Let there be light!

Nishika N8000 cameras are equipped with a hot-shoe. I don't have the Twin Light made by Nishika but I do own a Canon Speedlite 270EX - a handy external flash dedicated for Canon PowerShot cameras. When used with an analog camera, there is no possibility to control the intensity, but the head is tilted so you can point it up for a ceiling bounce (60° or 90°). Additionally I use a diffusing cap. The film I used was a slightly expired FUJI (ISO 100), aperture setting - cloudy/shadow.

STEREO Wake Skis and rest of my wakeskiing stuff

assistant Peter and me at work at Bydgoszcz (EPBY) airport control tower

 Cessna FA150L aircraft at ADRIANA AVIATION Flight School in Watorowo (EPWT)

my Dad - pilot and flight simulator instructor at ADRIANA AVIATION

Schweizer 300 helicopter wagging its tail at ADRIANA AVIATION

Sarbinowo with my girls

Early September. A three-day trip to the Baltic coast with Justyna and our puppy Fara. This time to Sarbinowo - a small fishing village (turning into a tourist resort in the summer) near Koszalin.

  fishing equipment is actually quite picturesque...

 ...when combined with sunset

view from our balcony

 Fara obviously has ADHD

 Justyna and Fara
(dunno where the strange skew distortion came from)

Justyna and Fara in the sun

Fara sniffing around

Fara smelling some flowers

Justyna on the top balcony of a lighthouse in Gąski village

(where a nuclear power plant was planned to be built
but eventually wasn't because the locals didn't agree)

statue of Mary Mother of God in Gąski village founded 

by the local people to "deliver us from the atom"... LOL

Fara in the evening light

Justyna taking photos of Fara

Sarbinowo says goodbye

Onion Skin

One thing about photos taken with 3d cameras that annoys me is that when you compile them into a flickering GIF as they come (no cropping or aligning), the main subject of your photo often isn't the center of rotation (let's call it C.O.R.). And as a matter of fact it should be - to keep the viewer's attention on the subject. To achieve this, after isolating each of four photos from the scan, I imported them into Adobe Flash (each into a separate frame on the timeline) and then aligned using Onion Skin option (one of the small buttons in the bottom part of the timeline window) so that the chosen main subject remained in the same place. After cropping and saving as separate JPGs I used GIF Animator (Mac) with 0.1 sec delay to compile an animated GIF. Enjoy the effect!

 Justyna Fara and Wiki (C.O.R.) in Myślęcinek

Fara and Wiki (C.O.R.) in Myślęcinek

Justyna, Wiki (C.O.R.) and Fara in Myślęcinek

PS I might write a tutorial on this someday if anyone likes :-)

In Hel

There is a special place in Poland called Hel Peninsula - located on the coast of Baltic Sea it's an ideal place for all kinds of watersports, sunbathing, biking, hiking and... showing off your latest gear or designer clothes, sadly.

Fara's pit-stop on A1 highway - pee & eat

 bike trip from Chałupy to Jastarnia

 another pit-stop

 ...and another one

 it was kinda windy at the beach and Fara preferred cuddling rather than running around

 Come to daddy!

 Sit! Good girl!

 say goodbye to the sea, we're going home

Wakepark Bydgoszcz

Introducing Bydgoszcz's own cable park - Wakepark Bydgoszcz. Located in the heart of Myślęcinek Park, just opposite the fallow deer paddock. Equipped with Sesitec System 2.0  straight-line cable system WPB is the perfect spot for beginners as well as advanced wakeboarders. Learn more on their website or check out their Facebook fanpage.

And here are a few shots in monochrome:

Natalia and Ciastek watching Buster Wise ride

Buster making water burn ;-)

me in a loo position :-P

Natalia turning

Natalia again

...and a few more in color:

all eyes on water 

(Ciastek, Gawor, Fajfik and some girls)

tantrum by Gawor

Gawor doing raley on the turn

Goggie woggie

Finally, I got a dog! It's an English Cocker Spaniel puppy, her name is Fara (Swedish for "danger"). She is ultra cute, although she pees all over the apartment... ;-)

Fara's favorite spot

(picture taken way too close)

flirty look (too close again)

Fara still needs to be taken out for a walk several times a day

Justyna and Fara in Myślęcinek Park

Film used - monochrome ILFORD HP5 Plus 400. Personally, I think color film gives a deeper 3D effect...

First roll made with Nishika N8000

Myślęcinek park in Bydgoszcz, a lovely place for walking, riding bikes, in-like skating, longboarding, wakeboarding (System 2.0 cable park!) and in winter skiing and snowboarding (SSD Loveboards snowpark and two ski-lifts)... and taking 3D pictures :-)

my GF Justyna and Viki (English Cocker Spaniel)

Justyna and Viki again

Justyna, Karolina and blurry Viki

Justyna and Karolina

Justyna, Karolina and Viki

Justyna and Viki

I have to say I am quite pleased with the results. The only thing that bothers me is that every first frame (most left) is weirdly exposed, causing a flashing effect in the animation. Probably one of the lenses is dirty ;-)

Hello World!

Ummm, yeah, so I'm starting my own blog... Something I never really thought would happen. That's because I never really felt the urge to share my deep thoughts with the World. And I still don't, ha! What pushed me towards the blogging thing was the need to share something else with some of my friends and, why not, the World... I recently bought a Nishika N8000 - an analog point-and-shoot camera with 4 parallel lenses allowing you to simultaneously take 4 photos, each from a slightly different angle. Now, if you put these 4 pics together in an infinitely looped animated GIF you get sort of a 3-dimensional effect. The problem is that Facebook doesn't support animated GIFs. Of course you could also take the most right and most left pic and make an anaglyph but it requires special fancy glasses, so the animated version seamed to me more appealing. So here I am, stay tuned. Feel free to criticize, praise, share, like, hate, etc.


Peace out,
Boms