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  1. A tale of four frames...

    The first two images were shot on Ortho Plus, the second two on HP5. The Ortho shots were taken at slightly different shutter speeds in order to try to bracket the exposure a bit. On both the sky was pretty washed out, which makes some sense given the film. On the first I tried using a drawn and parametric mask in darktable - I'm still *very* new to masks, so I don't think I did a great job...you can see some interesting marks around the tree trunk. But I used the mask to increase the contrast of the sky to pull some of the clouds out.

    The second two were taken at the same shutter speed as each other - I managed to catch a bird in one of the frames, and wanted to have one without the bird to see what I liked better. The sky looks a lot better right out of the gate - the only adjustment I made (other than reversing via negadoctor) was to increase the contrast slightly, which is something I generally do on all my black and white photos. If I had this to do over again, I would've added an orange or red filter. I need to see if one that I already have will fit the 210mm lens I have.

    I wish - and a better handle of both masking and the negadoctor module could likely get me there - that I could get the exposure and detail of the tree trunk on the Ortho frames with the sky of the HP5 frames.

    Oh, and I guess this means the new field camera works. 😃

    📷 #Toko Field Camera
    🎞️ #IlfordOrthoPlus and #IlfordHP5Plus
    🧪 #HC110B

    Photo description because I don't feel like typing the same alt-text in 4 times: A weathered and bare tree trunk in a field, with a wire fence in front of it and some type of rusted farm equipment sitting on the ground nearby.

    #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #DevelopYourOwn #Darktable

  2. A tale of four frames...

    The first two images were shot on Ortho Plus, the second two on HP5. The Ortho shots were taken at slightly different shutter speeds in order to try to bracket the exposure a bit. On both the sky was pretty washed out, which makes some sense given the film. On the first I tried using a drawn and parametric mask in darktable - I'm still *very* new to masks, so I don't think I did a great job...you can see some interesting marks around the tree trunk. But I used the mask to increase the contrast of the sky to pull some of the clouds out.

    The second two were taken at the same shutter speed as each other - I managed to catch a bird in one of the frames, and wanted to have one without the bird to see what I liked better. The sky looks a lot better right out of the gate - the only adjustment I made (other than reversing via negadoctor) was to increase the contrast slightly, which is something I generally do on all my black and white photos. If I had this to do over again, I would've added an orange or red filter. I need to see if one that I already have will fit the 210mm lens I have.

    I wish - and a better handle of both masking and the negadoctor module could likely get me there - that I could get the exposure and detail of the tree trunk on the Ortho frames with the sky of the HP5 frames.

    Oh, and I guess this means the new field camera works. 😃

    📷 #Toko Field Camera
    🎞️ #IlfordOrthoPlus and #IlfordHP5Plus
    🧪 #HC110B

    Photo description because I don't feel like typing the same alt-text in 4 times: A weathered and bare tree trunk in a field, with a wire fence in front of it and some type of rusted farm equipment sitting on the ground nearby.

    #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #DevelopYourOwn #Darktable

  3. A tale of four frames...

    The first two images were shot on Ortho Plus, the second two on HP5. The Ortho shots were taken at slightly different shutter speeds in order to try to bracket the exposure a bit. On both the sky was pretty washed out, which makes some sense given the film. On the first I tried using a drawn and parametric mask in darktable - I'm still *very* new to masks, so I don't think I did a great job...you can see some interesting marks around the tree trunk. But I used the mask to increase the contrast of the sky to pull some of the clouds out.

    The second two were taken at the same shutter speed as each other - I managed to catch a bird in one of the frames, and wanted to have one without the bird to see what I liked better. The sky looks a lot better right out of the gate - the only adjustment I made (other than reversing via negadoctor) was to increase the contrast slightly, which is something I generally do on all my black and white photos. If I had this to do over again, I would've added an orange or red filter. I need to see if one that I already have will fit the 210mm lens I have.

    I wish - and a better handle of both masking and the negadoctor module could likely get me there - that I could get the exposure and detail of the tree trunk on the Ortho frames with the sky of the HP5 frames.

    Oh, and I guess this means the new field camera works. 😃

    📷 #Toko Field Camera
    🎞️ #IlfordOrthoPlus and #IlfordHP5Plus
    🧪 #HC110B

    Photo description because I don't feel like typing the same alt-text in 4 times: A weathered and bare tree trunk in a field, with a wire fence in front of it and some type of rusted farm equipment sitting on the ground nearby.

    #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #DevelopYourOwn #Darktable

  4. A tale of four frames...

    The first two images were shot on Ortho Plus, the second two on HP5. The Ortho shots were taken at slightly different shutter speeds in order to try to bracket the exposure a bit. On both the sky was pretty washed out, which makes some sense given the film. On the first I tried using a drawn and parametric mask in darktable - I'm still *very* new to masks, so I don't think I did a great job...you can see some interesting marks around the tree trunk. But I used the mask to increase the contrast of the sky to pull some of the clouds out.

    The second two were taken at the same shutter speed as each other - I managed to catch a bird in one of the frames, and wanted to have one without the bird to see what I liked better. The sky looks a lot better right out of the gate - the only adjustment I made (other than reversing via negadoctor) was to increase the contrast slightly, which is something I generally do on all my black and white photos. If I had this to do over again, I would've added an orange or red filter. I need to see if one that I already have will fit the 210mm lens I have.

    I wish - and a better handle of both masking and the negadoctor module could likely get me there - that I could get the exposure and detail of the tree trunk on the Ortho frames with the sky of the HP5 frames.

    Oh, and I guess this means the new field camera works. 😃

    📷 #Toko Field Camera
    🎞️ #IlfordOrthoPlus and #IlfordHP5Plus
    🧪 #HC110B

    Photo description because I don't feel like typing the same alt-text in 4 times: A weathered and bare tree trunk in a field, with a wire fence in front of it and some type of rusted farm equipment sitting on the ground nearby.

    #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #DevelopYourOwn #Darktable

  5. A tale of four frames...

    The first two images were shot on Ortho Plus, the second two on HP5. The Ortho shots were taken at slightly different shutter speeds in order to try to bracket the exposure a bit. On both the sky was pretty washed out, which makes some sense given the film. On the first I tried using a drawn and parametric mask in darktable - I'm still *very* new to masks, so I don't think I did a great job...you can see some interesting marks around the tree trunk. But I used the mask to increase the contrast of the sky to pull some of the clouds out.

    The second two were taken at the same shutter speed as each other - I managed to catch a bird in one of the frames, and wanted to have one without the bird to see what I liked better. The sky looks a lot better right out of the gate - the only adjustment I made (other than reversing via negadoctor) was to increase the contrast slightly, which is something I generally do on all my black and white photos. If I had this to do over again, I would've added an orange or red filter. I need to see if one that I already have will fit the 210mm lens I have.

    I wish - and a better handle of both masking and the negadoctor module could likely get me there - that I could get the exposure and detail of the tree trunk on the Ortho frames with the sky of the HP5 frames.

    Oh, and I guess this means the new field camera works. 😃

    📷 #Toko Field Camera
    🎞️ #IlfordOrthoPlus and #IlfordHP5Plus
    🧪 #HC110B

    Photo description because I don't feel like typing the same alt-text in 4 times: A weathered and bare tree trunk in a field, with a wire fence in front of it and some type of rusted farm equipment sitting on the ground nearby.

    #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #DevelopYourOwn #Darktable

  6. A few weeks ago I started shifting my #darktable config to the same external SSD that my photos are on, so that I can work on them on both my laptops (macOS and Linux) and main PC depending on where I am.

    Fast forward to last week, when I left the SSD plugged into my main PC overnight with darktable running, and it crashed (the PC, not darktable) and corrupted the active, open darktable configuration files on the SSD. I have a lot of custom metadata set up for film scans as well as multiple workspaces for film, digital, and a slide scanning project - so it was a substantial configuration. The photos themselves are periodically backed up (and I still have the negatives which is what I use darktable for the most).

    I worked with an LLM (this is one of the acceptable use cases for AI, IMO, as opposed to generating images and deepfakes all that that garbage) because I'm not a #bash expert and wanted a framework to work from/customize/learn from. This was the result - I'm posting it here in case anyone wants to use it, or has any ideas to make it better. Feel free to fork/clone if you like. Also open to ideas/suggestions. I tried to make it friendly enough that someone else can pick it up and run with it for their own use case.

    The first script backs up the configuration to a separate location (and keeps 5 rotating backups) and then starts up darktable. The second script allows you to select and restore one of those backups. If you put them in a bin folder in your home directory you can just run them like other terminal commands.

    I know that darktable also has a way to "check out" local copies, so maybe I should throw all these photos on a NAS (with a periodic offsite backup) or something, but this little SSD that I can take downstairs with me to work on my laptop while I watch TV with my wife has overall been a great, speedy solution - and a learning opportunity. Some of this will help me improve other simpler bash scripts I have/use.

    git.kaiserphoto.org/kaiser/dar

    Bonus pic of my parents' cat attached. Film data in alt text. :catjam:

    #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #PhotoEditing #FOSS #BelieveInFilm #DevelopYourOwn #NikonF100 #IlfordHP5Plus

  7. A few weeks ago I started shifting my #darktable config to the same external SSD that my photos are on, so that I can work on them on both my laptops (macOS and Linux) and main PC depending on where I am.

    Fast forward to last week, when I left the SSD plugged into my main PC overnight with darktable running, and it crashed (the PC, not darktable) and corrupted the active, open darktable configuration files on the SSD. I have a lot of custom metadata set up for film scans as well as multiple workspaces for film, digital, and a slide scanning project - so it was a substantial configuration. The photos themselves are periodically backed up (and I still have the negatives which is what I use darktable for the most).

    I worked with an LLM (this is one of the acceptable use cases for AI, IMO, as opposed to generating images and deepfakes all that that garbage) because I'm not a #bash expert and wanted a framework to work from/customize/learn from. This was the result - I'm posting it here in case anyone wants to use it, or has any ideas to make it better. Feel free to fork/clone if you like. Also open to ideas/suggestions. I tried to make it friendly enough that someone else can pick it up and run with it for their own use case.

    The first script backs up the configuration to a separate location (and keeps 5 rotating backups) and then starts up darktable. The second script allows you to select and restore one of those backups. If you put them in a bin folder in your home directory you can just run them like other terminal commands.

    I know that darktable also has a way to "check out" local copies, so maybe I should throw all these photos on a NAS (with a periodic offsite backup) or something, but this little SSD that I can take downstairs with me to work on my laptop while I watch TV with my wife has overall been a great, speedy solution - and a learning opportunity. Some of this will help me improve other simpler bash scripts I have/use.

    git.kaiserphoto.org/kaiser/dar

    Bonus pic of my parents' cat attached. Film data in alt text. :catjam:

    #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #PhotoEditing #FOSS #BelieveInFilm #DevelopYourOwn #NikonF100 #IlfordHP5Plus