Posts: srt101fan | Ugly Hedgehog

frankraney wrote:

How do you post a painting? Only by photographing the painting, then uploading the image.

Of course....

Apr 26, 2024 09:45:28 #

NJFrank wrote:

If you close down digital artistry you will lose people in UHH. Some of us enjoy creating composites. Whether using some AI or completely AI. You can’t make everyone happy 100% of the time.
No one is putting a gun to your head telling the person you have to post there. If one does not like entries to the section , simply don’t subscribe.

I don't have a problem with composites, but why should an image that was entirely created with tools that have nothing to do with photography be allowed (other than to support a photography discussion)?

I think any image posted in any UHH section shoulld at least have had a photograph as a starting point for the creation of the image.

Apr 25, 2024 23:55:59 #

Curmudgeon wrote:

Why indead. Check out some of the posts in the Digital Images in the in the past couple of weeks

You're right; there are lots of computer aided drawings. They are cool and I admire the creator's talent but I don't understand why they're on UHH.

Apr 25, 2024 22:11:56 #

Curmudgeon wrote:

Ugly Hedgehog has guidelines on how and where AI and AI/photograph hybrid images may be posted. I believe it is time to revisit these guidelines. With few exceptions most of us use AI to one degree or another in Post Processing. I believe it is time to allow AI generated images to be posted in any Forum as long they are identified as such.

I agree with you that the lines are getting blurred. But where do you stop? If you would allow a totally AI created image to be posted in any of the UHH sections, why not paintings?

Apr 25, 2024 18:33:12 #

Maine Trip

jjenk wrote:

I plan to spend two weeks in Maine in late July. Are there any "Must See" photographic stops that you recommend? Either well-known or along the back roads.

Thank you!

I forgot to mention a place I have fond memories of. Many years ago we spent a night on Isle au Haut in a lighthouse keeper's house converted to a B&B. No electricity, dinner by candlelight. The next day, carrying picnic food and directions provided by the innkeeper, we hiked along the shore.

Isle au Haute is an island accessible by ferry from Stonington (see attached map). About half of it is part of the Acadia National Park. Don't know what it's like today but I think the keeper's house may have been sold.

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Apr 25, 2024 16:34:49 #

Maine Trip

jjenk wrote:

I plan to spend two weeks in Maine in late July. Are there any "Must See" photographic stops that you recommend? Either well-known or along the back roads.

Thank you!

I spent some time in the coastal Rockland-Rockport-Camden area and like it a lot. But expect crowds in the summer.

I found Lubec (the easternmost town of the contiguous United States) very appealing. Cross a bridge and you are in Canada where you can visit Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Campobello summer home.

Apr 22, 2024 13:03:30 #

Why film?

Isn't it time to stop comparing film and digital in terms of pros and cons, better or worse? Can't we just accept film as a way of creating photographic images that appeals to some? Do we agonize over the relative merits of violin and piano music?

Apr 21, 2024 14:13:55 #

(The Attic)

Goodbye

Blenheim Orange wrote:

I agree that political comments are out of line here and I have no problem with you characterizing his remarks as "b***hing." The "children have the Constitutional Right to take guns to school to k**l their teacher and other pupils" and "elect a criminal con merchant as President" are comments attacking a particular political faction, not an attack on the country.

You gotta be kidding!

He said "a country where children have the Constitutional Right to take guns to school to k**l their teacher and other pupils!

First it's a falsehood, a lie. As far as Constitutional rights are concerned, the authors had a defined constituency in mind and I'm pretty sure it didn't include children. And the OP thinks we have a Constitutional right to k**l people!? How absurd....

Aside from spreading falsehoods, the OP. as a foreigner, shows very poor taste in attacking the U. S. on this forum no matter how dissatisfied he is with some of the membership.

(Black and White Photography)

Apr 18, 2024 18:48:37 #

After the Fire

bonjac wrote:

Okay. Here's a revision.

Intriguing subject and composition. Following up on Linda's comment, I wonder if a square format- achieved by cropping off the top - would be better?

(General Chit-Chat (non-photography talk))

Apr 16, 2024 09:24:16 #

Apps and Electronics

jerryc41 wrote:

I see a big problem developing. Most electronics need an app for your cell phone, but it must usually be a newer, better phone. I have had two devices for which I could not download the app. I have another one that will download to one phone or not the other. We shouldn't have to keep buying $1,000 cell phone so we can use a $50 device.

I have a Motorola from 2020 and a Samsung from 2018. they both work fine, except for most required apps.

What "electronics" require an app? I'd like to know so I can stay away from them.

Wait! I just remembered a soundbar I bought recently. It required an app to set it up.....

Apr 16, 2024 09:17:28 #

Jpeg/raw pics

DirtFarmer wrote:

It is always good to be in danger of learning something new.

Like learning the difference between poisonous and non-poisonous mushrooms?

Apr 15, 2024 09:59:13 #

Observations about displayed pics in Photo Gallery

BigDaddy wrote:

Correcting grammar in a Photography Forum would normally be considered off topic and anal.
Discussing merits and improvements possible of a Photo in a Photo forum would seem...on topic.

My philosophy: Anything posted in a public forum is up for discussion.

Admin. philosophy: Doesn't need to conform to yours or mine.

You say: My philosophy: Anything posted in a public forum is up for discussion.

You can philosophize all you want as long as you comply with Admin's Forum rules. Folks who don't want to follow the rules shouldn't be here.

Apr 15, 2024 09:36:08 #

Observations about displayed pics in Photo Gallery

BebuLamar wrote:

I don't think so. Then the person would have to say "No! You may not." It's best not to say anything negative about pictures posted in the gallery.

What is so hard to understand about "Don't critique in the Gallery unless invited to do so"? .........🤔🤔🤔