Matt Blaze
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Matt Blaze's Bio
Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. Formerly UPenn, Bell Labs. So-called expert on election security and stuff. https://twitter.com/mattblaze on the Twitter. Slow photographer. Radio nerd. Blogs occasionally at https://www.mattblaze.org/blog . I probably won't see your DM; use something else. He/Him. Uses this wrong.
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@obviousdwest @SteveBellovin Improv, too (maybe especially).
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Matt Blaze Boosted@mattblaze forgot to attach the photo
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Steve Bellovin
Matt Blaze Boosted@mattblaze To quote one of my instructors, we're image makers, not image takers.
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@fivetonsflax Lovely!
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In response to this post@rickbrown Cool!
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So next time someone tells you you're "cheating" if you make adjustments in post processing, tell them to go pound sand.
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Consider this image, a simple composition of birds on a power line.
Here's a straight scan from the negative:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppprs.00162/
And here's what Adams did with it:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppprs.00291/
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This is an extraordinary collection, not just for the extraordinary subject material, but because for many of the images we have access to both Adams' final result (scans of his prints) as well as "straight" scans from the negatives. It shows how utterly essential darkroom post-processing can be to the final impact of a fine art photograph. And now you can download the scans and see what you can do with them yourself in, eg, Photoshop or Capture One.
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#photography nerditry:
In 1943, Ansel Adams (with camera) was granted access to the Manzanar Japanese-American internment camp to document the people held there. While Adams was not quite as a great a portrait or documentary photographer as he was at capturing the American landscape, he gave his subjects rich humanity and life.
He subsequently donated both his original negatives as well as some prints to the Library of Congress, without restriction. You can see them at
https://www.loc.gov/collections/ansel-adams-manzanar/about-this-collection/
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@Av8rdan Thank you!
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@evacide This is as disturbing as it was inevitable.
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"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
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Officially the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge" but more generally simply the "59th Street Bridge", the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you'll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.
Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.
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This was captured with the Phase One IQ3-100 back, Phase One XF DSLR camera, and the Schneider 80mm/2.8 "Blue Ring" lens. I had planned to use a technical camera and Rodenstock 70mm, providing movements, but a cable was missing from the kit I had with me in the city that night. Fortunately, the 80mm was just wide enough to not require movements, though the Schneider lens renders highlights (as prominent starbursts) a bit idiosyncratically for my taste.
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Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.
Slow down, don't move too fast, and make all the pixels last at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131
#photography
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In response to this post@dymaxion It's especially dismaying that many people take away nothing more than "look how foolish and shortsighted those people were" rather than "human nature can lead you to make fatally dangerous decisions".
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In response to this post@wendynather Awww. Damn.
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Matt Blaze Boosted@LabSpokane Paid subscribers only, sorry.
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@LabSpokane Paid subscribers only, sorry.
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Big social media hates it when you do this, but they can't stop you! Never be forced to read my terrible takes on things with this one simple trick!
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