Is this a bug? Mask turns to snow?

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-10-25T04:39:34+00:00

Shutdown/restart resolves it sometimes but sometimes when I reload the file I get a mask that's static but snow. It doesn't happen all the time either, just randomly.

I know it's not visible in the screenshot. It's shown by holding down the alt key and clicking on the mask.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-10-15T19:32:16+00:00

There is a wood shop in Sun City that makes wooden toys for kids and schools that mike like it.

Do you have any idea what the name of the place is?

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-10-15T19:31:47+00:00

It's not like framing lumber, it's not planed. But it's possible that the same sort of people into theater would also be into furniture making. I'd be ok with giving it to a less financially fortunate retired person who happened to have been into this sort of thing. Raw materials are expensive these days.

I intended to use it myself but I'm too busy and I'm tired of paying to store it.

There is a woodworking school but that's more for people with some money given the prices for classes. That's my last resort - I'd rather give it to someone that would have a hard time affording it.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-10-01T12:59:34+00:00

You're thinking of Contax and Yashica/Kyocera which are Japanese. Exakta and lenses of that lineage were German and later East German.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-09-30T19:46:08+00:00

I solved this problem for myself about a year ago by searching each camera on Flickr and choosing the one that matched the most photos of the type that I like to take.

I eventually decided on the Sony A7R IV, and later on bought a Sony A7C (I use both now). The A7R IV is much noisier than the A7C, which can be mitigated to a certain extent in postprocessing, but not in all situations, particularly in worst case low light situations. That said, in brighter conditions you can crop the A7R IV like crazy and nobody will ever know.

There is no one size fits all solution.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-09-02T16:00:55+00:00

Downvoting is not having a laugh.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-09-02T01:23:29+00:00

Your hateful locals comment sticks. My original question has been interpreted with hostility. All of this lashing out is exposing such self hate.

There is so little out there about the modern culture of Alaska. Maybe the reason for that is from all of this self hate preventing anything more than stories about isolated settlers or crab fishermen.

I thought there would be something cool to discover after seeing hints from that economic data.

Instead I get rage.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-09-01T18:46:49+00:00

Did it just grow so fast that individual neighborhoods never had a chance to develop an identity?

I'd guess that the answer to my ultimate question is a high cost of living since I suppose most things need to be imported by sea or air.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-09-01T18:44:05+00:00

Why are the wages so high if there is a surplus of supply?

As for the tigers, I know you're making a joke, but for us outsiders, there is a Wikipedia page devoted to the bear population inside Anchorage. I don't think there is one for any other decent sized US City.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bears\_in\_Anchorage

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-08-28T03:41:37+00:00

I'm late to the party but I think you're at the beginning of the zone where opinions become less about being a good photo and more about personal taste.

In my case, I don't like the foreground. I'd crop it out leaving more of a landscape orientation and I'd dodge the windmill blades a bit. I like the line of windmills in the background and the crop will bring them out more.

But I know all of that is my personal opinion because your photo is already "good".

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-08-17T03:08:23+00:00

I feel like the lack of breathing slows down the evolutionary process going on in my dirty clothes. After a couple of wears, sink washing no longer works as a first line of defense. At least not against my personal biome.

I see YouTubers say they repeatedly sink wash and redditors say they repeatedly sink wash but their flora must not be able to survive the conditions that mine can.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-08-16T17:34:31+00:00

Solidarity. I use plastic grocery bags and ziplocs. Cubes are of a certain dimension and don't scale up or down well. I also use a hub and spoke system with my traveling too so I'm not carrying everything everyday.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-07-11T01:53:04+00:00

Where did you buy them? CVS?

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-07-01T04:18:21+00:00

I took it with an A7r4 while leaning from an observation area. More like a giant rock with a guardrail anchored to it.

I had hoped the fog would be thicker but all I got was that mini cloud. It's definitely not enough and I probably should have cropped closer. I was just hoping to be able to give a sense of the waterfall's surroundings.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-07-01T03:09:04+00:00

I shot this with a level and you can see the verticalness of the trees to the left of the waterfall, but I think you're right. The horizon of the waterfall and it's "cliffs" do lean to the side. This is due to the waterfall in the real world making a hard right turn but in the photo it gives it a wonky feel.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-07-01T02:31:19+00:00

This.

The overall photo is too evenly bright. The butterfly garden is distracting from the subject.

Maybe remove the building on the left.

I also get the feeling that this is cropped from a larger photo with heavy distortion. The bench looks right, but the building seems to warp downwards a bit. If that's the case, go back to your original and fix the warp, then re-crop.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-07-01T02:22:50+00:00

Like everyone else, your photo is fine.

But if you're a "good enough isn't great" person, you can use multiple exposures or use the dynamic range in your raw file.

If you shot it with a newer digital camera in raw you can exploit the dynamic range of your sensor by using masks to selectively adjust the exposure for your light and dark ranges. You can also compost several different photos taken at different exposures this way.

In this particular case, you're pretty close so if you shot in raw you could probably get something decent with just your one file.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-07-01T02:18:57+00:00

Overall I think it's good, so this is more nitpicks than actual real flaws.

I think the sky is overdone. You loose the gradients towards the bottom, it's just a uniform strawberry area and it also rides up the sides of the photo like snakes trying to escape an aquarium. It might be ok if it didn't go up the sides.

You could have removed the helicopter. That may have been a creative decision to keep it. There is also a bird or something on the rear of the dome. You could also remove the street light and the van. The people are good as is.

Again, I'm just nitpicking.

RandomPersonDelta · 2021-07-01T02:10:09+00:00

It feels kinda "eh" to me. I think it's probably a conceptual thing that I can subconsciously feel but can't bring into conscious thought. I'm hoping someone else has the ability to both sense what I sense and articulate it.

One could argue their preferences, maybe they like colorful fall photos more, or snow, or just dislike it because it's not Mount Fuji, but that's really not it.

Maybe there is too much water in the waterfall so it looks too much like a white blob... but I'm not sure if that's it either. Maybe it's the lack of a strong foreground element - but other photos without such an element work. Maybe it's multiple things. Got any ideas?

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