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Minecraft swamp house, RTX on.…

Nate — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:05:41 GMT

Minecraft swamp house, RTX on.

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Added a bunch of photos to…

Nate — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:49:48 GMT

Added a bunch of photos to my photos page on my site, been a bit so I had quite a few to add.

https://nate.mecca1.net/photos/

Going to make a 🧵 here below with most of the photos I added. Fingers crossed relays don't block me for having a whole bunch of links to images.

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#photos #photography #film

Quick blog post about AVIF, a…

Nate — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:15:45 GMT

https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2025-11-10_avif-file-format/

Quick blog post about AVIF, a new (relatively speaking) and pretty efficient image format.

#blog #blogstr #avif #photography

Toyed around with Gemini's advanced…

Nate — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 01:34:04 GMT

Toyed around with Gemini's advanced photo mode, seems to do pretty good with replacement and generative fill.

Combined two of my photos:

Into the following:

Seems to have worked real well. A bit low resolution, but still pretty good (the input images I uploaded have been heavily compressed, their originals were higher res).

However, it doesn't seem to like to do basic edits. I gave it the unedited original (at least the JPEG, it won't touch RAWs) of the milky way version and told it to do similar edits I did to the one I shared (dehaze, saturation, contrast) - and instead of editing it is just replaced the milky way portion with an AI generated image of the milky way that was fairly similar but obviously a new image.

#photography #ai

Took some photos of the Milky…

Nate — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:02:28 GMT

Took some photos of the Milky Way the other day, still trying figure out the best edits, but so far got this.

#photography #astrophotography

Added a dozen or so new…

Nate — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:11:10 GMT

https://nate.mecca1.net/photos/index.html

Added a dozen or so new photos that have been sitting in my sort folder. Most were either in film or wny water

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-water/67.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/50.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-water/54.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/48.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/desat/10.avif

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Got some fresh air and a…

Nate — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:32:46 GMT

Got some fresh air and a few photos yesterday.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/37.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/more/33.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/more/34.avif

None of them were edited after taking, though no. 2 & 3 were taken with a lower exposure and daylight white balance as the sun was just starting to set to give them the darker yellow look.

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Tried some astrophotography again the other…

Nate — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 02:09:34 GMT

Tried some astrophotography again the other day, I think it turned out cool.

Both images were taken with my Pixel 8a. To my fellow GrapheneOS users, it does now have the libraries built in to use Google Camera offline without Google Play services, which is the camera app I used to take these photos. If you're interested in trying something like this but can't/don't want to use G Cam: Deep Sky Camera or Open Camera + photo stacking software would also likely achieve similar results.

Both are somewhat edited beyond the rather heavy editing + stacking the camera did. I upped the yellow and red saturation on the first one (it's actually the moon going below the horizon, but I think the yellow clouds look super cool) and brightened it a bit. The second image was mostly as is but a heavy croped - as might be evidenced once you notice the vignetting on the top left corner only.

#photography #astrophotography

Took a few photos the other…

Nate — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:13:52 GMT

Took a few photos the other day I wanted to share:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/26.avif
As you can see by the sign and frozen lake, they were taken in Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/27.avif
This one turned out real cool, I was waiting for the sun to rise a bit more after taking a few photos, only to see a bald eagle flying overhead. I took two snapshots as fast as I could and this one turned out really neat.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/28.avif
Another really similar shot, but with a plane and long shadows instead of a sunrise. Had a lot more time since the plane was travelling slower (at least from my relative perspective) but turned out almost identical framing wise.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/25.avif
A similar shot to the one above, just a lot more zoomed in.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/44.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/45.avif

I got a couple of very zoomed in shots. Unless you zoom in more or are on a laptop the birds will probably look like dust on your screen, but I think they turned out cool too.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/23.avif

And last got a cool shot of a bench overlooking the (frozen) water. I think it really captured the quiet wait while the sun rose, although less so captured the hand numbing cold the second I'd take my gloves off to take a photo.

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2024 Bird Photos by Chris Odonnel

Nate — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:32:57 GMT

https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/2024-birds.html

2024 Bird Photos by Chris Odonnel

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Made a blog post about some…

Nate — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:24:16 GMT

Made a blog post about some photo effects/filters and also created a page on my site dedicated to some of my favorites photos.

Blog post:
https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2024-11-12_photo-filter-fun/

Favorite photos page:
https://nate.mecca1.net/pages/photos/

Some photos from both (photos in avif, if they don't work in your client they'll work in your browser - sorry, but space savings were too great to not convert):

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/filters/gimp/01.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-landscapes/17.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-landscapes/29.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/01.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/more/03.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/filters/im/04.avif

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/filters/gimp/17.avif

#photography #blog #blogstr

Tried my hand at astrophotography the…

Nate — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:43:06 GMT

Tried my hand at astrophotography the other night, pretty happy with how things turned out.

Google Camera with the astrophotography setting, output as raw and edited in darktable

Short timelaps from G Cam

G Cam (strait to JPG, no edits)

Open Camera (manual mode)

(p.s. Gcam services provider will get Google Camera working on a degoogled phone)

#photography #astrophotography