Topic: Fifth Hammer, LIC

[hookstrapped]

Satish introduced me to this brewery/bar with an Indonesian food pop-up and music space in Long Island City, Queens. Really nice place, and only a short subway ride from my apartment in Brooklyn. The beer, food, music, and people are all really great.

The first couple pics, shot with the Kiev 2a and Jupiter 3, have that old-timey Tri-X grainy goodness I like, or used to like -- shot at f2 or f2.8 at 1600. The third is from the same Satish Indofunk gig but shot with the Koniflex, with HP5 pushed to 6400. Four thru six were shot the following week, again with the Koniflex with HP5 pushed to 6400, and the last was shot with the Kiev with Potsdam at 100.

[hookstrapped]

I don't know why the images embedded here look so un-sharp.

EDIT: Fixed per Satish instructions! Thanks!


https://www.hookstrapped.com/album/fifth-hammer-2025

[Indofunk]

I don't know why the images embedded here look so un-sharp.

Peter & I spoke about this offline. Despite the fact that I'm a competent IT professional and webmaster, I'm kind of a luddite when it comes to digital resolution ... I can't tell the difference between a jpeg and a tiff, or an mp3 and a wav file. So I'll need your help, good netizens of Filmwasters, to troubleshoot this 😁

All that being said, when I look at the underlying code for these images, it appears that Peter's image host, viewbook, is downsampling the image from 1109x1109px (native resolution) to 500x500px (the HTML code includes the variable "fit=max&w=500"). My suggestions were:

1. post here at native resolution
2. downsample the image himself and then post it here
3. attach using FW forum software (although that may also downsample; I'll need to investigate that)
4. export the image at a native resolution of 1000x1000 then allowing viewbook to downsample to 500x500 (the even divisibility may create fewer artifacts, but there will still be artifacts)

I'd also like to try forcing the FW forum software to downsample instead of viewbook. @Peter, look at this image and tell me if it looks better, worse, or no different from the viewbook fit=max&w=500 downsampling (quoted above):

[hookstrapped]

Better!