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Ben
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The point of them isn't to make a good film, the point is to reset the copyright countdown.
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
And it's just as well I've got the cumbersome boots with steel toecaps on.

Currently on the third train of one.

Subtext, dear government, invest in infrastructure, and stop thinking that repeating the mistakes of the past will somehow get different results because you think you're more efficient.
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
That's a very small postcode. Did you mean to put that here?
August 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Explore with the camera on fully manual to learn what impact everything has, and how it works together, until you understand it. Then do whatever suits the occasion, so aperture priority, fixed shutter speed or straight fully auto (you'll never learn or use the various pictogram settings).
June 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Narrow apertures means more is in focus, but longer shutter speeds are needed to fill the bucket so motion blurs.

Increasing the ISO reduces the total amount of light you need to capture, but makes the image more grainy or artefacty.
June 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
You want a bucketful of light; aperture is how broad your pipe is, shutter speed how long you run it for (ISO changes the size of the bucket).

Wide apertures mean light pours in, allowing short shutter speeds, so freezing motion, but only a bit is in focus, so foreground and background soft.
June 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Nice tie(les).
March 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It's good, but I can hear her voice when I'm reading it (I didn't know my brain could do that).
January 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
LEDs: single wavelength, very pure hues (like sodium streetlights), which are piercing, uncomfortable to look at. Incandescent: tiny fires, broad-spectrum but red skewed, so small sunsets.

A guy on YouTube has an annual obsessive experiment going to find a better option. He did this year.
December 9, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Reservoir Frogs.
August 27, 2024 at 8:02 PM