October 11, 2009
Still fighting with blur
My continued fight with the Hasselblad Flexbody
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- Joel Bernstein: I know right?
- Rick Neece: Being nice is a dainty way to put it.
- Rick Neece: Hey Cristopher? Who cried “uncle” first, at the end of your ten-year stand-off? To quote my...
- Michael Smith: Ours is the kitchen.
- Amy Mabli: That’s what happens when you give the dogs the bed.
- Deron Bauman: Sweet Jesus.
- Michael Smith: Don’t we all.
- Pam: I have a story coming out soon in a ‘little mag’, Chicago Quarterly Review. An old friend recently...
- Pam: And I thought, somedays, that my work was meaningless…
- Pam: I remember Eggleston at the Art Institute in Chicago a couple years ago. He was elegantly dressed in a dark suit...
- Christopher Walken: Hey Clusterflockers, Realize y’all are hurting. I’ve been a really close friend of my...
- Marco: This works pretty well in mobile, more so in iOS
- Michael Smith: It was not the intent of management to imply all sissies are “namby pamby”. Management was...
- Rick Neece: I take umbrage with the term “namby pamby.” Some sissies are fierce.
- Carole Corlew: Shelia. Happy no big deal day. I would start your very own post but this phone is in semi rebellion.
is there any indication of the shifted perspective in the viewfinder? or do you only see the shift once the image is processed?
You know there’s something I sort of like about the books being in focus (some of them) with the reader blurred. It confers a “thingness” to the tomes, and an electron haze to the subject. A picture of the uncertainty principle, in an infinite regress of frames.
Deron, you can see pretty much where the blur will occur – you are effectively looking through the lens. The camera comes with corrective filters to enable you to see even though the perspective is distorted.
Daryl, thank you – I really like the tease of titles and yet you don’t present all leaving an element of frustration. Well, I know not being able to see titles would irritate me a tad.
I like the sense that you (you, the subject of the photo) appear suspended between worlds.
The monochrome thing works out very nicely here. Very little to take you out of believing in a black and white universe. The Flexbody just sounds so goddamned sexy. Ok, small peeve: why do you shorten the url on the link when it’s not necessary? I tend to roll over way more urls than I ever click on, and it’s always informative to see where they’re linking to. I only shorten urls for Twitter or that kind of space restriction.
Sorry, Lucy – it was to a search page as you can see – it shows my search so for that reason I didn’t think it mattered. It was also a very long link.
Yeah, the Flexbody is really sexy – fiddly to use or at least you need to get into a routine with it, something I haven’t done yet so I seem to be continually making mistakes. The possibilities are great I just need to apply my lazy ass and get consistent images from it.