I went to the open jam after all. Sam provided a couple of fine Dominican cigars for the evening and the music was a fine as ever. There was young talent in the house that brought smiles to throughout the room. This one kid couldn't have been more than 12 or so and he absolutely wailed. Amazing. The days between then and now have been mostly lazy. I have been riding the bike when not soaking up R&R at the house. EL and I met Urs and Sandra at Papa's last night for cocktails before I went out with "the guys" for additional libations. The night went something like beer, beer, beer, Jager, beer, beer, Karaoke, beer. Nothing exciting. My Lensbaby arrived recently and I took it for a spin this afternoon. I have
v2.0 and so far it is a lot of fun. The results are scoped in range, but it allows you to do a lot of "that sort of effect" in-camera with no post processing. This shot of my bike's air intake and engine (
in the "continue reading" section) was not tampered with in post other than desaturation through a B&W conversion process. The selective focus and positioning of the focal plane was all done with optics at the time of exposure. Fun!
I think we're going for fireworks observation a little later.
Happy Independence Day!!
Sweet. Let’s hear it for analog optical effects! They really do look better than digital in most cases. I’m just tickled there’s some bright folks doing anamorphic lens adapters for HD video cameras now I can have my cake and eat it too.
yeah… granted there are limits to this implementation without crossing over the thin line to the land of cliche, but still… it’s fun to occationally not have to layer, filter, mask, and such
Sweet Jesus! It’s like Pr0n...but different :)
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