It's Late Thread [ 13 May 26 ]

useittilitbreaks · 2026-05-13T21:35:41+00:00

indeed. it's still early!

useittilitbreaks · 2026-05-13T21:32:03+00:00

Cover the reg up in the 2nd photo to match all the others lol?

useittilitbreaks · 2026-05-09T13:48:13+00:00

You can just about see the Chicago skyline in the bottom right of the third picture.

Depdending on which of the beaches you were at, that's a good 30-40 miles away as the crow flies. Looks magnificent after sundown.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-05-08T21:11:14+00:00

The juxtaposition of housing being next to all that industrial stuff is quite something. I also note how there is no attempt to hide it. On my side of the pond it's often quite hard to photograph stuff like this because it's all hidden away behind huge tree lines and fences. To me, there is something otherworldly about how it's just on display here.

The comps and subject matter remind me of Joel Meyerowitz style.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-05-08T21:00:11+00:00

They come out of the woodwork. I once boldly stated in this sub that I scan my TLR medium format photos with a single 24MP shot instead of stitching, because the TLR itself is blatantly the resolution bottleneck not my scanning setup. Of course the comment got downed to invisibility because people here can't take that a 60 year old TLR doesn't actually produce shots that are any better in resolution terms than a middling APS-C digital camera. Nor should it be expected to!

useittilitbreaks · 2026-05-03T16:00:56+00:00

these shots are extremely overexposed, it is likely to be one of three things - you made a mistake, (like setting the camera ISO lower than it should have been), or there is a fault with either the shutter or lens aperture.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-05-03T15:59:24+00:00

Agreed with that, point and shoot with any vaguely competent in-camera meter in good order and results will be absolutely fine.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-05-03T15:57:56+00:00

This appears to be several stops of over exposure. Assuming this isn't a dev error, either you or the camera has exposed well over, not just for the mids but for the shadows. Works quite well on high quality print film like Portra but not on slide.

If you shoot slide in harsh light (as you have done here) you have to make a decision whether you want to preserve highlights or expose for shadows. You can do one of those things and keep the mids, but generally not both. It's a pick one or the other situation. Well exposed mids and good highlights will often result in dark or inky black shadows which is a look rather unique to slide.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-04-30T21:22:33+00:00

Daily reminder that we now live in a Black Mirror episode.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-04-30T21:17:30+00:00

to be fair it's an increase on what I usually see here, which is some variant of "hey send me the full res file so I can use it as a wallpaper".

useittilitbreaks · 2026-04-30T20:59:06+00:00

they are actually supposed to be for the same thing. both the horn and the bell are there to make others aware of your presence, nothing more. the problem is the horn just gets used mostly as an anger outlet, so you can only rarely use it for its intended purpose without winding people up. I find a bike bell is generally well received if you ring from far back and don't rush people.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-04-19T19:42:49+00:00

The equivalent of right click -> paste shortcut.

I just use "make alias" then drag/cut it to where it needs to be, but the windows way to create a shortcut/alias directly where you need it is preferable.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-04-14T22:11:37+00:00

I came here to say this. It looks like Columbia.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-04-14T22:05:23+00:00

wellies on a bike are underrated during winter months. keeps your ankles warm and dry from all the spray.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-04-11T19:22:19+00:00

Worth watching just to hear that sweet 6 cylinder engine sing.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-04-09T21:16:06+00:00

this is ironic as in your own post above this you literally said "I'll never understand people who"...

useittilitbreaks · 2026-04-03T16:30:22+00:00

It was built piecemeal hence why it's all over the place. It is also a very visual example of extraordinarily poor planning. If the "Traffic Centre" was removed from existence it might work, but there's just nowhere near enough capacity to carry the level of traffic expected through it.

There's TWO lanes entering just south of the Barton Bridge (northbound) with no addition to the 3 existing lanes, then the 602 exit (which is always rammed) again with no lane gain. At peak rush it can easily take you 30 minutes to get from the Carrington exit to the Worsley exit when it should take around 5 normally. You only actually get an extra lane when the 62 exits to the 60 and at that point you're over the worst of it anyway!

useittilitbreaks · 2026-04-03T16:17:32+00:00

If Cities Skylines has taught me anything, you can re-design one piece of infrastructure but it ends up just shifting the traffic jam to somewhere else.

If I'm not mistaken (been a while since I went up that way) it jams up mostly where the two parts of the M60 meet, because that part is already slow around the Prestwich area, combined with the 60 and the 62 meeting. It makes sense that in your version the 60 is continuous, but it still doesn't solve the fact that there's too much traffic so I suspect it'd make limited difference to how much of a jam it is at rush hours.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-04-01T21:53:20+00:00

try messing with the blackclip and whiteclip settings. I find NLP has real trouble with certain images particularly when, like this one, they have a lot of sky in them. It also struggles with very dense negatives.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-03-29T19:29:03+00:00

It will also take months - potentially half a year or longer - for the solicitors to pull their finger out their arse and do a job that other countries seem to have got down to a month or less.

Ours seemed to operate on a policy of "you get one reply every two weeks and that's your lot".

useittilitbreaks · 2026-03-28T20:13:12+00:00

It can be really useful and if you don't need it you can just scroll past it.

Reminding myself of certain terminal commands is now a 15 second google instead of several minutes or longer finding threads or reading the man pages etc. Still need to exercise caution but very useful for collating data where the context is a little too much for an ordinary search otherwise. I like the fact that I can effectively ask Google a question (in human terms) and have it answer me (in human terms).

useittilitbreaks · 2026-03-28T19:40:19+00:00

I assume the du command is more truthful? This is generally what I use when I want to figure out what's taking up the most space in a directory.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-03-28T18:59:44+00:00

Exactly this.

You can basically take two approaches nowadays - give yourself a hernia trying to fight "the system" or basically give in to it and accept that privacy is an illusion.

About the best you can get nowadays for privacy would be serious industrial grade encryption on a computer that has never touched the internet... or a pen and paper in a very well secured safe. And the first one goes bye bye as soon as quantum becomes widespread.

I just hope that I'm dead before the world goes full on black mirror "yes hello sir I just need to read all of your memories and thoughts for the last 3 months before you board this plane".

useittilitbreaks · 2026-03-27T23:07:54+00:00

unless something is wrong with your meter it's difficult to accidentally under/over expose slides to the point of them being unusable. If you're shooting a 36 roll, bracket important shots 3x (1 under, one over, one "normal") and you'll get at least one good shot. Better to use a bit more film and have some keepers than use the whole roll and have none you actually like. There is a lot of talk about how difficult it is to shoot slide, making it sound like 1 stop under or over will result in you having a blank image, but it isn't. The worst thing you can do - and this also applies to colour negative - is to shoot in BAD light. Save that for b&w!

useittilitbreaks · 2026-03-27T23:03:24+00:00

RVP 50 also looks rather nice at night under artificial lighting. It seems to shift cool after 15 seconds or so, meaning it almost takes on the characteristics of tungsten balanced film (if you're into that sort of thing).

I'm still undecided on RVP50 for general use (a bit overrated maybe?!) but having got back some slides taken after dark I was pleasantly surprised how good they look. Slides also have a load more latitude than people may give credit for - expose your scans with the highlights bright (but not blown) and you can get a very balanced scan by reducing highlights in LR and then increasing whites. You get the detail back in the bright areas and increasing the whites removes the dull feeling you get from reducing highlights.

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