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MrMac wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 29, 2023 9:32 am

A religious experience, no doubt.

Dr. Bliss wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:10 pm

I took a close look (several close looks, actually) at a toilet bowl freshman year after downing a bunch of that purple stuff somebody mixed up down on Patterson Court.

stevelee wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 28, 2023 9:41 am

JCDC wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 28, 2023 6:54 am

The title of this article seems to fit here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/maga ... thics.html

The point about human perception and photo results is a valid one. When I edit photos a lot of time, I adjust things to look like how I thought they looked at the time. If the wedding was not spent with everybody staring at the pink hair, then there is no reason for videos to imply that they did.

There have been scenic shots where I have toned down the blue of the water or cut back on saturation in sunsets because the photos as shot looked phony. I adjusted to look more like I perceived things at the time. A real artist will convey how one felt at the time and maybe tell a story around that. For still photos, I shoot Raw files most of the time. There is no objective reality there, just a bunch of numbers. Software interprets those numbers according to various settings. There are sliders that let you adjust from those assumptions as you bring the numbers in to form a picture. If you shoot JPEGs, you let the camera make those decisions for you, from which it creates the picture. Canon, Fuji, Sony, and Nikon, for example, will use different assumptions behind their processes.

I shot video at a women's game to see how my newest camera would do under that lighting. The opponents wore red uniforms, and our team wore pink. That was colorful in person, and should look so in video. The summer pick-up videos I've shot under the old lights, looked too greenish or cyan using auto white balance. The sea of empty seats on the opposite side made the camera think that the lighting was too red, when in reality it was already sort of greenish. While my audience (i. e. y'all) preferred quick to good, I still balanced the color a bit, working against the somewhat spotty spectrum of the lights.

You might recall that I used calibrated test shots of the Colt 45 cap as a basis for editing the photo of Skog and me. Objectively, the cap in the photo came out within 1º on the color wheel to the right shade of red. Luckily, that adjustment didn't make our faces some odd color in the process. I did lighten his face a bit, since the shadow from the cap made it look too dark in the photo, though one wouldn't have perceived it that way in real life. I didn't make myself taller, because the photo does depict the relative heights one would have seen. (Obviously I knew you guys weren't interested in the precise shade of red, but I often use various situations as opportunities for learning how to do things. And if you have a cap and hold it up to the picture on your monitor, the colors will vary, given the settings of your monitor and the color of light on the cap at the time.)

So toning the pink hair down in video and photos to look more like reality seemed at the time is not problematic to me.

(And OK, you might be thinking that my using the linked article as a springboard for this essay is in itself testing the limits of stupid.)

i77cat wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:38 am

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/381 ... aryl-morey

That'll work.

TOK wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:08 am

i77cat wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:38 am

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/381 ... aryl-morey

That'll work.

It amazes me that teams keep paying James Harding and Kyrie Irving. Paying tens of millions of dollars to bring cancer into your locker room doesn't make much sense, unless you are tanking which is what it looks like the Mavericks are getting ready to do.

i77cat wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:00 am

If you put Harden, Irving, Chris Paul, and Westbrook together and let them play 4-on-1 against a 5th-grader, they'd lose. Odds are that one wouldn't show, one would be injured, and the other two would spend the game arguing. Good basketball players, though.

i77cat wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:00 am

If you put Harden, Irving, Chris Paul, and Westbrook together and let them play 4-on-1 against a 5th-grader, they'd lose. Odds are that one wouldn't show, one would be injured, and the other two would spend the game arguing. Good basketball players, though.

wildforthecats wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:24 am

TOK wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:08 am

i77cat wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:38 am

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/381 ... aryl-morey

That'll work.

It amazes me that teams keep paying James Harding and Kyrie Irving. Paying tens of millions of dollars to bring cancer into your locker room doesn't make much sense, unless you are tanking which is what it looks like the Mavericks are getting ready to do.

Title of the thread says it all.

Cat Forever wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:56 pm

Steph and the GSWs kept Westbrook, Paul, and Hardin out of a couple of NBA Finals.