image #3 with bouba has some masking stuff going on to bring out midgrey detail in the environment but still keep her fur contrasty black and white im proud of the result
out of focus has been appealing to me again, been taking shots where i just point the camera vaguely at my subject without looking in the viewfinder
flexing my color editing muscles so they don't fatigue. and trying to get df shots to look better. (i think i had rly forgotten that choice of demosaicer matters and that if i don't hit the photo with some noise reduction then my saturation blasting will make sure that noise eats the whole image loll)
perfecting the in camera settings for this.
the front dial controls the digital filter (bound to toy camera, Color [saturation], high contrast, and vignette),
custom image is set to cross process,
jpeg quality set to 6MP,
"highlight correction" on (helps control the extreme color posterization that can happen around highlights with these setting [still does happen which is fun, just not as dominantly])
getting in the habit of just doing this as a default. keep the Q on me all the time, really just snap and not think. its a nice change of pace from my usual meticulous processing. next up im gonna experiment with adding an aperture disk (tinfoil with hole) behind the fisheye lens to see if i can turn it into a focus-free lens.