Had a burst of creativity today.




Work-in-progress preview of a random idea. Lighting details once again on my Flickr if someone's interested.

Quote from james12s :

lol sam, im not sure why you insist on taking pics of your freinds :P

only jokin, what sort of things did you do to that shot??

Erm... are you referring to me with the lovely lady or SamH with the sheeps?

Mental state has been in the drains and stress in the clouds lately so all motivation has been more or less absent. Managed to get my trusty model to pose for some silly shots.






Hope you got some laughs out of these. More info at my flickr if someone's interested.

Quote from Bob Smith :

Forgive me if I sound like an idiot as I haven't tried Win7 yet, but how is this different to the current "Tile Windows" options on the start menu?

With the 7 you can drag a window to the side of the screen and it snaps there and maximizes to half of the screen width.

Dragging to the top maximizes a window.

Unless I was the laughing stock of XP's UI design team, I always had to clear all the other windows as the 'tile vertically' would tile all open windows to small slices. Now I can throw Lightroom on the other side of the screen and easily swap between browser window, Photoshop, etc. on the other side while keeping lots of other windows open in the background.

Downloaded the 64-bit version, no problems with disconnects or DL speed with the silly 'lol wut no torrents! zomg tis is 2009!' service.

I already had my primary HD split into two 117 Gb partitions so away the install went. Took about 20-30 mins. Not many prompts in the beginning or the end of the install process.

So far the 7 has been running rock solid (though can't remember when the XP crashed unless I was dicking around with Nvidia drivers or had faulty memory sticks) and the 7 feels fast and quick to react to user inputs - same I can't say about OS X Tiger or Leopard on my office Macs.

I think I preferer the new taskbar (coming from XP/OS X) and the simple window management (quickly split two apps or windows 50/50 and have straight access to both) works well.

Lightroom 2.2 runs faster on the 7 than on my XP. No games installed yet.

Oh and the 7 looks fugly. Too much glass crap. Oh and I despise Apple's looks too - too much brushed metal and Steve Jobs is a (barely) living example that stupid amounts of reflections and gargantuan drop shadows cause cancer.

XP's Royale Noir would have been perfect with little tweaks.

It's rare to see someone drive over their own engine.

Sitting home watching Mock of the Week - Too Hot for TV.

I got my armageddon checklist ready, no need for celebrations.

Fan speed controllers?

Is it you, Don?

If you purchase the G25, you have a wheel for life. The G25 will probably be the king of the hill for us normal simmers for a long time to come.

If you buy a cheap Logi 5.1 setup (the Z5500) just to have a 5.1 sound, you'll end up buying a better 5.1 (any high-end audio manufacturer) sooner or later when you find out its shortcomings.

Latter equals money wasted.

My viis markkaa.

I don't bother opening home made video clips anymore unless the url points to Spankwire, Tube8 or so on.

I played Rogue Spear online last week, does that count?

I'd like to see cheaper and lighter sport cars with super high power/weight ratios but that looks somewhat alrite nevertheless.

Jizz in my pants.

A somewhat used, 4th revision Nikon ED AF 80-200 2.8 D. Went to get a wide angle but left the store with that.

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Well played, sir.

The Fallout 3 review was great but the top piece so far is the Deus Ex intro song with lyrics.

Quote from Toddshooter :

misinformation? How?

PS: I know all about colour profiling my monitor and all the bullshi% that goes with it. I have tried colour both ways. The easy way and the hard way, unless you are a pro selling huge commercial prints, SRGB is all anyone needs. The only people that could tell the difference are pixel detectives that troll photo forums looking for mistakes.
I challenge you to post a duplicate picture...one with SRGB and one with Adobe98 and see if anyone can tell the difference.

Easy there, kiddo. Sit down and take a breath before you run out of tough boy air.

The discussion was not about gamuts or who's a pro and who's not. The OP asked a question and you gave him a very generalized and a simply wrong solution disguised as a 'pro' advice.

In other words, both of your posts were bullcrap.

Quote from Toddshooter :

Yes!! They should all be the same. This is the standard colour space for the web as well. So if you order prints from an online dealer like Walmart or some other this is the colour space they will use.

You should be able to go into your Monitor settings and select SRGB. If your monitor doesn't have the SRGB profile already you will be able to download it off the web easy enough.
Then go into your Graphics card colour settings and change it to SRGB as well.
And finally change photoshop to SRGB as well.

You will find that everything looks dark and dull to begin with. This is normal!! Most monitors come from the factory over saturated and overly bright so when you colour balance them they look shi%. Don't worry you will get used to it.

edit: PS Try to post jpegs instead of png as attachments. png's are horribly big and clumsy.:-)

Ah, the glory days of trippin' on LSD and postin' misinformation on teh interwebz.

Quote from mrodgers :

I've always read you want to overexpose and go with + exposure compensation. The reason is because of the expanse of white in the shot, the camera meter will try to expose the snow at 18% grey, thus the snow will be grey and underexposed.

Just what I've read though. I haven't had much experience with snow. I normally have my camera compensated at -1.0 and my shots in the snow are always very dark (For a good normal scene exposure with my camera is fine at -1.0)

You do have a point with the 'exposing for the 18% gray'. However it's the same situation with bride and groom shots (white dress vs. black suit... which one will your camera expose if the dynamic range is too much for it?). Snowboarding version could be your buddy filling most of the frame and the +2 stop compensation punches the background to pure white?

Shoot RAW, that's all I know, sorry.

Give her sperm.

EDIT: No don't tell her you made it yourself, dumbass. /facepalm

Quote from jibber :

Does anybody have some good tips for taking pictures in the snow?

I go snowboarding from time to time and thought about taking some pictures in the forest. However, i think all that white will be a little tricky to get some good shots regarding colours...

For bright daytime either spot meter from the snow and expose to the right, if you enjoy spinning the wheels, or use aperture priority with -0.7 to, say, -2 exposure compensation if (and quite possibly) most of the frame is filled with the white substance.

If you want to freeze action, change to S priority and crank the shutter speed to 1/500 or faster.

It sounds surprisingly manly.

Quote from Bose321 :

Here, 2 pics.

Sorry but the links point to screenshots of GTA3 from 2001.