Desmolicious wrote:
“See right there is your problem (clicking on the flashlight), your blinker fluid is low. And that thonkin sound? You need to rotate your muffler gaskets”
Ah, but police folk love car shows. An incentive for becoming a police officer is for the opportunities to legally drive fast and furious. I still fondly recall the feeling of pushing the accelerator against the firewall, while cresting the high West Loop (Interstate 610) bridge over Interstate 10, in Houston, running northbound, Priority One, from my usual patrol district, into the neighboring district. The long line-of-sight allowed one to be “reasonable and prudent,” as required by law, running full throttle, for long enough to reach the vehicle’s maximum speed. The powerful strobes would reflect from large signs, over the freeway, several miles away. Heady stuff. Cue Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” inside one’s head.
Last one is just for fun: they simulated an interception of a small propeller plane by a Rafale and the jet managed to be as slow as possible to do so.
The F35 is the best at this game and very, very noisy: it triggers car alarms below him and make your ears hurt.
But less impressive than the F16 and the Rafale in flight.
P.S: you do not get this close to the planes when you are in the general public.
The first two images below are a couple of more photos that I reprocessed using the new Elite Portra 800 NB profiles from Cobalt-Image. It's not that I'm trying to simulate Portra 800 film, as such. It's just that I find the Elite Portra 800 profiles useful because I like the color rendition of this film, and that makes my processing easier and facilities getting the colors I want, particularly for images shot in difficult light — whether my images end up looking like Portra 800 or not. But I find these profiles more accurate than any other profiles that I've seen, which means that I find the basic color accuracy, in terms of the relation off the colors to each other, tends to remain as I change contrast and gradation.
The first image below is shot at noon, when the tropical light is so bright that you feel you have to squint if you're not wearing eyeglasses. Shooting into the noonday light, I had to underexpose three stops not to completely blow out the highlights. Lifting the shadows three stops still let me get the colors of the walls as I remembered them.
The second image, 8 am in the tropics with a morning fog, but already shooting into bright light. While I could get similar colors and gradation with other profiles, the Elite Portra 800 NB profile makes all this quicker and easier.
Leica M10 | Summaron-M 1:5.6/28 | ISO 200 | f/5.6 | 1/60 sec Chiang Mai
Leica M10 | DR Summicron 50 | ISO 200 | f/4.8 | 1/350 sec Wiang Pa Pao
One more thing, as stated in an FM thread on this subject, the Elite profiles are based on film exposed at box speed; but film can look very different depending how it's exposed. Below is a film image shot with Portra 800 pushed to 1600. I don't like the light bulb in the foreground, nor the blobs of the fluorescent lights in the background: what I like is the roughness of the film, which is impossible to simulate with the Lightroom grain facility. But the funny thing is, as I kept looking at the three images here, it occurred to me, that there actually is a generic similarity between the first two images and the third image (the real Portra 800 pushed to 1600) in terms an inherent roughness. Looks like: if you do high-contrast color — as I have in all three images because of the harshness of the light — you end up with some of the roughness.
Leica M3 | DR Summicron 50 | Portra 800 pushed to 1600 Wiang Pa Pao
An incentive for becoming a police officer is for the opportunities to legally drive fast and furious. I still fondly recall the feeling of pushing the accelerator against the firewall, while cresting the high West Loop (Interstate 610) bridge over Interstate 10, in Houston, running northbound, Priority One, from my usual patrol district, into the neighboring district. The long line-of-sight allowed one to be “reasonable and prudent,” as required by law, running full throttle, for long enough to reach the vehicle’s maximum speed. The powerful strobes would reflect from large signs, over the freeway, several miles away. Heady stuff. Cue Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” inside one’s head. 
