An uninspired shot for last week’s 52Frames, where the theme was “What is it?. I took a picture of my microphone arm, which happens to have a couple of springs. I played a bit with the background to gite the soft brown background a bit more light, and I think that works well.
Another “opportunity shot” last week for 52Frames’ “Shoot From Above” – we visited the Aareschlucht, and so I snapped a few pictures of the water from the bridge above it. The rest of the day, we also went to Sustenpass; the whole album of that day with Moar Pictures is here: Aareschlucht (Meirigen) / Sustenpass – June 2022.
We went to the Lindt House of Chocolate last week, so obviously I took my camera with me, and I did know that I had a 52Frames “triangular composition” to take care of, if possible. When I saw that tool – used to spread the beans to dry them – I knew I had a good opportunity for that theme. And indeed, it worked out pretty well.
And, if you’re curious, I have extra pictures of that House of Chocolate 😉 It is, incidentally, absolutely worth the visit: the whole museum is very well made, there’s a lot of information presented in many different ways, and there IS a significant amount of chocolate to be eaten too 😉
For last week’s 52Frames, the theme was “Everything in Focus”. While I was not particularly trying to work on that theme, I was playing around with another project yesterday and this one caught my eye for this week’s theme. It’s a bunch of droplets over a black background – which happens to be a tablet screen. It’s not the first time I use my tablet as a black background; usually, I’m more interested in its reflective quality; this time around, I was very happy about the behaviour of my water droplets on it.
For this week’s 52Frames, the theme was “Inspired with a Photographer”, with an extra credit for “… and do that with the first photographer provided by our randomizer”. The randomizer assigned Thomas Ruff to me. One of his most distinctive work is his Portraits series, where he has a series of large dimensioned portrait captured in a passport-like format, with subjects keeping a neutral expression. So, I did that. His pictures also tend to show details that are not necessarily visible in today’s smoother pictures, which I tried to reproduce on this self-portrait too.
I actually have a significant amount of pictures of myself with that expression on my hard drive, because whenever I setup for a self-portrait, the first pictures kind of look like that, always. Normally it makes me cringe; here, it’s part of the brief. Sooooo it’s not my favorite picture of myself, but it’s what I was going for, so there we go 🙂
The theme for this week’s 52Frames was “Abstract”, so I took the opportunity to experiment with something I’ve been wanting to play with for a while: water/oil bubbles. I put a bunch of water in a transparent dish, added some oil, put that on top of a colored background – and tried my best to get something that was reasonably focused (to be fair, it’s not GREAT.)
For a quick&dirty experiment (which is a lot of what 52Frames is to me these days), this is pretty satisfying – and this definitely gives me ideas for a future project. To be continued…
My recent 52Frames have felt uninspired and perfunctory – but I still didn’t break my streak, so there is that. However, I’ve been remiss in posting them here – let’s fix that!
Not much to say here – I needed leading lines, I got leading lines 😛
Flat lay tends to work reasonably well with board games – and we got Terra Mystica out of its box last week-end, so that worked out well 🙂
I happened to be near Bellevue this week-end for the Architecture theme, and I didn’t have a picture of the Opernhaus yet. That is now fixed – although I’d have ideas to get a better picture – once the circus that was behind me is gone, that is 😛
The theme for this week’s 52Frames was “Lamp”, with an extra challenge “One click” (take a single picture and use that). We have a “Death Star”-like lamp shade, and it has a controllable color bulb in it: enough to get a cool abstract image! (I may or may not have made the lamp shade fall before taking a picture of it. Oops.)
ConcernedApe’s Haunted Chocolatier — Early Gameplay [short video] – ConcernedApe, of Stardew Valley fame, is working on a game called Haunted Chocolatier, and that’s almost everything I need to know. Except – when can I preorder that?
Coding Font [interactive tool] – a tool to decide what’s one’s favorite coding font. Pretty cool – and I was very amused to see that, without having the font names, I landed on the JetBrains one; I’ve been using a JetBrains IDE for the past 7 years, so maybe there’s a link 🙂
Talk – Practical Pigment Mixing for Digital Painting [medium-length video] – reasons why blue and yellow don’t make green in digital painting tools (and yes, it’s more subtle than additive vs subtractive colors) and a way to fix that. Fascinating stuff.
GPS [text with interactive widgets] – a very neat explanation of the Global Positioning System, with a lot of super well-made interactive widgets. Superb presentation.
Smirkybec’s Twitch channel [long videos] – Smirkybec edits Wikipedia on Twitch, and I need more of that type of content on my internet.
Book Renovation [text] – N.K. Jemisin (who’s a fantastic author you should read) talks about her book revision process.
Quordle [web-based game] – what if, Wordle, but guessing 4 words at a time? It also have a couple more languages, including French.
Advanced Skills through Multiple Adversarial Motion Priors in Reinforcement Learning [short video] – because it’s a transformer humanoid quadruped robot with wheels, and it’s damn cool.
A short history of Sriracha [twitter thread] – and now I want some Sriracha.
Return to Monkey Island [short video] – I started this post with a videogame announcement, I’m finishing it with another….. but RON GILBERT IS MAKING A NEW MONKEY ISLAND. Look behind you, a three-headed monkey. Some more details here: Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman – Return to Monkey Island [text].
The theme for this week’s 52Frames was “Extreme Close-Up”, explicitly not limited to macro. I went for the easy shot of opening a drawer, opening my color pencils case, and taking a picture of that; uninspired, yes, one more week, also yes. (Hoping to get more motivation for photography eventually some time soon!)
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