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In case anyone is interested, I got myself outside for the "Super Harvest Blood Moon" last night, and I fought hard to get just a few decent shots of the Moon.

It took two attempts, on two...

I love the fountain photo. Really moody. How much post processing did you have to do to equalise the sky and foreground contrast? If you had it in-camera, that's excellent.

The wide angle shot of...

Damn! you've come a long way since this thread started. Great composition and a really good eye for your subject.

Actually, I use center-weighted or spot metering when shooting macro as I can focus right on the most important part of the subject without having to worry about the matrix metering missing it while...

Actually, there's a lot of variation with depth of field, even at just a few inches. I have shot the same subject at f/2.8, f/4 and f/8 with distinctly different results. I usually go for f/2.8 at...

Oh god... NO! :O

I didn't quite like the very beginning--inside the plane. I thought it was entirely unnecessary to make up that portion of the story, but I guess I can see how it sped up the story line just to get...

That should be entertaining. Gotta say this is probably the best franchise to feature Tara Reid in about 15 years.

I am eagerly awaiting Sharknado 2: The Second One.

My poor little point-n-shoot. Served me well for almost eight years. But, while it was getting on in age, and certainly couldn't compete with today's wee snappers, I really liked what it could do.
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Yeah, my newest Canon body has the swing out LCD as well. The only thing I like about it, other than being able to line up myself if I need to be in the picture I'm shooting, is that it closes up to...

Okay, I'm thoroughly impressed. Barely a hint of grain even with file sizes less than 200kb. Although, your daughter (that is your daughter, yes?) is slightly out of focus in the "Tattoo shop" image....

That is a really cool shot. Very well exposed, and well composed.

The only thing I think I could critique is the horizon line and scene vertical. I realise that the road surface isn't perfectly...

Okay, maybe "ridiculous" is not quite the right word. The snowman was a good character. But, I felt he was completely out of place with the rest of the film--both the animation style, and the...

I actually enjoyed the singing. I was impressed with the quality of the vocals, lyrics and even the musical composition. The story, itself, was a little lacklustre, and the snowman seemed ridiculous...

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I don't think we Amur'cans should be any proud of how some of us behave... even when at home.

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Or, get them to see Sorority Babes In The Slime Ball Bowl-O-Rama just to see how they grant that flick some hidden Biblical significance.

Well, I'll give you that. Starbucks basically uses the same cheap-o beans found in the cans, and then burns them to a crisp so it "tastes like strong coffee". At least the companies that produce...

Yes, and OH LORD, I'm horrified! Canned coffee uses the cheapest Robusta beans possible. Twice the caffeine as high quality Robusta and Arabica with a harsh and nasty flavour. If all you're looking...

I was only commenting on the logic contained in the three lines that Dave posted.

I was commenting on the entirety of the logic, start to finish, which makes no sense: If caffeine causes acid reflux, which then causes asthma, caffeine is then a contributing cause of asthma. In the...

Homeopaths believe that the "essence" of poison ivy will cure itches and rashes. Certain things are a whole lotta bullshit.

Well, the US FDA appears to allow an "Average of 1 mg or more mammalian excreta per pound after processing" of various leaf products. So, we're still getting some poop in our foods, whether we like...

It's a bit similar, but not off-putting like the herbal remedy teas can be.



The only Rooibos I've tried has been a Celestial Seasonings tea blend. Unfortunately, that company covers the taste...

Ceylon is a black tea, which has been cooked and fermented. Yerba is closer to a green tea, which is also cooked, but not fermented. Although, I don't belief Yerba is cooked at all--I think it's...

The plant is actually called Yerba, which is a South American species of holly.

I've been drinking Yerba Mate since I had to quit coffee. I don't do it the traditional way, since I don't have a...

I thought it was enjoyable for someone who hasn't read the book. But, for some who has read the book, it's a horrible hack of the storyline. In a way that makes me happy, since Card is hostile...

I thought it was the point when the smell of the roast began to cut through the stink of their cheeses.

I thought Passion of the Christ was at least an hour and a half too long. For one of the shortest snippets of text in the Bible, it was an overly long and drawn out misery of a film experience for me.

Honestly, I can't see much difference between the "weight" of the subject the way the film presents it, and any of the "scary" scenes in any Tim Burton or Disney film.

The film is focused on young...

My wife and I loved this film. Very well done. I don't think the "cleanliness" of the war scenes detracted at all, but I've not read the book, so maybe it compares poorly to how it was done in the...

Wow. Glad to hear they found the problem and fixed it, and that you're feeling better.

Since I was finally able to get health insurance in January because of the ACA, I started seeing doctors...

I live near Ed and Lorraine (well, not Ed, as he passed away several years ago). While they may now actually believe what they're doing, it's a whole pile of attention-seeking fantasy. They were...

Watched I, Frankenstein yesterday. After all the talk show hype I expected a lot more; but, it turned out to be a terribly awkward fusion of Constantine, Legion and Buffy with Re-Animator, centred...

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Well, when you quote it like that, then yeah.. it's quite horrifying.

Ah... now I remember that one. I had seen it a few years ago, and remembered only the ending, then caught it again on television and had no clue that I'd seen it before.

Definitely a thinker until...

7 Boxes (7 Cajas) takes place in Mercado 4 in Asunción, Paraguay. Victor is teen who earns money by transporting packages with a wheelbarrow. One Friday, a butcher hires Victor--when the regular...

Just watched Nebraska. Very nice film. Dry humour, very funny, very sweet story about an elderly father with slight dementia who thinks his "publisher's clearing house" letter is really a winner's...

Wikipedia has a well written explanation of the unsharp masking process, and the tools in photo editors.



Slowly adjusting the values from the defaults while using the preview window (in GIMP,...

The "sharpen" tool doesn't do what its name suggests. It doesn't sharpen object edges in a photo, it sharpens individual pixels, which is why you get noise and need another tool to fix the noise you...

There are Dummies guides for both Photoshop and Corel Paint Shop. No Dummies books for the free software GIMP, though there are some "novice to professional" type books that may get heady quite...

Nice beach.

Home of Scientology Headquarters and the "safe house" where they make people disappear when they want to leave the "religion".

After reading that Yahoo link, I honestly can't see much wrong with this. It certainly protects the chold and the family from undue suffering as a result of not having the option to choose how one...

Are you asking about copying and pasting portions of the image? Or, the entire image?

In those saces, i can depend on what you're doing with the image. But, in both cases, the JPEG data will...

RAW contains all the data as the camera sensor received it when the shot was taken. It contains per-sensor (what you would call a "pixel") data for the full 16-bit colour gamut, light intensity,...

Yeah, when it came out it was certainly not typical. While some of the action, itself, may have been less than "unique", it was the philosophy of the film and the special effects that were ground...

Setting the ISO to something like 200 wasn't giving consistent results when setting speed and aperture? That's very strange. Hopefully the camera is giving you consistently low ISOs to maximum...

Stephen, you're getting some really nice shots, now. Love the depth of colour in the reflection on the Phoenix Life building.

I also love the Mark Twain house... There's an historic museum of the...

Ah... then you gotta see The Convent campy "horror" at its least-funded best. Truly distasteful fun, with dollar-store special effects. Even has Coolio in it!

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Yeah, the whole point of the film was cheese. It's a good drinking flick.

Russell's Escape From New York was only very slightly more...

My wife an I were actually looking forward to this one, but once we got it playing, we had to shut if off about 15 minutes in. We'd rather watch the actual Jackass films, and we don't like them,...

Most Highlander fans can't stand anything but the first film. II and III completely contradict each other in timeline and intrinsic details, and they both contradict the first film in varying ways, a...

Watched The Book Thief last night. Beautiful story about a young girl, Liesel, who is sent to live with a german family during WWII, who also hide a Jewish refugee, Max, in their basement. Liesel...

Sigaw & The Echo

The Filipino original, Sigaw, is about a fellow who moves into an apartment building, on an empty floor, and witnesses the reoccurring ghostly echo of a mother and child abused...

It's not so much the caffeine for me, actually. It's the taste of the coffee in the morning that I really miss. The loose leaf Yerba Mate that I drink in the morning has more than enough caffeine to...

Yeah, I do drink tea--have a lot of different loose Chinese teas--but it's just not the same in the morning. Coffee was my morning ritual. Tea is more of an evening thing, for me.

I am so depressed. I think my body has become allergic to coffee.

Up through last year I could drink it with no problems, but sometime during the year it seemed that my morning coffee started...

Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead

I'm not sure what I saw, here. The title was perfect, and the film was directed by Norobu Iguchi, who also did Machine Girl--which was a whole lotta of fun. But, the...

I've done a few weddings. Luckily most of them were for friends. It's an absolute pain in the arse, which is why I'm not considering trying to do it even to tie me over while I'm job hunting. It's...

Well, that's a tragic and entirely forgiveable situation. I was thinking more in the lines of spent batteries or film/SD cards and such. I sure his insurance company covere the loss (expecting that...