https://hyphamancer.github.io/Recent blog posts on MyceliumHugo (https://gohugo.io)en-usSun, 12 Oct 2025 12:51:00 +0800https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/databending_bar_harbor/Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:51:00 +0800 I found a new databending tool. Also this post is going to have a few images to make sure to check out the full post. — Hypha (@hyphamancer.bsky.social) 2025-10-12T16:47:05.981Z — Hypha (@hyphamancer.bsky.social) 2025-10-12T16:48:26.086Z Shot with Olympus M10 Mark II M.Zuiko 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 II ED Bar Harbor Maine September 27, 2025 Hypha Shot with Olympus M10 Mark II M.Zuiko 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 II ED Bar Harbor Maine September 27, 2025 Hyphahttps://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/databending_bar_harbor/https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/databending/Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:02:09 +0800 How many seagulls do you see? Shot with Olympus M10 Mark II Soligor 135mm f2.8 Databent with Tenacity Portland Maine August 29, 2025 Hypha So I was reading about abstract expressionism in the during the Cold War and I started asking myself. Why has photography remained the same for such a long time? We’ve seen a large variety of painting in the last 200 years alone. But it seems like photography has been fairly stagnant. I don’t think that’s true. There are really impressive shots that exist throughout history. But where is the abstract expressionism, cubism, surrealism, etc, of photography? I had a lot of fun using my cyberpunk cameras and to a keen eye you could see the blend of a digital sensor and an analog lens. Those sensors really brought out the boketh of the the lenses and I love that, but I want to have more than just landscape and realism.https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/databending/https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/augusta_pano/Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:02:00 +0800 Shot with Olympus M10 Mark II M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 Augusta Maine August 29, 2025 Hypha Shot with Olympus M10 Mark II M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 Augusta Maine August 29, 2025 Hypha Shot with Olympus M10 Mark II M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 Augusta Maine August 29, 2025 Hypha This was a fun learning experience. First off, I learned about using back button focus on my camera. This allows you to lock the focus on your target before you press the shutter. Normally a half press of the shutter will lock the focus. Honestly, I like having the second button. It feels awkward to half press then full press to focus and take a photo.https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/augusta_pano/https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/rockland_rose/Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:05:20 +0800 I can’t believe I found this small rose. Shot with Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 Rockland Maine Aug 22, 2025 Hypha It’s always nice to see roses. While the rose is a little bit out of focus I still like the way it looks. I enjoy most of the pictures I take but it’s always fun to edit them in Affinity Photo. I get to learn new skills and adjust the image to how I see it when I’m taking the photo. However, this image is the first image that I’ve posted where I didn’t do any editing. I liked the lighting and the colors that I naturally captured. If I did edit this image I would bring out the pink of the rose and pull distraction away from the curb.https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/rockland_rose/https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/donuts/Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:31:15 +0800 Yum! Hot Fresh Donuts! Shot with OM-D E-M10 Mark ii Fuijnon 55mm f2.2 Portland Maine Aug 8, 2025 Hypha I had a lot of fun editing this photo. I learned a new technique in Affinity Photo. I wanted to separate the neon sign from the rest of the image. My first attempt at doing this was by duplicating the image layers, but that caused them to blend together. So I followed a guide on how to isolate and group a set of layers away from the rest of the image. Affinity also has a ‘Selection from layer’ tool that allowed me to inversely edit the rest of the image to be black and white. This works but it leaves a hard edge. I can use a guass blur to soften that edge and a brush but it’s not perfect. I bet there’s a way to do a custom shape instead of a selection but for now this works.https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/donuts/https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/waldoboro_buildings/Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:22:36 +0800 Like with all the images I start to edit I have no clue to what I want to do. Shot with Olympus OMD E M10 Mark ii + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 Waldoboro Maine August 1, 2025 Hypha I got kinda annoyed with this one. I like the angle of the shot but I didn’t like the colors. The sky constantly wanted to be a very light blue. But I tweaked the blue and the green to remove that sort of overcast sky look.https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/waldoboro_buildings/https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/waldoboro_bug/Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:09:41 +0800 So I wasn’t sure what to do with this picture at first. Shot with Olympus OMD E M10 Mark ii + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 Waldoboro Maine August 1, 2025 Hypha But then a friend of mine suggested that I use black and white. “I was told by a photography professor once to not be afraid of the whitest whites and darkest darks.”https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/waldoboro_bug/https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/dnd_discgolf/Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:58:55 +0800 omg look at this little guy!!! :) Shot with Olympus OMD E M10 Mark ii + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 Sidney Maine August 3, 2025 Hypha So I’m using affinity photo to focus merge this frog. This camera is new to me and I learned after this image I can use auto focus and manual focus at the same time. Some of the images I took had the frogs eyes in focus and some had its body but none of them had its mouth. sadge :( I also adjusted the colors of the frog to be more vibrant.https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/dnd_discgolf/https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/belfast/Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:19:14 +0800 These photos were edited in Affinity Photo to bring out the red of the bricks. Shot with Cyberpunk Konica FS-1 Konica 50mm F1.7 Belfast Maine July 25, 2025 Hypha Shot with Cyberpunk Konica FS-1 Soligor Auto-Zoom 90-230mm F4.5 Belfast Maine July 25, 2025 Hypha There are a few things I would change. It was raining outside so I used my car as a tripod to take these shots. My camera is super sensitive to motion and considering it has no image stabilization at all. So, having my car running while trying to take photos made every photo blurry. I didn’t notice it on the view finder. Secondly, I should’ve brought my batteries and for whatever reason the camera kept shutting down. So, I had to be quick with my shots. I’m not sure if this raspberry pi has a thermal issue or I did something wrong but it gets super hot super fast. I should check the journalctl to see if CamUI is causing the pi to crash or if its overheating.https://hyphamancer.github.io/posts/belfast/