Mobilephone photography :)

@PatoS - Yeah, why not :D

Though it is already looking different from how it originally came out. I don't have instagram, but I have another photo adjusting app installed.

I cropped it, changed color temp, adjusted contrast, and exposure (that's what the tuning selection is called) and added that white frame on it.

And sharpened and resized too. Not quite instagram though.

Call for help! Anyone know Java and care about open source? I'd like to get LightZone properly packaged in Fedora, and it's kind of a mess.

Or if you don't use Fedora, that's fine, because the improvements will help everywhere.

See lightzoneproject.org/lorum/…

@PatoSáinz this post needs an anti-star ;)

@mattdm sadly, I'm not a java developer :(

@mattdm yup, sorry, no java :/

plus, i'm a darktable guy ;)

hey, any thought on the work light thing?

work light?

@AJHenderson worklight!

light source I'm experimenting with

@AJHenderson ah (looking up in posts), its ok I guess - kinda expensive for what it is

well, it does include the stand, which is pretty adjustable, and I got it for only $200

thats 2300 lumens...its like a 150 watt bulb

that can run on battery with no heat generation

shrug if thats important to you

I may still swap it out though

I'm not sure if the portability matters enough to me

and I'm not sure how much of a problem the very cool temperature of the light will be

thats my thing - I'm almost always somewhere inside if I need light

in which case I bought a couple of these to stick on cheap stands

amazon.com/Fancierstudio-DOUBLE-Swivel-Umbrella-holder/dp/…

two 150 watt bulbs and I can put an umbrella on it

yeah, the other thing I was thinking about doing is going the high tech route and using a couple of philips hue bulbs in something like that

would be around the same price for a little less light, but I'd be able to adjust the color temp

afternoon

hola

how goes it

and the hue bulbs seem to work fairly well with my camera

but setup would be a bit harder as it would need a small wireless network to connect with the hue bridge

I was also contemplating just doing some china balls, though I couldn't find a good china ball solution that I liked the look of

A few photos for your perusal, if you're interested:

500px.com/photo/72231387/mirror-by-totallyphotoly

500px.com/photo/72231385/pass-by-totallyphotoly

500px.com/photo/72231383/road-by-totallyphotoly

have you posted that middle one before?

@rfusca darktable is sweet. I just want to give people more options. :)

500px.com/photo/72231387/mirror-by-totallyphotoly

is my favorite of that set

there's gotta be a java programmer around here somewhere. :)

@AJHenderson no, evidently I am repeating myself photographically

@AJHenderson maybe I'm not picky enough - I know that normal CFL bulbs aren't full spectrum, but they seem fine for what I'm doing. I've just making sure all the temps match and i've been happy

@mattdm yup, options is never bad

@AJHenderson filmtools.com ?

@rfusca I'll have to check them out later

I got the light I did mostly because it was available locally and seemed like it might work and I could return it if it didn't

either way I'm going to have to return the particular one I got as one of the modules had a quality control issue (a part is missing from one of the release latches)

@AJHenderson ic

that sucks

@rfusca well that is part of why I got it locally

far easier to drive to the store and swap it out

indeed

well, the last piece of my new computer comes in today

everything but the CPU showed up saturday

@rfusca does that include a quad-slaved liquid nitrogen-cooled GPUs?

a 56" LED panel?

@ElendilTheTall 8 core, liquid cooled CPU

ooooooooooo

shiny

27" LED WQHD screen

32 GB RAM

SSD

you'll be playing Solitaire at 200fps

i know, right

going with Linux?

both linux and windows probably

video editing on linux has come a long ways - especially recently...but it just crashes too much

you could always make it a hackintosh

never

lol

@ElendilTheTall you "could", but why on earth would you ever want to

@AJHenderson fusing the Unix based nature of Linux with the ease of use and compatibility of Windows

hahaha

sorry, I couldn't keep a straight face

@ElendilTheTall you have a funny definition of "ease of use" and "compatibility'

;)

every time I use a Mac, I wish the computer had a face so I could punch it

OSX was fine until they started trying to integrate it with iOS

then Microsoft go and make exactly the same mistake with Windows 8

I absolutely despise the OSX UI

here's an idea guys - make 2 OS' that are nice and compatible with each other, but are designed to work on the devices they are used on

@ElendilTheTall not to be confused with OS/2

@AJHenderson meh, it's not that much different to windows

@ElendilTheTall it's not that much different from the way some people use windows (with task bar awefulness)

I'm a start menu kind of guy

and atleast the task bar makes it clear what programs are running and which aren't

and the top bar that changes menus based on what window you open is a pita

ie, I want to punch the mac in the face every time I have to use one

you should try using GIMP, where each palette is a different window thing

there's a reason I call people out every time they compare GIMP to Photoshop

that's a big part of it

I despise GIMP almost as much as OSX. If OSX was open source and available for every computer for free, I'd hate GIMP more

the fact that GIMP is free gives it a lot more leniency in my view of it

since you get what you pay for

indeed, that's its USP

what? OSX?

Yes it looks like it was designed in Soviet Albania, yes it has annoying palettes, yes masking is a massive headache, yes it has 84 different plugins... but it's free

GIMP

ok, I wasn't sure if you were trying to make the argument that you didn't have to pay for OSX anymore (didn't they do something with free or much cheaper updates recently)

which is a (completely stupid) argument I've heard people make before since it isn't really free when you have to buy an overpriced computer to get it.

but GIMP truly is free

and thus my standards are significantly lowered

the UI annoys me more than OSX, but since it isn't a commercial product, it fails to meet my expectations by less

the flip side of that is the biggest mistake I ever made in terms of a software purchase

back in 2004 or so, I bought a copy of the "professional" DVD production software Sonic DVD Producer with a real time MPEG-2 card for $5000 for a project I was working on at the time

it was the biggest waste of money I have ever spent

the MPEG-2 card was fantastic and well worth it's $2500 of the overall cost

but the software crashed non-stop, had only one or two minor features not present in DVD Studio Pro at the time and was an absolute nightmare to use

I don't use any Sonic products at all any more as a result

lesson learned eh

at least I wasn't spending my own money on that project

or I would have been well and truly pissed

but I was spending money that my friend's billionaire uncle gave us for the project

ah well

do you happen to have that guy's number, I want a new lens ;)

yes I do and no you can't have it

I also have the number for my multimillionaire cousin. Millionaires are actually far, FAR more common than people realize.

billionaires are still pretty rare though

personally, I see no need for that kind of money on a personal level though, and I'd rather have free time to pursue my interests than put in the kind of work time that most millionaires I know of have to put in

my cousin and her husband travel a lot and work hard a large portion of their time.

I'm sure

I think I'd get enough so that I could be comfortable for the rest of my life, then retire

what really annoys me is these people that win the lottery and then say "I'm not going to quit my job as a toilet cleaner though"

WTAF

give me the money then you useless tit

well, that's the other thing about money, it is worth far less if you don't know how to use it

and when you have lots of it, it is harder to use than you might expect

quantity and liquidity are not the same thing

for example, for my cousins, a large part of their assets is their company

gets to be even bigger problems at the super wealthy level. Zuckerburg is rich, but he owns primarily facebook stock. He starts dumping it, the price plumets and his wealth with it

that's why if you watch, if he is smart, he will start diversifying out with slow sales as much as possible

but to actually divest is not simple

without destroying the value of the company at the same time

but that's something outside the realm of experience of your average lottery player, who generally has to spend what they make on consumables for living

(which is why they are playing the lottery in the first place)

@ElendilTheTall and the thing about that, is that at those kinds of amounts of money, you are no longer working for the money

you are working because you enjoy the work

well, I take that back

some are working for the money

but those types aren't happy no matter how much they get, so they don't stop

the majority though just keep going because they love what they are doing

using myself as the example of why you don't see people reaching a fixed amount and stopping, I'd need about 3 million in the bank to live at the level I consider comfortable for the rest of my life without having to work again, but to get to that point would involve spending more time than I would want to spend to get there. I'd also still want to do work anyway because not doing anything is boring

thus, I don't bother pushing to make that kind of money

because I don't have the need to accumulate it

and it isn't worth the effort to get there

I don't want the stress of working 80 hours a week for less pay getting a startup off the ground that may or may not work until multiple failed attempts

I've got the connections, skills and knowledge to do it if I wanted to, but I have no interest because I can work and live comfortably without the stress

GIMP has its place. I've used both and GIMP has issues, sure, but for 90%+ of people its fine

@rfusca my counter argument would be that a large number of people that might be able to figure out Photoshop would have trouble with the difficult UI of GIMP

but that's only so strong since both have complex UIs

to really master

GIMP isn't missing a whole lot of functionality in terms of what you CAN accomplish

what it is missing is how you accomplish it

I use GIMP at work since I don't have a Photoshop license for work. I can do just about anything I need to in GIMP, but it takes substantially longer with more trial, error, steps and frustration

ya, I mean that argument goes both ways

much of that is because you're used to photoshop

I use GIMP pretty often too though. Whenever I need to manipulate images at work, I'm using GIMP

and that's reasonably frequently

sure

regardless, I'm saying that a little UI difficulty is certain worth the price diff

@rfusca for 90% of people, yeah

I'd concur with that

I'm not sure that 90% of people wouldn't be served better with a cheaper, simpler product that does what they need easily without having the advanced capabilities of gimp though

(cheaper than photoshop)

obviously not cheaper than GIMP :)

paint .net

the trick is that when you get in to the people that need the power of GIMP/Photoshop, probably the majority actually do have a reasonable case for having the cost difference be worth it, because it makes their work faster and they are probably doing commercial work in many cases

but if average joe consumer want's to play with powerful tools, gimp is the way to go

oh, if you're doing commercial work - photoshop all the way

esp with the creative cloud pricing

see, there I'd actually disagree

I'd say it isn't worth it at creative cloud pricing

...

creative cloud is infinitely more expensive

and costs more than money

it costs freedom

(I'm vehemently anti CC)

i see

which is ironic since I work for a SAAS company

well, for small startup businesses - it makes far more sense where their cash flow is low. 50$ a month gets them the full suite of products - not just photoshop. (Unless the outright purchase has come down a lot.)

the only way I would consider CC is if I had a guarantee of future pricing in writing and/or a guarantee of being able to use the software version that was current when I stopped paying.

small businesses are those least able to afford it

it's a small monthly payment, but your entire business depends on it

Adobe effectively has you over a barrel

but you may not be able to even afford to outright buy it

if they decide two years from now to increase the cost to $100 a month, you suddenly go out of business with no access to any of your prior work assets (other than final outputs)

that's not how you run a business if you want to stay in business

now, if they actually offered permanent fixed pricing, I would sign up

because it is worth $50 a month

but not if I don't have a guarentee it will stay there

and the fact they already decided to screw all their existing customers out of their substantial investments doesn't exactly give me warm fuzzies about Adobe's current management's honesty

your argument effectively applies to any SaaS that offers generalized pricing

I argue against any SaaS that you can't easily replace or migrate away from

if it has generalized pricing

in Adobe's case, it is even worse though because they aren't actually providing any hardware

the normal argument for SaaS is that you don't need your own infrastructure

but CC still requires your own infrastructure

note, if they still had a purchase copy available, then I wouldn't object to a small business using CC

because it offers a transition path if the rental gets too expensive for them

buy one copy, CC others as needed

but when they removed the purchase outright option and went to a perminant rental model while offering nothing more than they had before, they lost all credibility with me

the only reason to move in that direction is to be able to coerce people... period

otherwise purchase and SA makes sense

there is no reason not to offer that as an option other than to be able to screw people in the future

because it looks EXACTLY like the current setup of monthly payments, but offers people an out

they chose to deliberately not offer that

I always assumed it was geared more toward's anti-piracy and students and such. I know TONS of people that had PS pirated because it was crazy expensive, but now are doing CC to get the new versions legally at a reasonable monthly fee

so I guess that's the other half of my anti-CC argument, it puts you over a barrel with a company that has actually demonstrated they have no respect for the businesses of customers

@rfusca it doesn't do anything to stop piracy though

you aren't constantly connected to anything

so it's just as easy to bypass

I'm suggesting there's less of an incentive to pirate

ah, yeah, but that still doesn't make sense in stopping offering an out

@AJHenderson i suppose

the stated reason is that it was too hard to maintain major and micro releases with patching, but that's a BS excuse. SA is well established.

ya, that sounds shady

SA would be that if you buy the product, you pay for the micro-upgrades if you want to be able to keep upgrading

so - what are you going to do, live with the product you have forever?

what do you do video editing with?

if they said when they wanted to switch over to CC and said, "hey, you own a copy, we want to make sure everyone always has the latest stuff, so we're going to change to $60 a month to keep software constantly updated and if you ever stop, you can keep the current version, but have to buy again (or pay the missed months) to get caught back up. I would have been OK with it

I use CS6

and will until it no longer functions

btw - Lightworks model is what you like. Its got a monthly or yearly option (only $8 per month) and an option to buy outright.

after that, I'll probably consider Vegas

@AJHenderson obviously there'd have to be some kind of minimum time, otherwise pay 60 one month and then keep it and leave

@rfusca no, that's for if you bought it

I have a full copy of CS6

oic

so basically either you pay a subscription forever, or you buy it outright and then subscribe for upgrades

ic

that's the Software Assurance model that Microsoft uses

and it works great

it solves the update schedule issue and the predictable income issue while also allowing end users control of their environment

right now, Lightworks is trying to sucker people into buying v11.5 outright at a discount though, since v12 comes in a couple of weeks and you don't get major upgrades on an 'outright' buy

I'm still interested to see what happens to Adobe overall with CC, there are still a lot of people unhappy with it

and I'm sure more will start realizing the risk they are exposed to after the initial pricing finishes

and realize how stuck they are and the fact they'll only get more stuck

most people in the arts field don't really understand the software licensing business model. Meanwhile, I work in that industry

so I understand subscriptions quite well and when they are good and when they are not

our 'tech lead' at church yesterday in our staff meeting was telling my pastor we needed to replace the Mac that runs ProPresenter because it was getting slow because of all the media files we have on it..... at which point I felt the need to point out, that unless its really nearly full (85%+ ... fragmentation, etc) then storage capacity has nothing to do with 'speed'. And then everybody in the room proceeded to tell me I was wrong lol

haha

also, it was only 12% 'full'...still had nearly 900GB free

oh omy

wonder what was actually slowing it down

I don't think its really 'slower' - our usage and expectations have changed a bit is part of it

it think its perspective issues

they shortened the lyrics that go up on screen, so it requires more frequent changes - which means any delay becomes more noticeable. And its much, much more often playing videos - whereas videos where previously quite rare. So, a minor delay to a start of video goes from a few times a year to a few times a service.

ah, well, atleast the end conclusion is still probably right then

my church just did the rather boneheaded "upgrade" from a mac book to a mac book air

for their ProPresenter system

@AJHenderson lol oh no...you don't know what the actual suggestion was

I face palmed quite hard

the suggestion wasn't to replace it - that was a faulty phrase on my part.

@rfusca dare I ask?

or was it just wanting more storage?

They want to buy a 'server' to hookup somewhere to serve out the media files

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The guy is going through his A+ certs right now. He's got a hammer and the world is a nail. He wants to play with servers.

I'll get back to you after I pick my jaw up out of the basement it just created

lol

@rfusca sounds more like a D- cert

just sayin

lol

He started going "Well, my trainers said..."

did you manage to convince them a server was not the right choice?

i didn't have any information on the Mac at the moment. After the meeting I sent a note stating that the Mac is only 12% full and that we should define the problem better before we decided that a 'server' is the right solution.

@rfusca semi-related note. I really want to know who ITT gets their mailing lists from, because they send me stuff saying they think I might like to take their computer courses

So, at this point, its all I can do

@AJHenderson lol

of course, I also get AARP mailings

so apparently, despite the fact that I have my own domain, freely publish my home phone number, birth date and address, in multiple places, there is still horribly bad info about me floating around

I totally think we should have a NAS somewhere on site - for long term, common access storage sake, not to fix performance issues. But a 'server' that is anything more than that is overkill. We don't host or process...ANYTHING.

even google ads can't seem to identify anything about me other than showing me ads for where I work and for products I already own

@rfusca oh wait, do you have no server at all?

for the entire church?

having a real server for a church is actually a good idea. Far better security and regulation of desktops

and after trying a few desktops as servers, we finally broke down and tried a real server and never looked back

@AJHenderson ok, I could understand that. A valid point - but thats not going to address the performance issues.

no, it will, in fact, make it substantially worse

thats an 'ease of administration' thing.

@AJHenderson oh, for certain

I was just objecting to the thought you only need a NAS

if you don't have a server, the server is a good idea, but it is not being justified properly

the Mac just needs SSDs

most likely

@AJHenderson I don't think that we, in general, have a complex system enough yet to warrant a server for the desktops and stuff - yet. Really, we have a Mac for ProPresentor, a PC for the lights, and a few simple check in terminals. Thats it

though who knows what they'll say when you say you want to give the computer an SSD... they may excommunicate you ;)

lol

we found it worth it to have a server for as few as 6 desktops for office staff and clergy

@AJHenderson there was a whole discussion where they tried to convince me that external storage (NAS or otherwise) was faster than internal

@rfusca ......................

well, feel free to point out that after checking with the Internet, the Internet and it's $120,000 degree agree with you

lol

and actually, I guess it really would have been even more than that if I'd actually had to pay everything

(I didn't actually have to pay even half that much)

but I still payed around $55k

lol

but you can say the guy who paid more for a single course than he's paying for his entire training says he is completely wrong

well, you can't put SSDs in the Mac - its one of those sealed all-in-ones

@rfusca ah

what connection options?

probably pre-thunderbolt?

ya, definitely pre-tb

firewire 800?

maybe

ouch, yeah, no external options then

firewire 800 would possibly be an improvement with an external SSD

thunderbolt or USB3 certainly would be

right

are you sure you can't swap in an SSD?

sometimes those all in ones can still be altered in a few ways

it's just a major pita

the church I did a training event at recently, they ran fiber throughout the entire building for high speed transfers

@AJHenderson its possible

@rfusca even that still won't touch internal though

indeed

but they actually did need external servers and stuff

yeah, plus fiber doesn't cause/suffer interference

they're streaming video and stuff to other campuses, online, etc

and you can use it for more than Ethernet data

I'd hazard they probably used Fiber for their camera and clearcom feeds too

apparently its possible but lists as 'high skilled only' for replacing the SSD in an iMac

in other words, its possible, but unsupported

anyway, i'm out

(and people wonder why I dislike Mac... you get in to these kinds of situations often enough, it becomes a natural hatred :) )