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Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I took this photo at 00:11 on 23 January 2012 with my smartphone at the time, a Galaxy S2 - and I’m still amazed by the quality of the final result.

But looking at it again brings back all sorts of feelings: peace, turmoil, serenity, worry, relaxation and anxiety. Solitude and a sense of freedom.

This photo is part of a me that no longer exists - or maybe one that is just quietly sleeping somewhere inside me.

#Photography #Throwback #Past #PersonalReflections #EveningMood #SilentSunday #Silence

A softly glowing bedside lamp lights up a wooden nightstand, where a pair of glasses and a Kindle rest. The warm light feels calm yet full of unspoken thoughts, like a quiet late-night moment frozen in time, carrying both peace and unease.
A softly glowing bedside lamp lights up a wooden nightstand, where a pair of glasses and a Kindle rest. The warm light feels calm yet full of unspoken thoughts, like a quiet late-night moment frozen in time, carrying both peace and unease.
A softly glowing bedside lamp lights up a wooden nightstand, where a pair of glasses and a Kindle rest. The warm light feels calm yet full of unspoken thoughts, like a quiet late-night moment frozen in time, carrying both peace and unease.
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Tiikuri
@Tiikuri@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@stefano

I kind of feel like smart phone cameras used to be better. Now, when they try to cram as much megapixels as possible into the sensor, the quality actually suffers. Too many pixels in a small sensor create more noise into the image and then it has to be denoised by the software and it's all a huge mess. But people have this idea that the quality of the camera is directly connected to the number of pixels. I wish we could get over this appetite for more megapixels. 8-12 mpix is more than enough.

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Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@Tiikuri I agree, in specific situations old smartphone cameras could show better results. Maybe now we have too much computational photography so they're not real photos anymore: they're computational creations based on the photo we're grabbing.
Luckily, we have the RAW mode.
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Colonel Kramer 🇮🇱
@ColonelKramer@digitalcourage.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@stefano When I read the first part oft your message and look at the picture at the same time, I only have negative feelings. Loneliness, fear, feeling lost.
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Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@ColonelKramer You have great insight. You understood that photo, that message, and that period very well - much more than I'm willing to admit, even to this day.
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