Ontopic The UF Photography Thread
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I'm pretty good at photography but must too lazy to carry around an actual camera all of the time. 
I'm pretty good at photography but must too lazy to carry around an actual camera all of the time.
you know, before i got a cell phone, i used to have this attitude about people that took cell phone photos: "why would you do that, its such terrible quality, you might as well take a picture with a potato or not at all". Yeah...... now that i have a cell phone, its what comes out 90% of the time for pictures just because of convenience, even if it does take photos that look like they were taken with a potato.
I miss darkroom innovation.
Push/pull processing was fun, you get lots of cool results. I was a big fan of solarization as well. I did a solarized tombstone set for my photography class in college, prof said it was ridiculously morbid and gave me an A. Some solarized really weird. I was always a fan of toning as well.
Its strange that noone younger than us with the exception of a very small niche will ever know what a darkroom was. I never did a ton, but even with a pinhole camera i remember producing some pretty awesome photos by tweaking things in the darkroom
yea, my phone has an excellent camera! I'm just not used to it & don't really fiddle with it enough to always get great pics, esp if it's just a quick, playful "point & click, then upload to Facebook/Instagram" pic. But, if I'm trying, then I have found I've gotten some excellent pics, mainly of nature. Then I will play with pics in PS.
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Mine doesnt, its shit. And i still use it.
The biggest problem is probably me though, I shake now
So except in the best of lighting, everything comes out blurry due to no IS
Mine doesnt, its shit. And i still use it.
The biggest problem is probably me though, I shake now
Yea, aren't you the one with the ancient cell? Can't remember.
What's with the shaking?
I have a smartphone now at least, but its still equivalent to one from 2011 or so.
I dunno entirely as to the shaking, i used to have rock steady hands, so much so that I was going to be a neurosurgeon (that went away for other reasons, not the shaking) but i've just lost my steadiness, and its worse after i injured my hand pretty badly 6 months back.
Oh wow. Sounds similar to my situation. After my accident that resulted in severe head trauma, I have trouble with this at times, too. I notice it especially while painting & needing to focus intently on something. It ends up that my vision starts to get getting blurred & then a bit of hand shaking.
Don't know if it's ancient but Asa is the one that takes shitty cell pics because of his phone being broken
This probably wont resonate quite so well with you as it would with a guy, but tiny buttons on dress shirt sleeves and collars.. i cant do them anymore, no matter how hard i try. I can spend 20 minutes trying to button a tiny button and never get it.
NOPE! Totally relates! I don't do button downs at all! Drives me insane. I can do them on say my son, but myself...my vision gets blurry if I start utilizing the "head down to see the button" thing & then my fingers just don't want to work well. It's like if I don't LOOK at it, I can prob feel my way to getting it done, but once the eye contact is made, there is a shut down of motor skills there!
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Oh, my questioning was based on a previous mention, and I couldn't remember if it was him that revealed a super old phone. I dunno. Maybe it was his pc? Can't remember!
I dont have the brain bit with the vision, mine is more a sensation relating to pressure thing in combination with the dexterity loss.
When i hurt my finger (index) the docs patched me up real good, and i got a lot back and im thankful for that, but its still different. I have skin sensation back almost fully, like i can feel when something touches my skin, but pressure sensation, the feeling under the skin is shit. Like i cant tell how hard im squeezing something, and therefore my strength goes away because i cant "pinch" things. Pulling freshness seals off? Cant do it for the stronger ones, have to cut them with a knife
When i hurt my finger (index) the docs patched me up real good, and i got a lot back and im thankful for that, but its still different. I have skin sensation back almost fully, like i can feel when something touches my skin, but pressure sensation, the feeling under the skin is shit. Like i cant tell how hard im squeezing something, and therefore my strength goes away because i cant "pinch" things. Pulling freshness seals off? Cant do it for the stronger ones, have to cut them with a knife
I dont have the brain bit with the vision, mine is more a sensation relating to pressure thing in combination with the dexterity loss.
When i hurt my finger (index) the docs patched me up real good, and i got a lot back and im thankful for that, but its still different. I have skin sensation back almost fully, like i can feel when something touches my skin, but pressure sensation, the feeling under the skin is shit. Like i cant tell how hard im squeezing something, and therefore my strength goes away because i cant "pinch" things. Pulling freshness seals off? Cant do it for the stronger ones, have to cut them with a knife
I automatically cut those with a knife. Cannot be bothered!
took this of the cherry blossom tree next to the driveway. Bloomed for one day, then pooped all the petals everywhere.
took this of the cherry blossom tree next to the driveway. Bloomed for one day, then pooped all the petals everywhere.
Beautiful!