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hammerandsaw) wrote2024-03-30 11:19 am
hammerandsaw) wrote2024-03-30 11:19 am
I'm BAAAACK!!!!
Yesterday, I met a friend to go on a photo walk together. I had no idea until a couple weeks ago that photography was even an interest of hers. She was always someone I had considered "too cool" to actually enjoy being around me, but, as it turns out, she's just really good at looking cool at parties. That was an exciting discovery.
We were practicing action shots in a variety of lighting, to help her get the settings right before her gig today. That mainly consisted of me leaping around a field and spinning in circles, while she took pictures at various aperture and shutter speeds. I discovered I have no idea what ISO means, and I still don't. I should probably look it up at some point.
I was shooting on my Canon Powershot sx120, which once belonged to my niece's birth mother. Everyone hands me their old tech when they're done with it. The memory card had some baby photos, and that was a nice trip down memory lane. I also like that it takes standard AA batteries, because I didn't have to hunt down a power supply for it.
Reviews on this camera said it has an issue with chromatic aberration in high contrast areas, so that is what I focused on. Chromatic aberration holds a special place in my heart. I only learned the term a few years ago, but I have been seeing this way most of my life. I would try to explain to the teachers that I wasn't daydreaming, I was just looking at the rainbows hiding in the corners of everything. Nobody believed me, of course. I was prone to telling outlandish stories, and this fit the theme nicely. I only recently learned that it is a real phenomenon, and the reason it affected me was because the extra thin polycarbonate lenses I used caused too much compression at the edges. Switching to plastic helped reduce the distractions, and also reduced the price. Win-win scenario. I do still see the rainbows, but only if I go looking for them.
On this photo walk, I went looking for them. I tried some modifications to both reduce and exaggerate their appearance. Below are the results.
This is the original:
The low resolution is partly due to it being an older camera, and partly due to this being a cropped portion of a larger photo. The aberration here is more green/purple than the traditional blue/red that I usually see.
This was an attempt to reduce the aberration using sharpening features.
This helped with the resolution, but kept the aberration. I also ended up with some image loss at the edges of the tree, where the smaller branches are.
Next, I tried desaturation and upping the contrast:
As far as making a salvageable image for realism purposes, this was the most reliable option.
And, last but not least, I turned the saturation way up to get the most aberration I possibly could.
This one is my favorite by far. It looks closest to how I saw the world through those polycarbonate lenses. It brings back fond memories.
We were practicing action shots in a variety of lighting, to help her get the settings right before her gig today. That mainly consisted of me leaping around a field and spinning in circles, while she took pictures at various aperture and shutter speeds. I discovered I have no idea what ISO means, and I still don't. I should probably look it up at some point.
I was shooting on my Canon Powershot sx120, which once belonged to my niece's birth mother. Everyone hands me their old tech when they're done with it. The memory card had some baby photos, and that was a nice trip down memory lane. I also like that it takes standard AA batteries, because I didn't have to hunt down a power supply for it.
Reviews on this camera said it has an issue with chromatic aberration in high contrast areas, so that is what I focused on. Chromatic aberration holds a special place in my heart. I only learned the term a few years ago, but I have been seeing this way most of my life. I would try to explain to the teachers that I wasn't daydreaming, I was just looking at the rainbows hiding in the corners of everything. Nobody believed me, of course. I was prone to telling outlandish stories, and this fit the theme nicely. I only recently learned that it is a real phenomenon, and the reason it affected me was because the extra thin polycarbonate lenses I used caused too much compression at the edges. Switching to plastic helped reduce the distractions, and also reduced the price. Win-win scenario. I do still see the rainbows, but only if I go looking for them.
On this photo walk, I went looking for them. I tried some modifications to both reduce and exaggerate their appearance. Below are the results.
This is the original:
The low resolution is partly due to it being an older camera, and partly due to this being a cropped portion of a larger photo. The aberration here is more green/purple than the traditional blue/red that I usually see.
This was an attempt to reduce the aberration using sharpening features.
This helped with the resolution, but kept the aberration. I also ended up with some image loss at the edges of the tree, where the smaller branches are.
Next, I tried desaturation and upping the contrast:
As far as making a salvageable image for realism purposes, this was the most reliable option.
And, last but not least, I turned the saturation way up to get the most aberration I possibly could.
This one is my favorite by far. It looks closest to how I saw the world through those polycarbonate lenses. It brings back fond memories.