My lazy day
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“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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@renauda said in My lazy day:
I'll have to get a buscuit jointer
I bought one in the last century. It's fantastic. I'm not sure I'd trust it for high-stress joints where a traditional mortise/tenon would be better, but for simple and quick alignments, it's wonderful. I'm sure they've gotten better over the decades.
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@renauda said in My lazy day:
Woke up my usual 6:45. Coffee a bite to eat and off to the hardware store to buy a 22 guage pneumatic stapler. Oddly enough they were on sale! Spent the rest of day the helping to upolster a chair my wife is redoing. There are several furniture building projects in line. This was the easy one. The rest are from scratch.
Renauda, I would love to see pictures of these projects. I have been learning basic upholstery, and was brave enough to post pics here.
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“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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Nobody asked, but whatever, y'all are doing it, so:
- Woke up at 8. Ran outside to try to take advantage of the morning light. I had 4 photos left of my Ektachrome project and about 4 photos left of HP5, and I'd yet to try to take some morning light photos to test the dynamic range. Got outside, found a place to meter in the back yard, and then I shit you not, the light changed and never returned. So I brought all my stuff back inside.
- Had tea with my wife from about 8:15 to 9:15.
- Went back outside. Took a couple of photos. Realized the ISO setting on the light meter was set to the HP5, not the Ektachome, effectively ruining the two photos I just took. Nice. Retook them with the right settings, thus finishing off the roll.
- The Pentax has a problem with the advance lever. It only lets me get to 32 photos, not 36. Maybe it's advancing too far per shot? Only way to know is to get the film developed and look at the negative strip. So, well, that roll's done too now, I suppose.
- Took kiddo outside. Got the Puckster out too, so he could stretch his legs.
- Did egg dying stuff with kiddo. She was impressed at first, then all kinds of was not but hey she's still pretty young for it. I made a pretty baller one that does this gradient thing from blue to yellow.
- Started on the food for today. I made chicken & dumplings, my wife made berry pie. Not traditional for Easter but badass nonetheless.
- FaceTime with my folks, then with some friends of ours in Richmond.
- Ate way too much. Way. Regret nothing.
- Put kiddo to sleep.
- Getting the last of the tea out of the pot I started this morning, as is per usual.
I don't think you could pay me enough to even serious consider working in some dumbshit office again.
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@aqua-letifer That's a very good day, Aqua.
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@brenda said in My lazy day:
@aqua-letifer That's a very good day, Aqua.
Couldn't have asked for better.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in My lazy day:
Great day, Aqua, even though I didn't understand shit about the photography stuff you posted.
Basically I fucked up. That pretty much sums it up.
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@aqua-letifer said in My lazy day:
Basically I fucked up.
Fall down seven times, get up eight.-- Japanese Proverb
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Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@catseye3 said in My lazy day:
@aqua-letifer said in My lazy day:
Basically I fucked up.
Fall down seven times, get up eight.-- Japanese Proverb
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Yep. And it's okay, because I caught the mistake, so I won't be perplexed when the developed film comes back. I also took plenty of other test shots and wrote down their settings and meter readings to compare against, so I'll have plenty to work with after all's developed. -
@aqua-letifer said in My lazy day:
@george-k said in My lazy day:
Great day, Aqua, even though I didn't understand shit about the photography stuff you posted.
Basically I fucked up. That pretty much sums it up.
Who knows? It may turn out better than you think...
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Catching the right light was always so frustrating for me. It was one of the main reasons why I stopped taking pictures. That, and I wasn't very good at it.
Do you develop your own film?
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@friday said in My lazy day:
Catching the right light was always so frustrating for me. It was one of the main reasons why I stopped taking pictures. That, and I wasn't very good at it.
Yeah, it's a funny thing. Photography has nothing to do with the technical stuff, even though that's all middle-age white guys want to obsess over. It's all about training your eyes to see. That sounds kinda "woo," but that's literally what it is. The first step is to get the technical details taken care of and off the table so that they no longer hinder you, but that's only the preliminary requirement. Training your eyes takes your whole life, you're never "done."
You also gotta be very comfortable with failure.
About one out of fifty photos I take I actually keep. That ratio hasn't gotten better over time—it's just that the ones I keep have gotten better. In fact, I can't tell you how many times I've gone out for an entire day, walking for miles with the intention of taking photos, and the one good image I got all day came from the coffee shop I stopped at in the morning, or on the metro on the way home after a whole day of failures. It happens all the time. That's what makes it fun, though.Do you develop your own film?
Yeah, but only a little. I have a lab box that I use to develop black and whites (easier process). You don't need a dark bag for those, but they're a bitch when you're developing more than one roll. If I triple down on film, I might get a paterson tank but for now, I send most of my stuff to a lab and develop the easy stuff at home if I don't have too many rolls.
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@aqua-letifer said in My lazy day:
The first step is to get the technical details taken care of and off the table so that they no longer hinder you, but that's only the preliminary requirement. Training your eyes takes your whole life, you're never "done."
Yeah - I'm not good at photography. (and quite bad technically). But I do have a decent mirrorless.
Some of my best shots are technically bad, but with good composition.
