My understanding of the qualifiers of #shittember are to post bad photos or photos that you just don't like in order to break out of the feeling of the need to perform. For me, I think that applies to exercising control over things like focus, composition, and exposure. The first photos were surprisingly difficult to post, but now it's actually quite cathartic.

I don't know if this photo qualifies for #shittember, or maybe #shittember is having its intended effect, because I actually don't think I dislike it, and I don't think it's a bad photo, but I reckon a week or two ago I almost certainly would have thought the opposite, and never would have considered posting it up, even though I think it is visually interesting.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, thank you @NotAHope@mastodon.social for sharing with us such a great concept, allowing us all to relax a little, helping us realize that maybe things that we are critical of aren't all that bad, and to allow imperfect things to shine.

This photo is a picture of a film negative that I took when I got a new extension tube, and this is a calibration shot when I was trying to get the backlight, zoom, and focus set correctly. It obviously needed quite a bit of adjustment for all of the above!

Once I develop my negatives at home, I capture a photo of them with the digital camera, invert the photos, and apply some minor corrections to get the final image. I have some equipment at home to do print negatives that I'm looking forward to setting up and using on these negatives one day, but that's a whole other time/effort/money thing...!

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