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    Babies, Babies, Babies

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    Boats Anyone

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    Wear sunglasses when taking photo shots

    Thanks, BF. Option 1 is kind of too much for me: inconvenient to switch and keep the second pair at all times; the cost factor: already need another computer/reading glasses, three total would be less affordable; etc. Option 3 seems unrealistic as I like to verify exp by viewing the EVF...
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    Wear sunglasses when taking photo shots

    Not sure if this topic suits the photo Q&A section, but fire it up for your experience, comments, and advice anyway. I have been wearing prescribed glasses with a "transitional" feature for a long time. It's been my all-time-around glasses except for my computer/reading glasses. So since the end...
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    AI PP is Great and Stinks

    In the Art world, there is no boundary, natural or AI. And they are undeniably all mixed to indistinguishable and inseparable. What the world has become!
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    Dead pixels

    What's the cause of this you think? And what's the rate at which this happens in the Z-camera case?
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    Telephoto landscape by focus shifting

    Another scene:
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    Post Your Birds (3)

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    Post Your Birds (3)

    Clean up
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    Telephoto landscape by focus shifting

    The day at the shooting site was good weather, warm (90 degrees), and shining. Unfortunately, the remote mountain area (Yosemite and Sierra) was mostly covered with clouds and fog. I tried anyway knowing no success could be expected for the target, Half Dome, which was barely visible to the eye...
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    Vote for Weekly Challenge May 17 - 23: "Abandoned"

    Congratulations to PLM!!!
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    Vote for Weekly Challenge May 10 - 16 -- "Mailbox(es)"

    Congratulations to Karen!!!
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    StarStaX question

    Can't see (from my aging eyes) the effect, please deliberate a bit, Fred.
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    StarStaX question

    It looks like the "Amount" increases the "light exposure" and thus seemingly "reduces the amount of the trails". Because the 3rd image has a different viewing size (at least with my screen), hard to compare and see the effect of "gradient" processing except for clarity improvement.
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    Google set to delete inactive accounts

    @Clovishound No, NYT just asks people who are not a subscriber to provide an "email" account, not a "Gmail" account, to continue reading the article. I reckon why not use my Gmail acc to do this for the sake of keeping active...
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    StarStaX question

    I don't take that as pp for the star-trails images. Only use those tools as an enhancement or preference for the "trail" effect, which you don't (and can't?) do in pp...
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    StarStaX question

    On the right side of the SS window, there are three icons: preference, tools, and xxx. Before and during stacking, it shows preference panel for setting desired features. Only after stacking, it changes to the Tools panel that you can change Threshold and Amount...
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