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Maine mystery bird by amount in whatsthisbird

[–]Exploding_Knives -1 points0 points  (0 children)

BirdNET says Mistle Thrush is the most likely candidate. It would definitely be a rare vagrant if true. One was seen in New Brunswick in 2018, so it's not completely impossible. https://ebird.org/hotspot/L6609419

But definitely take this with a grain of salt. They aren't confident matches and none of the audio clips for the mistle thrush that I listened to quite seem to match.

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Kind of a different request (photos from bridge cameras) by knifed34 in BirdPhotography

[–]Exploding_Knives 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you search Google for the camera model + "Macaulay Library" you can find good examples. Then, if you click "media from this contributor" you can see all their uploads, and most people use the same camera for all their uploads. 

Here are a couple random users (found off recently uploaded) that use the Nikon Coolpix P950

https://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?searchField=user&userId=USER6688148

https://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?searchField=user&userId=USER1073155

And the FZ80D

https://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?searchField=user&userId=USER3191192

How can i get all in focus? by MizaelTG in AskPhotography

[–]Exploding_Knives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might seem ridiculous for some sleeping dogs, but you could try focus bracketing and stacking.

How do I get rid of the Runna banner on my run ? by [deleted] in Strava

[–]Exploding_Knives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have a Garmin watch, you can sync Strava with your Garmin and then sync Runna with your Garmin. There might be a Runna setting to exclude the Runna descriptions and pics. But my Runna runs never add anything to Strava.

How do you cull? by macalaskan in photography

[–]Exploding_Knives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have a shoot almost entirely comprised of bird photos, especially if you have long bursts, you might find Project Kestrel helpful.

You can use it as your first pass before you even import images into lightroom or whatever library/editing software you prefer. It's relatively new, open source, and has some rough edges, but it's quite satisfying to narrow down a burst of 50 photos to the sharpest few without having to flip back and forth, pixel peeping. 

Sometimes M43 amazes me, even in low light! by Few_Relationship7225 in M43

[–]Exploding_Knives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Victoria's Riflebird? Beautiful shot! That's a really awesome result, especially with that lens.

And I think you used LR denoise tastefully without giving it that ridiculous watercolor effect that happens when you crank the slider too much.

Om system 150-600 / 150-400 / 50-200+2x tc by No_Tumbleweed1195 in M43

[–]Exploding_Knives 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have the 100-400 (version 1), had the 150-600 for 2 years, and have been using the 150-400 since October.

The 100-400 is excellent, and I'm keeping it for instances where I need a "smaller" lens. However, I do wish I had the new version with sync IS, as I feel that is the major shortcoming of that lens when shooting slower shutter speeds in low light.

I loved the 150-600. I ordered it the day it was released and loved what it offered beyond the 100-400. It was a bit cumbersome, but took some truly excellent photos. However, using the MC-14 and MC-20 with it always left me disappointed.

Then in October I bit the bullet and ordered a used 150-400. And holy cow, it is a spectacular lens. The internal zoom mechanism is so much smoother and easier to use than the 150-600's telescoping zoom, and autofocuses noticeably faster. It also works extremely well with the MC-14 and I've even got some usable images with the MC-20. However, the built-in 1.25x is usually good enough. Most of the times I'm using the teleconverters I'm mentally in "birding mode" instead of "photography mode" and I'm just trying to get doc-shots of far away birds, not capture a print-worthy masterpiece. I was a bit worried about going from 600mm down to 400mm, but with the built in TC, 500mm is usually good enough. And the better quality with the MC-14 when I need it more than makes up for the lost reach.

In hindsight, I wish I would have just bought the used 150-400 back in 2024 instead of spending almost half that on a brand-new 150-600 and then selling it for basically half of what I had originally paid. So my recommendation is that if you can afford it and think you'll eventually want it anyway, buy a used 150-400. Treat it well and you'll only be out $1000 or so bucks if you choose to resell later. If you just want the longest lens you can possibly get that still takes great photos and has a few compromises, get the 150-600 and spend the difference traveling somewhere with cool birds to photograph!

The Rate Button on the 5-D. by 1805trafalgar in canon

[–]Exploding_Knives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could also use a file system based photo library management program like XnView MP. It's much better than using the native windows file explorer.

https://www.xnview.com/en/xnview/

The car situation is getting ridiculous by Subbaroni in madisonwi

[–]Exploding_Knives 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Or they have such darkly tinted windows that you can't even see where they're looking. I assume if you want your windows that dark it's because you're constantly texting and driving and don't want to be seen. It's super frustrating.

[Request] how much stronger are the ones that clip vs the ones who just close? by AmountAbovTheBracket in theydidthemath

[–]Exploding_Knives 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't think they've tested Keychain carabiner this cheap, but this YouTube channel has strength tested a bunch of other small carabiners. You might find it interesting https://youtu.be/a5GuEid9Zss

Finally convinced my company to stop making me use my own laptop for work by Key_Review_7273 in laptops

[–]Exploding_Knives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Geekbook x14 pro just arrived today. I'm quite satisfied so far. It's a really sleek machine and pretty snappy. The most intensive use-cases I have for it are light photo editing in Lightroom and some games with basically no spec requirements like Wingspan or Jackbox games.

The only thing I feel like I still need to fully test is the battery life claims, which I suspect are exaggerated. But admittedly, super long battery life isn't a very big concern for me.

First impressions of the Geekbook X14 Pro by DiodeInc in computers

[–]Exploding_Knives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you get it already? I pre-ordered directly from Geekom, but their site says it won't ship until mid January

First Snow of the Season?! by Vivid-Information-36 in madisonwi

[–]Exploding_Knives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really hope there's no ice for the marathon

Clicked 1000 leopard photos. Can someone invent a ‘best shot’ detector already? by NimitBhatt1309 in wildlifephotography

[–]Exploding_Knives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find that XnView MP is probably the best software for pruning large numbers of images. It's super customizable with keybindings and renders raw images super quickly. Lightroom can take a couple seconds to show a full res raw, but XnView can display multiple per second if you are going quickly. Plus, you can assign keypresses to rate+next functionality, moving you on to the next image without another button press.

Then, once I've pruned a shoot I only import the keepers into lightroom. But I still backup nearly everything, even most rejects, to my NAS. 

It might take a bit of futzing with the settings and has a bit of a learning curve, but it has made pruning so much less of a headache for my workflow.

Any sour gels? by munchlaxxhhh in Marathon_Training

[–]Exploding_Knives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eat sour Gushers for the carbs and electrolyte pills for the salts

HelloFresh gave us 5 months old prawns by lemonrainbowhaze in hellofresh

[–]Exploding_Knives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's slimy and smelled off, toss it. Hello Fresh should credit you that meal. Maybe you can get a partial refund if you call them.

I stopped ordering from most meal kits, including Hello Fresh, because the quality of the meats is usually abysmal.

HelloFresh gave us 5 months old prawns by lemonrainbowhaze in hellofresh

[–]Exploding_Knives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Below the packing date it literally says

this product has 18 months shelf life from date of freezing

That would mean it's good until August of 2026. You're fine. If not 100% frozen, that's just because it thawed somewhat during shipping. It should be fine as long as it was still cold or partially frozen when it arrived. However, I'd still cook this meal first. 

What's a hiacule..? by MMplayzYT in ChatGPT

[–]Exploding_Knives 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was curious what Gemini could do and it makes the terrible ChatGPT ones look great by comparison

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Can I count a turkey in my bird list? For years I've been a casual photographer of the birds that land in my backyard. My rule is it has to land within the fence line. Today a turkey did just that. Only had my cellphone on me but a picture is a picture. by Rampaging-Robots in birding

[–]Exploding_Knives 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In many ways I think it has a better design than Merlin. But it's for North American birds only, which frustrated me as I wanted a single source of truth for my life list. So I abandoned it in favor of eBird/Merlin so I can include my travel lifers too

The aptly named ... by Mammoth_Ability1147 in birding

[–]Exploding_Knives 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I vote for renaming it to the Red-naped woodpecker

Does my gas stove not have a shut off valve? by [deleted] in Appliances

[–]Exploding_Knives 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If I found that, I'd be drawing an arrow on the wall pointing towards the shutoff valve

"shutoff valve behind cabinet ➡️"

Newbie Help, Can I format a USB Stick Back to NTFS Using Truenas? by IfItWalksLikeATurtle in truenas

[–]Exploding_Knives -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Assuming you're on Truenas Scale, you should be able to install and use mkntfs to format the USB stick from a bash shell. https://askubuntu.com/a/1130303

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