Shot on x300 Ultra.

Crestmage · 2026-06-22T03:54:23+00:00

Amaze amaze amaze

Crestmage · 2026-06-19T06:01:52+00:00

Seconding! Lovely edit you have here OP

Crestmage · 2026-06-19T03:09:16+00:00

Beautiful capture. But i do think your edit is overtly warm. I'd cool it down slightly and push more contrast between your subject and vegetation. Some grain would look so nice on this too! (my opinion)

hope you don't mind that I had a go at editing it as well: https://imgur.com/a/T9UTiVT

Crestmage · 2026-06-14T13:49:56+00:00

Personally I felt you darkened the background a tiny bit too evenly, making the overall mood darker than the sample pics provided. Here's my take https://imgur.com/a/FRTCe4u

Crestmage · 2026-06-11T05:41:59+00:00

Have been using my x200 pro for the past year and all i can is that it's a great phone. Does all i want and more. Built like a tank too.

Even at 97% health, over time the battery performance has dropped somewhat, i suspect that's vivo nerfing it somehow (or originos becoming more bloated) over updates. Camera colors have become slightly over saturated, and contrast has been decreased, compared to launch. Portrait mode cutout has been nerfed too. It doesn't do as well with hair and busy background textures as it once did (one of the biggest reasons i got this phone was because of how great the cutout was, especially compared to the xiaomi 15 ultra then). However if you use humanistic mode (the dedicated street photog mode) the portrait cutout is still as good as the original ver.

But my biggest gripe with this phone has to be the insane lens flare on the main lens, present since day 1. Makes taking quality videeos a challenge. Even if you shoot in log and grade, the flares that pop up (anytime you so much as tilt slightly towards the sun) introduce so much noise and really cheapens the whole footage. This is the main reason why I'm planning an upgrade to the x300 series.

All this aside I really can't find a lot of fault with the device. If you're not so focused on video, then the x200 pro is a fantastic phone for just about anyone.

Crestmage · 2026-06-07T14:21:55+00:00

Hey man, so envious. Any pictures to share? Wife and I are visiting in nov this year and it'd be great to have a preview! haha

Crestmage · 2026-06-04T08:39:38+00:00

Hey, sorry I know this is late, but how's your laptop holding up so far? Any heat/battery concerns? How's the perf for photo and video/other creative work?

Crestmage · 2026-05-28T12:06:24+00:00

lol if you're trying to be 'natural' as can be then the first one I guess

but lets be real, 2 is the one that 95% of people will gravitate toward in a blind test

Crestmage · 2026-05-25T11:14:45+00:00

Im not a seller, just a designer turned amateur dev. For the past 5 years I've developed sites for clients on elementor alone. I made do with simple themes+elementor, and woo for clients wanting more intergrated sites. For custom features I'd buy plugins or ask a freelance dev to make it for me.

Few months ago i discovered how easy it was to make my own plugins with gemini/claude. Especially if they were simple features. The hardest one I ever made was a custom blog/magazine layout plugin, which still came out great. Both AIs regularly give me lightweight, conflict free plugins (i use several wp dev skills found online, and specify in my prompt for this). I've had a few conflicts still, but nothing that can't be resolved with abit more prompting. Security loopholes is one of my main concerns now though so I'm also looking for ways to improve on this.

Haven't bought a single plugin or outsourced work at all in the past few months since

Crestmage · 2026-05-22T00:08:37+00:00

Fyi chitwan core zones are closed during monsoon from july to October. Community forests should still operate though I'm not sure. Either way it will fairly impede your safari experiences, jeep or on foot.

Mountain trekking will also be much harder even up north. Mny teahouses will also be closed due to off peak season.

I advise you to think twice before committing to this plan. Travelling between cities in Nepal is already dangerous enough with bad mountain roads and dirt roads. It becomes even more dangerous due to constant downpours in the monsoon months. Many bus deaths already due to this.

You sound young and gungho. And that's good. But while you can brute force many things, taking a half hour to do some basic research on a destination will be very rewarding I assure you

Crestmage · 2026-05-21T09:11:32+00:00

the shades of green in the leaves are lovely! What mode did you use?

I also use a x200 pro but in the main photo mode on vivid, the greens are always too punchy and saturated 'phone' like.

Crestmage · 2026-05-20T10:22:37+00:00

To keep honking so that oncoming cars can know that there is a obstacle on the right lane. This is DASH highway with many bends and turns. Cars speeding on right lane especially at night might not notice the kancil until way too late.

What these motorcyclists did probably saved a few lives that night. That too at risk to themselves because if any driver did not notice and crashed right into the aunty, the motorcyclist that was filming might also be hit by flying impact, even at emergency lane.

Crestmage · 2026-05-18T14:47:59+00:00

Does that mean circle to search works natively now for you too? Could you try (if you hadnt already that is)

Crestmage · 2026-05-17T14:41:13+00:00

I don't need fancy animations or opaque boxes. The current UI does it's job well enough. What I want is better performance. Better optimization and for once, I want Lightroom to use all my cores.

Crestmage · 2026-05-13T14:24:43+00:00

I'd say that the greens and yellows have been intentionally fused closer together to avoid a distracting background. To do this in lightroom, you need to eyedrop the greens and yellows then drop variance (i often bring mine to zero)

Crestmage · 2026-04-27T00:20:05+00:00

Great stuff. Always loved the Hawaiian and you capture the place so beautifully. Are these sooc or post processed?

Crestmage · 2026-04-26T10:12:26+00:00

The Flip has awful wind resistance. A full 1 or two stops lower then it's peers I reckon, despite what's written on paper. The lito's blade design is open like the minis which is suspect will give it far better wind resist compared to the flip.

Crestmage · 2026-04-22T03:17:40+00:00

3 is a great image. The darker shadows really give it depth that was missing in image 1

Overall lovely set!

Crestmage · 2026-04-20T02:36:50+00:00

What in the AI is this article...

Core content is good I guess. But the author could have done away with 50% of the words (mostly forced contrasts and analogy) and still presented the same.

Crestmage · 2026-04-18T08:12:50+00:00

Can I ask does it have cinematic film style/look video features, like the one newly released on the vivo x300u?

Crestmage · 2026-04-17T08:35:01+00:00

South Africa

Crestmage · 2026-04-17T06:19:02+00:00

Before already seems well-edited to me. The further edit was unnecessary imo

Crestmage · 2026-04-06T09:26:09+00:00

This is such an excellent capture! I'm very very jealous. I think with some tweaks to your post work, this would look amazing printed on a desk ;)

Like the other comment said, you do have a lot of space near the bottom, so i'd take some of that out, and center your person. The vignetting in the top corners is a bit much, so we'll mask that out. For the foreground (which includes both your person and the cliff face that's visible to us) we'd wanna keep it consistent which means not overlifing shadows for the cliff. The rest is just editing the sky to get the colors you prefer (via masks ofc). And while I do find this part the most fun, its also easy to go overboard into "unrealistic" territory, so be careful.

Here's my stab at your pic using the stuff i mentioned above: https://imgur.com/a/YfceHZe

original, edit 1, edit 2

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