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octothorpeWork has been insanely busy, so I haven't had time to follow up with this until now. I'm still insanely busy, but I'm also procrastinating.
So here are the 5 topics, in no particular order:
Photography
Gym/Workout
Leather
Geekery
NYC
Because of the post length, I've decided to post each topic as its own entry. This way people don't have to read a giant wall of text.
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furr_a_bruin's entry, as I want to focus on the whole B&W/square aspect, as many folk wanted to know about that. The square format thing is my appreciation of the medium/large format film camera days, where the negative (for some sub-formats) was square. I would actually alter my 35mm cameras to capture a square negative by epoxying small copper shims in front of the shutter, and etching the focusing screen so I would see where "square" is. I didn't change the sprockets to allow for more of the negative film to be used (now that 1/3 of the width was not being exposed per shot), but that would have been over-the-top. With the advent of digital, some SLRs had the ability to individually turn off pixels. I simply made a map of these pixels I wanted to turn off, and achieved a similar effect —a square "original". I also found out that with 2 of my SLRs that the info strip on the bottom ended at what was the "square" mark, so I didn't need to make any physical adjustments to the camera (film SLRs, and very high end DSLRs have removable focusing screens).
Why black and white? Well, a few reasons. 1) My eyes see colour differently than most. They do what I call "push green". This means that if there is even a small bit of green in something, it registers as "green" to me, and not, say, brown, or blue, although it may be a green that is close to brown, or closer to blue. Interestingly, I don't have the inverse problem, where it would make it hard to pick out purple (for those that don't know colour theory, green and purple are on opposing sides of the spectrum). I see purple just fine, or at least, I think I do ;-)
To be Continued!
So here are the 5 topics, in no particular order:
Photography
Gym/Workout
Leather
Geekery
NYC
Because of the post length, I've decided to post each topic as its own entry. This way people don't have to read a giant wall of text.
Photography
This answer is going to be slightly different than the one already asked and answered onfurr_a_bruin's entry, as I want to focus on the whole B&W/square aspect, as many folk wanted to know about that. The square format thing is my appreciation of the medium/large format film camera days, where the negative (for some sub-formats) was square. I would actually alter my 35mm cameras to capture a square negative by epoxying small copper shims in front of the shutter, and etching the focusing screen so I would see where "square" is. I didn't change the sprockets to allow for more of the negative film to be used (now that 1/3 of the width was not being exposed per shot), but that would have been over-the-top. With the advent of digital, some SLRs had the ability to individually turn off pixels. I simply made a map of these pixels I wanted to turn off, and achieved a similar effect —a square "original". I also found out that with 2 of my SLRs that the info strip on the bottom ended at what was the "square" mark, so I didn't need to make any physical adjustments to the camera (film SLRs, and very high end DSLRs have removable focusing screens). Why black and white? Well, a few reasons. 1) My eyes see colour differently than most. They do what I call "push green". This means that if there is even a small bit of green in something, it registers as "green" to me, and not, say, brown, or blue, although it may be a green that is close to brown, or closer to blue. Interestingly, I don't have the inverse problem, where it would make it hard to pick out purple (for those that don't know colour theory, green and purple are on opposing sides of the spectrum). I see purple just fine, or at least, I think I do ;-)
To be Continued!
