Archive for February, 2006

Fixed the RSS issue… finally (?)

Posted in rants etc. on February 21st, 2006

I hope the RSS feed works now. Before, whatever you did, you got always the comment feed linked. I have hacked a hard-wired code, it’s a bad hack but it works…

Please, report any problems in comments, ok?… This RSS is giving me a good headache…

Stairs – Flektogon 4/20

Posted in photography, pseudoart, rants etc. on February 20th, 2006

Staircase shadows

Flektogon 20mm f:4. My new old lens… :)
This is the predecessor of 2.8/20, lens optimized for aperture at the cost of distortion. The original 20/4 has almost perfect edge-to-edge rectilinear correction. The above frame was not altered geometrically in any way (well, except for plain rotation & border crop after scanning). The lowest stair steps are unsharp – they are out of DOF, the glass is sharp to the edge (of course, sharpness is better mid-field, but corner softness is not that much).
Just don’t put it on dSLR…

BTW: There’s a lot of heat as whether 2.8 or 4 is better, don’t shoot at me: I don’t care. If this lens fails me, I’ll ditch it and try something else, I won’t change a tool that works for me.

Double birthday party :)

Posted in rants etc. on February 20th, 2006

Doubla b-day group photo
more regular party photos: http://www.pbase.com/mareklew/double_b_day

Wassily Kandinsky – Concerning the spiritual in Art

Posted in rants etc. on February 17th, 2006

a beta-version of Kandinsky’s book on the basic elements of modern art is available for download. See [Link]
The book is considered essential for understanding works of visual arts…

modern.reading – candidate

Posted in photography, pseudoart, rants etc. on February 16th, 2006

2006-02-16 01-26-16 7717.wsc.jpg

not sure about this… wide angle attracts…