Amusingly, Android and Windows have a similar feature that's been pretty reliable for the times I'm actually using windows.
Excellent photo! What did you shoot it with? I'm currently tire kicking on a more macro setup and am seeking inspiration.
Agree. Discovering new artists on YouTube music has been super easy.
I was thinking the exact same. YouTube music just isn't the same and they can't stop messing with the UI.
That's truly a massive flower. I've eaten plenty of artichokes, but seeing one in bloom with something for scale is impressive.
Hugin! That's a name I have not heard in a long time. I got a ton of use out of that software in the aughts.
On modern(ish) bodies I haven't really had the need to exposure stack. Most sensors have enough DR out of the box, especially if you're able to keep ISO down. What promoted you exposed stack? Were you being proactive, were you looking for super dynamic range, ...? I'm genuinely curious and do not mean to sound like I'm questioning the technique.
Nice photo btw!
French toast should have a decent dose of eggs and milk to to along with the sugar, so it comes with protein. Granted, I know that French toast is often not well made :(
and hardware innovation has stalled out. Because of course it has. They don't have the space of a dedicated camera.
You're totally not going to fit even a micro four thirds sensor in a phone, but there are a bunch of Chinese phones with larger sensors. Although they can be a PITA to find if you're on the US, reviews like them.
I suspect the reason why we don't see them from the mainline phone manufacturers comes down more to hardware BOM cost than packaging or size.
Ah, the loudness war. I would argue that carrying music around with us is a primary cause. Can't have quiet bits and loud bits in a recording if a lot of your audience will listen to it wearing headphones in a noisy area. They won't be able to hear the quiet bits unless unless they blow their ears out with the loud bits.
So even though digital has truly epic dynamic range compared to vinyl, it doesn't surprise me that more of that dynamic range would be preserved in a vynal mix. You can practically guarantee it's being listened too indoors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill%2C_Anglesey
I was not expecting the age. OG construction in the 1700s and abandoned since WWII.
In 1939 at the outbreak of World War II, the mansion was requisitioned by the government and used as a temporary housing for Polish soldiers. The Polish soldiers found the home too cold and decided to start a fire within the mansion so they would be moved to new housing accommodations. The fire destroyed a large part of the interior and the soldiers were removed from the house but only to tents on the Baron Hill Estate grounds. The mansion was abandoned afterwards and is still abandoned and derelict to this day
There's basically no activity for the last month and a half or so. Either this was also a bit of a fad or the site's being manually maintained and its creator has things happening in their personal life that's keeping them away from it.
I have no idea what this bush is called, but for three or so weeks out of the year it smells fantastic. Very sweet smelling.
A few days back, I wondered if I could achieve focus stacking doing the macro rock-your-camera-to-focus trick. For the uninitiated, the idea is that slight movement of your camera toward and/or away from your subject is an easier focusing method than using the focus ring on your lens.
I thought my logic was straightforward:
Put the three together and here we are. The daisy in the post is 39 images fed into helicon focus 9. I've now spent a total of 10 minutes with this software and it's super easy. Here's one of the photos in the stack to give you a feel for how thin the depth of field was:
For kicks, here are two more stacks. They're not super compelling photos, but they do show that the concept is viable.
Everything in this post was shot at f/4 on a Sigma 35mm f/2 with 26mm of extension tubes in the great outdoors with no additional lighting.
Hopefully this will be the first of many I take this season. Hopefully^2^ I'll even take the time to break out my "real camera" at some point and go 🐝 hunting
Well, almost. I didn't give myself enough tolerance in the cutout for the speaker and it doesn't fit well. On to v1.01!
It will be a 240x280x70ish speaker stand. The first go ground with it flat and support free resulted in warping despite a 60°C chamber, so I stood it on its end, cut print speed by a third, and added the breaks to reduce stress.
This will take a while...
Note that the bottom has a chmafer, so although there's a shadow it's not warping.
I turned the grow lights on early this year to grow some potatoes, which I'm sure is a totally a great use of energy. I'm really hoping to grow another round of starts after not having a very good year this year due to keeping our potatos in smaller pots and us not getting a ton of rain. Next year I'll put them in a much larger planter.
I'm also trying to get some cherry pits to seed. I collected the cherries, which were delicious, from a tree in our neighborhood. I'm betting the mother tree isn't a graft given its location and age. If any of you have any tips, I'm all ears. The pits are now a year old and spent the time in dry dirt on this table.
Title basically.
One of my windows computers, which happens to be the one I happen to do the most CAD work on, can't upgrade to windows 11 due to having an Ivy Bridge era Xenon (it's an E5-1680 v2 for the curious, older used workstations are fantastic bang for the buck computers).
Switching to Linux on this computer has been in the cards for a while, but I hadn't been in a hurry to do it. Looks like my hand might be getting forced...
The coaster is shivering timbers at Michigan's adventure.
At least the Canadian wildfires are good for softer light. It's very surreal having a cloud free sunny day without the sun actually being that intense.
I went this route a year or so ago. Wait, that was three years ago now? I should have never checked.
I've owned a few smart watches over the years and got tired of things failing. Bands splitting (remember the Microsoft band?), batteries degrading, cases splitting due to swollen batteries, etc.
The only downside is that straight analog watches will drift some over long enough time periods, so you will occasionally need to adjust them by a minute or two.