i could probably spend hours trying to get the texture to look right, but this is okay.

there are a lot of subtle things i tried out editing this one. might be on to something...

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

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.

2nd one required so much work to recover detail on the subject from the backlighting

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).

normal shot.

normal shot layered with back focused shot with depth of field increased to cover everything but the subject, and a minimum focus distance shot with minimum depth of field.

same as above but "soft light" layered.

same but composed as RGB.

the 43mm f1.9 has quite a lot of focus breathing so its not too good for this effect, still pretty neat though

trying out something with darktable, extensively tweaked local contrast tool as basically the only edit.
trying out rawtherapee again, comfy
trying out ART, it's interesting but not sure if i'd want to use it over RT

art day

3.1MP digicam with a prime lens, no focus, full auto, exposure comp -1.5 to +1.5, jpg and movie only, the buttons double press half the time, flash, and a tunnel viewfinder that is wayyyy wider than what you actually get.
a good candidate for opening up and forcing a new lens onto the front. the metadata reports it as a 9.7mm focal length so im guessing this is like a ~5x crop factor sensor so it's gotta be something wide angle.. but if i were to get any small wide angle lenses i'd be throwing them onto the pentax q lol. i'll test out its video capabilities later, hoping it's particularly crunchymushy.

brought to you by the world's worst very large format camera

something about my setup creates wicked vignetting with a long horizontal line of good exposure (im guessing the shape is due to the scanning head being a line)

the lens being adapted is the lens from my overhead projector. i learned a nice bit about optics putting it all together based on intuition, took a few hours of fiddling to get to this current setup

from december

took many pics, these were the best that didn't have huge clipped regions. proper exposure is hard on the 995.

lost my sd card reader so it's just* coolpix 995 shots**until i bother to buy a new one (or it turns up)

*(still have plenty backlog to edit too)
**(my only cam that i have a cable to pull images directly off of)