Due to spur-of-the-moment travel plans, this weeks pictures all come from one day of sporadic shooting, first at a plant nursery, and then at an abandoned housing development.
Sunday was just beautiful for walking around and admiring Allah’s creation.
LX-7, AP mode, settings in the Lightbox, with some edits in Lightroom.
Its about time for a new avatar, methinks. The current one on almost all social media is from 2012, and I’ve lost a bit of weight and gained a few grey hairs in the interim.
This one isn’t really in the running, as it’s just a mashup of the current one (from 2012) and a recent Hipstabstraction, combined with the Diana app (review forthcoming, perhaps, someday), then treated with the Mabel Lens and Robusta film in Oggl.
Enjoy 20 pictures of the same (no)thing, shot with the iPhone 5 and Hipstamatic app, and using some of my favorite lens/film combos. If I was a better person, I’d post all the recipes, but… Continue reading “Hipstabstractions”
Well, I just didn’t even try this week. Too busy with other stuff. Makes me wonder if I should give up this photography hobby altogether. I’m ashamed to even be posting these, and I have no plans to post these pictures to G+ or anywhere else. If you clicked this far, apologies, but maybe this will be an object lesson to you: avoid committing yourself to a project unless you’re willing to 1) fail occasionally and 2) actually make the time to work on the project.
Apologies, again.
iPhone 5. All shot with the built-in camera app. Most processed with Perspective Correct and/or Filterstorm Neue.
A note on Filterstorm Neue: classic Filterstorm is still the king of general photo editing apps on the iPhone, but the Neue version is slowly gaining on it, and I look forward to moving to Neue full time in the coming weeks/months/whenever the developer gets everything in there.
Unlike the first LensBaby week for this 7/52, I started this one intending to use the LensBaby. And as you might notice, I got some somewhat better results (to my eye, anyway). I still wonder what I might be able to accomplish if I had the time and the leisure to really focus on photography: Allahu A’lam.
And Alhamdulillah I have much more to focus on, some incomparably better, others more or less equivalent; more or less chosen.
For those of you outside of Texas, we got about 3 inches of ice Thursday night… It took me 45 minutes to scrape the windshield. Good times. Hence the shift from houseplants to outside plants & trees. In both, I think the LensBaby held its own. Fun stuff.
For most of these, I shot without focusing, or with the old lean forward/lean back focusing method: I didn’t much bother with squeezing/twisting the lens. The minimum focus distance is roughly a foot, more or less. An aperture ring of f/4 or so might have sharpened things up a bit, but I wasn’t looking for sharp: I wanted color and light; form was secondary.
D7000. LensBaby Muse (plastic optic). ISO100, f2, AP mode. Some adjustment in Lightroom to bring out color and cheer things up a bit.
Actually continues today… While many others get a snow day, I get to work from home. What a good worker I am!
Happy (belated) Thanksgiving!
I am thankful for so much this year, I can barely begin to express it all. At the risk of incensing some readers, and with full knowledge that I’ll leave out innumerable blessings, here’s a short list:
There is more, much more, I’m sure, and in any and all cases, I say Alhamdulillah (all praise and thanks belongs to Allah).
If you’re interested, I found a short article on two types of gratitude in Islam (hamd and shukr). I think there are some useful reminders in there for all of us, regardless of nationality or belief set.
D7000. Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G (the Sigma 30mm probably would’ve been a better choice for this sort of reportage). ISO100, AP mode, various apertures. Minimal post work in Lightroom 5.
