not super excited about the weather for work this evening.. got some 15mm of snow overnight, due to get a bit more till around 9, and it's due to warm up a bit before i've gotta go, like 7-10c it's going to be a slushy icy mess... :/
@rail ayoo sounds like our workflows are pretty similar in that regard i've got some catching up to do in terms of total exposures though ^^' (~150GB over some 4000 images)
so happy i found that a100, just the explosion of creativity from having a tool that wasn't trying to handhold me
kinda wild how one of the bigger ways cameras improved over the years is better handholding :3 in good ways i think, better autofocus, higher resolution still doesn't handhold to the point of lying to you, do too much, as a modern phone might
what i'd do to get raws out of my phone or like, unprocessed jpegs i imagine it'd be a bit like 3ds/dsi photos, just much higher resolution, sensitivity, and better colour reproduction
@rail and fwiw, it was actually that over smoothed effect that pushed me into 'proper' cameras in the first place think it was a particular shot of some blossoms on my phone where the bokeh just felt.. fake? i dunno, some filter in their stackup was failing and causing artifacting
so like, seriously impressive embracing it instead of just throwing it to the reject pile being able to edit photos is an art in and of itself
@rail oh, for sure, i had a hunch it wasn't as shot but i like that, actually really love what you did here
the way that it makes the scene feel unbearably hot, despite the clouds, despite the window, the sun still roasts everything it touches, the air conditioning of the train cabin barely providing relief from it
really, really good work it's a very different style of photo from what i usually see and enjoy
funny how with the digital arts especially there's so many folks out there like, "there's a 'right' way to do this, any other way is wrong" and it's almost always the same half dozen opinions being repeated ad-infinitum
the rules have their place, learning your art, getting used to it but the best art, the pieces i've loved the most over the years, tend to not follow them at all
if you've got an idea in mind, but are holding back from doing it because it breaks those rules, execute it anyway see what happens worst case, you've got a failed experiment.. take that experience, see what went wrong and learn from it
