Adelaide, South Australia

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Ok, back to photographs with me behind the camera. These were taken when I was in South Australia visiting my godmum. No I'm not catholic, why does everyone ask me that when I tell them I have a godmum? Anyway, what was interesting to me about Adelaide was the architecture which has been influenced by the land. Unlike Sydney, and frankly most places I have been, there is hardly any wood construction. Almost everything is stone, brick, iron and corrugated tin. Even the telephone polls were made of concrete instead of wood. I loved the buildings. They were so old school, yet there is something very modern about Adelaide, as it seems to incorporate aspects of the best of both worlds.

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[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

my favorites are #2 and #7.

i really like photographing buildings/architecural details but the idea of being an architectural photographer with the 4x5 gives me a headache. too technical.


also, i really want to travel outside of north america again, it's been far too long. but i can't even afford to pay my utility bills so that'll never happen.

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Thanks, I appreciate the input. Do you have your own 4x5 camera? Can you do perspective correction with that?

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

no, that's my next purchase. but i like to check out the fancy sinar from school. yeah, perspective correction - the film plane and the lensboard plane move; up and down, swing (back and forth on an axis) and tilt (forwards and back on an axis too) and and that's how architectural photographers get past the parallax/converging lines deal.

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Yeah, all I have is ghetto photoshop crop/perspective correction :(

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

you can also get a perspective correction thing for other format cameras, it looks like a bellows extension and goes on the camera body and then the lens goes on it. kinda like a macro extension or barrel extension tube thing. i'm sure b&h (http:www.bhphotovideo.com) has them but i don't really know how much they are.

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Yeah, I think it neatly fits in the “it would be nice category”. I love playing with gadgets, but sometimes I think sometimes they are just distractions.

Think my next big purchase would be a Mac G5 and a film scanner like the one I am borrowing from a friend right now. The G5 has the virtue of being useful for my day job.

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

i have a G4 powerbook. i use the G5s at school and they're quite nice although the processor isn't THAT much different from my G4 but maybe i'm just saying that because i'm jealous. anyways they sure look fancy.

film scanner. i'd really like one of those but am too used to using the $20k scanners at school. anything that i could even possibly remotely afford would seem really primitive and lame and that's alright because it would be a cold day in hell before i could think about affording one anyways.

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We make the G5 processors where I work. Well, not in the part that I work in, but within the company, and I think they used our software tools to design it (the software that I do work on). Also I know somebody who worked on the resisters in the G5.

The G5 has a larger address space, so you can have more memory, up to 8GB I think for the current Apple motherboards, but the theoretical limit is astronomical. For my purposes, I think I could get away with 2-4GB.

I can see how you wouldn’t want to work with this dinky little $600 scanner :) The most expensive scanner they had at Dutchess was about $2k (I priced it at B&H), and it was more because it could handle medium format. They suit my ammeter purposes though... for now.

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Where have you been? I remember you saying something about living in Germany at one point?

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

germany and austria. i was an exchange student in germany, but that was a really long time ago.

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Whereabouts in Germany? Sprechen Sie Deutch?

What was your undergraduate degree in? Was that fine art too?

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

gotha, near bad thuringen. in the former east. ja, nicht so gut. i lived there 12 years ago and haven't used german since, really, but i guess if i was immersed in it again i'd be able to pick it back up easy.


i haven't gotten my undergrad yet :| i'm only a sophomore.

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My bad. I misunderstood.