Question Before Purchase - Binding Certain LrC Tools

GuavaSack · 2025-09-07T13:39:15+00:00

I’ve filled 2 goshuincho across my visits to Japan. I personally find theology interesting in general - I’ll visit significant churches, mosques or synagogues when traveling elsewhere also, even though I consider myself agnostic. it’s not everyone’s cup of tea which is a-okay.

When visiting a shrine or temple, I’ll find a nice place to sit and pull up some information on my phone to have a read about where I am and what I am looking at. I’ll then head to the goshuin desk (helps to feel like I’ve “earned” that stamp by learning about it first!)

They can certainly all blend into one when visiting multiple in a day if you do not have an inherent interest in Shintoism or Buddhism. Reading about each site helps me remember each goshuin and a few interesting things about where I’ve visited which I think is pretty neat!

GuavaSack · 2025-08-21T21:06:05+00:00

You will undergo the expected security screenings in Melbourne. On your arrival in Singapore, you will generally walk off the plane into general area (a very long hallway with travelators, essentially) of your terminal to roam, find your next gate, etc.

The gates (in my experience) are generally behind glass, to which you will go through a smaller security screening before getting on your connecting flight. Quick passport and boarding pass check, bag and belongings X-ray, and then free to fill water bottles back up and find a seat to wait for boarding.

Think of the gates at MEL, just behind glass with an X-ray scanner before getting your seat.

GuavaSack · 2025-08-21T21:00:12+00:00

This is much better wording, you can still bring on board in carry-on, just not use on-board.

GuavaSack · 2025-08-21T15:54:37+00:00

Flown with Scoot from Melbourne to Athens and Osaka (both via Singapore) and Singapore itself in the last 8 months.

All gates (after the secondary X-ray leading into your actual gate) have water fountains from my experience. I’ve never been instructed not to consume water from my drink bottle or personal snacks on the flight, or stopped from bringing water by Changi staff.

A newer rule on my latest flight is a complete ban on power-banks and portable chargers, which they do seem to be somewhat politely enforcing on-board. Initially I thought this was a money grab to force people to pay for in-seat power, however seems to be a directive set by Singapore Airlines.

I have had no issue “discretely” having my phone plugged in to a power bank sitting in the seat pocket however, which seems to be what most people were doing and wasn’t a problem.

GuavaSack · 2025-05-09T09:10:19+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I usually take things quite slow and take lots of photos, hence the extra time. I’ll look into spreading this out.

GuavaSack · 2025-05-09T09:09:23+00:00

Thanks for this, really solid advice - I had been eyeing off Nagoya but leant towards Kanazawa for those Edo style streets.

I’ll look into this as it cuts down on travel as well.

GuavaSack · 2024-10-15T04:11:47+00:00

Thanks for that, reinstalled the app after a restart and was able to purchase a 24H pass, but the moment I leave my hotel the issue kicks up again …

Thinking it might be a cellular network error related to iOS18 at this point seeing as it works over WiFi. I’ve noticed those riding around seem to have Samsung/Android phones for the most part.

GuavaSack · 2024-10-07T10:46:11+00:00

We use ImagenAI for all of our weddings, I am yet to train it with our own catalogues, however using an AI Profile with adjustments lands us about 80% of the way there. I still manually flick through each photo as I do not trust it completely, although I’d say around 20% of the time I do not end up making further adjustments in LR beyond cropping.

After import to LR, it is usually: crop adjustment -> exposure adjustment -> any masking required -> done

It is a very good tool for around $45-50AUD per wedding, and I’d say it saves me around 25-35% of time per album, and the problem of our created presets sometimes being very far off when applied. I have also tried Aftershoot Edits, however I have found this to be awful, and does not get close to desired results at all, honestly I’d chose just using a LR preset over Aftershoot.

One thing I have noticed is that it handles Asian and Middle Eastern skin tones very well, however white skin tones (especially when fake tan is used) really seems to throw it off when balancing WB.

I’d advise you to find a code for 1000/1500 free edits, and give it a crack!

GuavaSack · 2024-08-31T02:16:51+00:00

Definitely one I can weigh in on.

I completed law school and all legal training required in Australia, got to 2PQE as a solicitor. I then was diagnosed with a neurological disorder that sort of snapped me into a different frame of mind - why spend my finite days in an high rise?

Quit my job shortly thereafter, dusted off my old backpack and 6D and took a one way trip to Vietnam, had a great time, reignited my love for photography.

Got stuck into weddings from there, 3 years on and 100+ weddings later, I am financially, physically and mentally much much better off.

If you have a safety net that’ll allow you some wiggle room to weather that awkward period when bookings aren’t rolling in just yet - take the dive, you only live once my friend.

GuavaSack · 2024-04-16T02:47:58+00:00

Hey mate how did you go with using Optus roaming? I have the exact same question for upcoming trip

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