Things you do when you wake up way sooner than expected…

When you go out after work and your homies are shooting some hoops…#fujixe2 #fuji_xseries #street #lisbon #portugal #snapseed

Esta semana o Gonçalo Borges Dias (um dos co-fundadores) e o José Sena Goulão (autor de algumas das fotos mais icónicas) foram até à RDP falar sobre o everydaycovid: desde o início do projecto até ao livro que está já na forja.https://www.rtp.pt/play/p6403/e498182/isto-faz-se-por-ca

The seasons of the year aren’t defined by a day someone has marked in a calendar but by the cycles of nature, and that’s something that a pandemic won’t change. In this atypical year my summer was spent on and off my retreat in Central Portugal, a season that starts when I’m able to pick cherries from the trees (that were fully ripe in late May when I left Lisbon after two months of confinement) and ends when the last grapes are picked from the vineyards. Which was this weekend… #portugal #beirabaixa #fujifilm_xseries #vindima

Não sou o autor desta foto. É do Gonçalo Borges Dias e é a primeira do EverydayCovid, o projecto que ele e o Miguel A. Lopes criaram no início do confinamento, onde dezenas de fotógrafos começaram a documentar este período único as várias vertentes da pandemia e do estado de emergência. Pouco depois de arrancar eu, o Rui Miguel Pedrosa, o Angelo Lucas, o Gonçalo Delgado, o André Dias Nobre e o Rui Soares juntámos-nos ao Miguel e ao Gonçalo para ajudar a neste enorme esforço.Durante os três meses do confinamento e estado de emergência  milhares de fotos foram tiradas, com imensas horas de reunião para selecção e edição pelo meio, para no final ficar-se com cerca de 1200 fotos de 120 autores. Este enorme arquivo vai agora materializar-se num livro que juntar algumas dessas fotos, que está agora em pré-venda, sendo que os lucros deste livro irão reverter para apoio social.Para mais informações ou reservas basta ir a www.everydaycovid.pt. #everydaycovid

Going back to old habits: random weekend wanderings. Nothing to write home about, but it was more about going out than bringing prize winning shots.

Desde Março que o EverydayCovid (https://www.instagram.com/everydaycovid/) tem existido virtualmente para documentar o estado de emergência durante a pandemia, desde que o Miguel A. Lopes e o Gonçalo Borges Dias tiveram esta ideia e eu, o Rui Miguel Pedrosa, o Rui Soares, o Gonçalo Delgado, o Ângelo Lucas e o André Dias Nobre nos juntámos para levar o projecto

a bom porto, com muitas e longas reuniões via Zoom entretanto.Ontem pela primeira vez passou a existir fisicamente, impresso e pendurado nas paredes, incluído na iniciativa “Diário de uma pandemia” do CC11 - Centro Cultural 11(https://www.instagram.com/cc11_associacao/), com cerca de 80 fotos impressas, para além de uma projeção de todas as submissões do projecto.A partir de hoje, e até final de Outubro, está aberto ao público e convido todos a passar por lá!Rua do Centro Cultural 111700-106 Lisboa De 8 de Setembro e 31 de Outubro, de terça a sábado entre as 15:30 e as 19:30.

…E vão estando atentos porque estão na calha outras iniciativas para trazer o projecto do universo online.

Kind of a summer update, one that’s strange to me as it is for everyone. With summer came the loosening of the pandemic restrictions here in Portugal, which turned us from home bound to home based. Despite being able to travel (and not being afraid of the pandemic) some thoughts crossed my mind: the mess and ever-changing requirements and overhead on international travel, the fact that this summer everyone will travel locally and all that comes with it. So, for this summer and at least during the “school vacations”, I decided early on that I’d stay low, make use on having a place outside Lisbon I can move away from being most of times at an apartment in the city, and working in the countryside, combining remote work with the everyday routines of a small village. And you can follow some of that in a Instagram Stories Highlight I created just for that:https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE4MTU3NjU5NTE3MDIzODUy?igshid=dfvv30ewpc6g&story_media_id=2309019610430446715_31235690

One of the funny things of the pandemic, and all that came along with it, is that my walks often end up passing by the airport. The fact that I live side by side with it does help, but never happened before that…

As the “new normal” settles, some bits of the “old normal” start to make it’s way back. Things like planning something out of the blue with some of fellow Fuji shooters. That’s why instead sleeping late, last Saturday morning was spent wandering the streets of the eastern part of Lisbon.#street #lisbon #portugal

Despite having my movements less restricted than in the beginning of the pandemic, the truth is the routine hasn’t changed that much. The difference is now I’m able see an horizon that’s a bit further away from what’s in front of my window… 

My Instagram has been frozen since the start of this pandemic, the latest photos posted here were from the very last photowalk in March, just a few days before all of us had to become home-based. This hiatus has not been planned at all, just the side-effect of a quarantine busier than expected, combined with not being in the mood to pick photos to upload. Despite all that, in these weeks photos had been taken, projects had been going, and this Instagram account actually has remained active but only on the Stories.

Now that all this is moving on to a different thing (not really sure what) is time to bring this feed back to life, and actually the way to do that is not with stuff from other travels but with the work from the last month or so, with myself and everyone else slowly returning to the world outside our homes. www.instagram.com/t3mujin/A… 🇵🇹 June 2020 #covid19 #deconfinement #portugal #alcochete #street

A Sunday morning of exploration, going after the old forts that defended the mouth of the Tagus River and the city of Lisbon #portugal #almada #urbex

Looking for turrets and cannons out there in the wild, but almost hidden from plain sight. #almada #portugal

Weekend mode snaps…

Shadowplay selfie…

Afternoon plan: photo culling, gin & tonic and Netflix

With confinement old routines were replaced with new ones, streets almost unknown to me became familiar and favorite spots kind of abandoned. Today, while running by the river at dusk, it was clear to me that was the second option.

Weekend walkabouts while in deconfinement, when revisiting some of your familiar spots seems like a good idea.

My presets now work in other softwares than Darktable! Well, kind of… Your RAW developer software must support color lookup tables.I started working on t3mujinpack presets, which are based in the Tone Curves module, using precisely the existing color lookup tables (like the film emulations on RawTherapee) as a reference and starting point, also because at the time Darktable didn’t support them at the time. Although it was meant to be a one-man project, I ended up creating it as an open-source project, just for the sake of giving back to the community, and the truth his there has been people giving an helping hand. More recently someone submitted a “pull request” that included all the presets exported back to color lookup tables. This means that the presets, that only work in Darktable, now can be used in other imaging softwares. You gotta love open-source!This opens up some possibilities, by allowing it to be used in many other imaging softwares. The caveat is the software must support color lookup tables, if possible in haldCLUT format or other than can be converted from haldCLUT (like 3D LUT). These are still under heavy development, and can’t yet be found in the stable release, but feel free to download from Github and try to apply these color look tables to your photos to get the same look. Hopefully!…     github.com/t3mujin/t…