Author: Alex Catalano
Date: Monday, Dec. 2, 2024
Dream big. Build small. Blog often.
Happy one week to the Daily Photo blog!🫃🎉
Catch phrase
I have a new catch phrase: "Dream Big. Build Small. Blog Often.
I decided not to send the video to the police.
People were _very_ angry in the moment.
I think that having the video is vital. But no one got hurt.
In my next moment of seeing closeby road rage, or being apart of it myself, I hope to reflect on the feeling I felt when considering sending it to authorities, "Is this situation really _that big of a deal_?"
Buy Maple Hill milk instead of Organic Valley
This shot was taken on a 35mm (pretty wide-angle) lens. I have a 100mm. I think it'd take more to compress this shot the way I see it being effective. A little dark subject (VOLUNTEER CAROLINA AS TRIBUTE) will need to be "flattened" in the empty space made by the surrounding tunnel of trees. Those trees will be _very_ yellow, pretty soon. I think it'd take at least a 200mm lens. I was thinking about renting one, or just being happy with my 100mm. But as I'm writing this I'm realizing that I can just shoot those trees every day and document their progression to the yellow color I seem so obessed with.
I'm loving the blog because it's starting to let me "play" for the first time in a while. "Hunting for shapes" is the current game.
I shot this in standard color, no filter. I used Adobe Light room, thinking I'd want the option to see the color filters on something like this. But I think I'm learning how good the in-camera black and white filters are on the Ricoh GRiii.
This is a ribbon, I love looking for stuff on the ground
Today was the first day I've carried my Ricoh with me. Filters are doing a lot for this very plain image.
A purse hangs on the fence outside of the stadium
Guest garage stairs - (Ricoh's in-camera black and white high contrast filter)
Taco Sauce 🌮
I've enjoyed this tempeh brand.
Wife, I have three of these?
**Feature**: I shared a conversation from ChatGPT with Carolina today.
This is important because I can translate pretty abstract thoughts and references into clear, level explanations.
ChatGPT works in the administrative sense that it's pretty good at inuiting what I meant and responding appropriately.
But it also has the pedagogical benefit of me needing to explain my thoughts to a computer. Then receive feedback. Then rewrite them.
Then I send my wife what I meant, what the reference was referring to.
Being able to translate "what I meant was" -- pretty good for me.
Exactly. People love waffles.