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Psiga
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Resampled 50% and cropped for body shot; no post-processing on color or lighting. Just turned it on and took a picture. |
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internisus
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Very professional! |
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Panoptic
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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Just because I love LED flashlights:
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Psiga
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:02 am Post subject: |
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Just testing out the new camera.
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Rud13
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| I think my camera is dead. |
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winkerwanker
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Good. |
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Psiga
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Trying out Adobe's new Lightroom beta.
It has all sorts of fantastic photo modding features, and I pretty much adore it up to the point where it cripples my system with memory use, and then fucks me over by not having a Save for Web feature like Photoshop.
You don't get to see a live preview of the JPG compression. You get a Quality slider from 1 to 100, no file size estimation, no preview of compression. Nothing. I can't really recommend Lightroom until they work that shit out. It's just unacceptable to do that. |
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thatbox
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:06 am Post subject: |
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| It doesn't output standard/compatible RAW companion files, either, which is retarded because Adobe Camera RAW very much does. I think I meant to test it out way back when, but it required SP2 or something (which I won't have until the next format/reinstall!). Adobe Bridge and Camera RAW + Photoshop do me just fine! |
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Psiga
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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wut
So they make an application for digital photographers and then cripple its output abilities. Great move!
Yeah, this kinda blows. I've modded a bunch of neat photos that I'd like to send to flickr now, but they're kinda trapped in the application. Actually... I suppose I can just save them at a low compression level, just let them be fucking gigantic filesizes, and have flickr do the web-friendly resizing for me. |
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FortNinety
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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| What does Lightroom do that you can't do with Photoshop? Or is it just far cheaper? |
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Psiga
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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FortNinety wrote:
What does Lightroom do that you can't do with Photoshop? Or is it just far cheaper?
Lightroom is still in Beta, so I'm not sure what the final price will be. What Lightroom does is cut out all of the fluff from Photoshop. No layers, no stamp tools, no funky brushes, type engine, filters, or anything like that. It's purely a photographer's workbench. All of the levels, curves, and color adjustment tools are sitting open all the time. It's about digging directly into photos to bring out colors and details, shadows and highlights; about giving you all the tools you need to make the image 'pop'.
It book-ends those tools with an in-depth cataloging system at the front and an in-depth web gallery creation system at the back. Oh, there's also a pretty in-depth printing system, but I don't have a good enough printer to say whether or not it's worth anything.
The problem is that it doesn't play nice with standardized output formats. You want to work with Adobe RAW files? You want to save JPGs as well as you can with Photoshop's 'Save for Web' feature? No, and no. Piss off, kid.
You can send a file from Lightroom to Photoshop, though! It's in the context menu! So if you've got like two gigs of RAM and don't mind having two memory hogs open at once, you're golden! |
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Sawtooth
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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i heard aperture suxxx :(
way to go apple |
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Psiga
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Sawtooth wrote:
i heard aperture suxxx :(
Aha! I was wondering about that! If Lightroom is teetering a little bit, and it's made by ADOBE, then how on earth could its direct competition be faring?
Man, I feel like an idiot for not bringing my camera out with me earlier. Was at the mall, and seeing things in a new way: Entranced by the tiny pots full of sparkles at the makeup kiosk, framing wide-angle shots around the skylights and indoor palm trees, wondering how the Food setting would work on my Croissant BLTA. I love doing that; it makes me appreciate art, architecture, and random special moments just that much more.
Hm. Buh. I don't remember what my Flickr account's password is. |
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thatbox
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Please don't use Save for Web anyway, Psiga. It strips out the EXIF data!
The original reasoning for this was, I shit you not, that it increases file sizes. Which, I mean, it does, but. Come on.
If you have a Pro account, meaning you can spare the bandwidth up and have actual size pictures, just save losslessly with PNG! |
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Psiga
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Hm. I wonder how to keep the EXIF data with the results I'm getting from Lightroom. I want to keep those results without losing all of the pertinent things. I can understand why they cut that stuff out in Save for Web, but times have changed enough that it'd be pertinent to have a 'keep EXIF data' checkbox.
As for flickr: No Pro account. I think I'm limited to something like 20MB uploaded per week. Since I'm just dealing with an inch-thick point-n-shoot pocket camera, it's not a big deal to flawlessly record the 1:1 data. It's practically garbage at 1:1 anyway.
HOKAY, my Flickr account has been reclaimed new images forthcoming. |
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Psiga
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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BOOM.
My old house (in the far distance you can see the Stratosphere on the Vegas strip):
Shots from backyard:
These are all post-processed in Lightroom. They didn't look this nice straight from the camera; I picked the Lumix FX01 because it retained a lot of detail and gamut, which allowed me a lot of wiggle room in post. |
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oneEIGHTkevin
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:12 am Post subject: |
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I think I'm gonna get that Lumix camera. I had the previous version of it but my roommate lost it. I'm just going to lie and say i had the new one and make him get that one for me. Fuckin douchebag.
How much did that camera set you back Psiga? |
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Psiga
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:09 am Post subject: |
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$228.99, shipped. I got it from a hole-in-the-wall NY camera shop. They tried to sell me on extra stuff when I called them, but I just said that I was a starving artist and could only afford the camera alone.
Hm. If you're serious about getting one from the same place, they have an affiliate thingy that I could sign up for which would give me a $15 credit if you were to buy something from them. Let me know, eh? (Unless you'd prefer not to complicate things -- that's alright, too.)
HOKAY, I have gone and taken some more photos, then done some more Lightroom touchups:
Another shot of my previous house (it's one street over from my new place, so I see it a lot). This is taken from a moving vehicle -- that's how awesome the optical image stabilization is:
Sunset Station, one of the hotel-casinos that is far from the strip:
How about a nice mind-bogglingly vivid sunset:
Testing the long-exposure Night Scene mode (no touch-ups on this -- it is straight from the camera):
I would've done the smaller images linking to larger images again, but Flickr's being a jerk and only giving me 20MB of uploads per MONTH instead of per week, so I'm just going to hotlink the large files in spite. |
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Psiga
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:59 am Post subject: |
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Not necessarily pretty, but still cool.
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thatbox
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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Psiga wrote:
This is taken from a moving vehicle -- that's how awesome the optical image stabilization is:
Well, 1/400th of a second is, by and large, fast enough that it's not what image stabilization was designed for. Also, it's debatable how useful IS is when the camera is moving in at a steady speed in a consistant direction - I imagine it's based largely on inertia to cancel out small anomolies.
Regardless, that thing takes some decent pictures.
Flickr continues to piss me off with it's ongoing failure to inject EXIF data into all resized versions of the file. |
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Psiga
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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I'm glad to finally have a camera that's easy to carry around in my pocket.
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yellowlightman
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FortNinety
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Sync-Swim
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Psiga
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internisus
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Amazing stuff on this page. |
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Psiga
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Panoptic
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: |
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Damn Psiga, that little camera takes a nice picture. Panasonic, right?
Anyway, my (first) offering to the new page:
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Psiga
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:54 am Post subject: |
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Panoptic wrote:
Damn Psiga, that little camera takes a nice picture. Panasonic, right?
Panasonic Lumix FX01. Paid just shy of $230 for it, shipped. Again though, nearly all of my images have had post-processing done to them: The natural shots are usually kinda cold, low contrast, and a little desaturated. Gives me a lot of wiggle-room later, though. |
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thatbox
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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Sawtooth
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| man this page just gets better and better :D |
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Psiga
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:35 am Post subject: |
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Here's my morning.
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Panoptic
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:08 am Post subject: |
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That last pic in there is gorgeous, Thatbox (well, so are the others, but that one in particular, in my opinion); I'm using it as my wallpaper now. I tweaked the colors a bit to match my monitor/taste - you can see it here.
Anyway, back on topic, these were taken on a clear winter night in 2004. I thought I lost these pictures, but I found them on a DVD-R when I was cleaning today. They have had no modifications other than being resized. The aurora shots are long exposures, but they were bright enough to be seen clearly by the naked eye that night, and you could see ripples moving through them. Too bad I couldn't get any video...
Took this one without a tripod. Not too bad, if you ask me.
This was directly above my house, and in motion it looked like flying through a tunnel if you stared at it. This picuture unfortunately doesn't do it justice.
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Psiga
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: |
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Alright, which one of us is going to go and photograph God? It's getting to be very difficult to keep building this page. About all I've got left is booze.
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Sync-Swim
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:35 am Post subject: |
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Shanghai
Shanghai
Xi'an
Xi'an
The Summer Palace, Beijing
If you don't know where this is, it's ok, but you should probably read more. |
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Psiga
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Sync-Swim wrote:
If you don't know where this is, it's ok, but you should probably read more.
We know where it is.
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Psiga
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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This thing loves to take sky pictures.
I did one of these on the last page; not pretty so much as just interesting. Humanizing Vegas. The strip from a distance, before all the lights come on:
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Rud13
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thatbox
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thatbox
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Sync-Swim
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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Great Wall looking down
Great Wall looking up
Detail on a window frame, Yu Yuan Garden, Shanghai
Moto courier in New Development Shanghai |
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Panoptic
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Psiga
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greng
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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Well, heres a couple of things to look at, don't let the 1st one scare you off...
I DJ's on John Peel Day, and got paid in booze ¬_¬
Local scenery
Where I live, again
A Lurcher
A Greyhound and cake decorations |
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Psiga
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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So I found this new restaurant to go to, which has wooden menus and an infinite-use buy one meal, get one meal free card. Buy fish and chips, get a pizza free! Buy roasted chicken, get a half-pound burger free! And on my way out today, I picked up a complementary packet of Pop Rocks. Hurrah.
Too bad I come home smelling like smoke. |
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disko
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| Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:22 am Post subject: |
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NSFW
I would have played, but I don't know Mahjong...
edit-
my bad. |
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Shapermc
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| WHAT THE SHIT ARE YOU DOING POSTING OBVIOUSLY NSFW IMAGES? |
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Rud13
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| Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| Caught. |
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Psiga
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