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El Diablo

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  1. Speaking of plants, I needed some new floaters for my 55 and that reminded me that I wanted to mention to you the place that I've been buying my plants for the last couple of years. plantedaquariumscentral.com Unfortunately COVID kinda killed them this year and they are closed until early next year but Heather, the gal that runs it, is doing good work there. The website isn't fancy but the plants that I've bought there, and they have been numerous, have all been really high quality and she almost always throws in a little something extra. They're in AZ so I try to take into account the time of year as far as weather and shipping conditions but I've never been disappointed by what I've gotten from them. Like most stores there are times when they are out of items and they're family run so they close a few times a year for regrouping and whatever. I have used buceplant.com for the obvious. They're expensive as shit and frankly I don't get the love for the little plants that seemed to be all the rage but just thought I'd mention them too.
  2. JHawks will be interesting without Azubuike and Dotson. De Souza probably would be nice to have too.
  3. The elevation is giving me a nose bleed.
  4. It's just one more example of the violence inherent in the system.
  5. Thanks for sharing that. So damned young. I know when I was that age I literally told a counselor that I didn't have time to get clean and sober, I had plans! RIP young dude.
  6. Congrats on the boat, don't run out of gas.
  7. I've got software to resize/resample, I've got a printer and photo paper from 4"x6" - 8.5"x11". How big you want your photo?
  8. I'd appreciate it if you could find the time to show up at her next event that is receiving some media attention. Wait 'til she has a few folks around her and ask her for an autograph on her boob shot. If anyone asks where you got it from, dish the deets.
  9. Randolph Duke, AKA "El Nino (Spanish for el nino)", said that there would be no major changes until next TV deal got done or something like that. Has he weighed in on the Grande?
  10. Who was the sucker that paid for them hideous knobs of hers anyway? On the one hand I kinda think that guy needs to be sanctioned somehow and then on the other hand boobs. Bitch fucks up shit that should be simple, gotdammer.
  11. I was sitting in front of the Hilton downtown fiddling with the camera and using the longhorn cattle sculptures across the street to dial in the exposure yesterday. Cars kept whizzing by blocking my efforts but then it hit me to try a panning shot to create motion blur. As it turned out the distance/speed ratio wasn't exactly what you want but I think I gained enough insight on the process to actually go out and get a decent shot next time. It's shitty but hey, I wasn't expecting to get it perfect first time. I think it'll be something fun to play with when I do get out again.
  12. I've had good luck with AquaBid, for the most part. Did have one dipshit seller and we ended up calling the deal off so only thing I was out was my time and frustration of dealing with a dumbass but if you know what you want and what it should cost then they are generally as reliable as anyone. Of course we're going into colder months now so shipping can be iffy.
  13. It's definitely going to be a bigger potential headache the further we get into the season. You can get by early on if a key player or more has to miss some games or miss practices during Christmas break or whatever but come January when you're down to a 7 player rotation? Shit.
  14. Where's Barry Goldwater when you need him?
  15. Seems like bball is going to be more hazardous than football this year, as far as pandemic concerns go. Pros played in a bubble to get their season finished. Close quarters, high contact game played indoors with college kids. What could go wrong? Though small squad size might make things easier to manage both from a potential contact with a COVID positive individual and from a rescheduling perspective if it comes to that.
  16. I've got my phone charged, ready to take video and post on FB for "likes". Doing my part.
  17. 4-0 in conference and at the top of the leaderboard. You need some Robitussin for that cough?
  18. Another good thing about the Nikon software, it does some of that, at least for the Nikon gear, all by isseff. One of the reasons I'm puzzled by the lack of online content for NX-D. I know there's some connection between it and a 3rd party product line of plugins or something (Nik collection maybe?), one was the spinoff from the other but I don't recall the details.
  19. Appreciate the quick reply. Where did you learn what you do use? I think that I have pretty much everything I need really, just don't know how to use it. PSE has ACR built in but I don't know what I don't know and I *THINK* that the Nikon freeware does pretty much what anyone would do with ACR. Do you use LR for global picture fixes the way some use ACR before messing with it further? I've watched a shit ton of youtube vids but man, there's about a million of them online and it's a fucking rabbit hole from hell. I did buy a digital book specific to my edition of PSE so I am planning to take a deep dive into that soon. 500 pages from the elementary to the absurd. The software IS so powerful and flexible that I have realized that people who have been using it in some form for years keep getting surprised by features or ways to do things that they weren't aware of. Gonna be a long, slow climb.
  20. Questions about post processing RAW files - Where/how did you learn whatever software you use? I'm old and behind the curve on this digimal shit. Do you use more than one program? ACR and then something else like Lightroom? I've got the Nikon NX-D freeware and a 2019 copy of Photoshop Elements. I've scoured the intertrons and there's not a lot out there on the NX-D which is a bit surprising but I like it for what it is. For one thing it recognizes the picture "profiles" that the file comes out of the camera with so when I import it it looks like the JPEG it would output. My understanding of ACR and other 3rd party stuff is that they import with none of that in-camera stuff attached so it's a flat/neutral image? Right? Anyway, I'd like to have some discussion on the topic of digital in general, working with the dynamic range limitations or anything else that you've mastered or struggle with. I'm here to learn. TIA
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