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mph, 16 days ago to random

Interesting, lengthy discussion of phones-vs-real-cameras/iPhone vs. Ricoh GR, raw vs. ProRaw vs. jpeg.

Maybe one of the few times I've seen someone unironically say "real camera" and not instantly feel my hackles go up, because he takes the time to outline what he thinks a camera is.

Probably still something in there to offend, because he also unironically talks about "reality" and capturing it, but there's a point in there worth considering.

https://andreabianco.eu/blog/2023/02/07/ricoh-gr-vs-iphone/

mph, 12 days ago to random

"sooc"
https://mph.puddingtime.org/post/sooc

Downtown Portland (Ricoh GRIII X)
Remodel (Ricoh GRIII X)
Kit Kat and Voodooo (Ricoh GRIII X)

mph, 10 days ago to random

Years ago I was on my ebike and someone drafted me all the way from OMSI to Springwater/Flavel : Just me in my work clothes trying to get home, her in her full riding kit and road bike, sticking so close I could hear her breathing. Then she rolled up alongside as I turned off to say “maybe someday you'll get a real bike."

I truly appreciate her to this day for that, because any "guilt" I had evaporated in a bright flash of her own assholism, perma-discrediting her ilk.
https://mastodon.social/@jef/112520481694399405

mph, 15 days ago to random

The War on the Woke Trumps the Truth for Many Heterodox Thinkers

"Once you’ve let your opposition to orthodoxies define you, you’re just another orthodoxy."

https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/the-war-on-the-woke-trumps-the-truth

mph, 15 days ago to random

📖 Finished my re-read of Shõgun 44 years after my first one. Takeaways: Hulu Mariko is more faithful to Book Mariko and so much better than '80s Mariko. Hulu Blackthorne is a disservice to Book Blackthorne, but not in the same cheesy way '80s Blackthorne was. Hulu Yabu is my favorite character across all three versions.

mph, 15 days ago to random

The GR IIIX
https://mph.puddingtime.org/post/the-gr-iiix

Monochrome. People walking small dogs as passengers board a nearby bus.
A hand holding a credit card peeking out from behind a POS screen
A woman looking over the top of a rangefinder camera

mph, 14 days ago to random

I like what the black mist filter does to the lights. Used Reggie Ballesteros' Ricoh GR monochrome recipe as a preset.

https://youtu.be/CgEgZfb3VKs?si=nHxkSQq22H16x9ph

mph, 13 days ago to random

Sunday night jazz and a walk
https://mph.puddingtime.org/post/sunday-night-jazz-and-a-walk

Trombone and keyboard
KitKat
Kelly's Olympian

jbaty, 9 days ago to random

mph, 16 days ago to random

Al has been hitting a creative slump with her drawing. I've got this X-Pro3 that I've never been able to part with. We talked through her ideal "creative kickstart" setup:

• Acros w/red filter
• Max shadow/highlight tone
• low sharp
• low NR
• manual focus mode (we'll get to that)

... and put the Funleader 18mm/f8, fixed focus pancake on it.

mph, 3 months ago to random

Air travel wasn't, apparently, bad enough.

mph, 12 days ago to random

Springwater walk
https://mph.puddingtime.org/post/springwater-walk

A bright red food cart against a bright blue sky.

mph, 10 days ago to random

“‘Furiosa replaces Max in Fury Road’ is so deeply stupid not because it simply ignores the facts but because it does so in pursuit of flagrantly missing the (brilliant and essential) political message of an unusually thoughtful movie.”

“The whole point of the movie is that feminist victory does not come from the replacement of men or the marginalization of men but from a rejection of dictatorship and an embrace of democracy, horizontal leadership, and communal values.”

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/mad-max-is-sidelined-in-his-own-movie

mph, 14 days ago to random

https://mph.puddingtime.org/post/2024-05-25

Lucky Cup
Bar Carlo
Bar Carlo

mph, 10 days ago to random

Woodstock dinner walk
https://mph.puddingtime.org/post/woodstock-dinner-walk

A red decorative Chinese lantern resting on the concrete, against a bright blue wall.
a golden dashboard buddha shining in the golden hour light
A brown park bench against a fence with a triptych of painted images of Paris in a frame.

mph, 9 days ago to random

haircut walk
https://mph.puddingtime.org/post/haircut-walk

A red, white, and blue-painted building against a brilliant blue sky
The side of a green vintage jeep with a yellow numeral "4" on a red diamond

mph, 6 days ago to random

Starlight parade
https://mph.puddingtime.org/post/starlight-parade

Trimet Bus with a red neon "All Are Welcome" sign.
People in Ghostbuster uniforms marching in a parade. One of them has a Slimer on a glowing red leash.
Young women in a street car smile and wave. One of them is reaching to take the hand of someone in the crowd on the street.

mph, 8 days ago to random

A mentor once said to me, after I spent three paragraphs overexplaining, "if they didn't think you were full of shit before, they will now. Get this down to two sentences."

Google, take note, bro.