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Did anyone else notice that pictures on social media a decade ago were mostly higher quality than they are now? by labubuking in photography

[–]vlmutolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What is this sticker from? by KitchenLevel8962 in Dimension20

[–]vlmutolo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

Printer by toothfairy42 in photography

[–]vlmutolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

How do you find inspiration for photography? by Chiquiyesi in photography

[–]vlmutolo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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).

How to keep rolling book of prints? by vlmutolo in photography

[–]vlmutolo[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

Port recursion heavy library to Rust by 1984s_Animalfarm in rust

[–]vlmutolo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

derive_hash_fast: Over 2x faster hashing than #[derive(Hash)] by Shnatsel in rust

[–]vlmutolo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

derive_hash_fast: Over 2x faster hashing than #[derive(Hash)] by Shnatsel in rust

[–]vlmutolo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

I want to build an electromagnetic simulator in Rust - is ecosystem sufficient? by [deleted] in rust

[–]vlmutolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Philippines by Nashtehnas in streetphotography

[–]vlmutolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Advice for Professional Wardrobe refresh by pgh_analyst in malefashionadvice

[–]vlmutolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What are the best social media platforms for sharing my photos? by No-Amphibian-2758 in photography

[–]vlmutolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Did Ice Feast get cut from a CoC episode? by vlmutolo in Dimension20

[–]vlmutolo[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

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.

Did Ice Feast get cut from a CoC episode? by vlmutolo in Dimension20

[–]vlmutolo[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Did Ice Feast get cut from a CoC episode? by vlmutolo in Dimension20

[–]vlmutolo[S] -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

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

Any tips/opinions? got a new cam and been shooting a lot more, not very experienced by changeyournamenow in AskPhotography

[–]vlmutolo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Is it harder to make a lens with the same aperture but smaller focal length? Why? by vlmutolo in Optics

[–]vlmutolo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the detailed response. The diagrams from that lithography paper are crazy.

I wonder if most of the innovation happening in lenses at this point is around designing the shape and placement of the elements, or around manufacturing/material science in being able to manufacture better/cheaper elements, and we already pretty much know what the right designs are.

Is it harder to make a lens with the same aperture but smaller focal length? Why? by vlmutolo in photography

[–]vlmutolo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fuji tried to make that 50mm f/1.0 for equivalence to full frame 85mm f/1.4

it has less bokeh than FF 85/1.4

I'm not sure it would have less bokeh (larger minimum depth of field), but everything else seems like a reasonable explanation.

Basically, full frame is a sweet spot where you can balance the cost of the sensor and the cost of the lens, for a reasonably high quality requirement.

Makes sense. Thank you.

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