1shot #011-doesn’t hurt much
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1shot #010-transposed self
I’m experimenting a bit with a polarizing filter I created for my BlackBerry 9790 macro rig. This shot of the water shut-off cap in my driveway was taken in full sun on Saturday about 10:30am. Without a filter, I would expect this to be totally washed out colour-wise. With the filter, I think it came up pretty well. If you’re interested, I’ll do a how-to post on this no-cost approach.
Happy making,
WD
1shot #009-not
…this is not my beautiful house.
It’s the Bank of Montreal at King and Erb in uptown Waterloo.
DW
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1shot #008-lock
The lock on the door of the old Eldon Gallery at 14 King St N in Waterloo. Who owns that space? Can we open it up temporarily and show some art?
DW
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1shot #007-control
Embedded in the sidewalk, south side of Erb St., between King and Westmount, on the way to Brojemus’ pad.
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1shot #006-wrap it up
Shot with my BlackBerry 9790 on Caroline St. on the way to Zoup.
DW
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how-to: do cheap macro photography on a BlackBerry
[Imagine a giant disclaimer here that says I speak for RIM about BlackBerry officially only on matters of product security. Everything else, like this post, is just me as an independent maker, messing around on my own time, in absolutely no official/approved way.]
By popular demand (ok, well James asked me), and driven by the great feedback from yesterday’s post of macro photos taken with my BlackBerry 9790 + cheap plastic lens (CPL), here’s a how-to of… how to do this.
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3 hours of coffee to 3 hour BlackBerry 9790 macro shoot
I had two people email-introduce me to Tony Reinhart last week, saying “You gotta meet this guy!” Well, thanks to Jacqui Murphy and Mark Walton, Tony and I ended up chatting at Coffee Culture for 3 hours this morning, PlayBooks blazing with pictures and videos we’ve created. We even got a bit of a makerly BlackBerry macro mod going on Tony’s 9900 and my 9790, since I brought along a few cheap plastic lenses recovered from disposable cameras + some scotch tape. Same deal as this time and that time.
Tony, a former Globe and Mail veteran journalist, is now a staff writer with Communitech. And, as I learned this morning, he’s a very skilled photographer, primarily shooting with BlackBerry smartphones. Now if you know him, please nudge him to post some of his most recent work to his blog.
All those inspiring photographs and all that coffee, had me crawling around in my yard back home after lunch, with my no-cost “macro” lens still taped to my 9790. The photos here are what came out of that shoot. Very very little post-processing done on these photos. 9970 device settings were: macro scene mode, no flash, auto-focus continuous, no digital zoom, no image stabilization, picture review off, image size 2592×1944, no GPS tagging. I’m not saying these are optimal settings, they’re just what I used today.
Agnes Niewiadomski is a maker’s maker
fabric, stitching – Agnes Niewiadomski
My wickedly talented friend, artist, baker, and killah propmaker (rhyme!),
Agnes Niewiadomski is the current artist in residence at kwartzlab. I popped by the lab on Sunday with James Bastow and once again Agnes’ work really blew my hair back.
Regular readers may recall Agnes’ textile brick wall installation or her cake wall installation (Was it art? Was it food? Who cares: it was the best damned installation I ever ate.) This recent piece above utilized neckties and Agnes’ uber-kickass new sewing machine to render a psychedelic fish. Respect.
You should drop by kwartzlab’s Tuesday Open Night, free-no-pay, doors open every week from 7-10pm, to check out this work in real life (lurkers). Bravo to the lab for offering this residency where artists get access to space, tools, know-how, and a super-supportive community of fellow creators.