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    GDRRiley got a reaction from mopman94 in Rate the Photo Above you   
    Nice photo, reminds me of my uncle who rides Triumph bikes until they are worthless and gets another one.

    Somehow I never shared this photo before here.
    Canon SL2 with a 24-105@ 105mm F4 1/1250 ISO200

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    GDRRiley got a reaction from TheLANguy in Rate the Photo Above you   
    Nice photo, reminds me of my uncle who rides Triumph bikes until they are worthless and gets another one.

    Somehow I never shared this photo before here.
    Canon SL2 with a 24-105@ 105mm F4 1/1250 ISO200

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    GDRRiley got a reaction from NinJake in Rate the Photo Above you   
    Nice photo, reminds me of my uncle who rides Triumph bikes until they are worthless and gets another one.

    Somehow I never shared this photo before here.
    Canon SL2 with a 24-105@ 105mm F4 1/1250 ISO200

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    GDRRiley got a reaction from CommanderAlex in Rate the Photo Above you   
    Nice photo, reminds me of my uncle who rides Triumph bikes until they are worthless and gets another one.

    Somehow I never shared this photo before here.
    Canon SL2 with a 24-105@ 105mm F4 1/1250 ISO200

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    GDRRiley got a reaction from Lightwreather in Rate the Photo Above you   
    Nice photo, reminds me of my uncle who rides Triumph bikes until they are worthless and gets another one.

    Somehow I never shared this photo before here.
    Canon SL2 with a 24-105@ 105mm F4 1/1250 ISO200

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    GDRRiley reacted to vf1000ride in Rate the Photo Above you   
    I have an older carbon fiber Velbon neopod 6 with a fixed 1/4-20 threaded head, no ball or flex head capability.  It's 19inches (48cm) collapsed and 60inches (152cm) at full extension, weighs 20oz.  Has a built in shoulder strap so you can take it off the camera and sling it over your back if you wanted. 
    They unfortunately haven't been made in years at this point and I don't know what is current that would be comparable.   
     
    As for practicing, I spent alot of time at motorcycle track days and at motorcycle vintage race events.  The bikes are fast enough to get good blur and at these events there are usually lots of action going on for an entire day.  Stand on the inside of a turn that you can get close to the track.  It helps with your panning but also means that they will stay at roughly the same distance from you through the entire turn.  It allows you to focus on a steady pan and keeping them in frame with less worry about changing focal distances.  Here's one from a few years back at a vintage race event, he was probably going past me in the 65-75mph range and maybe 80 feet away, second image is from google maps with my shooting position/angle.  Same camera and lens as Fat Albert (T1i and 28-135USM) f6.3, 1/400, ISO-100, 105mm.


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    GDRRiley reacted to vf1000ride in Rate the Photo Above you   
    Not sure if you had tried it yet, but for airshows and higher speed objects that I am panning and moving to get the shot, I make sure to turn off the image stabilizer (IS) on my lens.  For stationary subjects the IS takes your hand/body motion out of the lens and helps get a clearer image.  When both you and the subject are moving the IS can actually add more motion to your shot and will give you blurry edges as it causes the image to pause and then jump forward as it tries to freeze the motion again when it gets to the end of its range.  When you are running a slow shutter speeds, that jump can happen while the shutter is open and will guaranty a blurry image.   Another cheat I use is I normally carry a lightweight monopod when I shoot at airshows, even a lightweight selfie stick would work.  I don't extend it to ground length but usually only to about waist level and I hold the end of it with my outstretched arm.  It allows you to support some of the camera weight for longer without fatigue but also allows you to stabilize the camera better while you can still turn your body at the waist to take the shots.  Small wiggles with your hand and fingers at waist level are going to make for much less camera shake than if you are holding the body directly.  If you still wanted both hands on the camera/lens they make a belt pocket/pouch thing that you can put the end of the monopod in so you are supporting it on your waist but have both hands free to run the camera. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=monopod+waist+pouch&crid=4R2GMWEQMD8&sprefix=monopod+waist+pouch%2Caps%2C89&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
     
    I took this one last year of Fat Albert with my Canon T1i and a mid tier EF 28-135USM lens.  ISO-200, f/8, 1/400 so I didn't get great prop blur I knew they were only going to make 1 or 2 passes and didn't want to miss a good closeup shot.  Another trick I found that works for my gear at least is to not run the zoom all the way to the stops on my lens.  When I zoom in I run it to the stop and then back it off ever so slightly and I seem to get better focus from my lens.  The meta data says I shot this at 115mm.

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    GDRRiley reacted to vf1000ride in Rate the Photo Above you   
    I love the old warbirds.  You got a great capture of the B-17.  Amazingly enough I have an interesting photo I took of that same aircraft at an airshow a bunch of years ago, mid to late 1990's timeframe.  Unfortunately I have lost the info about what my camera settings were but I shot this one with a 35mm Canon QL19 Canonet point and shoot that was made in the 1960's or 70's.  I took the picture out the Pilots side window.

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    GDRRiley reacted to CommanderAlex in Rate the Photo Above you   
    I really love the coconut photo. I think the composition was well thought out with the heart in the background. On a side note, those Caramel Millionaire "Digestives" sounds more like a laxative than milk chocolate caramel. 
     
    From a couple years ago at an air show got me coming back to these photos after the latest Apple TV+ WW2 miniseries, Masters of the Air. 
    Taken with a Canon 5DSr at ISO 320, f/16, 1/320 second. 
     

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    GDRRiley reacted to Electronics Wizardy in 4K 60FPS video camera under $200?   
    You can probably get 4k60 in a gopro or other action camera, but there pretty wide angle and not great general purpose cameras.
     
    I'd really try to get a list of requirements other than resolution. Resolution doesn't really matter than much typically.
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    GDRRiley got a reaction from jre84 in Camera buying guide 2021   
    cameras are trying to get a good image by having a good sensor, phones now do a bunch of combining and software tricks to make a okay sensor look better. Most phones will take that 100mp sensor and downscale it to 25mph to help out their low light and noise performance meanwhile on a camera you can just have a big enough sensor to get good low light and noise performance.
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    GDRRiley reacted to Spotty in LTT Forum - 2023 in numbers   
    That's an older spam technique which seems to be losing popularity. It was more common a few years ago.
     
    Spammers are already doing this; copying the thread in to AI and asking it to generate a response. AI dramatically rose in popularity in 2023 and spammers were quick to embrace it. 2023 was definitely the year of AI generated spam. Using AI to generate posts seems to have largely replaced the technique of copying and pasting text from other people's replies that was more popular prior to 2023. It seems the same spammers that were using that technique shifted to using AI to generate posts instead.
     
    It has been interesting being a moderator here over the past few years and seeing how the trends in spamming have changed and all the sneaky tricks they try to come up with in an attempt to bypass detection.
     
    I assume referring to this post
     
     
    Posts are hidden (only viewable to moderators), not deleted. It allows us to keep records of why spam accounts were banned and helps us identify patterns that may appear in spam that we can then combat with updated spam filters and other preventative measures.
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    GDRRiley reacted to TVwazhere in LTT Forum - 2023 in numbers   
    Rule breakers:

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    GDRRiley reacted to GOTSpectrum in LTT Forum - 2023 in numbers   
    Did not expect to be getting a mention here! 
     
    I saw I was tagged by mortis and thought I did something wrong for a min haha 
     
     
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    GDRRiley reacted to Skiiwee29 in LTT Forum - 2023 in numbers   
    Keeps us on our toes. They're constantly evolving there methods. 
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    GDRRiley reacted to Levent in LTT Forum - 2023 in numbers   
    I promise not be the snitch king next year
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    GDRRiley reacted to Levent in LTT Forum - 2023 in numbers   
    My apologies, again.
     
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    GDRRiley reacted to colonel_mortis in LTT Forum - 2023 in numbers   
    Here's a look at some stats about the forum from 2023. Most of the dimensions here are similar to the dimensions from 2022's stats, but they may not be directly comparable because the methodology may have shifted slightly.
     
    Posts
    Topics Started: 64,866
    Posts: 516,203
    Controversy dominates the most active topics in 2023 (by num posts):
    Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity - 9,333 posts
    Madison reveals experiences working at LMG - 4,292 posts
    LTT Official Folding Month VI - 2,713 posts (just 79 fewer than 2022's folding month)
    Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, Tech Linked channels hacked - 2,067 posts
    What do we do now? - 1,928 posts
    Most active users:
    @filpo - 8,163 posts (far ahead of the 6,074 posts from last year's leader) @SorryBella - 5,934 posts @jaslion - 5,925 posts Last year's leader, @RONOTHAN## - 4,817 posts @Hinjima - 4,417 posts Most active users in Troubleshooting:
    @Robchil - 1,612 posts @191x7 - 1,602 posts @Whatisthis - 1,231 posts @Sawa Takahashi - 829 posts @Bjoolz - 756 posts Most best answers:
    @RONOTHAN## - 517 solutions @filpo - 484 solutions @Hinjima - 363 solutions @SorryBella - 251 solutions @jaslion - 224 solutions  
    Reactions
    Reactions given: 242,962
    Top reacters (most reactions given):
    @Needfuldoer - 7,997 reactions @da na - 6,089 reactions @soldier_ph - 5,739 reactions @Lightwreather JfromN - 5,386 reactions @SorryBella - 5,115 reactions Most reacted to:
    @da na - 6,606 reactions @GOTSpectrum - 4,676 reactions @Levent - 3,654 reactions @RONOTHAN## - 3,297 reactions @SorryBella - 3,073 reactions Most reacted to, excluding status updates and Off Topic:
    @RONOTHAN## - 3,289 reactions @jaslion - 2,903 reactions @GOTSpectrum - 2,729 reactions @filpo - 2,611 reactions @leadeater - 2,431 reactions  
    Moderation
    Spammers banned: 14,534, of which approximately 13,555 were caught by our spam filters before posting any spam publicly.
    Reports: 7,155
    Once again, @Levent submitted the most reports, at 538.
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    GDRRiley reacted to porina in Frame rate woes again, is it Vegas?   
    Just tried the same file in Vegas 19, at 59.94 fps timeline. I don't see the effect happening, although I can't say I tested the exact same spot I saw the problem in 16 as I forgot to note where exactly that was. I did try various locations in 19 and none of them did it, so I'm going to put this one down to 16 being old enough to have some problems.
     
    Guess this is more incentive for me to make the switch to the newer version.
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    GDRRiley reacted to leadeater in Microsoft to depreciate NTLM   
    I have a feeling you'll be able to turn back on NTLM for a very long time after it is 'deprecated', like 10 years after easily. Kerberos and SPN's have been around for sooooo long but few really know how to set that up, so while they could not be using NTLM they are. Even then a lot of stuff is moving over to SAML/OAuth.
     
    The reason people like NTLM, aware they are using it or not, is because it's invisible and just works with no configuration effort.
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    GDRRiley reacted to YellowJersey in Looks like confirmed Canon RF 24-105 f/2.8 IS USM Z   
    Fuji really is filling the APS-C niche nicely. Full frame market is pretty crowded as it is; I think they made the right move by focusing on APS-C.
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    GDRRiley got a reaction from YellowJersey in Looks like confirmed Canon RF 24-105 f/2.8 IS USM Z   
    I went fuji APS-C. I'm just saying canon still doesn't have any good value lenses
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    GDRRiley got a reaction from TVwazhere in LTT Official Folding Month VI   
    Not sure how much I'm going to be able to this year but excited to see how the team does
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    GDRRiley reacted to GOTSpectrum in LTT Official Folding Month VI   
    Thank you to @Jawa_Juice for donating five $20 Steam codes to te event 
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    GDRRiley got a reaction from GOTSpectrum in LTT Official Folding Month VI   
    Not sure how much I'm going to be able to this year but excited to see how the team does
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