leighton w wrote:
Are you in the southern or northern part of the island? I once thought I might move there.
It's called the "Mid-Island," but it's actually just a bit more than a quarter of the way directly north from the south end (the Island is on a slant that goes from southeast to northwest, so measuring from south to north compresses the length of the Island a bit). Even though you didn't end up moving here, maybe you could make a trip to the Pacific Northwest sometime and find out what you traded for your life in the Shenandoah Valley.
James Markus wrote:
The 32" smart TV as a monitor was working so good I decided to upgrade one of my primary Windows based imaging stations to the same model. However, they were out of stock. So went to the 42" model of the same manufacturer. These were shot with the 16mm f3.5 ai fisheye (infrared), and the 24mm f2.8 ais. Best part is that "cash back" paid for the whole thing + a $100 gift card. I can read those fonts now!
Seeing your setup, Jim, I'm getting excited for the new desktop PC I ordered last week (it's supposed to be ready for pick-up by next Tuesday). Although the largest monitor I'll be using will be a mere 27" (with a 24" second screen), it'll be a giant step up from the 15" laptop I've been using for the past couple of years! It's also giving me a way to keep active with my photography without having to go outdoors in the cold winter weather. In order to learn the ins and outs of DXO PhotoLab and On1 PhotoRaw, as well as the powers of my new computer, I've decided to go back through the images I've taken with MFNG since we moved out to the West Coast in 2017 and process any good ones that I chose not to process immediately after shooting them.
For today's image post, I have a set of three infrared photos from Big Qualicum River, courtesy of my Fuji X-T2 with the permanently mounted Lens Turbo II and the 2.8 f/3.5 H. As I was processing it, the third one surprised me with its realistic faux colour.
James Markus wrote:
The 32" smart TV as a monitor was working so good I decided to upgrade one of my primary Windows based imaging stations to the same model. However, they were out of stock. So went to the 42" model of the same manufacturer. These were shot with the 16mm f3.5 ai fisheye (infrared), and the 24mm f2.8 ais. Best part is that "cash back" paid for the whole thing + a $100 gift card. I can read those fonts now!
GroWeb wrote:
It's called the "Mid-Island," but it's actually just a bit more than a quarter of the way directly north from the south end (the Island is on a slant that goes from southeast to northwest, so measuring from south to north compresses the length of the Island a bit). Even though you didn't end up moving here, maybe you could make a trip to the Pacific Northwest sometime and find out what you traded for your life in the Shenandoah Valley.
Yea, maybe one of these days. If I do, I'll let you know.
quote]cadman342001 wrote:
Brrrrr ! Gotta love a cold sunny winter's day.
PS - Why is no-one skating on it ? Kids these days.
Andy
The freezing temps did not really hit until last Saturday evening, and I know there's still quite a flow under that frozen surface. Don't think I've ever seen skaters in the river, at least in the downtown area. There used to be an architectural water feature next to the Fifth Third building in the picture that would be opened up for ice skating on weekends. That's been replaced now (big time) with a new skating ribbon on the near side of the river that requires timed tickets (to control the crowds) that sells out quite regularly on weekend evenings.
We are having too much rain for this time of the year. Rainy season should have ended two months ago but instead it's been rain, floods, rain, floods, thunder, floods, rain, wind. Very uncharacteristic.
Still taking the odd picture here, and there.
D700 + AI Zoom Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.5-4.8S | 70mm F5.6 ISO 3600 -0.67EV
Leighton, Fortunately I have a commercial L-shaped desk/credenza - so the TV/monitor is 3-4 feet away. I did have to raise my chair as high as it would go, because having the screen head centered felt wrong - I needed to be high of center by about 5 inches. Also, my former 24" & 22" dual monitor setup was from 2008 and getting dim - nearly impossible to read.
This brings up a pet peeve I have with Abobe products. They have propriatory GUIs with incredibly illegible fonts. I have been squinting at this interface since Photoshop v2 in 1989. You would think a company so focused on creatives and design would allow some real choices in the graphical user interface. Then again - I suppose it pushed me to explore the world of Linux in the mid to late 1990s. The mac mini that is hooked up to the 32" on hdmi2 has a dual boot Win10/UbuntuMATE v23.10 hooked up to hdmi1. Both running at the same time (plus TV) - with a simple source change to go back and forth is really liberating. I still have other dual monitor setups, but this new one is Win10/UbuntuMATE as well with free hdmi ports to add on.
Many of my kids live 15 - 20 miles east of me, and they have 10-12 inches. I live closer to lake Michigan - so we get "lake effect snow". I had to take three breaks shoveling the front walk yesterday.
leighton w wrote:
Wow, that's quite the monitor. What's it like sitting that close to one that big?
Love the critter shots. We only had 4 inches here.
The freezing temps did not really hit until last Saturday evening, and I know there's still quite a flow under that frozen surface. Don't think I've ever seen skaters in the river, at least in the downtown area. There used to be an architectural water feature next to the Fifth Third building in the picture that would be opened up for ice skating on weekends. That's been replaced now (big time) with a new skating ribbon on the near side of the river that requires timed tickets (to control the crowds) that sells out quite regularly on weekend evenings.
I know you've probably said in the past, but what city is this?
SiMuMe wrote:
We are having too much rain for this time of the year. Rainy season should have ended two months ago but instead it's been rain, floods, rain, floods, thunder, floods, rain, wind. Very uncharacteristic.
James Markus wrote:
Leighton, Fortunately I have a commercial L-shaped desk/credenza - so the TV/monitor is 3-4 feet away. I did have to raise my chair as high as it would go, because having the screen head centered felt wrong - I needed to be high of center by about 5 inches. Also, my former 24" & 22" dual monitor setup was from 2008 and getting dim - nearly impossible to read.
This brings up a pet peeve I have with Abobe products. They have propriatory GUIs with incredibly illegible fonts. I have been squinting at this interface since Photoshop v2 in 1989. You would think a company so focused on creatives and design would allow some real choices in the graphical user interface. Then again - I suppose it pushed me to explore the world of Linux in the mid to late 1990s. The mac mini that is hooked up to the 32" on hdmi2 has a dual boot Win10/UbuntuMATE v23.10 hooked up to hdmi1. Both running at the same time (plus TV) - with a simple source change to go back and forth is really liberating. I still have other dual monitor setups, but this new one is Win10/UbuntuMATE as well with free hdmi ports to add on.
Many of my kids live 15 - 20 miles east of me, and they have 10-12 inches. I live closer to lake Michigan - so we get "lake effect snow". I had to take three breaks shoveling the front walk yesterday.
3 to 4 feet away seems doable, but for now, I'll stick with my 4k 27" monitor.
Sounds like you have quite the setup there. Dual monitors would be helpful at times. I noticed that about LR back when I was using it and wondered the same thing. Have you seen others mention it? You would think it would be a really simple fix for the engineers at Adobe.
leighton w wrote:
What's the temperature that goes along with the rain?
50-60s in Fahrenheit (15-22 deg Celsius) typically. On Sunday evening dropped 100mm(~ 4in) of rain under an hour, flooding many neighbourhoods. Tomorrow's forecast is more rain but a bit less than the past few days.
I have a "big iron" workstation in my studio - 4k 27" & a regular 27" paired. My old version of Adobe products do not scale on 4K monitors like the new subscription versions, but the GUIs literally became one quarter the size. So I run the 4K monitor at 1920 x1080, and dragged Lightroom's develop sliders onto the left edge of the right-hand monitor - across the gap. I thought I would miss dual monitors, but I don't. I think the resistance to customizing the interface is a Steve Job's like control issue with Adobe. I did run the 4K monitor at spec for a few years using a self created manifest file to scale just Photoshop to 1920 x 1080, but dragging windows from one monitor to another was disconcerting. Plus you could literally lose a window in a non-visible area. Not fun to fix!
leighton w wrote:
3 to 4 feet away seems doable, but for now, I'll stick with my 4k 27" monitor.
Sounds like you have quite the setup there. Dual monitors would be helpful at times. I noticed that about LR back when I was using it and wondered the same thing. Have you seen others mention it? You would think it would be a really simple fix for the engineers at Adobe.
"Entering the Park" Very cold here with not much snow. Taken with the 300 f4.5 Ais (new to me). First trip out with it. Hand holding in single digits is a challenge. Thanks for looking.
Scott
James Markus wrote:
The 32" smart TV as a monitor was working so good I decided to upgrade one of my primary Windows based imaging stations to the same model. However, they were out of stock. So went to the 42" model of the same manufacturer. These were shot with the 16mm f3.5 ai fisheye (infrared), and the 24mm f2.8 ais. Best part is that "cash back" paid for the whole thing + a $100 gift card. I can read those fonts now!
As a victim of many pushes here....
