Kelson's Photos @kelsonv@photog.social
Hobbyist photographer in the Los Angeles area. Mostly scenic shots, architecture & plants.
Joined Nov 2017
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Found my tourist snapshots from visiting #NotreDameCathedral way back when. Gloomy day with scaffolding, and a note that none of the inside photos came out. I can see why I never scanned them, though I might dig out the negatives and do that now just to get them onto digital.
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Don't forget folks "Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day" is April 28, so get your pinholes ready. I'm currently designing and 3D printing a 4x5 camera for the 28th.
#photography #filmphotography #pinholephotography #woldwidepinholeday
The western horizon was blocked at sunset...but the view upward wasn't!
Took the new camera to #WonderCon for #cosplay #photography.
1. I finally have a camera that can really handle inside lighting at a convention center!
2. I've gotten too used to just capturing costumes, instead of composing interesting shots.
2a. My 8YO took 1 photo all weekend (#InsideOut) & it ended up being the best that day. I took the lesson & improved my shots the next day, including the other 3 here.
Album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/albums/72157690667228043
@tokyocameraclub Absolutely amazing!
We've had a wet winter, so the seasonal marsh has actually filled up a lot more than it has for the last few years. In addition to the full ponds (including two on either side of a road that was still muddy) I saw a lot of birds, including a crane that was swaying back and forth until it took flight, lots of ducks and geese.
A few more photos on Flickr if you're interested: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/albums/72157679588889498
@david Oh wait...it's a marketing thing, isn't it? Enough people in the target audience *would* be disappointed in not getting that full 1280x960 even if the 640x480 is clearer, because they're not getting the megapixels they were promised. 🤦♂️
@david I suppose, but even back then, I'd rather have a clear 640x480 image than a blurry 1280x960. The only reason I even enabled digital zoom on a compact camera was because it made a difference to the auto-focus, exposure, etc. choices the camera would make (vs taking a wider image and manually cropping it on my computer).
I took this with my phone to use as a reference for a photo I took with another camera. I wasn't intending to do anything with it, but I find it *fascinating* that the phone's digital zoom function makes it look like it's made up of brushstrokes instead of pixels.
(Though personally, I've never understood why digital zoom is implemented as a resize instead of just cropping to a lower resolution.)
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Spring at the local botanic gardens. Cherry blossoms, an artfully arranged "living wall" of plants, an aloe with its flower stalk, and some poppies.
More photos on my Flickr account if you're interested: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/albums/72157672155041556
#spring #garden #flowers
More photos on my Flickr account if you're interested: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/albums/72157672155041556
#spring #garden #flowers
@Photorat True! Now I wish I could get back there sooner to try some different approaches, but unfortunately I probably won't have a chance for at least two weeks.
🌸 Cherry blossoms!
I had a hard time narrowing down which of these to post, and finally settled on two from the a6000, one from my phone in portrait mode, and one from my phone in regular mode.
The simulated depth of field on the Pixel 2 still looks a *little* off in most pictures, but it's always better than I expect it to be!
#photography #cherryBlossoms #sakura #spring #photos #flowers
More photos from this botanical garden: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/albums/72157672155041556
@Photorat Yeah, I think you're right. I wonder if I'd gone for a lower angle, whether I would have been able to get a better balance or if would have just been the leaves!
This shot looks OK at small sizes, but at larger sizes it just looks wrong to me. I was going for a view with the daffodils in focus and the coral tree behind them blurry, but unfortunately it's not blurry enough to look intentional.
I took a shot with my film camera too, but I haven't finished the roll yet, so I won't know for a while whether that one came out better.
A windmill in suburbia. Apparently it was built by one of Hermosa Beach's city founders around 1900 and later moved to its present location, a small triangle of grass and trees in the corner of a grocery store lot next to Pacific Coast Highway. It's no longer functional as far as I know, except as a historical landmark.
@masklayer The tight-aperture photo is incredible, but I *really* like the surreal effect in the other variations!
Tonight's waxing crescent moon. It's passing in front of the Hyades star cluster right now, which I'd love to get a photo of, but the moon's just waaay too bright to capture the background stars!
In the time it took me to get a light meter reading and swap lenses on the old film camera, the light went from perfectly highlighting the flowers to leaving some of them in shadow.
Fortunately I took a shot with my phone before I started fumbling with equipment and the shadows moved, but the fake depth of field just isn't the same.
@eylul I made one! But the pictures are super blurry. I think I have the distance wrong or maybe the pinhole is too wide? How did you determine the position for the foil? And what did you use for the hole? I used a sewing needle.
Hobbyist photographer in the Los Angeles area. Mostly scenic shots, architecture & plants.
Joined Nov 2017
