;)

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!

i dont care anymore

same deal

6400 ISO, P mode auto, 1:1 aspect ratio, cross-process jpg filter, shot mostly with 03 fish-eye, taking shots as quickly as possible with no thought.

going far from my usual style, these are a few of the images that were interesting out of the ~100 i took in that outing