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Astronomer

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    New Tat

    in General Discussion

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    20 hours ago, StormCrow said:

    Not finished, ran out of time and my leg had had enough, was starting to shake a bit on its own and he didnt want to chance muffing the tatt or having my body start to reject the ink, so i stop when the man says the body has had enough, Got about an hour or so of shading left, the heavy shading of the 3 dudes and boat did my leg in i think, this was about 5 hours work, have sat for multiple 6 hour tats. Nice big piece, top of thigh, ass down to my knee... whole side of thigh

     

     

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    NICE!!!! Congrats on the ink! I hope to be able to show off some new ink later this year. Still working on the design. I don't think my wife would appreciate one as large as that one! LOL!

    Photography - Discussion, Photos, Equipment, Etc.

    in General Discussion

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    On 10/24/2017 at 7:49 PM, bds1961 said:

    Finally got my replacement camera since my original gear was stolen.  Still have a few more lens to replace. 0424895D-CCC4-493F-8A8F-5306DDADD13D.thumb.jpeg.9a2fd1d41a7674ab9f9b57304c992d8c.jpeg

    THAT is a sweet piece of kit! Congrats on getting what is arguably one of the best cameras out there.

    I just picked up a used Canon 6D full-frame. It's huge pixels and very low noise make it still one of the top cameras for low-light and night sky photography. I'm keeping my APS-C body for nature/birding etc.

    R.I.P Gord Downie.

    in User Announcements

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    First time I saw them was in the late 1980's, for under $10 in a campus pub. Gord was an everyman, and was better than most. He'd been known to see a game of street hockey with one of his band-mates in his hometown of Kingston, and they'd join right in. He truly loved Canada and it's stories, its people. A listen to any of his lyrics will give you the sense of his passion for where he came from. He was a once-in-a-generation person, at once larger than life, and down to earth, with no contradictions.

    Photography - Discussion, Photos, Equipment, Etc.

    in General Discussion

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    New toy: a ~$100 MIDI controller. These are normally used as a music mixer for live music, DJ-ing, etc. My usage for it is quite a bit different: Image editing. The application that I use for image cataloguing and basic camera RAW image editing is LightRoom, from Adobe.

    Using a free plugin for LightRoom called "MIDI2LR", I've mapped the controller's dials, sliders, and buttons to LightRoom tools. It's easy. The first time I plug in the controller and once in LightRoom, I activate any control on the pad and MIDI2LR opens a dialog that lets me choose from organized menus which LightRoom tool I want to associate with that control. The process is very intuitive. I mapped it out in advance and had it set up in a few minutes. I only have to do this once and save the mapping file.

    The dials, in rows of 8, I've set for red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, purple, and magenta adjustments. The adjustment rows are for adjusting those colour's Hue, Saturation, and Luminance.

    The sliders correspond to primary adjustments of Colour Temperature, Tone, Exposure, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Clarity, and Vibrance. The buttons let me navigate my photos, undo/redo adjustments, zoom in/out in increments, select white-balance presets, attach ratings to images etc.

    This will speed up photo editing greatly. This image was edited with the controller! Once I get to the point where I don't have to think of what control does what, I can just focus on the image and make my adjustments with my left hand. This will replace a lot of clicking around with the mouse to various tabs and on-screen sliders. I noticed that while navigating through my images, as soon as I touch an editing control, it takes me directly to the editing mode on-screen. The fine-control and having my most used tools handy on one physical device is game changing. If I need more controls, I can simply add another controller. There are many on the market, starting for as low as $40 with a few controls.

    I've just added coloured dots for the dials and I'm in the process of makeing lables for the sliders and buttons. I'll post an image of the controller again when it's all finished.

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