my pinhole experiments return in the form of... just taping some tinfoil to the Q and poking a hole thru it with a needle thats wayyyy too high diameter (yet, tighter than my last attempt by a nice margin). the results? incredibly beautiful (especially in video! will share whenever i decide what to do with that footage).

the nikon df kinda mostly works (except when it doesnt lol)?? mirror locks up with an increasing frequency the higher the shutter speed it shoots at. uhhhhhh i dunno Mechanical Failure. enjoy these shots i took with it while trying to figure out wtf going on after retrieving it up here in the north

1600 ISO, 5" exposure, captured at 2am after city lights went off.

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

I've uh. got a decent number of these. so it'll probably post these. actually spread out. maybe. i dunno. anyways! d70!! wow!!! cyan filter!!!!

can't say i understand at all what all the retinex sliders do but it does do! only complaint is the haloing on highlights i guess? managed to mostly control them. maybe i should actually read documentation...

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

may and june

living on my parents' deck

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.

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.

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

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

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

working on a series of photos from my local Goatman Bridge

was creeping around a marina last night

I love black&white on the Q