Spreading confusion over the internet since 1994
Photos on your screen are nice, but photos on your wall are better!
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I took The Streets Are Filled With Vipers on September 26, 2015 at 12:28PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on September 11, 2020 at 05:32PM
Rain, Chicago.1
Tri-X 400, in emulation.
Nikon D7000
85.0 mm f/1.8
Aperture: ƒ/4.5
Shutter: 1/50
ISO: 400
I took this photo December 22, 2014, and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 16th, 2020.
I’ve taken many photos of the Lake Street bridge over the Chicago River over the years. I should collect them all in one place. Maybe later…2
Footnotes:
Does the orange paint symbolize anything? The only orange thing I can think of is the current resident of the White House. This did happen after Trump promised that Saturday night was going to be MAGA Night, whatever that means.
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I took Random Acts of Malevolence Against the Haymarket Riot Memorial on June 01, 2020 at 03:35AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on June 01, 2020 at 10:34AM
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I took Hands Beginning To Tremble on May 19, 2020 at 06:04AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on May 21, 2020 at 09:59AM
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I took Somewhere Nowhere At All on April 09, 2017 at 05:33AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on May 18, 2020 at 01:21PM
Lake Street in the rain
I took this photo on November 17, 2015, and processed it in my digital darkroom May 3rd, 2020. Click to embiggen
Tools:
Nikon D7000
35.0 mm f/1.8
ƒ/2.5
35.0 mm
Shutter -1/60
ISO 100
Tri-X 400, in emulation, provided via a Photoshop filter (Exposure 5), plus some other tricks-of-the-trade, including using a gold reflector, and other techniques to accentuate the rain.
A while ago1 I purchased a raincoat for my camera: basically a thick, transparent plastic sleeve with a drawstring at one end. The drawstring is used to wrap tightly around the end of the lens, and the rest of the camera is contained within the sleeve, and thus kept dry. It works pretty well actually, except changing camera settings is a bit tricky, as is focusing, sometimes.
Footnotes:
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I took Answering Words That Shine And Expire on October 16, 2015 at 06:14AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 25, 2020 at 10:29AM
Lake Street Bridge, Christmas Day.
I processed this photo in my digital darkroom on April 11, 2020.
Gear:
Nikon D7000
35.0 mm
ƒ/1.8
35.0 mm
1/50 shutter speed
250 ISO
And of course Photoshop to emulate TRI-X 400 film, pushed a couple of stops.
Death does seem to be on everyone’s mind these days. I’ve been having weird dreams, I assume you are as well. I won’t bore you with mine, at the moment. We’ll see if the Stay At Home continues through summer, all the rules will be different…
Oh, and lyric magpied from Jeff Tweedy’s great song, New Madrid.
Come on, do what you did, roll me under New Madrid
Shake my baby and please bring her back
Cause death won’t even be still, caroms over the landfill
Buries us all in its broken back
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I took Tempting You To Deny It on December 25, 2019 at 10:44AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 10, 2020 at 10:27AM
Another photo of mine made it into Flickr’s Explore
Columns, Federal Reserve Bank, LaSalle St. and Jackson, downtown Chicago
I took this photo February 2nd, 2020, and processed it in my digital darkroom on March 13th, 2020.
Equipment: Nikon D7000 18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6
Sort of an unusual angle, I suppose, and cropped so as to look like the columns are leaning to the right. I bumped up the contrast, and used a Kodak Ektar filter (emulation of film stock).
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I took City Sonata Number Twenty Nine on March 01, 2020 at 11:29AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on March 01, 2020 at 05:29PM
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I took Pip checks out the N95 particulate respirator on February 29, 2020 at 08:36AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 29, 2020 at 02:42PM
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I took Nothing In The News Today on February 23, 2020 at 10:58AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 23, 2020 at 05:14PM
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I took Just A Little Song on February 23, 2020 at 10:59AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 23, 2020 at 05:14PM
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I took Waiting For Our Fair Share on February 23, 2020 at 11:12AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 23, 2020 at 05:14PM