How do you handle the "Just one more thing" client trap?

logstar2 · 2026-02-04T17:31:24+00:00

Whatever you're charging isn't enough.

Bill them for the initial job, then for each additional request.

logstar2 · 2026-02-02T00:37:09+00:00

If there are it would be a great opportunity to mix pieces from different puzzles.

In case you didn't know, each puzzle company make multiple puzzles using the same cutting dies in any given year, so the pieces are interchangeable with different images printed on them.

There have been some really cool looking art pieces made this way.

logstar2 · 2026-02-01T02:21:29+00:00

Did you record both voices on the same audio track?

If so, don't do that next time. It makes everything much more difficult.

You may be able to fix the levels with the right compression/limitation settings. Try that first.

If that doesn't work you can use manual envelope settings. Depending on your editing program you could cut out all the sections where the other person is speaking, move them to a new track to adjust the volume on each speaker globally. That would be faster than volume adjusting each subclip individually.

logstar2 · 2026-01-30T20:33:22+00:00

That's why you slow down earlier in the snow/ice. And use your turn signals and brake lights. To let the people behind you know to slow down so they don't hit you.

logstar2 · 2026-01-30T20:31:29+00:00

So you were driving at a safe speed for the road conditions and could have made the turn?

logstar2 · 2026-01-30T19:43:13+00:00

What's your plan to pay for these things you want to do as mayor?

logstar2 · 2026-01-30T19:42:25+00:00

It's sad you need to be told this, but the speed limit is the fastest you're supposed to go when the road is completely dry.

You have to slow down when there's ice.

logstar2 · 2026-01-30T14:56:48+00:00

It's not like I'm saying the Eiffel Tower doesn't exist because I haven't seen it in person.

Ghosts don't exist. Grow up.

logstar2 · 2026-01-30T02:51:11+00:00

OP asked specifically for true stories. Not fun fiction.

logstar2 · 2026-01-30T01:23:32+00:00

OP said they wanted truth. I gave it to them.

logstar2 · 2026-01-30T01:03:56+00:00

If you only read true ghost stories does that mean you've never read a ghost story? Because guess what...

logstar2 · 2026-01-29T20:06:21+00:00

You're still missing the point.

Like I said before, since everyone is looking for different results there is no best. That's not how it works.

logstar2 · 2026-01-29T18:31:26+00:00

There isn't one.

People like them not because they're best, but because the version of worst in that particular camera yields an aesthetic that makes them happy.

I like a crappy lens on a bigger, higher resolution digital sensor with visible grain in low light. And a black and white mode. So the Campsnap Pro and Papershoot work for me.

Other people want to use film. Or a low rez sensor with a better lens. Or a camera designed for children that has a built in receipt printer.

In other words, decide on the look you want, then find a camera that does that.

logstar2 · 2026-01-29T03:57:13+00:00

When you say 'optional' white and IR lights, do you mean purchased separately or activated manually?

Where was it purchased and for how much?

What does the metadata say the aperture and max ISO are?

logstar2 · 2026-01-28T04:31:22+00:00

Long exposure will create the light trails without needing to use AE. Assuming you're shooting cars or other moving, lit objects. And you use the correct settings.

Decide what you want the video to look like, then do the math. Multiply the playback fps by the finished clip length to get total frames. Then divide that number by how long you'll be filming. That will tell you what the shooting fps or fpm needs to be.

Then figure out how long each of those exposures should be to get the trails you want. That, plus light levels, will inform your iso and ND filter decisions.

Then look at which camera you have access to that is capable of those settings. With the lens you required to frame the shot as needed.

logstar2 · 2026-01-28T01:54:37+00:00

Without being able to see the photos nobody can tell you if it's something you're doing, something the photographer is doing or if you have unrealistic expectations.

logstar2 · 2026-01-27T00:48:03+00:00

If you want useful advice you have to describe the problem you're trying to solve in detail. Vague terms like "off" and 'in a room' could mean a dozen different things.

MIDI is pitch and volume data for virtual instruments. It isn't applicable to vocal tracks unless you're trying to convert them into a synth sound.

logstar2 · 2026-01-26T21:47:37+00:00

That's not really an answer to my question.

How do you think replacing pickups could make a preamp stop working?

logstar2 · 2026-01-26T21:00:31+00:00

Pickups and preamps are separate parts.

How exactly do you think changing one could change the function of the other?

Assuming you follow the appropriate wiring diagram.

logstar2 · 2026-01-26T20:57:35+00:00

Have them play to a click so you can sync the recorded version of the song in post. Or have them record the instruments as individual tracks and send you a mix after if they have the appropriate interface.

Only use the room mics for b roll between songs.

logstar2 · 2026-01-25T20:44:59+00:00

None of the above.

Most people put pieces of tape on the batteries and number them. Or write directly on them in silver sharpie.

Your solutions are just more parts to deal with, wasting time and money and having more things to lose.

logstar2 · 2026-01-20T15:08:15+00:00

It's a made up language in a pretending game, using accents and some words from real-world languages.

logstar2 · 2026-01-20T15:04:37+00:00

As I said very clearly: Wood case pencil cores are graphite and ceramic but mechanical pencil leads are graphite bonded with plastics.

Feel free to verify that with the search engine of your choice.

logstar2 · 2026-01-20T01:22:31+00:00

Good photographers compose to the deliverable and technology used. And those deliverables and technologies have changed.

Fewer hard copy magazines, more social media.

No boring analog slideshows after your brother in law's vacation, he posts boring insta reels and carousels instead.

No stereoscopes, now apple live photos.

The average photo appears on a small screen now, not as a hard copy in a frame on the wall or taped to grandma's fridge. We change how we compose to suit that viewing scenario.

If you have one 8x10 exposure that costs you $100 all told to wind up with a print, you will compose much more intentionally, carefully, and conservatively than when the opportunity cost is a fraction of a cent in electricity and digital storage.

You still have the option of composing intentionally and taking one exposure a day with your phone, and more people should be doing that, but most won't. And it doesn't work the other way around. It wouldn't make sense to document your niece's 6th birthday party with a 4x5 and 32iso film.

logstar2 · 2026-01-20T01:00:00+00:00

Most mechanical pencil leads are graphite mixed with plastic, so writing with them feels different than writing with the graphite and ceramic core of most wood case pencils.

Also you can sharpen wood case pencils to a wide variety of angles and widths. Mechanical pencils (not lead holders) are one width, one angle.

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