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Hello there.

It’s been a while.

I’ve been very busy.

Like, busier than usual.

I was already busy doing the job before, but this is ADVANCED BUSY.

Average of five houses a day.

I have seven on Monday.

Just constantly driving from house to house.

I get home and just pass out.

But I can’t complain.

I have a house to pay for, bills to worry about.

Busy is good.

The downside is I don’t have time outside of the job.

This project was done three months ago.

It took forever to get it finished.

Finding the time to get it shot, then editing it, took a while.

Editing the video took ages.

And now, simply typing this post is taking forever.

It is what it is.

Anyways, other than that, life has been fine.

House is fine, car is fine, all is well.

Ohhhh, wait.

The last post was in March for 16 Years.

Ok, so there are some things that happened.

There was a wicked storm that ripped through here.

Trees down, one fell on my brother’s house.

A mess.

There have been quite a few storms recently.

One just happened a few days ago.

It’s been an interesting start to the storm season.

I just remembered, I don’t have to update you on everything right here.

I HAVE A VIDEO SERIES FOR THAT.

Back in the day, I had this monthly update series.

Well, I started it back up.

This embedded playlist should take you through all the videos so far.

Keep an eye on the videos tab on this site for each new update video.

ENOUGH YAPPING!

ON TO THE PHOTO!

This is part one of a two-part series.

I wanted to experiment with camera feedback loops.

This happens when you have a camera hooked up to a screen and have it look at its own camera feed.

It creates this weird, endless void.

When someone stands in front of the camera, the subject gets repeated.

(Pic of foam head)

It’s a simple way to get cloning effects without any editing.

The setup was easy.

Just a camera and a projector.

It did cross my mind that a TV would work better.

You can see the low-res pixels of the projector.

A big TV would have a much cleaner image.

But I don’t have a big TV or the urge to buy one.

So I worked with what I had.

I did spend some time testing a few of my cameras to see which one had the best output.

A DSLR camera?

One of the VHS cameras?

Nothing was off the table.

The only issue I was running into was that they all had an on-screen display.

Information like battery level and whatnot would show up in the feed.

It looked cool in a way, kind of leaving a little hint of how the photo was done.

But over time, it became more annoying.

I got down the line of cameras and then looked over to this new camera I bought a few months ago.

An old school Sony Handycam.

It was being used to record the making of video.

I plugged it into the feed, and amazingly, it didn’t have any words on the screen.

It was a clean output.

WONDERFUL!

Once that was settled, I started messing around with what I could do.

THE FUN PART!

Standing in different areas, observing what happens.

What if I were close to the camera or far away?

So on.

It took me two days to get some good results.

I finally had a bunch of photos to work with.

It took me a few more days to look through them.

I went from fifty photos to just two.

I liked this one because of how the line of me’s slowly fade off and get more and more obscure.

Ghostly haunting of myself.

Here's what the photo looked like without any editing...

Alright, that’s it for now.

The next part will have the video showing how all this was made.

See you next week.