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Thread: RANT: R.I.P. Tyrbolift
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01-18-2020, 08:59 AM #5431
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01-18-2020, 09:03 AM #5432
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01-18-2020, 09:07 AM #5433
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01-18-2020, 10:10 AM #5434
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01-18-2020, 10:42 AM #5435
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01-18-2020, 11:25 AM #5436
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Heya Dom.
The kids are getting huge. Both of them in soccer and gymnastics (they pronounce it gymmagics). Company I work for sold their assets to another company for 5.6 billion but I landed on my feet, so far. And I'm about to start querying agents for the book I was working on years back.
All in all, pretty good.
Hope you guys are okay with the fires and the girls are well.All Hail the Ultimate Master, "I Know More Than The Generals Do", Donald Camacho Dr. Pepper X-Ray AR-15 Trump
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01-19-2020, 09:58 AM #5437
So as I thought about it today, my DB Bench Press and my weighted pull-ups have come to near the same volume schedule, that being 5 sets of 4 for one and 6 sets of 4 for the other as of this week.
I've kinda been wondering if I should scale down the pull-up weight a bit for MMC or keep trying at this one increment of weight that renders the overall sets a bit of a slugfest. Kinda fun to measure up to the lift, just not sure it's necessary or practical.
With the DBBP I probably will just go further with sets. Both exercises also I find myself adding whole sets as progress, I'm not sure how common or often that is among people. I'd think that makes it a form dominant progression to be adding whole sets. Then again it is just one exercise out of the whole workout technically, so that set progression might be inflated a bit.We're cookin' with gas now.
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01-20-2020, 10:18 AM #5438
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01-20-2020, 11:06 AM #5439
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Thanks 400G.
Yeah, I'm moving to the other company. It's a big change for us - been with this company for 15 years and thought I'd probably make a full career out of it. But the new company does some exciting things with regards to employee ownership so there's definitely cause to be excited (while also a little nervous...).
Re: the book, I am in the querying stage. Writing a query letter to send to agents in hopes they want to pick me up. For debut authors this can be a long process that doesn't succeed, so I'm going to give it some effort and then pivot to self publishing on Amazon. Won't let this drag any longer. I have a couple other stories I want to start writing.
How you been?All Hail the Ultimate Master, "I Know More Than The Generals Do", Donald Camacho Dr. Pepper X-Ray AR-15 Trump
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01-20-2020, 09:07 PM #5440
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01-21-2020, 03:20 AM #5441
Great to hear from you BT. Everything is okay over here although there were a couple of months where the air quality was bad and I'd be concerned about prolonged exposure to that especially for people with lung problems, children, etc.
Hopefully now that your kids are older you'll get more time to do some of the stuff that inevitably gets put on hold. I've come to appreciate how important hobbies are and making time for them. It's too easy to fall into a rut "consuming" instead of being creative. Still taking photos?
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01-21-2020, 05:49 AM #5442
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01-21-2020, 07:20 AM #5443
Phones have definitely come a long way and I use that feature all the time. A few days earlier I experienced a really vivid sunset at Mt Cook. There were only two people shooting from that spot — me and the guy who took this below standing 10ft away directly across the road with a Sony a7R III. He posted this to instagram the next day and of course I immediately recognized the shot. All mine were panos with a long lens so it's basically that without the streaking lights from cars and more of the mountains but I still haven't got around to working on it. I'm posting this as a reminder.
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01-21-2020, 08:32 AM #5444
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01-21-2020, 10:03 AM #5445
Long exposure and it captured cars in both directions. He might have even blended several exposures.
Aperture and shutter speed control the light hitting the sensor. You can close down the aperture to increase the shutter speed.
You can do the same with cloud and water movement. The camera generally needs to be on a tripod.
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01-21-2020, 11:04 AM #5446
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That NZ story irks me. There's an unspoken code with landscape photographers, imo. Or at least there should be. When you arrive on a scene and someone else is already there you don't walk into their shot. You don't try to hustle them. You don't walk up to them while they're composing and try to talk to them. You give it time. Even if the conditions are one in a million you show respect and wait for the right moment. When that comes you can say something and ask if they mind if you set up next to them, etc.
To be honest, I wouldn't have handled the Instagram lady as well as you did. I probably would have said, "I bet you're great with photoshop. So I'm going to walk forward and if you think I'm in your shot go ahead and photoshop me out. Next time, if you're less rude, maybe I'll listen to what you have to say."
Anyway...
Yeah I have been trying to get out there. Took the family to Zion, which was AMAZING. Got some of the iconic shots, like this of the Watchman (FB qual):
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If you look at the bottom right you can see a couple guys who walked out into EVERYONE's shot, on the banks of the river. They're blurry in my shot because it's a long exposure.
I took this shot from a bridge and the entire bridge was shoulder-to-shoulder with photographers.All Hail the Ultimate Master, "I Know More Than The Generals Do", Donald Camacho Dr. Pepper X-Ray AR-15 Trump
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01-21-2020, 04:24 PM #5447
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01-21-2020, 07:01 PM #5448
Agree with you. It was rude. She makes a living doing those workshops and I think those 8 people were paying something like $2500 each for 5 days with her so after expenses she probably pockets $10K for the week. After posting that I went and looked at her instagram and in many images she talks about how great it is to enjoy a location all to herself.
Here's her photo. It definitely reflects what I saw but I personally wanted more in the composition than that along with some shots with the beautiful lake behind it. I find I shoot panos by default these days because I can always crop later.
Here's my setup. With a longer lens I don't even bother with the upper rail, I have an Arca foot on the lens and it goes straight on there. Parallax isn't an issue at all not to mention software can sort out most of it with a wider lens but I like having everything centered and level so I just shoot a few frames across, tilt it down, and repeat. The ball head becomes the leveling base and everything above that is level. The panning clamp stays on the ball head full time so I can mount the camera directly to it if I'm not shooting a pano. Works for me.
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What rustled me the most was the thought that all her minions probably believed her. I mean every one of them was all set up with the exact composition, same grad filter on the lens, etc. That's the annoying part. As you know there is no one way to photograph something. Some of the best compositions come about when you try something different and it wasn't my first time there.
That's a beautiful shot and belongs on the wall at home. If Photoshop has a place it's removing people from an image so I wouldn't hesitate there. I shot a waterfall once where at a larger size you'd be able to see graffiti on some of the rocks. I removed it. I guess if you're taking the photojournalist approach preserve it all but for me the landscape comes first and I like to pretend people don't exist.Last edited by Dominik; 01-21-2020 at 07:09 PM.
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01-22-2020, 08:15 AM #5449
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Thanks - agreed re: removing those guys with photoshop. I have no qualms with doing that for landscape photography. I'm of the mind that it's important to be honest with people (inb4 Peter Lik) about what it took to get a shot and what it took to edit it, but for me it's all about trying to represent the scene as you experienced it, which is a subjective thing in itself.
HMU if you're ever in the PNW and want to grab a beer.All Hail the Ultimate Master, "I Know More Than The Generals Do", Donald Camacho Dr. Pepper X-Ray AR-15 Trump
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01-22-2020, 08:56 AM #5450
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01-22-2020, 10:38 AM #5451
I think where it gets tricky is removing something that is a fixture like a part of the landscape whereas people come and go so I'd get rid of them.
As you would have experienced many times in Alaska nothing beats being at a beautiful location without a crowd. With people flooding the same spots thanks to instagram it's getting harder to enjoy it but I have been lucky. Sunrise is typically better than sunset in that regard since fewer people are interested in getting up early and driving and walking around in the dark.
Definitely. And if you ever plan another trip one day to NZ let me know.
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01-22-2020, 04:27 PM #5452
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01-22-2020, 09:03 PM #5453
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01-23-2020, 02:25 AM #5454
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01-23-2020, 04:36 PM #5455
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01-23-2020, 04:50 PM #5456
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01-23-2020, 08:14 PM #5457
More than 170 U.S. firefighters are in Australia, a country halfway around the world that some of them had never visited. Helping their Aussie counterparts, they have been adjusting to a unique firefighting culture, unusual lingo and landscapes that, while similar in some respects, differ from those of the American West.
“Crazy spiders, man, big spiders the size of your hand. Big ants, bullet ants and jumping jacks, ‘hoppers,’ they call ’em,” said Travis Braten, a U.S. Forest Service firefighter based in Shoshone, Wyo., who was working with the Californians over the weekend. “Some guys have seen snakes. I haven’t seen any, which is just fine with me. Sounds like everything is poisonous.”
Welcome to Australia boyos.
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01-24-2020, 01:39 AM #5458
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01-24-2020, 04:50 AM #5459
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01-24-2020, 10:25 AM #5460
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