@AJHenderson at one point in the past, in another chat room, you expressed some interest in the Lytor and what it can do. Ping me if you've got questions. I played with it a bit this past weekend, have a gallery up on the lytor site and have a reasonable idea of what it can be used for now.
There's plenty of this kind of word plays, all the marketing uses them. What I'm actually interested in is to hear from you - do you spot the plays? Do you recognise them when you see them?
My native language is not English, so I assume I miss most of them. But still, I see a new brand name, or model name, and in many cases I see the underlying play.
Yeah me too, at first I saw only the bliss in Gliss, and thought it a bit lame, but women want also gloss in their hair, and combining bliss and gloss is not too bad after all.
Amarok "I am a rock" was quite obvious, after seeing the car on a street with my own eyes :)
I do these while my brain is idling... hehe, you know, like driving your car along a familiar but long road. Can't turn your brain Off, so these odd little things occupy the vacant processing time.
Any similar examples come to mind, AJ?
Hunting for something obscure that I've never thought about myself ;)
I also enjoy thinking about etymology of common words, like "introduction". You know what introduction really means?
It is three part word. Intro is to bring something in. To add something to an existing entity.
Duct is a pipe or a canal, a man-made water way, like the aque ducts of ancient Romans.
And -ion is the additive that makes a word a verb like word, hmmm, adverb?
So, introduction is to add a new person into an existing society of people. Okay? :)
... That's an example of how I read this language, English, and I don't know if it is correct or not, but is just how I think about words.
I've tried all sort of USM/NR combinations but haven't really found values that make a real difference.
The chrominance NR is 14, the default suggested by DPP/the camera
Larger or smaller values don't really make a difference except when pixel-peeping
Luminance NR is 6, upping it doesn't make a visible difference until 15 or so when it starts visibly affecting detail (and just makes the noise "smoother" - the lower frequency "blotchiness" remains)
Lightroom NR strength was set to 50 which takes care of most of the noise but still preserves almost all detail
Hey everyone, I stumbled accross this picture while browsing 500px and I was wondering how can I reproduce this technic ? I didn't want to post a question on the main site because I guess it's more an editing technic than a photography technic...
looks like he used lightroom to pull down highlights, left the darks. max clarity. some colour adjustments. went to photoshop to add the sun and glare, and cartoonified even more. extracting edges and blending them back on.
@MichaelNielsen Do you have a good resource to learn Lightroom 5 ? Useful exercise (enhancement of picture, getting back details, saving a badly exposed picture, etc) ? It can be a book you found very useful or a website... How did you learn that part ?
I'm writing my master thesis and need participants for my survey. It is a survey about photography and how the photograph tries to detect sharp photos on the camera display.
Is it ok or not to ask on photo.stackexchange.com for participants?
@MichaelNielsen Yes, but sometimes, the number of possibilities and adjustments can be quite overwhelming (at least for a complete beginner)... I've always had the best learning curbe by using books or online tutorials...
@AndyM I second what Michael said. Doing is far better than reading
you learn how to do it by knowing what you want and knowing what the controls do and you learn what the controls do by screwing around with them for hours.
a book can help you avoid missing features, but a manual can do that well enough
@AndyM if you aren't sure what to adjust, post here and we can give you directed advice as to what controls to try messing with
problem with a book or site is that unless they have sample photos for you to work with, there isn't a way to practically learn how the control is useful
@AJHenderson Definitely, you need to practice to get good. I'm not arguing that at all. But I've tried playing with Photoshop many times... You get overwhelmed rapidly and you end up doing random stuff without understanding what you're doing.
Let's take photography, you can try and change all the buttons on your camera and trying to understand what does each button, or you can start reading a book to get the basics and then play with your camera afterward...
In the end, I guess it's more of a personnal choice... I know I learn much quicker when reading some theory first and then practicing
But I understand your point, you can't learn to photograph or to edit without photographying nor editing... I second that too..
and yes, I realize that last part is important since a jumbo jet could just about land itself
@AndyM maybe it's just who I am, but I'm a manual reader
I gave my 5D Mark iii a once over between the time I bought it and the time it arrived and by the time it showed up I spent about 3 hours reconfiguring it the way I wanted and just started using it proficiently
there was a slight learning curve as muscle memory developed and I learned the limitations of the device in a real world environment
that lasted maybe 5000 to 8000 photos
ie, about 15 hours of use
maybe 20
I'm sure I've picked up tips and tricks from people along the way and I technically had some college classes, but as near as I can tell, I didn't really learn anything in the college classes I didn't already know
@JohannesD Wow, that's fairly high. My 5DII shots usually clean up better than that in terms of chrominance when using a high ISO (I tend to stop at around ISO 5000), but the ISO is only secondary. The real issue is the amount of light that is half of the signal to noise ratio.
@JohannesD Are you using the "apply" button after changing the NR values? Otherwise the preview does not change to reflect the new values in DPP. If the "apply" button is not grayed out then the setting and what is displayed in the preview are different values.
14 is rather high, but the difference between ~10 and 14 is barely noticeable without pixel-peeping - and ISO 6400 is after all the highest non-H sensitivity the 60D can do
I'm writing my master thesis and need participants for my survey. It is a survey about photography and how the photograph tries to detect sharp photos on the camera display.
Is it ok or not to ask on photo.stackexchange.com for participants?
