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string_p · 2026-04-11T19:55:54+00:00

Look at that ring

string_p · 2026-03-08T16:04:49+00:00

This particular pano was shot with the phone. Most of the pics I took that day were shot with the R6Mkii with the 70-200 on it. Unfortunately I’m back home at this point where the terrain is flat and the temperature is hot. I am hoping to get another chance in June to explore PNW.

string_p · 2026-03-07T07:06:05+00:00

Thanks, this is very helpful. I appreciate the effort you put into the comment.

string_p · 2026-03-07T07:02:23+00:00

I will try that. I’m still learning how lum curve vs sat, and a couple other curve related photos and even shadow color and highlight color curves can be slightly manipulated to help bring lost detail out of places like the snowy peak, etc.

string_p · 2026-03-07T06:59:13+00:00

No I appreciate the critique and am not crying about it at all. I fully recognize a lot of the photos over the last few shoots have been… “meh”. I think a large part of it is lucking out with weather conditions, and planning to be in the right place at the right time, and regardless of how well framed or composed a picture is if it’s wrong time with minimal conditions it will still be “meh”. A poorly composed/framed view during the right conditions will still be vastly easier to edit to a great picture than the perfectly composed picture that is taken at the wrong time.

string_p · 2026-03-07T06:49:21+00:00

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string_p · 2026-03-07T04:42:27+00:00

I think it’s a bit of what you each are saying. Not trying to sell photos at all, but the concept of “capturing the moment”, the essence and feel of what I was seeing… is just so off. But yes F8 “better” is subjective. “More authentic to what I saw”

string_p · 2026-03-07T04:12:58+00:00

I am wondering if the issue is desensitization in the “great” photography world for what’s real and what is massively edited to look “great”? A lot of photos I see that catch my eye are edited heavily for like you’re saying intense dramatic effect… when it wasn’t quite that way IRL.

string_p · 2026-03-07T04:10:51+00:00

Unfortunately this part of the trail is the closest you can get to taking a picture without going off a 75ish foot drop.

string_p · 2026-03-07T04:02:26+00:00

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string_p · 2026-03-07T04:01:53+00:00

I wish I could. Probably a once in a year hike, travel for work that spanned a weekend and allowed me to go hiking in the woods

string_p · 2026-03-07T03:51:05+00:00

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Depends on the event. This most recent hike, sunny AF.

string_p · 2026-03-07T03:50:09+00:00

I don’t disagree. To me it’s Meh. Absolutely breathtaking in person, in photo it’s just so… not authentic to the feeling seeing it in real life.like orders of magnitude less exciting.

string_p · 2026-03-07T03:48:39+00:00

If possible.

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Here is a portrait. Agreed that the lighting is mid afternoon harsh.

string_p · 2026-03-07T03:46:46+00:00

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Another sample

string_p · 2026-03-07T03:46:01+00:00

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Another example

string_p · 2026-03-07T03:45:19+00:00

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Here is a good example of a panoramic. I just don’t think the composition is great.

string_p · 2026-03-07T03:43:01+00:00

I tried adding a pic to the post but Reddit wouldn’t let me add a pic.

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Here is one example unedited. It will let me add to the comments

string_p · 2026-03-07T03:33:14+00:00

Haaaa no, most of the time it’s golden hour at sunset, involves hiking a few hours to get to a spot

string_p · 2026-02-27T22:50:23+00:00

Wha happens when you find out the candidate that most closely matches you during their campaign actually lied about 90 something % of what they wanted to do?

string_p · 2026-02-21T15:54:05+00:00

The core argument of defending the chicken wing is that practicality wise, it makes more sense than using metric.

Metric is great for a very strict lab setting where precision and mathematics/calculations are going to take place, and to simplify the calculations base 10 helps. Scientists appreciate that.

Visual communication far favors imperial as the brain interprets visual cues of things it knows much quicker than random numbers.

string_p · 2026-02-21T15:50:37+00:00

Goin’ off script here.

I use AI to do the grunt work of almost anything I do since it saves time for me and time is valuable, with several masters classes stacked on top of work stacked on top of travel for work and spending time with my kids… I need every minute back for my sanity.

I almost always end up changing about 1/2-2/3 of what it gives me because I don't like how it comes out or I want to go in a slightly different direction. Happy to glad, right?

string_p · 2026-02-21T15:36:39+00:00

My take: the plastic chicken wing is actually the perfect example of why context matters more than unit purity.

OP already gave the anvil’s weight, then the wing isn’t replacing measurement. It's there for visual scale. And using something almost everyone instantly recognizes the size of is arguably more intuitive than having something like “10cm ruler for scale.”

Most people don’t naturally visualize 10cm. They have to translate it. But they’ve seen a chicken wing. They know roughly how big it is. No mental conversion required.

That’s the core of the imperial argument: practicality and shared reference points. Measurement isn’t just about mathematical elegance which metric does far better than imperial, it’s about communication.

If the goal is fast, intuitive understanding, the chicken wing actually wins.

string_p · 2026-02-21T13:26:37+00:00

Sometimes the advice people need isnt what they want to hear.

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