lens baby photography

So we're making some changes here.

I've been blogging for years, (me, then) but this is the first time there has ever been a dollar attachment. It definitely changes the way I write (a statement about the way $ affects my choices, not the platform). I'm going to try and ignore the money side of this thing for a month. Sorry if I miss comments. But in California, its kinda about me.

I'm going to try and document the next month of our business. Norcal architectural photography is over around thanksgiving until after tax season. Holiday decorations, missing leaves, and residential is completely out of the question. But this time is going to be different, because we are moving the business to large format film photography.

Cheryl and I were each raised independently on negative strip film. We had both quit wedding photography years before we'd ever met., we'd each been published by the MSM. She finished a graduate degree on a 4x5 film camera; I spent 4000+ hours in a darkroom developing my own film and prints back in newspaper days. So we're not really leaving our element, we may be leaving easy immediate access.

So initially the photo quality is about to go down because I kinda don't care anymore. After reading about tether, then wondering who is paying for the steemit hosting, and then finally that bit with berniesanders this morning, I somehow finally feel free and comfortable to do what I want. I kinda think all this crypto everything is all going to be for naught, and steemit seems unable to protect the circlejerk. Still I like the "steemit voder" being sufficient to share the entire blog, and the price is at least as good as wordpress.

So about the lens baby. @seaotter mentioned this a month ago, our turn around time with film won't change much apparently.

That shot makes me realize that our studio hasn't been out of the box for years. Here is an eBay link to a similar model. They're about $60 and give the real tilt of a tilt shift lens, but in a swivel rather than planar fashion.

The glass quality is about that of good plastic so don't get fancy ideas about selling images through one of these, but its a fun toy that can add a whole bunch of dynamic range to an image (without fake HDR). I'll go on about HDR and its gross misuse being a big reason why we're going back to film.