ella the catgirl, alley cat with unknown outdoor cat, spinach, orange creamsicle, a statue, a drawing, squimbleshanks, and topaz

dramatic life

you know the drill

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.