The Coffee House

Gary A. · Apr 9, 2017

Buenos Dias Coffee Hosers. Today Gary will start learning a new photo processing program. Apple has quit supporting Aperture and the old Aperture doesn't read the new Fuji files. Gary has been avoiding avoiding this painful day for months ... but it is way past time to dive into his backlog of images.

Okay, Gary has said it ... now back to some coffee and the morning paper ...

limr · Apr 9, 2017

Morning, hosers. It's not even 11am and I'm already at my 7500 steps for the day.

Who the hell have I become???

(I got up at 7:30, did some weights, then went for a walk with Buzz. Saturdays are going to be my lazy days.)

Matzoh ball soup for lunch. Yum!

limr · Apr 9, 2017

If I can keep this up, I might be able to raise my step limit back up to 10,000 soon.

JonA_CT · Apr 9, 2017

Gary A. said:
Buenos Dias Coffee Hosers. Today Gary will start learning a new photo processing program. Apple has quit supporting Aperture and the old Aperture doesn't read the new Fuji files. Gary has been avoiding avoiding this painful day for months ... but it is way past time to dive into his backlog of images.

Okay, Gary has said it ... now back to some coffee and the morning paper ...

What did you decide to go with? Did you give into Adobe, or are you going with Affinity Photo or something else?

table1349 · Apr 9, 2017

Well, we introduced a new member to the family Friday night. A bouncing baby girl, 7 pounds two ounces. We have named her Raven Brooke. She is an active little thing that once she got used to being here has developed a wonderful appetite. Her brother and two sisters have all gotten to love her and she has started to figure them out. She is going to be a wonderful addition to our family.

Here is her official first photo.

Gary A. · Apr 9, 2017

BTW- Yesterday, because of an email screw-up, the City of Hawaiian Gardens 'hired' a replacement photog for the parade. I'm a volunteer. A couple days before the parade contact between the City and Gary was established and I again volunteered ... but it was too late to cancel the 'pro'. Gary meet him about an hour prior to the start of the parade and we had time to chat. He was quite friendly and affable ... but a touch condescending, as in, I'm a pro and you're just a wannabe. It sorta ticked Gary off ... so Gary told him that as you're the hired-hand and he is the volunteer ... you do all the heavy lifting and shoot the required stuff. A la, all the floats with attention to the sponsor's name, all the VIP's both close-ups and wide angles, et cetera. Gary would shoot all the color stuff, the people and the side bar stuff surrounding the parade. He said okay, but I know he was a bit ticked. I think he was shooting with a pair of 5D's. Dunno which ones. One Canon had a 70-200 F/2.8 the other a wide zoom, maybe 24-70 F/2.8 with a fill flash. The fill was a smart move as this was a noon time parade. We didn't speak to equipment. A less condensating pro would have asked about mirrorless. Gary ran into an LA Times photog shooting the same event and he inquired about Gary's Fuji's. Gary told him that he used to work at the Times ... he looked at Gary and said that he heard of me ... after he left, Mary Lou laughed at Gary ... saying "... Yeah, he heard of you, but not in a good way ...". lol

PS- At lunch, Mary Lou said she sensed a bit of condescension in the guy. She was proud of me for holding my tongue and not saying anything. Gary looked at the other photog's web site ... Gary is better.

Gary A. · Apr 9, 2017

JonA_CT said:
Gary A. said:

Buenos Dias Coffee Hosers. Today Gary will start learning a new photo processing program. Apple has quit supporting Aperture and the old Aperture doesn't read the new Fuji files. Gary has been avoiding avoiding this painful day for months ... but it is way past time to dive into his backlog of images.

Okay, Gary has said it ... now back to some coffee and the morning paper ...

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What did you decide to go with? Did you give into Adobe, or are you going with Affinity Photo or something else?

Gary doesn't like Adobe. Adobe has a long history of very poor development of Fuji RAW images. Gary understands that Adobe has finally fixed the RAW problem ... for now. For decades, Gary has always hated the UI of Adobe, but Gary uses many of the Adobe products as they are industry standards for printing. Gary is not a fan of renting programs purely for the financial benefit of the company. Gary Has Affinity, Capture One (which works quite well but slows way down when loaded up with a ton of images) and Iridient (which does a great job but the UI isn't very slick).

Gary has give given a cursory look at the above programs. Affinity seems to have the best support. He has about six 'assignments' to get processed, he's basically flipping a coin and it came up Affinity. If Affinity slows down when loaded up, then he'll try Iridient. In the past, Gary would use Aperture for RAW conversion to JPEG and global manipulations, then polish the image in Photoshop for specific area manipulation.

Gary A. · Apr 9, 2017

gryphonslair99 said:
Well, we introduced a new member to the family Friday night. A bouncing baby girl, 7 pounds two ounces. We have named her Raven Brooke. She is an active little thing that once she got used to being here has developed a wonderful appetite. Her brother and two sisters have all gotten to love her and she has started to figure them out. She is going to be a wonderful addition to our family.

Here is her official first photo.

Congrats on the latest family member.

vintagesnaps · Apr 9, 2017

At least with the snafu Gary you got to pretty much do what you wanted and let the schmuck (I mean other person who happened to have a camera) get the sponsor photos etc. (did that with hockey and now can't help but pay attention to the dasher ads at games). They'll find out the hard way who they should have used for the parade.

And I like Mary Lou's sense of humor!

Sharon is tired. Sharon didn't end up going picture taking which was fortunate because the interstate was shut down for 3 hours near where we were going. Instead Sharon's best friend who is something of a gardener was going to help figure out what to do with my flower beds in the back and put in a garden lantern thingy and sweep off the stones... but mostly all that got done was a good but of perusing. Well, too early to plant for awhile yet anyway, maybe Sharon shall peruse gardening websites.

Gary A. · Apr 9, 2017

vintagesnaps said:
At least with the snafu Gary you got to pretty much do what you wanted and let the schmuck (I mean other person who happened to have a camera) get the sponsor photos etc. (did that with hockey and now can't help but pay attention to the dasher ads at games). They'll find out the hard way who they should have used for the parade.

And I like Mary Lou's sense of humor!

Sharon is tired. Sharon didn't end up going picture taking which was fortunate because the interstate was shut down for 3 hours near where we were going. Instead Sharon's best friend who is something of a gardener was going to help figure out what to do with my flower beds in the back and put in a garden lantern thingy and sweep off the stones... but mostly all that got done was a good but of perusing. Well, too early to plant for awhile yet anyway, maybe Sharon shall peruse gardening websites.

The funny thing, he just stood in one location and shot each float/participant as it passed and chatted with parade officials. Meanwhile Gary walked the entire parade route, repeatedly, shot 90% of the floats and participants and got tons of the local folks having a good time. The local folk are much interesting and a greater challenge than the mayor.

jcdeboever · Apr 9, 2017

I think I got down to the bottom of my under exposure on my Nikon FM. I Noticed that the metering tab collar was at the 11 o'clock position (should be 2oclock). I didn't recall that ever being like that. Looking at the parts breakdown, the tab appears to be connected with a wire or string to a pulley/spring, then to a rotary resistor. I could probably fix it but I emailed the guy I bought it from and he is sending me another one and I will return this one. Pretty awesome. I emailed him looking for tips and didn't expect a replacement.

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