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Mar 28, 2024 23:36:59   #
User ID wrote:
While I just cannot take my phone pix overly seriously I do greatly value my phone as my "sketch book". Its very handy for developing themes that I might pursue "more seriously" later on (with better gear than the phone).

Seems I cant be a biffer. I dont tend to look UP. Im just much more inspired by looking straight DOWN, with the unseen central core of the planet dead center in my viewfinder.




Some of my best work comes from "scouting expeditions" with the phone.

Up, down, around... Whatever sparks the fire.
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Mar 28, 2024 22:31:06   #
Amator21 wrote:
Hi am a very modest photographer, not in my assessment of my skills which are indeed modest. but in my out put. I will confess that most of my pictures are not taken because I do not have a camera with me. Often I will think: That would make a nice picture and that is as far as it goes.
Poul


You are the perfect candidate for a smartphone.

The best camera you have is the best one you have with you when you need a camera. For me, that's my iPhone if I'm not carrying my backpack full of the "semi-big iron."
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Mar 27, 2024 15:31:50   #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Had that assignment with my flicker group a few weeks ago, although it was any "object," not just nature.

Thought it kind of silly 'til I spent a few days at it. Then I had fun!

S-Curve by Linda Shorey, on Flickr

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Nice 'S.' The painterly effect on that is intriguing.

Reactive photographer might be a head scratcher. It's better to be reactive than radioactive. I like to be proactive (prepared). But some times I react to what I find, as I know you do so well!
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Mar 27, 2024 13:24:27   #
riderxlx wrote:
I don’t get it but then I’m not British.
I’d still like to know what it means.
Bruce


W + anchor (phonetically...)
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Mar 27, 2024 13:11:21   #
JZA B1 wrote:
I constantly struggle to come up with what to shoot. Does it come randomly to you? Or do you plan and brainstorm and imagine the final picture first and then arrange to make it happen?

Do you shoot what you happened to see? Or do you create your shots?


YES.

(The answer is, in all of photography and life, it depends.)

In other words, I do both intentional (planned) and unintentional (reactive) photography. Sometimes I am photographing with a specific purpose such as making a portrait or product image, or covering an interview for a story or documentary. Maybe I'm photographing a process for a training film. Or maybe I decided to go out on a "made up" assignment for myself, such as finding letters of the alphabet in nature (I've never done that, but seen it done, and may do it someday).

Or, perhaps I'm just out and about and see a subject worthy of whipping out the iPhone. I looked out the window a few weeks ago and found daffodils in the back yard, so I had to go investigate. Nothing special is happening here, except the mood:

Springing Out

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Mar 26, 2024 18:20:43   #
DebAnn wrote:
Why do I need a purpose? Can't I just like it?


Enjoyment is a purpose unto itself. Fun for the sake of fun...

"Yay, I made something!" — the feeling I get when I finish an image I like.
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Mar 26, 2024 12:09:10   #
Longshadow wrote:
When the auto correct first came out I was writing a thing for the Barclay Woods Homeowner's Association.
It wanted to know if I meant "Broccoli". It took me 5 minutes to stop laughing.


Sometimes automation works, and sometimes it doesn't. We get in trouble when we don't double check it.
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Mar 26, 2024 00:37:56   #
Longshadow wrote:
I try to poufread the auto corrupt and catch it must of the time.
But nit always.


There used to be a silly site called, "Damnyouautocorrect.com" that had thousands of funny examples of what a bad job autocorrect did with people's text messages. It was sidesplittingly funny. Here is a site with some samples of what were on it:

https://www.instagram.com/damnyouautocorrect/?hl=en
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Mar 26, 2024 00:28:24   #
TriX wrote:
I ALWAYS clean the filter each time before I start the dryer, but I was surprised how much lint came out of the duct when I vacuumed it with a Shop vac.


Our laundry is on the second floor. The vent goes up through the wall and out the roof. That vertical stack fills up with lint pretty easily. I was amazed at what came out of it when I first cleaned it. Over ten gallons of lint by volume!
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Mar 25, 2024 14:43:02   #
TriX wrote:
You just reminded me that I need to get out my shop vac and clean the entire duct to the outside.


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Mar 25, 2024 14:40:55   #
Lenfagen wrote:
Thank you for a sensible answer and a helpful one which can help me out. Most of the other posts I have received indicate either a poor reception of a help request or are having a hot time with silly posts to satisfy their egos.


You will always find plenty of snark on UHH. It's the Internet... The eighth graders in us tend to come out and act stoo-pid from time to time. I learned a long time ago to either ignore it, or come back with logic.

Gently, there are some basic unwritten rules for Internet etiquette. One of them is NO SHOUTING. Another is to address issues, without attacking people. Another is to proofread, especially when using "autocorrect" features.
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Mar 25, 2024 14:31:23   #
DirtFarmer wrote:
Blink tests on the shots show the difference close up. The full frame shots have to be downloaded to get the animated gif to work.


Are these at default sharpness settings, or carefully optimized settings?

To me, the Topaz images look over sharpened and the Lightroom (Classic?) images look under sharpened. My images from LrC never look that soft.

As an ex lab guy, I will say that sharpening for print is very different from sharpening for monitors, and each print size requires a different degree of sharpening.
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Mar 25, 2024 10:53:59   #
jerryc41 wrote:
If you have an old clothes dryer that is not working as well as it should, buy a new one. I replaced mine a few weeks ago because it wasn't working. Today, I took the old one apart in anticipation of bringing the metal to "dump" for recycling. Every time I removed a part, I found lots of lint. The large outlet where the hot air exits the tub was loaded with lint. From there, it goes into a downpipe and then to the vent hose. At the bottom of the downpipe was a mouse nest, in addition to lint. When I got all the way inside the machine - lint! It's all over the motor, too. I guess "out of sight, out of mind" applied to this motor because it is naked. It does not have the typical barrel cover over it. I thought I might keep it, but after seeing it, it will go to the metal recycling area. The vent hose itself, from the dryer to the outside, was very clean. This was a Whirlpool from 2007.

On the plus side, I did "rescue" a lot of wire and connectors. I can always use wire. Oh, one other thing: I removed over $5.00 in coins from inside the dryer cabinet.
If you have an old clothes dryer that is not worki... (show quote)


Our old dryer "died," last year, too, and the washer was threatening to die any minute, so we replaced both. The new LG dryer has a light on it that flashes if there is any obstruction of air flow. If the restriction is severe, it also quits automatically and tells you, in effect, to clean the vent!

After the installers left, I ran a load of laundry, and that "Flow Sense" light came on. Then the dryer stopped. Google to the rescue!

One of the top causes of fires in the home is lint fires in dryers and dryer ducts that are not properly maintained. Once a year or so, the entire exhaust path to the outside of the house should be cleaned.

https://youtu.be/GLZSqhUoF_g?

I bought the kit shown in the video linked above. The first time I used it, I filled up my shop vac with lint TWICE. It was a sticky, fibrous mess, because we had been using fabric softener dryer sheets that leave a waxy residue all over the inside of the dryer, your clothes, the ductwork... everything.

We quit using those fabric softener dryer sheets and now our towels work better, our underwear breathes again, and the dryer will probably last longer.
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Mar 25, 2024 10:14:32   #
Scruples wrote:
To the Original Poster (LenFagen): I believe that you have a fan club. A simple mistake and everyone is jumping on the band wagon. Including me. The GPS in question may not be salvageable. Good luck!

Start with the company and hopefully you will know if it is repairable.


We have GPS navigation systems built into three of our cars that we could not delete at purchase. We NEVER use them, because they are all based off of either a DVD or a Micro SD card database that was out of date the instant it was recorded.

The best GPS is in smartphones. We use Google Maps, Mapquest, Apple Maps, and WAZE to navigate. The iPhone gives us the option to save geolocation information from the GPS directly to the images we make with the phone camera. We can choose to export the GPS information in the metadata of the file, or not, using Apple Photos and other applications. See below.

Skeleton Conference on Congress Street, Tucson, AZ

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GPS in metadata

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Mar 25, 2024 00:38:10   #
Longshadow wrote:
Wouldn't that be cut-out letters?


Could be. The lAzy DirT bAgS jusT PlAy wITh CaPs anD FOnTs.

Cut out letters often contain fingerprints. Typing is easier.
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