The Lesley Dill show is pretty cool. One of the benefits of being close / working at a university is access to the fine arts as presented and represented by the University. It's almost hard to take it all in (Lesley Dill's big sized work) and compute it unless you can capture it and review at leisure. The first shot is a merge to get the whole "Drunk with The Great Starry Void" in. The 2D stars pop like 3D in the photo which is cool. Again, the website with more information is here:
http://www.lesleydill.net/faithDevil.html
I did appreciate that the one gal who studied the show for the ten or so minutes I was taking it in and taking some photographs managed to eschew staring at her smart phone for more than a minute straight. She is in the great minority in that respect.
The old/new X1 went to the university today to look around. I took a few dozen shots and toned them in Topaz, for which the X1's output shines (literally and figuratively). I've read quite a bit about the X1 while looking for a replacement for the one I sold a year ago. One complaint is dust spots on the sensor and yes, I see a couple on this example. Not supposed to happen on a non-interchangeable lens camera but the telescoping lens has the potential for sucking in dust particles. I remember the original Ricoh grd suffered from the same fate, as well as a handful of other cameras with lenses that extend. There are ways to protect the sensor (add a lens hood and filter to protect it when it extends and retracts) but that won't work retroactively, so I have to live with the small spots which show up mainly on bright sky shots. They can be Photoshopped away (with extra work, of course). I didn't bother for these blog postings, so you can see them in the sky shots. Here's a few exposures from today's (virtual) rolls. If you are interested in the fine arts presentation on campus, which is partially captured hereunder, the details are here:
http://www.lesleydill.net/faithDevil.html
