On the Road to Precision Anthropomorphic Photography
Well, it’s been two days since I put out my appeal to software engineers and inventors to provide a software or hardware solution for high resolution,
real-time mirror imaging. …And I’ve heard nothing. So, I’m going to have to make this into a project.
When you can see what you are doing in real time, you see that the slightest change of position, like a 2 degree rotation or pitch or sway causes huge changes in the images.
Every slight move causes new anthropomorphic creatures to appear and just as quickly, disappear. So the trick is to be able to see what you are doing
so you can precisely align the images. The crappy telephone app does this, but doesn’t produce a high res image.
So, today I tried shooting with both cameras at once, so that what I was seeing on the phone would be approximated by the real camera.
The results are promising. All these pictures came from a single root ball. But I need to build better hardware!
Legacy
Remembering Louise Hall Moser, who died six years ago today:
The paintings that you left unframed
that never brought you much acclaim
in seven decades didn’t earn
a dime for you or widespread fame.
You painted them while Europe burned
soft lit girls seem unconcerned
rendered well on masonite
you made them, then did not return.
After that you set your sights
for twenty thousand days and nights
on golden rules and eat your spinach
we knew your love, and wrong, and right.
The paintings now are worn and blemished
My favorite one is incomplete. I thought it right
to let you to know – Your legacy is not diminished,
but enhanced by things you left unfinished.
Forward to Spring
Every spring for the past few years, I’ve enjoyed capturing macro, close-up photos of the re-emergence of plants.
And this year, I look forward to it more than ever. I know just where to watch for the sudden blooming of the deciduous
Swamp Azalea (Pinxter flower) and later, the arrival of my favorite – Pawlownia flowers.
For now, I’m still photographing a lot of root balls while everything is still bare and gray and brown.
I think maybe when these get overgrown they will not look as good.
I’m also looking around at close up stuff with my macro lens to see what’s going on.
And I’m finding there are still plenty of wonderful brown things around.
Walking in Woods on a Blowy Evening
I know these woods, I think,
I come here twice a day to drink
and take in what is here
and reach the bottom of the creek
My little dog must think it queer
to leave cleared paths through woods and steer
Between the briars and fallen logs
day after day, year after year.
She tugs her leash but comes along
accepting that there’s nothing wrong
and when I stop to study roots
she waits and rolls and sings her song.
The woods seem plain and dark and mute
But then, I promised I would look
and take the dog each day on foot
and make the world of fallen logs.
Most will recognize that the poem above is adapted from Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
I used the same structure and rhyming pattern and I tried to follow Frost’s ideas and adapt them to what I wanted to say.
I even tried to emulate the “voice” of Frost’s poem. Robert Frost is one of my heroes!
A link to his poem is here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621
MIRA needs a new APP…
…or maybe a lens. Yesterday I found a phone app called “Camera Sutra,” that I used to make these pictures. The leap forward with this app is that you can see what the picture will look like as you are taking the photo. Until now, I’ve been taking pictures, imagining what the resulting image will look like, but not really knowing until some processing was either done in the application or back home in Photoshop.
I knew about Apple’s “Photo Booth” software that allows real time, what-you-see-is-what-you-get photography, with a number of effects, including mirroring, but that app is only available on larger devices that are inconvenient to carry around. So, finding “Camera Sutra” was great, but it leaves a lot to be desired – really low res output – no video capability.
So MIRA is officially looking for someone to develop an app that will allow for real time, WYSIWYG imaging that has video and still imaging capabilities, effects overlays, and output at the highest resolution offered by the hardware device. Even better would be a very high quality fast lens for a Canon EF or EFS mount with a built in mirror to split the image. F2.8, zoom and image stabilization would be good too. Now get to work!
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