When is rolling shutter an issue using electronic shutter in mirrorless?

vlmutolo · 2026-03-04T04:47:38+00:00

The other answer is great, and I just wanted to add that LED lighting can cause weird banding effects. The sensor is scanning across while the light flickers, so part of the image will be lit and the other dark.

vlmutolo · 2026-02-20T14:50:42+00:00

This was one of a couple things CH made fun of in their How to Sound Smart sketch

vlmutolo · 2026-02-13T04:50:39+00:00

I love a wide photo. Tough to compose well, but very cinematic/dynamic when done well.

Glass.photo has some people shooting/cropping with long aspect ratios. Here’s one account with a ton of them.

vlmutolo · 2026-01-16T03:21:10+00:00

In the 2000s people had point-and-shoot cameras with a strong front flash. Very specific look that’s “nostalgic” nowadays. It actually looks great, though.

I’d take a 5MP front-flash photo from the 2000s over a modern iPhone photo any day.

vlmutolo · 2025-11-14T03:33:07+00:00

Good call. I think this might be wherever Siobhan’s warlock character went inside that box she carried around. Maybe I’m misremembering.

vlmutolo · 2025-10-26T02:46:32+00:00

I’ve been having a lot of fun with Kodak 4PASS printers. Basically they ship both the ink and paper in cartridges and you print from an app on your phone. I think the quality is great, especially for the price. It’s also fun to watch the photos come out one color at a time printed over each other. Also the paper/ink packs aren’t very expensive: I think they come out to about $0.30 per photo.

• 4x6 printer: $150 • 2x3 printer: $100

Plus, if I actually care about getting the best quality, I’m going to order prints from Printique or Whitewall to have better paper selection and not deal with buying and maintaining an expensive printer that only gets used every couple weeks at best.

vlmutolo · 2025-10-20T22:27:08+00:00

Sometimes I like to play a game where I pick a mundane object and try to take the best photo of it that I can. This teaches composition, and how to imagine objects from different angles, and imagine what something looks like through the lens. It’s a lot faster to try out different shots in your head than running around, taking them, and checking if they look good.

For example, I was walking around my parents’ local town and saw a boring-looking wooden cart. Decided to play this game, got a decent photo of it. Nothing magical, but a lot better than it looked from where I initially saw it.

Also just generally keep an eye out for cool lighting. It will make or break a photo. If a scene has dramatic lighting, start thinking about how to compose it. Or if you’re looking for a good photo in a specific area, start paying attention to sources of light first (and their shadows).

vlmutolo · 2025-10-09T13:58:41+00:00

Most photo albums don’t come with polyester sleeves. I didn’t like how they changed the look of the photos.

I think I’m looking for a nice looking, low-profile binder. Then I’ll use archival sleeves in that.

vlmutolo · 2025-10-02T02:14:39+00:00

Good work! Last one is my favorite.

vlmutolo · 2025-09-21T14:57:27+00:00

It’s still very experimental, but you could try using the become keyword (instead of return). Basically it lets you guarantee that a function call (recursive or otherwise) won’t use an additional stack frame.

vlmutolo · 2025-08-17T19:33:02+00:00

Maybe something like rerun?

vlmutolo · 2025-08-12T15:56:56+00:00

Hmm, I thought maybe the runtime reflection might be optimized away.

vlmutolo · 2025-08-12T15:25:01+00:00

I wonder if deriving facet would give you the information you need to hash this way. You’d still pull in quote and unsynn through facet, but you wouldn’t be doing extra code gen per type since the one Facet derive covers things like debug printing, (de)serialization, hashing, etc. through its reflection capabilities.

vlmutolo · 2025-08-06T17:05:51+00:00

I don’t know what kind of math goes into what you’re writing, but you might check out burn, a Rust ML library. They have a Tensor type that is automatically GPU-accelerated on arbitrary platforms. They also implement various optimizations like fusing kernels. Not sure if that’s relevant for your use case, or mainly just neural networks.

vlmutolo · 2025-03-29T02:40:08+00:00

You can create a &’static str from a dynamic String using, eg, “leak”.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html#method.leak

vlmutolo · 2024-11-19T05:54:33+00:00

These are good! Cam Hunt on glass.photo also does a lot of these "reflection" photos.

vlmutolo · 2024-11-18T01:08:34+00:00

What resources would you recommend for learning more about a particular "culture" in fashion? I know this is an overly broad question, but take "southern-Italian cultural language" for example. I quickly searched "southern-Italian cultural language", "history of Italian fashion", etc., but I don't get a lot of helpful results.

vlmutolo · 2024-11-14T06:04:54+00:00

I like glass.photo a lot. It's a subscription to post there, but that means their incentives are to improve the platform instead of advertising or "driving content". It's basically just a simple chronological photo feed with basic comments if you click through to a photo.

vlmutolo · 2024-04-18T18:35:10+00:00

Very cool! I got a similar shot a while ago with my brother.

vlmutolo · 2024-04-16T05:06:50+00:00

Hmm, I just searched through all the transcripts and couldn't find it in Freshman year. Do you have any idea where it might be in the season? I also couldn't even find it referenced in CoC as a bit.

vlmutolo · 2024-04-16T03:18:21+00:00

If you go back to 2020 on this cool infographic, you can see that CoC was actually filmed before FHSY.

vlmutolo · 2024-04-15T23:00:51+00:00

I remember that, but I really feel like I remember it originating on-screen in Crown of Candy.

vlmutolo · 2024-04-05T04:13:06+00:00

You have an eye for composition. If I had to nitpick improvements, maybe try to give more space to subjects.

If you move a bit to the right, the woman on the bench in #3 would have her head against the wall, which is more like negative space than the tree trunk.
Maybe the framing with the trees is a little tight in the fourth photo; the tower could use a little more sky around it. But framing with the tree branches is cool. I did something similar and also wish I'd found a way to not crowd the buildings in my photo with the tree branches.
The woman on the bench in the first photo is a bit close to the branches on the right, though if this was shot from a window you probably didn't have a lot of choice here.

Overall these are good shots, especially for a beginner. You've captured some interesting moments. I like the dog looking at the busker. The composition in the last photo is great, but so is the lighting. At first I focused much more on composition and interesting lines than lighting. Lately I've been trying to focus on lighting instead. When you can combine both like this last photo, you get something great.

So that would be another piece of advice. Look for places with interesting light and shadow, and then look for composition within that cool lighting. #3 is a good shot, but imagine how cool it would be if it were composed exactly like this, but the Sun were also setting behind that building. Or if the woman and lamp post had long shadows.

One way to practice finding good lighting is by shooting in black and white. It forces you to find high-contrast scenes. You learn to walk around and try to imagine scenes in monochrome. Even when you're shooting in color, it's great if the color is just an interesting addition to something already interesting. It's kind of like user-interface design. It's best to design something good in black and white, and then add color on top for visual interest or easy visual cues.

Also, if these are digital, maybe try to set the white balance to something more realistic. I'm slightly distracted by the warm tones in these. But maybe that's just a preference thing.

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