sim mode. I used a cloth to cover part of the lens between the exposures to expose different parts discretely. More of a proof of concept, although I do think these shots are pleasing.

was creeping around a marina last night

Did an impromptu shoot with a friend, wearing a shirt made by a cool artist. The Pentax Q's noise is so good for this kind of crusty suburban shoot.

didn't have much time today so i decided to work on and publish a cool phone picture i took last month

more layering, neat! mostly color and composition work, i used the base picture as an effect canvas more than anything for this one. if you know my cameras, the Z30 has a 3:2 sensor, and this picture is 4:3. this wasn't cropped, i destructively changed the aspect ratio to change proportions (not the first time i've done any of this btw)

might publish this to socials latr, i'll sit on it

I never write about my photographs but I just wanted to highlight the layers of cloud with that "aura" around the castle-like building :)

texture work!! i feel like i did something good with this one, it might take some time for me to pinpoint what exactly but i feel pretty proud abt it

my sleep sucks lol i'll try to work on two pics tomorrow to make up for my lagging day

I'm not normally one for flower photos but I'm actually quite pleased with this shot. The Mountain Laurel is such a beautiful flower, and this one was being illuminated by a sliver of light passing thru the forest on a hike.

today, the picture came together really smoothly. i didn't have to think. i just did. yeah, the compositions of the two photographic captures complete each other. that's neat. maybe there's even a meaning behind this one. i won't tell you ;)