Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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I’m waiting quietly for someone to insist on the “Womandolorian”.
Photography ...imagery (to me) used to be a noble pursuit, now it’s so much a hodge-podge of “something not quite real...or right”....I hate that butchery of an image. Not to say all manipulative rework is bad, just the imbalance going on in so many, what’s real what’s not, does it matter or look ridiculous, is it still worthy of display beyond the moment. Maybe I’m just jaded. ~ 
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The first of many packages from Joe Biden to China.
)....it’s depressing,... eh that’s just me I guess.
I follow but my main issue is I'm not willing to put the time into it these days. I've had decades where I gave it a big effort and got some great payback - not just money but motivation. I'm prone to over-photoshop the hell out of an image from time to time. Case in point:Photography ...imagery (to me) used to be a noble pursuit, now it’s a so much a hodge-podge of “something not quite real...or right”....I hate that butchery of an image. Not to say all manipulative rework is bad, just the imbalance going on in so many, what’s real what’s not, does it matter or look ridiculous, is it still worthy of display beyond the moment. Maybe I’m just jaded. ~
That's a small segment of a panorama, so it doesn't have many pixels, the light was mediocre, etc. But I was in the mood to play with the "Render to HDR" filter and I liked how the cliffs in the background had a purple hue. Just so happened that random play on my PC's MP3 player was playing Purple Haze at the time. Here's another:
The hurdlers are hardly touched by Photroshop. IIRC, I touched up brightness a little and used Smart Sharpen. On the far right, I deleted the foot and lower leg that was barely in frame of the guy that finished 5th. But I worked on the background quite a bit to defocus it to make the hurdlers pop more. I also used Posterize on the background. One more:
That's a 5 wide by 3 tall panorama and other than Smart Sharpen and Brightness/Contrast, it's pretty much straight off the camera. To me, it looks pretty messed with and it was the "Automate/Photomerge" that gave distortion to the sky in the banding. The shots were underexposed by about 2/3rds of a stop and that made the brightness/contrast filter add saturation to the rocks of Redgarden wall on the right side.
So I get what you are saying, especially when the human form is distorted. But that can be fun too:
Mike Lindell Releases New High-Capacity Assault Pillow
CHANHASSEN, MN—Mike Lindell announced today the release of his company's latest product: the high-capacity assault MyPillow.
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Taint they all
She’s a professional actress so I would be VERY careful that any of her pics aren’t copyrighted.
Rodger EVERYTHING you mentioned and described. Personally the old darkroom methods are my forte and composition critical analysis. Purpose, light, line, and form all important. There’s a ton to cover in that. Suffice it to say we all “see” and react and knowing what you can do is one thing…but applying it to render an image that’s “captivating” and continues to “draw” you into it is the desire, the “tools” are nearly endless, but that can be the undoing of it also one goes too far, too much. Discovery and applied efforts and having input from some of the greats and practiced masters of it can help open your understanding of the small subtlety that makes or breaks. Alright enough of, maybe, preaching a bit…
. There’s so many compositional tools and “rules”, so to speak, that work when applied well and also breaking those rules when you know how to pull it off to make that image, ok done, but never finished. 
I thought it was to keep her from rooting up all the truffles.
Nice work TripleBull, BTW. Money and time, lol, same goes for darkroom work, lol. The truth. 
Just paying the interest on the Loans from China - borrowing from China is similar to sleeping with the enemy.
Like seein’ the Dildo Pony...
I made two of those hand guards for shits and giggles just to see if they could do it and how it would turn out.
One I use the strategic air command logo on… Because I’m old and was in the Air Force during that time.
Another one I use the global straight command logo on and gave it to a buddy of mine for his son who is now a major.
One day I was over gun store in the area and they had a unicorn lower than I thought to myself “Muhahahahahaha”
That’s a 5.7 x 28 upper
The rest is history
Great form on that suplex. Full engagement of the glutes, hamstrings, and calves to get maximal arch.
Nice work TripleBull, BTW. Money and time, lol, same goes for darkroom work, lol. The truth.
Thank you. For sure on the darkroom. It's much easier to cover 98% of your ass in the digital era.
Someone mentioned Photoshop and I had to laugh. Here is my own, very humble offering. This is IC2118 commonly referred to as the Witchhead Nebula which is in Eridanus. But very close to Orion.
Takahashi FSQ106N Refractor. Mounted on an Astrophysics AP900GTO. Detector was an SBIGSTL11K with LRGB Filters. This is a Monochrome Camera so sub-exposures are taken with Luminance, Red, Blue, and Green Filters. Exposure data is 4x900 sec for each Filter. Data was captured over three nights.
This is extremely dim, as in not bright, so dealing with residual noise in the image required a lot of work at the computer.
Takahashi FSQ106N Refractor. Mounted on an Astrophysics AP900GTO. Detector was an SBIGSTL11K with LRGB Filters. This is a Monochrome Camera so sub-exposures are taken with Luminance, Red, Blue, and Green Filters. Exposure data is 4x900 sec for each Filter. Data was captured over three nights.
This is extremely dim, as in not bright, so dealing with residual noise in the image required a lot of work at the computer.
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Biden Bans Trump From Intelligence Briefings, Fearing His Intellect May Become Too Powerful
“It’s as we all feared: Trump’s already dangerously high IQ has surpassed all metrics,” said Biden, warning his staff. “We have to take action now, or we’ll never be able to stop him!”
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