Film cameras in TV and movies
Mike Eckman: If you’re like me, it is exciting to see an old camera in a movie or television show set in the past. I've been known to pause to figure out…
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Julia Evans on Docker Compose
Julia Evans: I’m very happy about this because previous to trying Docker Compose I spent two days getting frustrated with trying to set up a dev environment with other tools and Docker…
My typical day
Here is a general overview of a typical day for me. Routine makes me happy but it also lends to my productivity. The more each day is the same the more I…
Shift Nudge
Matt D. Smith (@mds), explains what Shift Nudge is: Shift Nudge is the systematic process to learn the visual skills of interface design, even if you don't have a design background. Perfect…
The most important blog
Seth Godin: Even if no one but you reads it. The blog you write each day is the blog you need the most. It’s a compass and a mirror, a chance to…
Black Women Photographers
Laura Beltrán Villamizar, writing for NPR, describing the website Black Women Photographers: Her site, Black Women Photographers, is a forum where members can celebrate each other's work. It's also a platform both to…
For those wondering, everything is going great in the darkroom.
Firebase is awfully nice. Wow. Side note: I had an idea rolling around in my head for 13 years that I've wanted to try and I was able to make a prototype…
Simon Collison on personal websites
Simon Collison: You tend your domain like you steadily improve your home, and it can take years of false starts and incremental commits. Don’t think of it as urgent work, or —…
Music at Lucky Hare Brewing – March 2020
Music at Lucky Hare Brewing – March 2020 Just prior to lockdown, we were able to listen to this lovely chap play some music at Lucky Hare Brewing in upstate New York….
Panther’s Falls 2 – December 2020
Panther's Falls 2 – December 2020 I'm pretty happy with how this exposure, and the previous one, came out. This one was handheld, f/11, about 1/60s, on HP5+. I have a fairly…
Understanding ProRAW
With iOS 14.3 and the new iPhone, Apple has introduced an updated RAW image file format spec that extends on the already robust editing capabilities of RAW. They call it ProRAW. Ben…
Matthias Ott on having a personal web site
Matthias Ott on CSS-Tricks: Personal websites still deliver on that promise. Nowhere else do you have that much freedom to create and share your work and to tell your personal story. It…
Apple Maps continues to improve
Justin O'Beirne is still at it, and at more detail than ever: This is the tenth time that Apple has expanded its new map since its public launch twenty-six months ago in September 2018….
Should I update to Big Sur 11.1?
In early November I wrote that I'd be delaying my update to Big Sur. Specifically, I wrote: I’ll be waiting for at least two releases before I update. Well, 11.1 came out…
Chrome is bad
From Loren Brichter comes Chrome is bad: So it turns out that Google Chrome was making everything on my computer slow even when it wasn’t running, because it installs something called Keystone…
Jack Baty’s bad film experience
Jack Baty, 11 years ago: I ran out of film while on a deserted island. I set the ISO incorrectly on my OM-1, overexposing the roll by 2 stops. I opened the…
Panther’s Falls – December 2020
Panther's Falls – December 2020 As a kid I’d walk to these falls every chance I got. I had many bear encounters, caught tons of snakes (even though my mother forbade it),…
Lost 30 frames of film due to the camera not advancing the film. C’est la vie.
A diagram of my current photo storage footprint. Not the process, just the storage. I'm hoping to detail the process in a future post.
Looking forward to participating in an upcoming 127 Day.
The story of the Studebaker darkroom print
If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter you may have seen that I was in the darkroom this weekend. In March 2020, I purchased this Ansco Speedex from a local hip…
What I saw somewhat recently #72: December 3, 2020
I haven't made one of these lists in a little while, opting instead to publishing far more status updates to my site that include links. I go back and forth in my…
I password protected a few notes in Apple's Notes app and didn't store the password in 1Password and now I have no idea what that password is.
I started rewriting my photo moving script in AppleScript but ran into an odd permissions issue roadblock that I can't seem to search my way out of it.
My answer to my own askATP question (again)
A little over a year ago I sent in a question to the crew at ATP and subsequently I blogged my own answer to that question. This past week I sent in…
Help! What should I do?
So I'd like to earn a few extra reoccurring dollars for my habit using one of my skills. But I'm having a bit of an internal dilemma as to what that should…
M.G. Siegler on The Mandalorian
M.G. on Ev's blog: The Mandalorian feels like the true successor to the original Star Wars trilogy. I agree with M.G. While I liked The Force Awakens and Solo, the other two I could do…
Apple Arcade recommendations?