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Status Replies posted by OJTheAviator
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What do you recommend photographers use to edit photos, cough up to the Adobe gods or go open source? Do you have a camera you can recommend? Any presets you use as well?
Would DM you this question but I feel like others want to ask the same question and are afraid they will be banished to the depths of hell by our overlord Den-Fi.-
Not to pop up out of the blue weeks after the original post, but...
RawTherapee is an incredible free tool for changing the appearance of a photo - not adding or removing scene elements but changing color and contrast and more. As I understand it, basically Adobe Lightroom but free. If you wanted to replace Photoshop, I swear by GIMP. Pretty sure that is free and completely open-source. I'd share my Instagram for examples, but I don't currently have a public Instagram. Maybe sometime. In the meantime, here's an example of a photo I've put through RawTherapee:
(Oh, and all this used the raw file I'd saved. It's not essential, but I'd highly recommend using raw file formats.)Spoiler
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Just finished taking the SAT. However, they added a fifth section to our tests for some reason (there are only supposed to be four).
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all the midwesterners on here can relate
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I seem to remember it, maybe one where he talks about lightbulbs? I know I only know the store from a youtuber and I can't think of who else it might be that I watch.
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- pinksnowbirdie and themaniac
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With my birds not being parrots, RGB, or animated (harassing a tv presenter), I feel these photos would look as out of place as wearing pajamas to a formal dinner
Edit: seems as though I may have misjudged the parrot thread! I may post after all
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- FakeNSA, soldier_ph and Eschew
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If 2020 was a hula hoop:
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I've finally gotten around to taking photos of my laptop...
It's got a pen, housed in the side. Contacts charge it whenever it's docked, so I don't have to worry about replacing batteries.
It folds all the way around. After all, it is named a "Yoga". Writing on the screen is very good. It's fairly responsive, nice feel.
While it's a Yoga, it's also a Thinkpad, as evidenced by the nice Thinkpad logo.
In addition, I can tell it's a Thinkpad by the piece of evidence that is the Trackpoint. I don't use it often, but I kinda like it there.
IO wise, not too shabby. On the left: USB C (non Thunderbolt unfortunately), USB C with Thinkpad dock connector (the dock connector supports Ethernet), USB A, and 3.5mm jack. On the right: power button, micro SD, USB A, full size HDMI, and Kensington lock. The only real downside would be a lack of Thunderbolt, but with all the other IO, I don't really feel a need for it. Plus, it has Intel's Wi-Fi 6 AX201 2x2 AX inside, so I get nearly 600 Mb/s on WiFi.
And lastly, what may be my favorite photo. This photo of a current laptop was taken on a DSLR from about 2005, on a lens from (likely) the '70s. I don't know the details of this lens, but it was my Grandpa's lens from his film SLR. Anyway, for me it sort of spans time in a way most photos don't.
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@Pascal... That XMG looks pretty awesome!
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Fair, but I think the elderly are disproportionately effected. They didn't grow up using this tech, and often have poorer eyesight so have trouble seeing details that help clue people onto scams. Sure, it's a Chomebook and the warning is Microsoft, but I think plenty of non tech people--many of whole who have grown up with these companies--would need a few minutes for that to jump out at them.
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Computers are just rapidly flashing LED lights.
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Impressions?
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Impressions?
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Had trouble sending that reply just now. Another try.
Honestly, this is my best attempt at a bad landing in X-plane. With a lot of editing to make it look like security camera footage.
Good guess at wind shear. I set the weather to have a gusty crosswind at 25 kts or so, with some wind shear. I couldn't get anything close to this bad looking without bad weather.
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RE: shipping times
That's more like it...
SpoilerStill darn impressive that last evening, the laptop was on the ground near Beijing, and tomorrow will be on my doorstep on the US east coast. Probably in a UPS 747 over the Pacific right now.
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You are brought back to the day of your birth for 24 hours, starting now. What do you do?
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My mind fills the expanse laid before it. A new day, the first day. At least out of the womb. I feel the touch of people for the first time, open my eyes to see indescribable brightness and feel unexplainable warmth and love. Folk music plays in the background for my first night, during which I get roughly the same amount of sleep as I do at all hours: a whole lot. On average. My parents probably think it's not much, during the night at least.
Really, I probably just exist in those 24 hours. How could I know? Memories don't go back that far. I'd be a little
AI that lost his hard drive and is just running on a RAM disk.
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This song is... electrifying:
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Don't forget Device Orchestra, and the guy that once did Still Alive on a laser cutter!
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TFW @Pascal... uploads 157 memes and it destroys the site so badly that they show up in Den's status instead....
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Can't stay awake. Thanks, neighbors who set off hundereds megaton-scale firework rockets at 3 AM last night.
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TFW @Pascal... uploads 157 memes and it destroys the site so badly that they show up in Den's status instead....
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Name a YouTuber with over a million subs you watch that you think others on the forum never heard of.
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Snap Circuits got me interested in Electrical engineering. My friend got me into building PCs. How did you find yours?
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Radio shack had their house brand snap circuits, but stopped making them. All the old stock became super super cheap at every store. Picked up any and all I could find, and had a blast.
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ngl I can't bring myself to give a shit about what happens in the world anymore
it's just far too mentally taxing to bring myself to analyze anything