I think even casual readers of MU will have noticed certain photos that are mushy dreamy. Nothing is really sharp, colors can be bleached or strange, out of focus areas really are out of focus. Black and white have a nice quality to them. Curves things, it gives a natural vignette as well.
Those come from a slide projector lens without an aperture. It's a $20 or $25 lens, I can't remember which.
We'll come back to Projector Lens Monday! soon.
But first a few from a conventional lens.
Glued up some end grain Hard Maple in order to have more blocks for the wood engraving. I glue it long like this so I can run it through the drum sander more easily and I can cut to size depending upon the proportions of engraving I'm doing.
Been struggling in getting a crisp transfer of image but I've latched onto using the end of this porcupine quill I found in Turkey while we were hiking on the Lycian Way. And good old fashioned carbon paper
The horse photo comes from a trip to Faroe Islands. I'm using as a metric as to my progress in wood engraving. I will consider myself a beginner when I can cut something acceptable.
So far every time I try the horse, it's a real hot mess. It all comes down to the eye.
I'm getting a few blocks cut and will print all at once.
Alright back to Projector Monday!. Most of these I made today, January 1st, 2024.
Edit. Some people wanted to know what the projector lens looked like attached to the camera.
I made a tight leather sleeve that's attached to a platform on the bottom of the camera. To focus the lens, you slide it in or out. The camera is a Fuji XPro 1.
