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[waday]

Does anyone know if we have a photo theme on highly edited photographs (thinking similar to art rather than a "recognizable" photograph)?

 

[waday]

@SquarePeg , I took a few photos of my daughter yesterday, but I have serious problems with white balance across the images using iPad/Affinity. I edited about 5 images, and 2 have the same color, the other 3 are all different. On the computer (Lightroom), I'd easily copy/paste the settings from one to next, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that on Affinity. Any tips?

 

[davidharmier60]

Fortunately I see things ok on my phone.
It wasn't the best Monday ever but did get almost every part of the floor scrubbed and buffed. Only the very front cross aisle because it was too late. 5.12 hours today and for the week so far.

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[SquarePeg51]

@SquarePeg , I took a few photos of my daughter yesterday, but I have serious problems with white balance across the images using iPad/Affinity. I edited about 5 images, and 2 have the same color, the other 3 are all different. On the computer (Lightroom), I'd easily copy/paste the settings from one to next, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that on Affinity. Any tips?

Hmmm - I typically shoot in Auto WB and very rarely change it. There was one set of softball photos that I took that all had a wonky WB and I ended up using the Auto WB filter in Affinity to fix them. Did you try that already?

ETA - Even though this was one of the rare instances where I used raw files instead of jpegs I didn't touch the wb in "develop", I used the Auto WB filter in the "photo" persona.

 

[smoke665]

@jcdeboever I tried in vain to get Edge to render images properly but it kept doing the same as Chrome. Which is why I still believe there is something amiss in Windows settings. What a PITA that Creator update has been. On another note, there are some striking resemblances in Edge to Firefox (layout).

@JonA_CT Yup that's going to create some issues for me as well. We drank the Google koolaid and now everything from calendars, to do lists, to email, to web history is synced between myself and DW. I will still need to keep Chrome for that.

 

[waday]

@SquarePeg , I took a few photos of my daughter yesterday, but I have serious problems with white balance across the images using iPad/Affinity. I edited about 5 images, and 2 have the same color, the other 3 are all different. On the computer (Lightroom), I'd easily copy/paste the settings from one to next, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that on Affinity. Any tips?

Hmmm - I typically shoot in Auto WB and very rarely change it. There was one set of softball photos that I took that all had a wonky WB and I ended up using the Auto WB filter in Affinity to fix them. Did you try that already?

Thanks Sharon, I did.. maybe I’ll try again when I get home. The first 2 had “good enough” WB SOOC, but I did still use Affinity’s auto WB. Then, the following three, when I used auto WB, it made them all have a red tint. Lesson learned, I should have just used my WB card, but nooooooo, I was too lazy to dig it out.

I did rush my editing, because Doctor Who was starting, LOL.

 

[Gary A.]

Sarcastically, Wade? My co-worker who said it to me definitely stayed up to watch the Pats game last night.

Hey @Gary A. ...the science teacher is thinking about bringing our kids to see First Man — what would you think about it for 8th graders?

I think it would be okay ... there is more personal/introverted perspective in the middle than action ... but it really shows a realistic first person, unromantic, view of what it takes to be an astronaut. The opening scene of an X15 flight, is something everybody should experience, especially science classes.

 

[Gary A.]

It would be nice to rent the movie and then stop and discuss after different and pertinent scenes.

 

[smoke665]

It would be nice to rent the movie and then stop and discuss after different and pertinent scenes.

Interesting that you say this, about the only thing I still remember from Lit class in college was the time the professor showed the movie "To Kill A Mockingbird". It took several days as he would stop every so often and open the class to discussion. We'd already had to read the book, so this really helped understand.

 

[waday]

but it really shows a realistic first person, unromantic, view of what it takes to be an astronaut.

It would be nice to rent the movie and then stop and discuss after different and pertinent scenes.

I'm glad to hear this! I want to see the movie, and if it's showing a realistic view of what it's like to be in such a position, I'm all for it. Realistic views of science, engineering, etc are so important for young folks. The one person that I work with started with us fresh out of college a year ago, and she's still learning what it is like to be in the real world. (She'll be there for the next few years.) Being able to pause the movie to discuss it with students as you watch would be extremely helpful, I would think?

My one nephew has a particularly idealistic view of science and research. He often claims he loves science. This past summer, he wanted to do science camp. It was only a week, and it wasn't sleepover camp. Easy, right? He stopped after the first day, because he said it was boring. He likes the end result, but not the work to get there. I've bought him fun science experiments to do at home, but he won't do them because "they're too much work".

In the past, I worked for a metals laboratory, I've been a lab assistant for my university's laboratory, and I've worked with a professor doing research. Collecting samples in the field isn't nearly has fun as it sounds, and working with dangerous strains of E. coli in the lab is pretty stressful. Late nights without sleep in the lab aren't fun (especially when security comes in and questions what you're doing while you're in the middle of work, LOL). Patience is extremely important, and it's not always available when you want it.

Saying that you work in a laboratory, collect samples in the field, and work with dangerous strains of bacteria sounds so interesting and exciting. But, when you realize after you spent several hours worth of work that you need to redo it because of accidental contamination or due to incorrect procedures, it's frustrating. And it's even more frustrating when it's not your fault, rather that of others. Or, when you realize that samples included raw wastewater samples from the local wastewater treatment plant, uh... meh. That smell is ingrained in my mind. You have to LIKE and LOVE the work, otherwise, you're going to quit. Some parts are fun, some parts want to make you jab a sharpened pencil into your palm.

This comic always comes to mind...

 

[smoke665]

Don't normally share these kind of things, but I know there are a lot of cat lovers on here. This is why I won't have a cat ---they don't play around LOL

 

[Gary A.]

Buenos Dias Coffee Hosers. Things are warming up around here as a Santa Ana wind is blowing in off the deserts. @smoke665: 7% humidity.

 

[waday]

Deja vu...

 

[vintagesnaps]

Sometimes cats and kids are brighter than their grown ups.
Ya gotta wonder sometimes...

I think it's nice to watch a movie thru and get into the flow of it, then watch it another time and stop and discuss with your peep(s); or if your peeps aren't around and it's just you, you start to notice different things you missed the first time.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Wade do you mean a photo illustration? I've done alternate processes (cyanotypes, lumen prints, etc.) which take a photograph and transform it into another type of artwork (or into something else, or another galaxy...).

But I don't know offhand if there's a thread for either of those. So no help am I young Jedi.