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I picked it up from the drugstore. I\\u2019d drop it back at the drugstore for the non-one-hour version of development when I was done. I\\u2019d stick the prints in a non-archival plastic tub.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Then digital cameras came along.  And I got really really interested.  So I got a Mamiya RB67 medium format camera as well as a long-running series of digital cameras, and so sometimes I\\u2019d shoot film-hybrid where I\\u2019d figure out where I wanted to go with the digital camera and then take the \\u201Creal\\u201D shots on film.  But after a while, I ended up switching back into a mostly digital mode.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"This can always change again?\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"OM System, formerly Olympus, makes the only digital bodies I like\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The Olympus, then OM System bodies come with Live Time mode, which lets me preview a long-exposure photograph while I\\u2019ve got the shutter open, therefore that\\u2019s the system I use.  Conveniently, they are also reasonably ergonomic (at least for me) and nicely sized and shaped.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"I like to warp your reality, therefore I can only edit so much\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"If someone were to invent a teleportation device, it would ruin a lot of the magical illusions.  Right now, when the magician pulls away the scarf to show that there\\u2019s not a coin in their hands anymore and pulls it from behind your ear, it\\u2019s within the context of there being some amazing skillful trick that you just can\\u2019t spot.  If there were actual teleporters you\\u2019d be excited at the demo a few times but within a year or so it would recede into the background where maybe, if you are lucky, you are reminded that you got two hours of commuting back and it would otherwise be no more magical than driving at 55 mph.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Magicians get punchy about their tricks being revealed but, honestly, knowing the trick doesn\\u2019t necessarily help.  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If you were to look at the RAW file or original film, you\\u2019d very much recognize the exact same image, it\\u2019s just that I might have cropped the image or removed some blemishes or whatnot.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"AI image generators are not used here\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"There\\u2019s a bit of \\u201CAI\\u201D in the noise reduction for my RAW converter (I use DxO) and I\\u2019m mostly OK with that.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Pretty much anything else under the \\u201CAI\\u201D umbrella I\\u2019m avoiding.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Homebrew hardware\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I\\u2019ve got a lot of homebrew bits I\\u2019ve constructed over the years to get my results.\"));\n}\n;\nMDXContent.isMDXComponent = true;","id":"2a762fa4-fc7c-5a3a-bb78-267a34f4404f","fields":{"sidebar":null},"frontmatter":{"date":"June 02, 2008","title":"A brief tour of my photo process","type":null,"description":null,"sidebar":null},"srcImages":null,"excerpt":"I've gone through a bunch of versions of a photo process. 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