raw from the Q, not demosaiced, channel mixed, tone curved, and then b&w converted in rawtherapee. editing a non-demosaiced image is uhhh annoying. the preview is no help, even the 1:1 zoom is not exactly accurate either.
then, export to darktable, blur tool used on 4px radius, local contrast tool blasted because the image was too flat, trial and error exporting until result is acceptable.
is the end result any different from the demosaiced image? uhhh it's nearly impossible to compare, the second image is all the exact same edits, just with AMAZE demosaic in rawtherapee and the blur turned off in darktable, and it's a completely different result so no 1 to 1 comparison can be made. if anything at all it illustrates how distinctly different these 2 editing pipelines are despite only swapping one module for another.
for fun, same process just without the b&w conversion in rt and with white balance in dt in images 3 and 4
a few shots later and the auto focus motor in my 06 tele zoom lens died... and because of the way Q lenses are... can't even manually focus it
x . x
well, good thing we just picked up a solder setup...
;)
there was one really close lightning strike
(at some point do i stop calling this q lomo and accept that this is the way i like to shoot the Q now? eh. it does still describe the aesthetic well, i'll probably keep doing it, even acknowledging the redundancy of it.)
tried to make an aperture plate for my 03 lens, put it behind the back element, turns out the actual existing aperture is in between elements, and so: circle!
no crop this time
loaded question. rhetorical question?
im just pointing the camera at things and taking a picture pshh.
hey wait a minute thats what i do anyways?
well at least with the qlomo i'm not editing anything.
but is it the editing that makes it Art? that doesn't seem right.
and anyway, when i see others' lomo/lofi type shots, i do usually think That's Art.
is it that i've just been snapping my daily life more rather than Going Out for Photos?
well what makes that subject matter any less valid?
and when I Go Out for Photos that. too. is My Life, is it not? are not all my photos "snapshots" in the sense that there is the unspoken message "i was here!"?
ahhhhh ahh ah ah ah h hm.
I have no conclusion or anything but I will say that the qlomo series feels "Like Cheating" but I don't really think that's a fair feeling.
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.
the fisheye lens' minimum focus distance is basically "object is touching the lens". it's awesome.
this time it's sunny!
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).
06 fun
q + 06
i'm actually really proud of these. none of these are cropped, and have very basic tone edits and light sharpening. f/5.6 on 1&2, f/2.8 on 3.
in #1, the lines lead your eye toward the radio tower but what I think really hits here is the partial framing of the power lines. something about not showing the whole form on the objects that are in focus, up front, and largest does something.
#2 has missed focus? something is off about its sharpness but thats really my only complaint. the lines on all sorts of different levels of depth and angles and textures throw your eye all around the place, and settle on the intense form of the power transformer thing. the bird is at the center of it all but is secondary, it contrasts the transformer more than it exists as its own form.
#3 shows the softness of the 06 lens wide open: zoomed in the grass is not as defined as i'd like it to be but again, this is a minor complaint. the 3 distinct layers. grass, a simulacra of nature, swallowing pricey town homes which have swallowed the true nature (if you can call any nature here "true" at this point) around them, pooling up and rising into the void above.
my hand is a good subject, it knows just how to pose. b&w on the lx3 has been feeling pretty rewarding lately. trying out new ways for editing. i'm liking where i'm heading.
second image is from adapting my f mount 28mm f/2 to the pentax q using a toilet paper roll... it's not a very good experience, and is soft even when i hit the focus out of luck. eh. using any of my higher focal length lenses like that would be a true nightmare, yet... im still tempted to get a F to Q adapter. at least then i could properly tripod the setup
