Hipstamatic Disposable update 3 – the D-Lite camera

Here is a full roll from the Hipstamatic D-Series D-Lite camera.

I really like the color saturation and slight brown tint this camera offers, but the light leaks are a bit much in many cases, so I’ll be using this camera with the slider all the way to the left in the future. (BTW: the slider controls the intensity of various effects.)

And I will be using this camera in the future, as I quite enjoy the effects.

 

A note: it takes a loooong time to transfer the pics from Hipstamatic D to the camera roll, and if you try to save multiple cameras to the camera roll at once, the whole operation can take an hour or more. It took around 90 minutes to completely save 5 cameras worth of images, and the transfer only happened while Hipstamatic D was opened.

And don’t be fooled by the “Saved!” pop-up that pop’s up after you hit ‘save,’ as that just means the save operation has begun. I lost 21 shots out of the BlacKeys roll because I deleted that set of images from the app soon after the ‘Saved!’ pop-up appeared… Grrrrr…

I hope Synthetic gets this together in a future update.

Hipstamatic Disposable update 2 – the D-Fault camera

Well, it took awhile, but I finally shot through another group of Hipstamatic D-Series cameras.

These shots came out of the D-Fault camera.

I like the border, and can see whipping this camera out in certain situations. The color saturation and contrast is interesting, and I’m pretty sure this would make for some fun snapshots.

 

A note: it takes a loooong time to transfer the pics from Hipstamatic D to the camera roll, and if you try to save multiple cameras to the camera roll at once, the whole operation can take an hour or more. It took around 90 minutes to completely save 5 cameras worth of images, and the transfer only happened while Hipstamatic D was opened.

And don’t be fooled by the “Saved!” pop-up that pop’s up after you hit ‘save,’ as that just means the save operation has begun. I lost 21 shots out of the BlacKeys roll because I deleted that set of images from the app soon after the ‘Saved!’ pop-up appeared… Grrrrr…

I hope Synthetic gets this together in a future update.

365.15 Abstraktes Bild

So I saw a photo someone had taken of an eye, and decided that would be a fun subject for today’s 365…

So I set up the macro rig and started shooting…

Any idea how difficult it is to focus on and frame an eyeball with a reversed 75-150 E Series on 49mm of extensions? Yep. Pretty hard. And achieving a shutter speed suitable for capturing an eyeball, with an aperture that gives more than a millimeter or two depth of field while shooting that eyeball, macro, indoors, in ever-decreasing afternoon light is equally challenging.

And it ended up being nigh on impossible for me, even after calling over a buddy to frame my eye and focus the lens…

Luckily, several of my wholly out of focus shots ended up having some nice, pretty, creamy, and colorful bokeh pretty much all over, so I picked one and cranked the volume a bit.

So, the macro rig (D700 + reversed 75-150 E Series + 49mm of extensions), shot at 1/2 second, ISO800, f/3.5.

365.14 Lines and Rays

It was such a beautiful afternoon, I wanted to go for a photowalk around beautiful Old East Dallas. Alas, my (not quite so mild as I make out, but still undiagnosed) agoraphobia got the better of me before I even got out of the apartment complex.

Oh well. There was some nice light streaming through the railings and spilling across the wall, so I made this picture and had some fun converting it to B/W in Aperture. Good times.

Now if only I could find a way to dig myself out of this fear…

Sigma 30mm f/1.4.

ISO100, 1/320, 1.4.