there are certain times when wordpress really raises my ire to a fever pitch. this is one of those times.

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while not straying too far into the details of my personal life, i will let everyone know that i moved into a new apartment for the winter. not breaking my boundaries, it’s a mere 6 blocks from my old place, which drops me back into my old stomping grounds of Whittier, of which i claimed in the name of troy when i moved to minneapolis 5 years ago.

i’m aquiring 1.5 roomates with this move, which is a welcome edition. Mara, the resident that is actually around, is beyond cool and chill. throw into the mix her year studying at culinary school, and the fact that she finds me amusing, and you have the perfect makings for a new friend [knock on wood].

i’m also stealing internet from someone. i hope they stick around for my tenure there [knock on wood to the max]

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i’m not that mad at wordpress anymore.

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Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

this is an example of a process called “tilt shift” done by some photographers. “why do they look so small?” you ask, well, here’s the science behind it-

the archetypal camera lense is 35mm. if you use a wide lens (we’ll say, a 15mm) you will have a massive deapth of field (something along the lines of 2.4 feet to ∞). when you zoom in on a subject, the depth of field (distance in focus) shortens, meaning the background and foreground (perhaps only a few feet infont and behind the subject, respectively) will be blurry and awesome. (i’m choosing to omit f-stops and their affect on DoF for simplicitys sake; though, if want an explanation on that, just buy katy kessler, matt blum, or myself a cup of coffee and either of us will explain everything from lens explain everything from apertures to circles of confusion).

we, as a media-centric society have been conditioned to take a shallow depth of field as something that has been photographed from far away, or something very small that’s been photographed from somewhat close. (even if you haven’t been aware of this until now, you’ve been raised this way. congrats.) enter the tilt shift. now, what tilt shifting does is create that short depth of field effect on a very wide lens, where we are not used to seeing it. (with what technology? well, it’s a few things. the effect is the result of lenses that cost more than your car plus some selective gaussian blurring, a great subject, and you’ve got it).

the end result takes a very wide angle shot with a HUGE subject matter, and adds an effect that for over a hundred years has been exculisve to a certain type of lens, to make us believe that we are watching playskool figures.

it’s all very, very cool.

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i’m 50% mad and 50% confused at wordpress. it’s like an old friend who’s become and enemy or something.

… but it might be his evil twin.

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a baby bozic was hurled into the world on friday! congrats all around. Read more »