Photos: Free Association COMMENTARY

grafikfeat said:

Getting into HDR?

I was dinking around with "fauxtoshop" HDR:

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I never really liked the effect so I stopped...

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Those welsh shots weren't photoshopped.. (see the spots in the clouds where there's marks on my lens, they'd be gone now, courtesy of photoshop). I didn't have Elements until later and I limit photoshop pics to the photoshop thread. Bala really does have harsh light that seems to cut all the colour out, round about 4pm on an April day. I do intend to go back and see what it's like now days are longer.
What's HDR refer to by the way?

And if any photoshopping i do turns out like than damn/dam picture, I'll probably kick it into touch too. That looks ghastly...why would you do that?

As an associated aside, did you know that the TV signal sent out in the USA has the colour saturation set higher than in the UK and Europe. You really do see the world as a more colourful place!

lamble said:

And if any photoshopping i do turns out like than damn/dam picture, I'll probably kick it into touch too. That looks ghastly...why would you do that?

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To imitate HDR.
Look at HDR imaging to see why that Damn/Dam picture looks the way it does.

This is HDR aka High Dynamic Range imaging.

grafikfeat said:

To imitate HDR.
Look at HDR imaging to see why that Damn/Dam picture looks the way it does.

This is HDR aka High Dynamic Range imaging.

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Well having looked at the wiki for HDR, I won't be doing that. It's far too complicated for what I want to do with my pics and if the results are colour saturated like the dam picture, there's no sense of reality. I have a software package that can turn a photograph into a painting if I want it to look like that.

Lamble, I was going for the previous steel structure but you "photo blocked" me. That's Balboa Park, San Diego. The upside is I learned about John Middleton.

#3227 - It's ok to take yer helmet off once and a while!

DashRiprock said:

Lamble, I was going for the previous steel structure but you "photo blocked" me. That's Balboa Park, San Diego. The upside is I learned about John Middleton.

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Here's the guy himself...

http://carlyleletters.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/full/18/1/lt-18440628-JWC-TC-01

I'll nip down to Sefton Park Liverpool and take a few shots, then you'll see why I thought the association may be the geographical proximity.

#3237. In South Georgia. I just had to turn around and go back and ask. Frog Jam. Fig Raspberry Orange Ginger. Not bad.

#3257...... where's that?

Photo 3266 Ouch, lets hope those prices stay away for awhile.

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I don't think it's appropriate for this thread.
One reason, to be put in a position to have to voice a dissent due to the subject matter.

One image will suffice and either start a new thread or post the remainder here.

...and yes I agree, it's a wonderful cause...

grafikfeat said:

I don't think it's appropriate for this thread.
One reason, to be put in a position to have to voice a dissent due to the subject matter.

One image will suffice and either start a new thread or post the remainder here.

...and yes I agree, it's a wonderful cause...

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Dissent on the subject matter?
"Appropriate"

It's pictures of kids.

So, happy to add the family album shot, but we don't want to see a picture of a kiddie that due to an accident doesn't look the same?

That's exactly why these camps exist, because they give the kids a chance to mix with other burn victims who don't see them as "offensive" to look at, who don't regard them as "freaks".

Let me tell you something Mr show dissent, the hardest part about taking part in rides with these kids, is facing your own prejudices. The worry that you will show an expression of disgust when you see a burned face on a small kid, or hesitate when you shake hands with a globular lump of melted flesh that used to be a small child's hand.
If you can find dissent in these pictures, then you do need to go and offer a ride.
These accidents happen.
They happen to lots of children, indiscriminately, white, black, rich, poor, babies, young teens, they happen by accident and as such there's no selection criteria and by not looking and seeing them, you really aren't helping at all.


Or instead, you could have simply posted an image and moved the thread along.


And frankly, I'd rather you spent less time considering one, two, or even three pictures and where they should be put, and longer on how to get your bike up to a Camp Phoenix and brighten up a kid's life. Get some perspective. The nearest one to you is not far from La Conner, seek it out before you forget, email them, ring them, get details and join in.

Any of those children in the pictures before mine could suffer the same, accidental, life changing fate.
This isn't a one off event, Camp Phoenix has kids coming in, all over the USA, all year round.
Alternatively, post another picture and just forget about it and them.

If this is actually about you feeling "awkward" about what to post next...good.
Post a picture of something happy, because that's what these kids were, as a result of people accepting them as being just kids, something 'dissent' of the subject matter would clearly indicate was not what you are ready to do. Go ride with them and learn.

And finally, yes you bet I'm passionate about this and I am annoyed that 'dissent' was even a consideration.

lamble said:

And finally, yes you bet I'm passionate about this and I am annoyed that 'dissent' was even a consideration.

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Annoyed? Too bad- It's just my opinion. But since you like to type:

It's a photo association thread, not a soapbox. Post an image and discuss it and others here. Why should it be any different for you/us? Because of the poor kids?
There's plenty of pain and suffering going on in the world for us to lament over.
I'd like to at least have one place to escape from it.
So that being said, instead of you chastising me for commenting on your decision to break the thread.
You could've just as easily been discussing your outing and the importance of it to you, here.

And no it's not about it being ackward over what to post next...
It's about having to comment at all on the subject.
And to appear as a dick having to remind you of the basis or spirit of the thread.
Post one and move along...
Not so hard to comprehend, eh?

Let's put it in terms you'll understand...
If this were a nice winding, twisty road you just installed a speed bump.

I'm done with this topic.

And again, you could have posted an associated picture and moved on.

No one forced you to post, so you'd look like a "d!ck" did they, that was your choice. It did not break the thread, kids and bikes, bikes and kids.
You'll notice I added a "comfortable" picture for you to follow on from.

Also, thank you for the continued promotion of the cause in this thread.
If you go and look at the original posting you will see I thanked people for their indulgence, having admitted I was aware of the "rules", so where you feel the need to remind me of the spirit or basis comes from, I do not know.

Sorry your sensibilities were challenged. I have proposed a solution for you, go and ride with the kids and get some perspective.

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I think your post was inappropriate to the thread as well.

one post for the association, and a separate thread seems like a plan

rdalland said:

I think your post was inappropriate to the thread as well.

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Oh well, in that case I hope you never encounter burnt kids in real life. You'd upset them and they'd upset you. Best just ignore it, then it won't have happened will it?

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I have no problem with the content of your photos.

rdalland said:

I have no problem with the content of your photos.

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Good, because I was about to mention that if I'd said one of the kids was mine, then I venture that the response would have been dramatically different.

I see the thread has now moved on however.

whatever

So------------to hopefully turn the page----#3281, there I was at the Riding into History antique bike show in St.Augustine this weekend when this guy almost ran me over. Dennis had just rode in the day before from Indiana. The tag on the bike in #3280 is from-------.