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Reuters Issues A Worldwide Ban On Raw Photos

I am pretty much at the basic level as far as processing but if Reuter's receives the image as a jpeg how do they know if it was originally raw or jpeg? When I send a resized, Lightroom C processed raw image it goes as a jpeg.

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Camera straps: standard or added features?

I have never met a strap I really liked. Since I use the Cotton Carrier system and do not want to use chest carry I will use the Peak Design Slide in combination with the Cotton Carrier Sling Belt to distribute the weight of large lenses between my neck and shoulders and my waist. The Cotton Carrier allows both hands to be completely free.

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camera straps

kliese wrote:

usually my camera is in my left hand as i wander around. sometimes in my back, the i have to stop unpack and take my shot. i have seen some ads for a harness type where it looks like it attaches and stays a bit more static
Any advice out there. headed on a multi city adventure this summer

I forgot to mention that the Cotton Carrier Sling Belt can easily be worn left or right sided. The camera can be released with one hand unlike the Spider holster which requires two hands and attaches to your pants belt. Any moderately heavy camera that is attached to a pants belt will result in a constant hiking up of the pants and a tightening of your belt. I also employ a wrist strap to use when I want to carry the camera in hand. Disclaimer, I DO NOT own any stock in Cotton Carrier. I just like to have my camera worn comfortably, securely and with both hands free.

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CLA Recommendation

burkphoto wrote:

Clean, Lubricate, Adjust. It's been kicked around since at least 1967 when I started reading about serious cameras, and probably dates back 100 years or more.

However, there are always newbies among us.

I agree with the old adage: "Define the terms as you go along, spelling out acronyms the first time."

When I worked for my third large photo lab company, we had a 42 page dictionary of acronyms!

Thank you for the "define the terms" comment". My camera usage dates back to a Leica 111f so I'm not really a newbie however perhaps my unfamiliarity with the acronym CLA stems from never having a camera needing service. Many of the members appear to have had some business association with photography, Labs such as yourself and or professional photographers and naturally they would be more familiar with the different acronyms.

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camera straps

kliese wrote:

usually my camera is in my left hand as i wander around. sometimes in my back, the i have to stop unpack and take my shot. i have seen some ads for a harness type where it looks like it attaches and stays a bit more static
Any advice out there. headed on a multi city adventure this summer

Definitely Go and check out Cotton Carrier. I have used their systems for years. My preference is the Sling Belt where the camera is positioned on the hip area. The harness systems carry the camera on the chest area and my concern is the possibility of tripping and falling forward on the camera and my concern is not for damage to the camera.

I spent two weeks with a Nikon D7100 and 18-140 lens walking around Paris last fall and barely noticed it.

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America-A Ship With No Captain

wilpharm wrote:

JOE?? FOCUSED??? DEFT MANAGEMENT?? MOST PRODUCTIVE PRES??? kidding, right???

Nope, Biden with a half a brain is astronomically superior MAGA's psychopath in charge. It doesn't take an advanced degree regarding Trump to realize that, He Ain't Never Gonna Be Right.

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America-A Ship With No Captain

So old Joe has lost a step or two over the years and he makes some gaffes, which he has always been prone to, but all reports say he remains focused, engaged and in command on the vital issues that occupy the president. Hell, I even forget what I came from the kitchen to get from the the pantry. Experience counts. Biden has restored the tradition of a capable team running the White House, a tradition trampled Trump's deeply flawed scheme to run a one man show.
Like Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt, Biden's deft management has made him, arguably the most productive president since LBJ in the early months of his administration. As they say, he has forgotten more than his presumed Republican rival will ever know.

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CLA Recommendation

Please, please everyone when using abbreviations include the meaning for those of us not up on the modern jargon. I finally have down, SOOC and could figure out LMAO but I believe CLA is a bit obscure.

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America-A Ship With No Captain

Anyone who calls our military personnel and veterans suckers and losers, who refuses to have their picture taken with veteran amputees because it doesn't make him look good, who refuses to visit a cemetery in France commemorating 1800 American marines who died in WW1 because "why should I go, it's just filled with a bunch of losers", doesn't deserve to be the commander in chief. Any present military or veteran who v**es for that person should do so with their head bowed in shame.

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America-A Ship With No Captain

dennis2146 wrote:

Yet more proof of the anti American Left Wing bulls**t Socialist narrative. We are just anti Socialism. All the rest is a DSP, Democratic Socialist Party, platform to bring down America and its freedoms.

Dennis

Donald Trump has proven himself to be a prolific and pathologic liar. He has repeated lies, lies that have been proven to be so by republican,democratic, conservative and liberal sources, so many times that, along with MAGA, he might even believe them himself. Now that's scary.

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Photo editing: do you prefer to keep it subtle or embrace bold transformations?

NateB wrote:

Totally with you on that. I try to keep mine looking as natural as possible too. As a general rule, I try to avoid any post-editing if possible, but it’s not always an option. Sometimes you gotta do a little editing to give it the finishing touch. But like I said (just personal preference here, not saying that my way is the right way), I try to keep the editing down to a bare minimum and keep the pic looking as natural as possible

What is natural? Is it the way we remember the scene, the way we think we remember it or the way we think it should look? What about black and white? We don't see in B&W but who doesn't like that dark almost black Ansel Adams blue sky. For me, in color the line is when the reds, yellows and greens look like nothing in nature. I can like and accept a Kodachrome blue sky.

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Photo editing: do you prefer to keep it subtle or embrace bold transformations?

CHG_CANON wrote:

Every successful photographer is driven by an inner voice telling them everyone else is using PhotoShop.

Aren't they?

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Photo editing: do you prefer to keep it subtle or embrace bold transformations?

Linda From Maine wrote:

I like both! br br url=https://flic.kr/p/2puDARo... (show quote)

I don' know what processing you did on this photo Linda. I'm sure it was quite a bit and it works wonderfully. I found it difficult to divert my eyes from it. It' like a beautiful painting and it should have been in the previous forum as an example of photography as art. Bravo!

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America-A Ship With No Captain

Shutterbug1697 wrote:

Republicans DON'T have a platform!

I beg to differ. The Republican platform is pro authoritarian government, isolation, h**e, bigotry, w***e s*******y, anti woman, and other f*****t ideals.

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Art for Arts sake or Art that other people might want

billnikon wrote:

Not many people will want them for their living ro... (show quote)

People like and want photos for many reasons and being "art" may or may nor be one of them. When I was a practicing dentist some of my photos hung in the treatment rooms. Occasionally a patient would ask if they could buy a print which I gladly provided free of charge as an unframed print. The one most requested was a black and white conversion from a Kodachrome slide of three, real, cowboys and their horses that I took circa 1953 when in high school. A nice casual portrait but hardly art. Maybe the attraction was their age span or the bowlegs of the older one, the cow ponies or maybe just because I live in Texas. Different strokes for different folks. A few years ago I did have the opportunity to meet the gentleman on the right when he was in his eighties.

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