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>>4509751
One frame of 6x9 died for this. Thankfully it was only Foma 400

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Someone posted a thread with cell phone camera photos like this a couple of months ago. This is my favorite from among them and I happen to live in the same city, so I'd like to track down this location and photograph it myself if whatever that is is still there.

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fuck it I'll post my old shit from when I used to get fucked up and walk around with my camera at night
I told a friend I didn't want to be on instagram, I wanted to be in a local gallery.
it's hard looking back on these because I can't take photos like this sober. I'm a completely different person on drugs.
this was before I cared about optical aberrations and interpolation artifacts, before I understood how exposure compensation even worked, what the tone curve represented or how metering modes differed from one another, before I understood anything about RAWs and bit depth, and way before I had any idea of what a photo "should" look like or how it "should be taken. totally experimental drug-induced euphoria channeled into a DSLR.

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I abused post-processing software just as hard as my lungs to get this kind of output.

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I took full advantage of bulb mode and experimented with adjusting the focus mid-exposure to change the thickness of the impression of the light trails.

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taking a brief look at the last photo I guess I didn't know what hot pixels were then lol, crazy how much they stand out to me now
anyway, I took a lot of photos with intentional camera movement during those days. I really tried to make it intentional too, with feeling, not just random, jerky, erratic movements but really moving with feeling.

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or dust lol, but like I said I didn't care about the technical stuff then, just cared about the feeling of it all
my gear was always filthy then too, I never cleaned it because the camera was so junk anyway, some el cheapo sigma kit lens that I took out in the rain all the time and never took any care to dry off or clean afterwards. I sold it for $20 + postage, surprisingly, on eBay.

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I really thought I was doing something no one had done before, which was totally arrogant in hindsight since I was inspired by 19th and 20th century painters and, as I later realised, other photographers had already done similar work

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I used to give every photo a title too like I was a real artist presenting work in a gallery. I don't have a record of all of the old titles, though, only what was on my flickr.

I had an external hard drive with way more photos than what I'll be posting here tonight. my cat knocked it off the kitchen bench and it was totally buggered. I didn't know at the time I probably could have recovered all that data if I put the platters into a new drive, or even just opened up that drive and checked everything internally was in the right place. I just assumed it was busted so now all I have left of those days is these photos I downloaded from Flickr and a few others I had saved in my OneDrive.

back up your photos.

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i like this one the best.

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>be drunk on tequila
>be raining in Atlanta
>lean halfway out the window of the Volvo
Take the shot

>>4509754
Truly tones you can't achieve on 35mm.

>>4510046
Nice shot

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Stomped on a fuzzy snap of lichen on a dead spruce until it stopped squirming.

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Photo abusement thread, nice!