very much leaning in to the artifacts that retinex and local contrast boosting can create. To Heighten The Fear.

i am Enjoying having access to a tripod finally.
30 sec exposures, experimenting with turning on and off phone screens for face lighting. shout out to my friends for being way more creative with that concept than i was initially even thinking

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])

that's it

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...

they have a big printer there

I honestly have no idea what this is a photo of or why there is an intense blue glow in the air, taken march 2024.

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

and a little tightrope biker

culling the collection, and editing & stitching some of them that i meant to make gifs of and never did

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

+a shot raised 9 stops in post

dont sweat it just take the picture while u run circles

from january, on borrowed dslr, finally edited

digicam long exposure by the drainage lake

i like the soft color of a long exposed night sky

same deal