IncidenceMatrix
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An intersection of objects and categories.
The Kentmere Cult grows....
February 5, 2026 at 4:05 AM
The Kentmere Cult grows....
Great shot! One truly feels the scale of the scene - and the weight of that ice!
February 5, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Great shot! One truly feels the scale of the scene - and the weight of that ice!
You're definitely not alone. Cartier-Bresson has a whole passage in *The Decisive Moment* articulating the view that color photography is just too hopelessly difficult to do well. I have a very different view, but I do understand why he saw it that way! He wasn't unique, either...
February 5, 2026 at 4:01 AM
You're definitely not alone. Cartier-Bresson has a whole passage in *The Decisive Moment* articulating the view that color photography is just too hopelessly difficult to do well. I have a very different view, but I do understand why he saw it that way! He wasn't unique, either...
Anyway, I can see why you'd be driven to distraction, coming to this from a rigorous color consistency standpoint! Something to be said for avoiding what would just get in your way. (And plenty of famous photographers were cynical about getting color right, so you are in good company!)
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Anyway, I can see why you'd be driven to distraction, coming to this from a rigorous color consistency standpoint! Something to be said for avoiding what would just get in your way. (And plenty of famous photographers were cynical about getting color right, so you are in good company!)
("Accuracy" in such a context is nontrivial, anyway.) Thus liberated, I can lean into what the film "wants" to do (to follow your metaphor), and try to work with the medium rather than against it. (How successful I am, is another question.) /5
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 AM
("Accuracy" in such a context is nontrivial, anyway.) Thus liberated, I can lean into what the film "wants" to do (to follow your metaphor), and try to work with the medium rather than against it. (How successful I am, is another question.) /5
...harder, IMHO. But again, color correction is not my forte. Personally, my resolution of this issue is that I'm making an image, and the colors can be whatever they need to be - I try to think about whether they are effective, rather than whether they are in whatever sense "accurate." /4
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 AM
...harder, IMHO. But again, color correction is not my forte. Personally, my resolution of this issue is that I'm making an image, and the colors can be whatever they need to be - I try to think about whether they are effective, rather than whether they are in whatever sense "accurate." /4
...in certain lighting conditions. (After all, color perception is very complex, very contextual, and not likely to be perfectly faked by a small set of basis functions.) And to be fair, in some light one can get e.g. Kodak Gold to look both beautiful and "straight." Porta 800 is oddly ... /3
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 AM
...in certain lighting conditions. (After all, color perception is very complex, very contextual, and not likely to be perfectly faked by a small set of basis functions.) And to be fair, in some light one can get e.g. Kodak Gold to look both beautiful and "straight." Porta 800 is oddly ... /3
Of course, I lack your training, so for me it could be a skill issue! But I think it's just inherent in the compromises needed to make color film, limits in the spectral responses of the dyes, etc. that the film is never going to produce something that is quite what your eye/brain system does... /2
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Of course, I lack your training, so for me it could be a skill issue! But I think it's just inherent in the compromises needed to make color film, limits in the spectral responses of the dyes, etc. that the film is never going to produce something that is quite what your eye/brain system does... /2
Lovely images, as always. The perspective on color makes sense, I think, if you are coming from that world. Color negative film can look very "natural" if the stars align, but usually you get something that isn't, and that I at least can't make look quite "straight." /1
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Lovely images, as always. The perspective on color makes sense, I think, if you are coming from that world. Color negative film can look very "natural" if the stars align, but usually you get something that isn't, and that I at least can't make look quite "straight." /1
Lovely! I just broke down and bought the 38mm macro for my Pen F. (You can't have too many macro lenses.) Seems promising so far. In general, the lenses for this system are quite good, and they're a lot of fun to use. That "basic" 38mm is IMHO excellent, in particular.
February 5, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Lovely! I just broke down and bought the 38mm macro for my Pen F. (You can't have too many macro lenses.) Seems promising so far. In general, the lenses for this system are quite good, and they're a lot of fun to use. That "basic" 38mm is IMHO excellent, in particular.
I share your cynicism about this kind of task - asking a bad question rarely yields useful answers - but think it's pretty remarkable to put e.g. Cartier-Bresson above St. Ansel. Ah well. Such games make me glad I am not a professional artist, and need not count for anything (in this realm, anyway)!
February 5, 2026 at 12:48 AM
I share your cynicism about this kind of task - asking a bad question rarely yields useful answers - but think it's pretty remarkable to put e.g. Cartier-Bresson above St. Ansel. Ah well. Such games make me glad I am not a professional artist, and need not count for anything (in this realm, anyway)!
That's ++ungood. But, especially for a surgery on the hands (which have a very high level of bacterial exposure), I would be careful about stinting on the antibiotics. The risk of death and/or permanent injury from infection is real. Perhaps they can find something you can tolerate better?
February 4, 2026 at 1:49 AM
That's ++ungood. But, especially for a surgery on the hands (which have a very high level of bacterial exposure), I would be careful about stinting on the antibiotics. The risk of death and/or permanent injury from infection is real. Perhaps they can find something you can tolerate better?
Thanks! Give your macro lens a try with it - you'll create some amazing things!
February 4, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Thanks! Give your macro lens a try with it - you'll create some amazing things!
Congrats! It's a lovely camera to use, and the lenses are quite good. Half-frame is a bit unforgiving, but can still yield very good results.
February 3, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Congrats! It's a lovely camera to use, and the lenses are quite good. Half-frame is a bit unforgiving, but can still yield very good results.
Congrats! A nice image! (And good to see more Flickerati here!)
February 3, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Congrats! A nice image! (And good to see more Flickerati here!)
It's the little things like that, which transform the mundane into something greater.
February 3, 2026 at 6:38 AM
It's the little things like that, which transform the mundane into something greater.
Have not loved turquoise, but purple is unreasonably beautiful. Provides an alternative way of abstracting a naturalistic scene, that retains a sense of color still "otherizes" it a bit. Particularly effective in macro. E.g., here's a shot I took of an alluaudia:
February 3, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Have not loved turquoise, but purple is unreasonably beautiful. Provides an alternative way of abstracting a naturalistic scene, that retains a sense of color still "otherizes" it a bit. Particularly effective in macro. E.g., here's a shot I took of an alluaudia:
They'll get my manual transmission when they take it from my cold, dead hands....
February 3, 2026 at 12:34 AM
They'll get my manual transmission when they take it from my cold, dead hands....