they have a big printer there

took a lot of tweaking to keep detail in their dress while getting tones where i wanted

also hi to all the new daily photo clubbers welcome welcome welcome to the super secret cool social platform that is this streak. even if u dont post every day theres always stuff to see c:

it's uh. it's uh. it's.... something
SOMETHING!
that first shot is at f8! others are f1.9. all the 1.9 shots metered at faster than 1/1000 despite being nearly completely dark lol.
the images are more usable than idve thought. sort of. i say sort of because all my software struggles to handle these absurd images.
rawtherapee and darktable both fail to display the image accurately while editing so theres a LOT of guesswork involved. and also the filesizes are absurd cuz all the noise. but if i try scaling down the image. well, it looks very different due to the noise being so prevalent that when the pixels get merged they have a big effect.
digikam doesnt even display an ISO value past 65k when browsing my collection lol.

edit: last image shows a pic at 1:1 zoom for an accurate view while editing. reaaaaal small bit of image to go off of on just 1080p x . x

i thought i uploaded these here yesterday but instead i shared them everywhere else lol

when i originally took these i didn't have as quick a workflow for this camera as i have now so i got intimidated and didn't touch this shoot

trying to be intentional about motion blur, been getting some nice results

and a little tightrope biker

edited for BON:er issue 1

should've stopped the aperture up a lot more. dang old minimum focus distance shots

first one i did some weird shit with the editing i think its a bit uh fried for my taste maybe? but new thing. did high contrast then lots of dynamic range compression on top

my body aches my voice is blown out heres one of the coolest pictures i got.

i can now confirm that the pentax k3 along with a pancake lens makes for a beast that can survive mosh pits. got liquid spilled on it, got knocked down while holding it, all is well. yes. i am crazy. but i go where few photographers dare to go. because taking the photos is secondary to being there. cuz i always have a camera on me anyway. blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah yeah.

3 yellow filters stacked, doesn't quiiiite darken the sky more than foliage, but it does get close! this is also an evening sky so a little more turquoise than a deep blue. i guess my dream for this look would be like. an industrial machine-vision longpass filter that blocks nearly all blue light. still neat though

i really bungled the metering on these shots but leaning into it and making them rly high contrast salvages it nicely

there's a pun to be made about optical filter / cigarette filter probably but i'm too sick for that sort of joviality right now

I'm about to drive for the next few hours and I'm all distracted right now. but. 1 year. fuck. I would not be where I'm at with photography without this challenge/goal/impetus/group. There's been a lot of days where like. Getting my daily photo has been my motivation to get out of the house. To not give in to soul sucking boredom. To create art as much as I can. And it's been like a muscle, it's to the point now where it's just second nature to do this daily. thank you all for this.

high key edit i guess, also perspective correction :O

normal shot.

normal shot layered with back focused shot with depth of field increased to cover everything but the subject, and a minimum focus distance shot with minimum depth of field.

same as above but "soft light" layered.

same but composed as RGB.

the 43mm f1.9 has quite a lot of focus breathing so its not too good for this effect, still pretty neat though

pic i took for big ol news thru a huge magnifying glass then shrank and 1 bit dithered

photos taken with a hoya red 25A filter.
dramatic skies? yes. but i still need to do a LOTTA contrast editing to actually get it that dark. and in the process foliage gets lost to the darkness too.... a yellow filter would perhaps be perfect, mostly preserve red to green and cut off blue and violet. but yellow filters are quite weak, only like 1-2 stops difference at most. definitely not enough to darken a sky more than the land. but.... what if... hmmmmmm...
wratten #12, #15, or #16. all long-pass filters. meaning they drop light below 500nm, 510nm, 520nm respectively. they're quite weak yes but subtract blue and (almost) only blue... what if . i stacked like 3 of them? maybe 4? i dont think id have to worry about vignetting cuz crop sensor. there would probably be awful internal reflection hell unless the filters were coated. but.... could it lead to... the advent of the analog version of the revered CRUNCH style https://streak.club/p/52899/crunch-by-999999999 https://streak.club/p/53026/we-can-crunch-harder-by-999999999 ???? probably not! but it might look cool!

i think the removed modules in ART make it a no go, i get a lot of mileage out of the wavelet stuff. but ohhhhh it has so many little quality of life features that are sorely lacking in RT. also still had to load images into DT because I like its cropping tool way better and neither RT or ART can do framing and DT's framing tool is way better than GIMP or GMIC's at least for standard framing. yea. lotta software thoughts.

photos are from a friends concert recently. was rly cool

didn't think about my aperture and shot the puddle way too shallow, abstracting it with a GMIC filter helps keep it interesting

trying out something with darktable, extensively tweaked local contrast tool as basically the only edit.
trying out rawtherapee again, comfy
trying out ART, it's interesting but not sure if i'd want to use it over RT