Wednesday Thoughts
I'm trying to figure out why I got away from writing these scattered "thoughts" posts; it's been a long time, but sometimes I feel like I'm adding some of these to my week notes. In any case, I like writing these when I'm at work and neglected to bring my journal with me.
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I was inspired by Jedda's post about how she edits photos; specifically that she takes photos with her Fujifilm & Ricoh cameras using film sims that are apparently a huge thing for Fujifilm cameras. I like the idea of taking photos with on-board camera settings set to emulate film and not worry about post-process editing in Lightroom etc. So I got to looking around to figure out how to do the same thing with my cameras.
I have a Sony Alpha3000 (I think it's 3000, it could be 5000? Can't remember.), and of course my smartphone. I haven't had the chance to play around with the Sony camera but it seems like you can do similar presets; I'll test it out this weekend. I've experimented with my smartphone but the settings you can change are fairly limited compared to a full-blown camera, so you have to do a lot of post-process editing to get the desired looks. I'll probably not do that with my phone going forward.
Some experiments here: https://ottawa.place/@srgower/112762559727968018
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We might be significantly less busy tonight than initially expected. It's been raining all morning (steady, but not a downpour). The result is a nice deep green colour to the grass, but it's dull and gray everywhere else. The hourly forecast doesn't look good for softball; every hour is showing rain of some sort. So I don't think we're going to get a softball game in tonight. Considering it was a 9:45pm start time, I'm not entirely disappointed.
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Speaking of the rain, I often go for a walk to pick up a coffee (usually decaf, but on days like this, caf is in order); but it's raining today so I won't do that. I recently discovered a certain fast food chain is selling coffee starting at $ 1, and I'd love to drive over there to pick up something for $ 1.50. But because I'd drive over there, I would feel obligated to ask my coworkers if they wanted anything, and I don't feel like doing that. Is that bad? Just anti-social?
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A while ago I got the spark of an idea for creating some cool things with cassette tapes - maybe distributing something as a zine? But I questioned the logistics of it, mainly in the sense that not THAT many people probably have access to a tape player. Then I thought, well why not include a cheap USB stick with it? I'm shying away from the idea of an audio product because paper is easier. But the fun thing is I am keying in on ideas and narrowing down things I want to do. And also always inspired by fun happenstance when it comes to these things.
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Actually pursuant to the above today I had the brief thought of printing low-res pictures via my laser printer I got for free a few months back. I use it occasionally to print some small things, but as it's not WiFi-enabled I can't print on a whim. My work laptop also doesn't recognize the printer so I'm limited to using my personal computer, which I'm not on super often.
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I've been really neglecting my "stats" when it comes to health tracking lately. I meant to make better use of my smart watch a while back but haven't been keeping on top of it. So yet again, my watch is collecting stats for no meaningful purpose. I think what I need to do is look at my stats the next day and write about it, rather than my original plan (which was to look at it weekly). I should go open up my OBTF health notes and do that now.
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