TheBiscuitLout @ TheBiscuitLout @lemmy.world

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The Bierpinsel in Berlin has been painted in a few different ways, and looked great in all of them. Do an image search for it, you’ll see what I mean

The Nikon siteis less of a cookie nightmare, and arguably more interesting, but thanks for bringing this to my attention, the photos are stunning!

It’s really pleasing seeing the seconds all change in unison!

System shock

It’s a fantastic camera, being micro four-thirds it’s pretty small, so it’s great for unobtrusive street stuff, and it’s completely competent enough to work for any other style I’ve tried with it. Also, being a smaller sensor, good lenses are really cheap, and I can carry a whole bunch of them in a small bag without it weighing a stupid amount.

I’d relied on my phone for ages too. It was actually a feature of the newer iOS that convinced me to get it - my phone picks out landscape photos without people from its camera roll, and alternates them as my background/lock screen. It reminded me that I’m actually quite good at the composition side of photography, while making me more aware of the phone’s limitations. While always having a camera in my pocket is handy, I’d forgotten how much I enjoy the tactile part of an actual camera, and since I’ve had the GX9, it’s pushed me to go places and do things just because I have the thing with me.

Ah, it ain’t that old unfortunately! It’s ok, but nothing special. I do a lot of metalwork, so it makes sense to have a dirty one and a clean one. The dirty one has channels in the table for coolant too, so that’s definitely staying in the metalwork shop, and if I can find a small a small radial arm drill then I’ll build a nice big table for that with a proper fence for that.

A decent camera. Specifically a LUMIX GX9, it’s about the best compromise between portability, versatility, price and quality that I could find, and it’s really become a part of my daily life.

A new, cleaner drill press is high on my list. I have an old greasy one, but a decent one for woodworking is becoming necessary

Ha, that rabbit hole yawned right in front of me almost immediately! I’ve ended up with a few, but I’ve sort of stuck on a couple - the Helios 44-6, and a Helios 28mm that turns out to be a Tomioka in disguise (and about 1/5th the price!), and a Nikkor 50mm 1.2, and Nikkor 300mm. The 300mm especially is phenomenal, easily the nicest manual focus I’ve ever encountered, it’s a joy to use and takes absolutely awesome pics. There are a couple still itching at the edges of the irrational-craving container, but I think I’ve managed to rein the gear acquisition in, in general, and am trying to focus on composition, and learning FOSS editing tools like Darkroom.

Photography has got me pretty good. Specifically old interesting concrete, graffiti, decaying structures, that kind of thing. Been at it for a good while too, this is one I can hopefully string out to just become a long-term hobby!

Go and live in a remote cave somewhere maybe? Oh no, wait, that's fucked too

“And we specifically call this particularly entertaining sin the ol’ Vatican Reversal.”

If that doesn’t get a particularly gay sex act named after it, I’ll be disappointed.

Microplastic a found in FUCKING CLOUDS!! That nonsense is absolutely everywhere, and will be there forever. And wherever you go, it’s going to follow you. Rubbish

I’ve started using a cheap printing service to get physical copies of the ones I like, and trying to use them around my house a bit

Absolutely fucking brilliant. Not only is the waiting list for diagnosis four bloody years long, you won’t get any treatment at the other end of it. Just shoot me, dangling the carrot of help with no ability to provide it is worse than not offering it at all

It just never really occurs to me. Even if I already have the camera in my hand, the things that strikes me as needing to be shot are shadows, textures, bits of old concrete and machinery. It’s not that I actively choose not to, just that people are almost always less interesting than moss on a bit of old concrete

I’m becoming more and more convinced that a “woke” person is anyone who calls right-wingers out on being overtly racist/sexist/fascist. Or maybe anyone who just isn’t obviously racist/sexist/fascist.

To be honest, I’m taking it as a sign of it developing genuine artificial intelligence. It examined its situation and surroundings, and made the only logical choice

“I threw that shit before I even walked in the room!” One of my other favourites is the pool hall fight, where the pump actually smacks the actor he’s fighting, and the guy loses his cool. Then there’s a swift, unplanned cut, and suddenly he’s fighting someone else entirely. It’s all those little pastiches of shoddy movie-making that you can miss, such a good movie!

Black Dynamite