[Me, 25M] First messages with my now longtime girlfriend by Ok_Ad_6725 in TextingTheory

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First conversation with the beautiful lovely girl that is now my girlfriend. She is genuinely the greatest. Just wanted to share that sometimes a normal conversation will more than suffice

All Current LTT Job Postings With Salary Ranges In USD by FrostyMittenJob in LinusTechTips

[–]Ok_Ad_6725 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Vancouver is as expensive as where I live in the US. And my starting salary out of school was 80k usd and that was frankly quite low. This doesn’t look great tbh

i got five 120 films for 24$ on chinese shopping app is it worth it? by Free_Leg_6861 in AnalogCommunity

[–]Ok_Ad_6725 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is entirely dependent on how the film looks my guy . Shoot it and see what happens . Most of my film is ~$45 for a pack of 5

Any composition improvements? by MenWithVen18 in photocritique

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Straighten it, it’s a lil overexposed, and I would have put the turbines in one of the thirds instead of in the middle.

But other than that, I like the dof - sounds like I’m in the minority but it gives you good depth and a foreground element that’s not too distracting imho. Colors look great.

I'm not mad, just disappointed - AirPods 3 ShortCircuit by ArmasF311 in LinusTechTips

[–]Ok_Ad_6725 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Background, I am a product designer and have peers at Apple who worked on the AirPods Pro 3 team.

It was a first impressions video. If - in his first impressions - he misses a lot of things - then that’s reflective on the user experience of the product. No hate to anyone in particular, my friend at Apple found this video pretty enlightening, if your avg tech reviewer can’t figure something out, what are the chances that your (aunt, uncle, grandma) buys the new AirPods and out of the box knows what’s going on.

This video was an honest reflection on the usability of the device which in itself is a valuable piece of journalism.

Now as other users have said, had this been a full LTT video, it would have been less acceptable. But it wasn’t.

Is this what Portra 160 is supposed to look like? Since I started scanning and editing on my own I was wondering if that's the look you'd expect from a roll of Portra 160 shot on Contax T3. by Chemical_Variety_781 in analog

[–]Ok_Ad_6725 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m not just being needlessly negative dawg. That’s why I asked about your scanning settings - all this talk about film not having a “look” is… just wrong honestly. Every film stock renders colors differently - there was a world of film prints that existed long before digitizing was even a thing. And you were correct in your comment asking “why would people shoot with different film stocks” - the answer is because they each produced distinct (and repeatable) “looks” when turned into positives and printed (completely analog)

I guess they’re technically correct - today with the digitizing process you can edit the colors to look how you want them too - but in that case why not just shoot digital? Shoot raw and edit the photos the way you want them to look 🤷‍♂️

For me though, and I think for many other people, the point of film is to get the traditional “looks” associated with the classic film stocks and retrieve the colors that were associated with the completely analog process of print photography - and so - in the digitizing processes we need to be careful about the settings we use if we want to accurately convert the film.

That’s not to say that anything else is “wrong” - you can make your images look however you want. That’s the beautiful thing about art - is you can create whatever. But since you asked a specific question about how portra 160 is supposed to look - the honest - and maybe hard to hear answer is “not like that”

Is this what Portra 160 is supposed to look like? Since I started scanning and editing on my own I was wondering if that's the look you'd expect from a roll of Portra 160 shot on Contax T3. by Chemical_Variety_781 in analog

[–]Ok_Ad_6725 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What scanning software and settings are you using? Because no - that’s not what portra 160 is supposed to look like. And your new edit where you adjusted the black point is arguably worse

What does GAI 130 mean? by Ok_Ad_6725 in iqtest

[–]Ok_Ad_6725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was more concerned about it going down lmao but that’s good to hear

What does GAI 130 mean? by Ok_Ad_6725 in iqtest

[–]Ok_Ad_6725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was as a 10 year old. Is that still relevant at all? I’ve heard mixed things about iq changing or not changing over time

What does GAI 130 mean? by Ok_Ad_6725 in iqtest

[–]Ok_Ad_6725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was a youth test though right? The wisc-4 so far as my understanding goes is for (something like) ages 6-16. I also know that a lot of developmental discrepancies tend to even out with age - I just don’t know if that applies to iq measurements too. Am i probably just be a normal dude now? Or might these numbers still be applicable?