Camera musing

Thanks to the inspiration from a_flaneur, I began carrying my camera with me again today. Unfortunately, since both of my cameras are so old, I don’t have an easy way to get any pictures off of either of them on my Mac. I think it’s time I got a new camera.

I used to do some interesting (or at least I thought so) experiments with color separation, and I have some ideas for programming Postscript to break apart my images and turn them into huge complex random-looking line fields that look like oddly-colored versions of the originals. I really enjoyed that, but I need images with more resolution because I’d like to make wall-sized posters out of them.

I gave a small (20″ x 30″ print or thereabouts) prototype of this work to a_flaneur and she really seemed to like it.

You can’t see the details, and unfortunately the high-res version of this image was lost years ago, but you can see some of the effect I’m talking about in the following images:

This is the one I gave to a_flaneur:

…and it’s the only one that I can show some of the detail (although it’s the one where the detail is the most boring):

So we’re back to: yet another reason that the digital camera I bought in 1997 really isn’t adequate for my purposes any longer.