She loved the boots, even though they were one size too small. She dealt with the pain for the style. The contrast under the hat is on purpose.

Nope. Density. Most PCs come with too high a density, making things a bit dark. This is the reason the Mac has always been the leader in advertising. It has a lower density and is more visually correct. When you go to a big ad agency, ask to see a PC... it might take an hour to find one in a sea of Macs. I went to the huge agency that actually handles Apple as a client. They win awards for their sense of style, which, in this building, included a rail car from a train, suspended on an angle by cables from the reinforced ceiling. At the far end, which was lowest, they had a huge TV for looking at commercials they made. The doors just hung open.

No, that was shot back in the days of film, so I used a laser printer to do the lines, and then shot the lines on Technical Pan, developed for maximum D-Max, and then mounted that shot to a slide frame, and projected the pattern on the model using a slide projector. The film was TMAX 3200 exposed for EI 6400, and then scanned on my Imacon Precision 2 as a color negative, which created the very cool color effect. You can't really see it this small. There's orange and red almost looking like a tube.

Actually, shot #2 is spot on in exposure. I would suggest you might have too high of a density set on your monitor. I'm willing to bet it's a PC. This is common to PCs.

Another full resolution moon shot from a few minutes ago. Screen capture from a 1080p 29.976 fps shoot. The moon is being engulfed by clouds.

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Here is the rig with which I am shooting the moon. I note this is the small version of the Gitzo, which means it is short, only going up (without center column use) to about six feet. The regular Studex Giant goes up to about 10 feet without center post extended. The regular is, of course heavier. This small one, given the right head, is quite worthy of the task of this behemoth of a lens, which is on the order of well over 15 pounds. Now, the crooked look of the Pocket Cinema Camera is because I am matching it to the ecliptic to enable a vertical moon travel through frame. A variety of these 24p sequences will be available for sale on Vimeo. There will be straight moon, moon with clouds obscuring or revealing, and more, also at many different moon phases. As to the shakiness of the Manfrotto gear head, I edit out the shake, which is about 4-6 seconds at the head of the shot. When using so much magnification, the ability to see a shake is also magnified.

Charlton Heston had a great scene with Edward G. Robinson in "Soylent Green" when Heston brought a spoonful of strawberry jam (only accessible by the rich) to Robinson, which made him lament for the old days.

And another, with wild lighting. Florida Studio. Film

Here's another, of Mia, a favorite muse. California project studio.

Here is another... shot in my Florida studio, on film, decades ago.

I just thought to add to this new section. I have done fine art and glamor nudes for decades. This first image is of a Playboy TV Host, Doria, from a few years ago. This was a simple shoot in a canyon pass during the famed "magic hour."

Doria from Playboy TV

Anything online is hackable. I have met the hackers, and have used these hackers. And there are more hackers than I know. So, online backup is good for anything non critical and non-commercial. Microsoft, for example, created the "DOCX" format, seemingly to allow faster decryption of encrypted docs. (I used the hackers to try to break MY encryption, which was created knowing the tricks used by hackers.) The concept of "the clouds" is that once they become ubiquitous, perhaps no one will care to hack them. But this is not really true, as this sort of thing is akin to a social life for hackers, like the kind who have a giant lead pyramid weight precariously hanging above their paleolithic glass cartridge drive. When you smash a glass cartridge, that's about it.

That said, you know you can use 5 1/4 inch hard drives like old fashioned floppy drives, except really, really fast? The company OWC makes a two bay unit with Thunderbolt connectivity. This is a JBOD (just a bunch of disks) arrangement, so even the fastest drive, working at its fastest, can only partially fill up the Thunderbolt pipe. There are a variety of flavors of hard drive bays allowing this to happen. USB 3 is also pretty good. This way, you just dedicate some bookshelf space to your growing collection of HD floppies. You need a very good hardwood shelf, though, as hard drives are HEAVY, about a pound or so each.

Well, the Gitzo Tele Studex Giant is an anomaly. No longer manufactured, I suspect, as the Millennial Generation is, well, quite a bit softer (but boy, can they text!) than the previous generations. The Studex Giant is heavy and rock stable, once a favorite of rental houses. Stable, as in, if you ran an M1 Tank into one, you'd have to send the tank in for repairs. I spent $500 on a Manfrotto I use as a coat rack when it rains. It surely was not designed for a camera. The problem is the Manfrotto gear head I am using. A head north of $500. It, like all things Manfrotto, has coffee nerves. The trick is to keep it out of the breeze and not to look at it directly while the camera is running. I hope to cure this with the next shipment of my stuff from California.

I semi-recently had the opportunity to shoot graduating high school kids on the way to prom, organized as only Los Angeles can do. After spending time with these sext-ready, non edified people, I think I know the sort who should expect to be embarrassingly hacked.

A bloody hand rises. "Soylent Green is people!"