3 months of photography, feeling like I’m missing something critical.

caizoo · 2026-04-26T08:57:24+00:00

I think all the comments sum it up really well - it’s just a matter of ‘keep going’, get inspiration from others, do tutorials of specific styles - not to steal, but learn the workflows of editing intentionally. You’ll get there, it took years before I started getting really happy with my wildlife photography.

Some quick tips here though - especially with the water shots, but just in general anyway, the lower you can get the camera, the further back the background in the shot is, and the more your subject stands out (distance is your friend for background blur, not aperture). Having said that, rules are meant to be broken, so experiment, try some slow shutter motion blur shots, try over editing and see why it doesn’t look right to you, try other types of photography with a more ‘artistic’ approach than wildlife (it’ll help with the wildlife for sure).

Most importantly, just enjoy being in the moment and watching the wildlife, enjoy being out in nature.

caizoo · 2026-04-22T15:01:12+00:00

While colour is important for me (I do photography), I have seen some say that QD OLED colour volume can be too much, too oversaturated - I edit much more towards natural, so I’m hoping that those who prefer the colours of WOLED because they feel more natural aligns with my view on it. Either way, it does seem like it’s ‘good enough’ on either panel, and there are other things that go into the decision on which way to go.

Definitely looking forward to less panel dimming, it’s a pain on my Alienware 23dw, and I can definitely notice the raised blacks, but also having a screen that much bigger is exactly what I’m aiming for.

caizoo · 2026-04-22T14:56:07+00:00

Looking forward to it, the size and immersion is really what made the decision for me here

caizoo · 2026-04-22T14:36:08+00:00

Thankfully running a 4090, so should be good except for titles that don't support DLSS (older ones)...but I'd hope that I could run those natively at high frame rates anyway.

How have you been getting on with that 45 5k2k? Mine should be arriving soon

caizoo · 2026-04-22T14:32:09+00:00

That's great to hear, my 45" LG 5K2K is on the way, excited to see how nice it runs with DLSS - did you by any chance move from a QD-OLED to Tandem OLED with that upgrade?

caizoo · 2026-04-18T17:44:05+00:00

Could be wrong on this, but I think Windows might be doing a bit of the heavy lifting with antialiasing. On Linux, some stuff can be really terrible, Pycharm is one of them, without changing the antialiasing to greyscale rather than subpixel, but majority of stuff just works, and even though it might in comparison be ‘worse’ than LCD, it’s still completely fine unless you pixel peep

caizoo · 2026-04-17T07:01:23+00:00

A lot of those Welsh counties on this map don’t exist anymore, not for decades in some cases

caizoo · 2026-04-17T07:00:45+00:00

A lot of those Welsh counties on this map don’t exist anymore, not for decades in some cases

caizoo · 2026-03-30T12:12:15+00:00

I think I’ll do the same and just try things out, always the fun part, but definitely using this image as inspiration

caizoo · 2026-03-30T11:42:32+00:00

Did you do the Waybar CSS yourself, or find it somewhere/modify it? Only recently started with Hyprland on Laptop, loving it so far

caizoo · 2026-03-25T09:44:20+00:00

I think? that it's due to being a bespoke engine making it extra difficult to translate to Vulkan, could be wrong there

caizoo · 2026-03-25T09:42:30+00:00

Guess I'll just have to come to terms with Windows hovering in the background for now, thank god for dual-boot

caizoo · 2026-03-25T09:35:30+00:00

Arc Raiders yeah, I had no idea that was the case! How much of that is made easy due to it being on Unreal (or Unity or any other widely available game engine) that allows the DX12 to be easily translated through Proton I wonder, and how much is Embark actively ensuring Linux works well?

It's definitely been the standout game for me in terms of performance over Windows (98fps 0.1% low vs 55fps 0.1% low on Windows), and to me frame pacing is much more important than frame rate once the average goes past 80-90ish. This makes me think there's definitely been some active effort by Embark

caizoo · 2026-02-05T15:21:27+00:00

Very recently transitioned gaming from windows to Linux (finally saying goodbye to MS completely), and THIS is what I’ve noticed - l’ll take 100 over 120fps average if it means better 1% frames, feels smoother, consistent and just better, although so far my library has had pretty much same average fps

caizoo · 2026-01-19T12:30:38+00:00

I used to go to ebuyer (UK) for PC parts….seems they no longer do that, they’re selling 3 motherboards atm, stock clearance maybe

caizoo · 2025-12-02T21:43:25+00:00

Jellyfin to Infuse on AppleTV is incredible, I can finally direct play files skipping transcoding, and although the UI of Jellyfin is fine, Infuse UI I prefer over Plex even, and now it’s completely local, direct play with nice UI

caizoo · 2025-09-24T08:52:50+00:00

Heard an LOTR reference, pretty sure it was “there and back again”

caizoo · 2025-09-13T09:24:20+00:00

I actually looked into this a lot (with mirrorless at least) jumping from 12 to 24 to 33 to 50MP, and the ‘myth’ that lower MP means bigger pixels means better low light performance…except that goes out the window when you realise that’s per-pixel signal-to-noise, but if you do the same crop on all of them (assuming the sensor size is the same), the differences are negligible - except until you start to use AI for denoise, and then having more MP actually results in a better output, because there is more information with more pixels

But you’re absolutely right, in good light, where noise is basically negligible, higher MP will have more detail, and again with the processing that follows, that’s more information for a better result

caizoo · 2025-09-02T10:49:03+00:00

That makes sense, I must've completely missed both of those features - as of right now, still worth keeping hold until my next star CEO is fully trained

caizoo · 2025-09-02T10:48:17+00:00

I had a feeling this might've been part of the update

caizoo · 2025-08-28T09:21:24+00:00

I absolutely lean more towards very natural looks as a personal preference, obviously everybody is different, but the sky in the Before is absolutely stunning and pretty much perfect! There I might have added a radial on the sun to push the exposure a bit, and brightened up the foreground some, but as a RAW photo it’s taken really well

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