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Oct 18, 2019 12:41:56   #
Rongnongno wrote:
Answer:
A nit is the egg or young form of a louse or other parasitic insect, especially the egg of a head louse attached to a human hair. (Google to the rescue)

The French are more 'precise' expression it is "chercher des pous dans la tete." It has the exact same meaning.

(looking for louse on someone head)


I'm going to ignore your explanation so I can keep on using my mantra
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Oct 18, 2019 12:38:45   #
Soul Dr. wrote:
I was told by a chef to never add anything to the water for cooking pasta. Get the water to a rolling boil, then add pasta and keep the water at a rolling boil. Stir the pasta occasionally.
Been doing it this way for years and never had a problem with pasta sticking together.

Personally, I kind of like those clumps of stuck together pasta. Gives you plenty of 'chew time', makes you feel like you just had a serious epicurean experience.
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Oct 18, 2019 12:16:05   #
[quote=Rongnongno]I was reading an article on how to cook pasta, cold water or boiling water?

Several reputed chefs chimed in but one took the bull by the horns and declared:

"We have too much time in our hands if we start discussing how to cook raw pasta. Do what you like, if you enjoy the end product that is all that matters."

Well, in photography we have the same issue.

Too much nit picking on whatever for what? If one can answer that question please post it, I am curious.

I can't answer the question and for some time (decades) have been trying to pick those nits but nobody can tell us what the hell a 'nit' is. Old folks still want to participate however while most physical activity isn't open to them, jawing is and whoa! here I am!

Look around, how many of the wet behind the ears set do you find here?
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Oct 18, 2019 10:58:59   #
yorkiebyte wrote:
.... "The good old days"!!
- Today always has yesterday. I always look forward to tomorrow!! Always new and shiny! If one follows a few old concepts of life (and photography/PP) the tomorrow is much brighter! ....... Whooohooo!!!


why did your post remind of a plaque our 7th grade English teacher had on her desk some 67 years ago?
"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday"
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Oct 18, 2019 09:17:12   #
User ID wrote:
I GET EVERYTHING EXACTLY RIGHT,
IN-CAMERA, ALL THE TIME.
All my
SOOC output is always exactly right
for what I intend to do with it, which
is acoarst to process it.

Same as when all I had was film and
chemicals. My SOOC [negatives] was
exactly right for my printing methods.



As do I
My opining acoarst (borrowed that TY) was meant for everyone else!!
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Oct 18, 2019 09:09:39   #
Heather Iles wrote:
Is that what is called "tongue in cheek"?


Firmly embedded, I do believe
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Oct 17, 2019 19:25:45   #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Well poo, I guess I'm too weak to not be drawn into this discussion after all.

Rich, your comment ignores all of us who have no intention of attempting to capture reality at the time of the shutter button punch 🤗


Linda, I could never ignore you
On the other hand, reality has no part in whether or not the exposure et-al is correct. If you soft focus with intent, then didn't you get it right (in camera) for your use?
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Oct 17, 2019 19:03:18   #
While you can't always get it right in camera (gremlins have a way of sneaking in and messing with you) and you have to resort to post processing to save the image, getting it right in camera sure makes any post work a lot easier. It should go without saying that getting it right in camera ought to be the goal
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Oct 17, 2019 14:14:31   #
Curmudgeon wrote:
When ever I see a shot like this my cynical mind immediately thinks 'real or PP'. No way to know for sure of course but considering there are no bear tracks approaching the elk and just the feeling that the bear is "wrong" makes me go for PP.


To my eye it appears the whites were boosted to isolate the bear/elk. Reducing screen contrast shows that there was "disturbed" snow around the scene and close peeping it looks like the bears paws are compressing the elk's hair so, while being proved wrong won't bother me one bit, I'm going to have to disagree with you sir and keep on attributing the photographer with testĂ­culos muy grande.
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Oct 17, 2019 09:48:38   #
BB4A wrote:
Nerves of steel... or, testĂ­culos muy grandes?


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Oct 17, 2019 09:47:44   #
DaveO wrote:
I'll keep looking!

For you, Larry: Here's a reversal...an angry Bison chasing a wolf. Way out in Lamar Valley, heavy crop, D500, 600mm F4 with 1.7x. Poor quality, but quite a show with three Bison and four wolves.


A tale of two tails.
One is "high tailing" while the other is "tucking tail". Love it!
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Oct 16, 2019 11:48:55   #
In addition to " all of the above", a couple or 4 plastic shopping bags and some bungee cords. The bags can come in handy for many things like covering your camera/lens in case of a sudden shower. But primarily for filling with rocks or sand or whatever to set on the ground under your tripod and connect with the bungees. (providing of course that your tripod has a center hook)
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Oct 15, 2019 12:27:23   #
One more comment, if I may. Don’t be too impressed with weight support numbers. Properly and carefully set up 3 drinking straws could support 5 pounds. You need to be more concerned with a tripod’s vibration handling/dampening ability. With a telephoto lens that is even more important. Your choice of head will also be determined by that lens as longer lenses need a much sturdier head to hold its position. A quality tripod and head will not be cheap, but if we spend a thousand (or more) on the camera, a thousand (or more) per lens, why get cheap on the support?
Would you put Walmart super saver tires on a Porsche?
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Oct 14, 2019 09:23:40   #
SalvageDiver wrote:
In the spirit of last weeks conversation about the OP posting his/her final version of their MIYV picture, here is my final image.

The image I selected was originally a bracketed image. Since the sunlight was strong I was concerned about the DR of my little trail camera, a Sony a6000 with the 16-50mm pancake lens, so I took 3 images, 2-stops apart. As it turned out, no highlights were blown out but there was some underexposed red and blue in the tree shadows in the 0ev (middle) image. But the green channel in the shadows were still OK. So that was the image that I selected and posted. Not a good SOOC, but it contained all the necessary information to tease out the final image. BTW, the raw SOOC wasn't anything like the original scene.

After editing the image, I liked the uncropped version of the final image. It reflected what I was saw and brought back memories of that afternoon. But someone who wasn't there would not have the same emotional attachment as I do. So I focused on the subject of the image which was the mountain. While there was drama in the sky, it competed with the mountain for attention. Also the snow patch in the foreground, being bright also pulled the attention away from the mountain. So I cropped to remove the foreground snow patch and reduced, but not eliminate, the cloudy sky. Sorry Linda, your avalanche lilies, as pretty as they were, didn't make the cut in my final image. Finally, I decided i liked the panoramic crop as it gave me the feel of a large expanse. The overall image is edited based on my memory and interpretation of the scene. So here is my view of Stevens Peak.

Mike
In the spirit of last weeks conversation about the... (show quote)


I like that a lot. The truncated look of the snow field in the original bothered me and your creating a pano solved that
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Oct 14, 2019 09:10:50   #
jonbeth wrote:
Asking for advice to buy a new tripod for landscape and travel $200 - $300.

thanks


Before you read the many conflicting opinions you are going to be getting do yourself a favor and go to this website for a non-partisan education on tripods. I'm afraid you will learn that your budget is too low for a new tripod that will met your requirements. But, once you learn what you'll really need the suggestion to try eBay is a good one.
https://thecentercolumn.com/
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