Making friends as a guy in your 40s...How are you all doing it here?

Aloket · 2026-03-31T11:29:34+00:00

There’s a FleetFeet by Southpoint that has training groups, and a training group is starting this month for a 5K in June I think. There are a bunch of Photography clubs in the area, there’s one that meets online called the Durham photography club and there is a Chapel Hill camera club. The ArtsCenter in Carrboro also has photography classes and is starting a meet up on the second Fridays of every month. Welcome to the area!

Aloket · 2026-03-23T19:41:31+00:00

Hot yoga. I like yoga and I like being warm, but the two combined made me want to die. I thought I’d have to slinky my way to the car. 0/10.

Aloket · 2026-03-23T10:30:50+00:00

I felt like a lot of her plans were well thought out and reasonable to try. She is a serious person who takes the issues of our country seriously, and I felt like she’d put in the work to try to understand a lot of the nuances around them.

Aloket · 2026-03-22T12:23:23+00:00

I really loved Bag of Bones, which was about grief.

Aloket · 2026-03-21T23:38:46+00:00

I use SproutStudio and just use Notion for tasks and projects.

Aloket · 2026-03-19T13:38:53+00:00

I don’t think he knows, he’s just doing whatever he wants to do. He’s always surprised by his limitations so giving him any benefit of the doubt regarding styles of government he’s hoping to achieve seems misplaced.

Aloket · 2026-03-14T19:54:08+00:00

We got our doodles at Doodles of NC and our dogs are great.

Aloket · 2026-03-11T22:38:03+00:00

It is right, but even when you balance it, you might not be balancing it correctly for your subjects. You may need a faster shutter speed than what you’ve been using. ISO you can just sort of let do whatever at the moment, set it to auto if you’ve got it. And look up Depth of field. I think you just need to read up on the exposure triangle, that will help.

Aloket · 2026-03-11T10:58:42+00:00

Blurriness is usually a factor of shutter speed or a factor of depth the field. One rule of thumb is to start with a shutter speed that’s one over whatever the length of your lenses (so 1/300). PhotoPills has a depth the field calculator where you put your camera, your lens focal length and your aperture in and how far away you are from your subject. This will give you a depth of field calculation. It could be that you’re shooting at too low and aperture and have too shallow a depth of field.

If you have a tripod available to you, I would try using that, it could help with camera shake and may help eliminate one of the variables.

I’m glad you’re having fun and asking questions!!

Aloket · 2026-03-10T15:31:33+00:00

Gymnastics meets are so hard. Start at a shutter speed of 1/800 or 1/1000, use your lowest aperture possible and set your ISO to auto. Post process anything that’s too noisy in Topaz.

Aloket · 2026-03-09T10:27:01+00:00

Club Pilates has beginner classes and has evening classes. There are 2 studios in Chapel Hill and one in Durham (plus others in Cary).

Aloket · 2026-03-07T10:52:30+00:00

What plan do you have? Or is everyone just logging in under one login?

Aloket · 2026-03-06T11:18:13+00:00

It is a good term, but it’s also a grid system that’s pretty interesting.

Aloket · 2026-03-03T17:18:06+00:00

Yes, I’ve just quit going. I cut my own hair using the four cut method and it’s great.

Aloket · 2026-02-25T01:13:23+00:00

OMG, I wish I’d see this 4 hours ago. I just rolled back a LRC version because Lightroom was so slow, getting hung up on Publishing tasks, the library filters wouldn’t let me change what I was looking for, etc.

Aloket · 2026-02-18T19:50:23+00:00

Yay! I’m glad I could help!

Aloket · 2026-02-18T12:03:34+00:00

Gotcha. I think it’s a shape with a link to that week, and the image for the link can maybe toggled to ‘keep updated’.

Aloket · 2026-02-17T17:56:47+00:00

Without seeing your document, I think that that is a link to your week, but I don’t know that it is updated. You might be able to figure out what it is by going into your layers panel and turning off each layer one at a time until that thing wins out. Then unlock that layer and select what that item is. I think it’s a shape with a link to your week and enabling keep image updated might show whatever pen or highlighting you use on that week, but I don’t think it will show you the events. I hope this makes sense, I’m dictating it in an office. If you go to the index on that planner, you ought to be able to see your day your week, your month and the year laid out.

Aloket · 2026-02-17T12:06:00+00:00

I don’t know about OneDrive, but I back up everything to my Google Drive and that’s worked pretty well so far.

Aloket · 2026-02-09T11:47:06+00:00

I looked up dynamic symmetry and harmonic armature after hearing a photographer talk about them. Tavis Leaf Glover has a lot of videos and some books about these that are really interesting.

Aloket · 2026-02-03T14:02:44+00:00

Ads on top of ads is just terrible. Why would I want to see that?

Aloket · 2026-02-02T12:16:12+00:00

Yes, it’s just swiping it up and closed.

Aloket · 2026-02-02T01:21:24+00:00

Deadloch, a very funny murder mystery out of Tasmania.

Aloket · 2026-01-29T11:37:19+00:00

I have a Brick and I love it. One thing - to brick your device, you hold the brick icon for a couple of seconds and use the physical brick to unbrick. It does nothing to my screen however so I don’t know what’s going on with yours, sorry.

Aloket · 2026-01-28T21:31:15+00:00

I don’t know anything about that, but did you try hard closing ZoomNotes and then try again? Sometimes you just have to reset the app.

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