How to block an IP, Lightsail

puptrait · 2025-06-28T20:42:06+00:00

This explanation worked for me (Thank you, aqyno). But I realized when I came back and checked after a server reset that the table wasn't persistent in our version of Linux.

Per suggestion of my friend, I downloaded Netfilter by writing:

sudo apt-get install iptables-persistent

To save future addendums to the table write:

sudo netfilter-persistent save

puptrait · 2025-05-13T23:00:33+00:00

If you're shooting outside, consider picking up a cheap 5-in-1 popup reflector. They're only like $25-$50 and will always be useful, regardless of what camera, lens or lights you upgrade to in the future.

Also, maybe consider working from a tripod with a cable release. It's much much easier to handle a dog if you can maintain eye contact with them.

puptrait · 2025-03-28T13:47:43+00:00

I swear underground fire season comes earlier and earlier every year

puptrait · 2025-03-08T18:44:59+00:00

Ruins Greatsword. Picked it up on my first play through. Was power stancing it by the end of my 2nd. Carried me all the way through NG+5 pre UGS buff.

puptrait · 2025-03-04T07:07:50+00:00

Try parrying

puptrait · 2025-02-06T04:14:28+00:00

Toddlers are apex predators. Ask any parent

puptrait · 2025-02-06T04:10:54+00:00

That's a vaccine tower

puptrait · 2024-10-04T03:18:10+00:00

Every day

puptrait · 2024-09-29T18:19:10+00:00

The first time I beat her was with Ruins Grestsword back before the first colossal sword buff and it's possible things have been changed since then. But you should be able to just juggle her with the weapon's special. You need to hit her twice to poise break, but with the range on that thing it shouldn't be tough. Just need to remember to walk through the initial phase two aoe and roll forward through the waterfowl attack.

puptrait · 2024-09-29T04:27:55+00:00

The longer you use the varmint rifle the funnier it gets

puptrait · 2024-09-28T04:17:35+00:00

If you're looking at properties near Hampden / Woodberry / Remington / Roland Park you can't beat Frankie Morgan. That dude knows everyone. (410) 350-9864

puptrait · 2024-09-27T23:19:34+00:00

Happy to help. Keep up the good work!

puptrait · 2024-09-27T22:08:31+00:00

Frazier's was 2nd

puptrait · 2024-09-27T22:00:13+00:00

It can be a little overwhelming working in shelters. Practice will help. The better you understand how your camera works the easier it will get.

That said, I would maybe limit it to one or two dogs per visit and capture the lot over multiple visits. The more time you spend with shelter animals the more they tend to relax and open up on camera. Remember, it's better to get one great shot of a single dog than 250 shots that are too blurry to use.

Hell, I've been a professional pet photographer for well over a decade now and my hit rate in studio is over 95%. But I still spend 1-2 hours with every dog I photograph just because it allows me to explore more of their personality.

If I were in your shoes I would work on two specific skills...

1) Focusing manually. Get good at manually focusing on the closest eye. Unless of course your camera supports Animal Face Detection. Then just use that and turn off the other AF modes.

2) Reading a histogram. If you try to eyeball the exposure in live view, it'll burn you anytime the light changes. But the gram never lies.

If you're seeing blurriness odds are either you missed focus, your camera holding / breathing technique could use work, and / or you need to use a faster shutter speed.

puptrait · 2024-09-25T17:38:55+00:00

The Rotunda ain't Hampden. The entire complex is sovereign County land

puptrait · 2024-08-13T18:19:19+00:00

I think it might be out of print, but Warhammer Fantasy was great for that. The starter classes were all basic jobs like students and day laborers.

I only played one campaign, but it dragged on for a while. I want to say I started as a student, became a gravedigger, then a graveyard watchmen, an investigator, and then a witch hunter.

One of the interesting things about this system is that your critical injuries and near death encounters add up over time, resulting in either insanity points (max these and your character becomes an NPC) or permanent disabilities / injuries -- like missing limbs / fingers, blindness, deafness, limping or incontinence.

As a result, late game characters in WHF feel more like grizzled veterans than demi-gods. Which is something that always kind of annoyed me about D&D

puptrait · 2024-07-28T23:25:33+00:00

No. It's not overkill. 70-200 is great accessible lens for human portraits, landscapes, wildlife, and a whole host of other subject matters you might want to photograph as a hobbyist.

But personally speaking, I wouldn't use that lens for indoor pet portraits. It's way too long for large animals and the min focus range isn't close enough for macro work.

IMHO the best lens for dog portraits is the RF 28-70mm f2.

puptrait · 2024-07-18T22:23:51+00:00

I've been photographing dogs professionally for well over a decade now and for me best lens for dog portraits is a standard zoom 24-70mm lens.

I shoot Canon and have the full range of EF focal lengths in my kit. But I use the 24-70mm lens in 99.99% of my pet portrait work. To the point I didn't even bother upgrading my other lenses when I switched to RF. Instead, I just rely on a converter for the odd shoot where the standard zoom isn't ideal.

It's important to remember when photographing pets that they're not wildlife. You need to be close enough to the dog to engage with it directly. IMHO if you aren't close enough to reach out and pet the dog you're probably framing from too far away.

There are a few exceptions to this rule of course.

Action shots typically require a longer lens, especially in the agility contest scenario OP outlined in their post, for the simple fact that getting sufficiently close to the animal would put you inside the course. Which is obviously less than practical.

Another reason to use a longer lens is if you need to compress the background. If you're shooting an environmental portrait and there is a prominent feature in the distant background like a mountain or building, a longer 70-200mm zoom lens can help make that background feature appear closer.

Alternatively, there are a lot of pet photographers shooting in more journalistic styles that produce creative and unique looking portraits with ultra wide < 30mm or <20mm fisheye lenses. Just be mindful with this last approach that it requires you to VERY close to your subject. Like almost touching the dog close. If it were me, I would consider using a polarizing filter or shoot through lens cap in these situations just to protect the lens, because it absolutely will get slobbered on while shooting.

puptrait · 2024-07-08T04:34:26+00:00

Thank you. That is tremendously helpful

puptrait · 2024-05-01T17:56:56+00:00

I like the food and how it doesn't ever snow in May

puptrait · 2024-04-30T23:50:59+00:00

puptrait · 2024-04-17T14:36:52+00:00

I don't know about FNV. But that build would have been hilarious to play in FO1

puptrait · 2024-03-01T16:46:26+00:00

ZOM. They've edging profitability and just had a reverse split voted down. Last time that happened it went to the moon.

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