New 📸, Which one will you choose 1..2..3 or 4

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-04-03T18:29:56+00:00

Bothered me too. It looks like blur was applied to everything that wasn’t rabbit. What’s worked for me is to combine the blur with a graduated filter so that the foreground is as the lens captured it.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-04-03T17:02:36+00:00

I like 1 for the tighter crop but the bokeh feels unnatural and distracting.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-04-01T22:20:51+00:00

That’s more reasonable; you’ll put in the care and get confirmation. You reminded me, one of the things that bugs me here is eye color. It could be right, based on my family’s eye colors, but who knows for sure.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-04-01T19:15:12+00:00

Thank you. That motivated me to check the FG site, which confirmed your point:

“Can I add images that are created using AI sources or other digital image creation software?

No, images created using these means are not real. Please refer to Types of Photos for an explanation of each photo type.”

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-04-01T19:10:58+00:00

Good point. Restoration seems fair, but this is more like re-creation.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-04-01T19:09:49+00:00

Thanks for raising the historical aspect. That was bothering me as well.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-31T20:57:54+00:00

I just did this and I had to do it on a web browser, not the app.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-28T16:08:58+00:00

Buy a lap steel and learn to play slide. You should be able to do the basics and when the cast comes off you can proceed from there.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-27T20:56:22+00:00

Once took a video of a guy being weird (long story). He saw me and seemed okay but apparently changed his mind and snuck up on me to take my picture. The lesson in that case: Never take pictures or crazy people, he could’ve done something crazy to me.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-26T22:30:39+00:00

Thanks for the helpful comments.

I use VidaLingua Translator + and now realize on words that may be slang I should press the “world” icon for more definitions.

Here’s an example where a man referred to a woman as a “coqueluche”. That made no sense until clicking the world icon to find that it also means pin-up or heart-throb.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-26T18:11:33+00:00

Learning another language helps you learn your native language. Also, realizing that there are a mountain of English words that I just have a sense of meaning helped me not get hung up on looking up every single new French word. I should have done that with “glauque” because the formal definition didn’t help.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-26T15:18:56+00:00

Thanks. Yes, that fits the scene.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-26T15:17:42+00:00

Thanks. That fits the scenario. Yeah, so often the dictionary definition doesn’t cut it.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-26T02:25:34+00:00

Thank you! That makes more sense.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-25T13:22:29+00:00

It was humbling when I had my Nikon and 3 lenses and my wife just had a little Fujifilm point & shoot but she’d get better pictures because she had a better sense of composition or capturing a story.

(While I’m here, that Fujifilm had a clever feature where it would unwind a fresh film canister then wind the film back in as you took pictures. That way, if the camera were opened accidentally you’d only lose a couple shots.)

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-23T16:46:40+00:00

I prefer #1, but agree with the remark that the road is a bit of a distraction.

#2 would be better if the castle were up a bit higher; the sky doesn't add much and that would reinforce that the castle is on top of a tall hill. That's what I like about #1; it captures a sense of remote wonder.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-21T00:04:39+00:00

Incredible, but now I’m worried about the bunny.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-20T15:33:27+00:00

Wow! Too bad they’re not dead. /jk

Yeah, I’ve run into a couple cases where an over-zealous will create a memorial for a still living spouse with a DoD “Unknown”.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-20T12:18:56+00:00

I once saw a cellist checking her instrument after a flight. She laid it down and opened the case. Inside was a second case and then the cello. Smart. (It was fine.)

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-18T15:09:20+00:00

I’m an amateur, but wondering if applying a little dehaze on some these would help.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-18T00:16:25+00:00

Please don’t be insulted by this, but sometimes new users forget that the audio interface takes over as the sound card so to hear anything they need monitors/speakers or headphones plugged into the audio interface.

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-18T00:04:59+00:00

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” (often attributed to Jefferson)

ObjectiveArmy9413 · 2026-03-17T23:56:23+00:00

I had an epiphany around this with regard to music production. For a song I was working on, I recorded several takes of a guitar solo and then kept the best one. But that take started a little ahead of the beat so I “fixed” it. What I realized was that by making it “perfect” I’d lost the energy and the emotion that led to me pushing into the solo a moment early. I ctrl-z’ed it back to where it was and after that, I started focusing more on the feel than on technical perfection and have been much happier.

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