Collin Donnell

My favorite image editor for macOS, Acorn, just came out with a new version and is on sale right now for $19.99. That’s an insane deal. Definitely pick it up. #macOS flyingmeat.com/acorn/

Book shop around the corner. #pdx #filmphotography

Okay then, this roll is all underdeveloped and dark, so the lesson here is to use inversion with my Patterson tank and never rely on the agitation stick again. #filmphotography

Got a portable photography light with a softbox that can be battery-powered. Hoping it works well for indoor photographs where I just want to add enough light to be flattering and get good exposures.

It’s funny how brands which make very similar products differentiate by choosing models that they think represent their imagined audience.

Fjallraven is all outdoorsy-looking hipsters. Filson is all cowboys. Barbour is all posh-looking British people.

You can tell how stressed I am about actual life problems by how excited I am about my hobbies. I lean into those things when life is too much.

This is a good example of where reflective metering can lead you wrong. Because the back wall is white, it thinks my aperture should be 1/250, when it’s more like 1/60 based on the actual light. That’s two stops!

This is a good example of where reflective metering can lead you wrong. Because the back wall is white, it thinks my aperture should be 1/250, when it’s more like 1/60 based on the actual light. That’s two stops!

WebObjects? That’s a fucking blast from the past.

Also, should I be concerned that a company I buy software from is on WebObjects? 😟

If I look at all the bad things that have happened this year, I think I’ve handled things pretty well. I’ve done a good job finding joy where I can.

I’m making a list of ghost towns in the Pacific Northwest. When the weather gets nice again, I’m thinking I’ll visit, take photos, and write about them. Maybe I could make a little photo book out of it even?

My favorite part the power going out is how my neighbors all have to go outside and start yelling across the street to each other about it. Every time.

I’ve decided I’m just going to do all my editing in Lightroom and export to Apple Photos as lossless 10 bit HEIC, since that seems like the best combination for compatibility and I can always re-export later if there’s a good reason to.

Cool. The power just went out. When is Pacific Power going to update this part of Portland? I’ve never lived anywhere that had between one and three outages every year.

If AVIF Is clearly the future, I should probably go with that. HEIC is appealing because whatever Apple moves to in the future, they’re going to keep supporting it. JPEG-XL is the only one of these that can do 16 bit lossless, which is nice because nothing I do will surpass that.

JPEG-XL and AVIF seem like a real betamax/VHS situation or Mac/Windows. JPEG-XL is technically superior, but AVIF has better industry support and Google is determined to make it happen.

I like to do some editing in Lightroom, and then ultimately export to Apple Photos in a lossless format. Not sure what to do here. JPEG-XL is great, but support is bad. HEIC is effectively limited to 10 bits (maybe that’s enough?). AVIF? I just want to pick something I don’t have to change later.

So Chrome removed the JPEG-XL flag from Chrome a while back because “There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL.” Maybe there’s not enough interest because the world’s most popular browser doesn’t support it?

I’m not saying Democrats aren’t different from Republicans or that I won’t show up and vote for them, but since the election I’ve really started thinking about how corporations are the ones determining most of what they actually do. It’s like in Veep — “we need an oil guy on clean jobs.”

I love when politicians refer to “the climate crisis,” “the housing crisis,” or “the homeless crisis” as though any of them treat those with the kind of urgency a crisis demands. Conservatives don‘t even admit there is a crisis, but it’s not like Democrats are covering themselves in glory.

This is what my weight has done since I started gaining and then once I started Semaglutide.

I’ve shot roughly 36 rolls of film since the end of July. Not bad I think?

I always feel a little sadness when I see old family photos at a flea market or antique store. It was someone’s life, and they were happy, and at some point they were forgotten, and their photos ended up in a basket for 25¢ each.

Wow, doing incident metering makes a huge difference. This entire roll has just kind of comes out looking correct with good throughout. I get now why I see photographers saying they don’t trust reflective metering/in camera metering and would just as do sunny 16.

Haven’t scanned it yet, but the roll of Kodak Tri-X I pushed to 1600 looks nice and dense, so I’m pretty sure it was a success 🎉 #filmphotography