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It's been quiet here on my little dA page. I've been lurking, I'm here every day, but I haven't submitted a photo in almost a year, nevermind been at all social. I don't even browse much anymore.
I took some photos over New Year's when I was in a beautiful mountain cabin in the middle of nowhere. Those photos are still on my memory card, which has not been removed from my camera. I tried to get my website nailed down and functional, and that simply slipped out of my grasp. The idea of picking up my cameras seems more a chore than a delight. I've tried everything I can think of to renew my interest - browsing inspiring artwork, buying equipme
Kind of stunned - update
All of my photography - the raw images, the photoshop files, everything from when I first started in 2007 to the most recent strawberry photo - they're gone. The external hard drive that held everything was knocked off my desk and broken. The files are probably retrievable, but I don't have a spare $1,000 sitting around to pay for it.
I'm still not sure how to react. Five years of photo work, gone in the space of a few seconds.
Stuff is still online here and elsewhere in small, low-res form, which is good. Little windows of the real thing.
:(
EDIT
I did some digging on my computer hard drive, a
DELETING EVERYTHING
Not my gallery or whatever. My inbox. :paranoid: There's stuff in there two years old that I've always meant to read/view/comment on, and it's just not gonna happen at this point. I hate doing this sort of thing because everything there deserves comments, but I just don't have the energy for it.
In other news, now that I've graduated, moved, and the new job is starting to not be 12-hour days of mind-numbing busy-ness, I might actually be able to start with the photography again. Specifically, getting with the program of the New York Institute of Photography, which I signed up for almost a year ago and have done almost nothing with (:doh
Dear Colorado:
PLEASE STOP BURNING.
© 2012 - 2024 Shelagnoa
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Nice! So. You can only find this camera if you use an ultraviolet flashlight?
Right. I have dealt with infrared film in both still cameras and motion picture cameras, which is a different animal. Or, should I have said, a horse of a different color. Different bandwidth? Whatever. It was a pain in the neck for a couple of reasons, one being that the film had to be kept quite cool right up until the moment we loaded it into the camera. Naturally, we were shooting in the dead heat of August.
We also had to use an infrared filter on the camera (which filters out everything except infrared), which makes the image through the viewfinder quite dark.
Another thing I had to deal with (this makes three reasons, which is more than a couple of reasons) is that infrared light focuses on a different plane than visible light. Now, I know you still photography guys focus through the viewfinder, but we movie focus-pullers focus from the witness marks on the lens. You digital photographers may have never even noticed the witness marks on the lens of you camera, or it may not even have witness marks, but our lenses do, and I focus by figuring out (guessing) how far away the subject is and twisting the lens barrel so that the focus witness mark lines up accordingly. This is hard enough with visible light, but with infrared light these marks are not accurate.
And yet another issue (this is issue four of the "couple of things" I mentioned) is that the infrared image is not visible on the "video assist" camera. The video assist camera is a small camera integrated into the camera's viewing system so that others (directors, producers, et al) can see an image of what the camera (and camera operator) is seeing (and, thus, what is being photographed).
Anyhow, with your new IR Digital camera I'm sure none of these things apply. Except perhaps the dark image in the finder if you have to use infrared filters. And maybe you don't even have to use those at all.
What do I know? You're digital, I'm analogue.
Have fun with it! I expect to find great things in your gallery.
Right. I have dealt with infrared film in both still cameras and motion picture cameras, which is a different animal. Or, should I have said, a horse of a different color. Different bandwidth? Whatever. It was a pain in the neck for a couple of reasons, one being that the film had to be kept quite cool right up until the moment we loaded it into the camera. Naturally, we were shooting in the dead heat of August.
We also had to use an infrared filter on the camera (which filters out everything except infrared), which makes the image through the viewfinder quite dark.
Another thing I had to deal with (this makes three reasons, which is more than a couple of reasons) is that infrared light focuses on a different plane than visible light. Now, I know you still photography guys focus through the viewfinder, but we movie focus-pullers focus from the witness marks on the lens. You digital photographers may have never even noticed the witness marks on the lens of you camera, or it may not even have witness marks, but our lenses do, and I focus by figuring out (guessing) how far away the subject is and twisting the lens barrel so that the focus witness mark lines up accordingly. This is hard enough with visible light, but with infrared light these marks are not accurate.
And yet another issue (this is issue four of the "couple of things" I mentioned) is that the infrared image is not visible on the "video assist" camera. The video assist camera is a small camera integrated into the camera's viewing system so that others (directors, producers, et al) can see an image of what the camera (and camera operator) is seeing (and, thus, what is being photographed).
Anyhow, with your new IR Digital camera I'm sure none of these things apply. Except perhaps the dark image in the finder if you have to use infrared filters. And maybe you don't even have to use those at all.
What do I know? You're digital, I'm analogue.
Have fun with it! I expect to find great things in your gallery.