The Coffee House

[limr33 3]

Is the picture green? It doesn't look green on my monitor. Just the bridge is green.

 

[Designer]

Is the picture green? It doesn't look green on my monitor. Just the bridge is green.

Yes, there is a green cast to the entire frame.

 

[limr33 3]

Is the picture green? It doesn't look green on my monitor. Just the bridge is green.

Yes, there is a green cast to the entire frame.

Balls. Well, it's going to have to wait until I figure out whether or not I'm driving in the freezing rain today...

 

[bribrius]

how would it even get green? i run into blue quite a bit, not so much green

 

[limr33 3]

I have no idea. I did nothing to that photo other than clone out dust spots and crop the tiniest sliver off the side and bottom where a little bit of the edge of the negative was showing. I'm almost positive this was a straight scan. Sometimes I'll correct a bit of overexposure by removing the cyan cast with a "fade correction" tool on the scanning software (this is before it scans) but I don't remember doing that for this frame.

And it still doesn't look green to me, but I'll look at it on a different monitor.

 

[sm4him]

I have no idea. I did nothing to that photo other than clone out dust spots and crop the tiniest sliver off the side and bottom where a little bit of the edge of the negative was showing. I'm almost positive this was a straight scan. Sometimes I'll correct a bit of overexposure by removing the cyan cast with a "fade correction" tool on the scanning software (this is before it scans) but I don't remember doing that for this frame.

And it still doesn't look green to me, but I'll look at it on a different monitor.

It didn't really look green at all on my desktop at home, but yeah, here at work, on my Mac, it's got a green tinge to it.
On the other hand, my eyesight stinks and WB is pretty challenging to me anyway, so what do I know?

 

[KenC]

Color negatives often are developed so that they have a color cast relative to "standard" settings. I found that having them developed at the same place gave me a predictable cast which I could correct easily by color filtration changes on an enlarger or color balance changes during scanning. It only gets difficult when the cast is unpredictable and you have to figure it out again for each roll.

 

[sm4him]

Around freezing here, with some mist and slippery sidewalks, but supposed to be high thirties by the afternoon. Break out the beach chairs!

I'm having my coffee and brownie before going to see what happened in that train wreck of a thread called "knowing enough." The brownie is from a mix, but used coffee instead of water and also added vanilla (can't leave a recipe alone).

Hmmm…brownies with coffee instead of water. How were they? Might have to try that.

 

[Gary A.]

In other news...

I will probably start a thread to show a few of my Arizona pictures, but I need to finish scanning and then go in and clean up the dust off of the ones that are worth viewing. (And that's just the color! I still have to develop my black and white films.) There is one that I've done so far to post on a weekend thread we always have on another forum, and I thought I'd also share it here especially for my Coffee House peeps, before I start the other thread.

This was on New Year's Eve, and yes, it really was the desert:

rs green bridge by limrodrigues, on Flickr

That is very beautiful ... you gots some odd colorations in the snow below the bridge ... but that image has much more character than most digital.

 

[KenC]

Around freezing here, with some mist and slippery sidewalks, but supposed to be high thirties by the afternoon. Break out the beach chairs!

I'm having my coffee and brownie before going to see what happened in that train wreck of a thread called "knowing enough." The brownie is from a mix, but used coffee instead of water and also added vanilla (can't leave a recipe alone).

Hmmm…brownies with coffee instead of water. How were they? Might have to try that.

I've been doing this for a little while and liking it. I find the mixes a little on the sweet side, so the coffee takes the edge off and also adds a flavor and aroma that work with chocolate. Of course it helps to start with a good mix like Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Brownie Mix. Their directions for "cake-like" brownies only call for two tablespoons of water, so it really isn't a lot of coffee, but I'm not sure I wouldn't replace larger amounts of water with coffee - hard to get too much, don't you think?

 

[sm4him]

Around freezing here, with some mist and slippery sidewalks, but supposed to be high thirties by the afternoon. Break out the beach chairs!

I'm having my coffee and brownie before going to see what happened in that train wreck of a thread called "knowing enough." The brownie is from a mix, but used coffee instead of water and also added vanilla (can't leave a recipe alone).

Hmmm…brownies with coffee instead of water. How were they? Might have to try that.

I've been doing this for a little while and liking it. I find the mixes a little on the sweet side, so the coffee takes the edge off and also adds a flavor and aroma that work with chocolate. Of course it helps to start with a good mix like Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Brownie Mix. Their directions for "cake-like" brownies only call for two tablespoons of water, so it really isn't a lot of coffee, but I'm not sure I wouldn't replace larger amounts of water with coffee - hard to get too much, don't you think?

I'm a big fan of Dark Chocolate, largely because it's not as sweet as milk chocolate. I don't actually even care for most milk chocolate much.
And I'm a very big fan of coffee. Seems like the perfect combination, in fact, I'm wondering if there's some way to get more than just a couple of tablespoons in there. I'll have to think about that, sometime when I don't have a headache.

 

[Gary A.]

I see it as like blue in the corners and shadows ... you do have this vertical band of like blue running down the middle of the image.

 

[Gary A.]

Buenos Dias Coffee Hosers. It is foggy and 55F. It should hit the mid 60's. Colombian Supremo today. I'm so tired I think I been a gallon of the stuff to get me through the day,

 

[KenC]

Around freezing here, with some mist and slippery sidewalks, but supposed to be high thirties by the afternoon. Break out the beach chairs!

I'm having my coffee and brownie before going to see what happened in that train wreck of a thread called "knowing enough." The brownie is from a mix, but used coffee instead of water and also added vanilla (can't leave a recipe alone).

Hmmm…brownies with coffee instead of water. How were they? Might have to try that.

I've been doing this for a little while and liking it. I find the mixes a little on the sweet side, so the coffee takes the edge off and also adds a flavor and aroma that work with chocolate. Of course it helps to start with a good mix like Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Brownie Mix. Their directions for "cake-like" brownies only call for two tablespoons of water, so it really isn't a lot of coffee, but I'm not sure I wouldn't replace larger amounts of water with coffee - hard to get too much, don't you think?

I'm a big fan of Dark Chocolate, largely because it's not as sweet as milk chocolate. I don't actually even care for most milk chocolate much.
And I'm a very big fan of coffee. Seems like the perfect combination, in fact, I'm wondering if there's some way to get more than just a couple of tablespoons in there. I'll have to think about that, sometime when I don't have a headache.

You could always brew extra-strong coffee for that purpose, maybe espresso. The chemist in me wonders about the acids in the coffee neutralizing some of the baking soda, but in a couple of cases I've also added a little extra baking soda without much obvious effect, but with larger amounts/concentrations of coffee, who knows...

 

[Gary A.]

I have an activity tracker. Somehow it keeps putting me into these week long challenges with other peoples. In the past three weeks I've won two challenges. This time with 107,000 steps. The tracker also gives me daily goals. Yesterday was the first day I didn't hit my daily goal. The goal was 13,070 steps, much of the day was spent at the computer working on the campaign plus I didn't walk the dog due to rain, then company came over, I only managed 9,679 steps. The tracker lower my goal today down to 12,900 steps.

I find the activity tracker very motivating.