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Teleku
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Haha, I saw the mini-bar and knew where you were before even seeing the aloft picture. I usually stay there because its the cheapest Starwoods hotel in the city, so a good way for me to rack up my yearly nights as I bounce through the city for work and leisure travel. Just wish it wasn't at the back end of Soi 11.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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IainC
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One night stopover in Bangkok. Probably the same Marriott in Iain's photos.
It's not the same Marriot (actually there are three different Marriot hotels within view of my apartment balcony), but I know where that place is. There's a cocktail bar just opposite it called Oskar Bistro that I go to occasionally with friends. It's near to Nana, on Soi 11 IIRC. In your sunset pic, my condo is off to the left of the frame, you're looking down Sukhumvit towards Chit Lom, my condo is two stops in other direction. If you're going through BKK again, hit me up.
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Mosesandstick
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Yup Soi 11 - Teleku's clearly got it. Will do next time - unfortunately it was only a one night stopover this trip.
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IainC
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Khaldun
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Trying to decide if I still want to keep my stuff on Flickr, by the way. I don't really use it as cloud storage, so it's no skin off my nose to get rid of a couple of hundred of my oldest and shittiest photos.
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Mosesandstick
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That's a good question. I'm thinking hard about it - I'm over the 1000 photo limit. I used to be a pro subscriber, but it's now twice the cost and I'm not sure it's worth the money, but there's not many other options that hit both the storage and social media niche.
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Khaldun
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Yeah. It's an interesting domain--things have either gone completely to storage or they've been eaten up by the worst imperatives of social media. I kind of liked dumpy old Flickr for what it was.
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IainC
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You shouldn't be using Flickr as a storage solution, get a proper off-site backup like Backblaze or Amazon Glacier for that. Flickr is probably the best sharing and publishing solution at the moment however and I'm definitely going to pony up the $50 before the purgening begins.
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Mosesandstick
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Hmm, why would you say that? Flickr for me is my backup backup. My main backup is a physical backup that keeps both my jpgs and raws. By allowing full-sized jpgs to be shared and downloaded, it effectively backs up all the jpgs you upload, though I wouldn't want to have to download 1000 of them manually.
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IainC
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Hmm, why would you say that? Flickr for me is my backup backup. My main backup is a physical backup that keeps both my jpgs and raws. By allowing full-sized jpgs to be shared and downloaded, it effectively backs up all the jpgs you upload, though I wouldn't want to have to download 1000 of them manually.
- You can only store jpegs, not RAWs/DNGs/PSDs/catalogues/etc. - Flickr applies some compression and sharpening to images, the downloaded files aren't the same as the uploaded files - There are no easy ways to recover from Flickr apart from downloading zip archives of individual albums - which are compressed again. - They don't guarantee your data integrity. If there's a blip and your account gets nuked, you have no recourse other than to upload them all again. It's not likely to happen, but actual storage solutions do offer security against that. - There's no automatic backup/sync. If you don't manually upload images, they aren't backed up. Sharing and storage have different priorities. Flickr is great for sharing, but you absolutely shouldn't be using it as an offsite backup. All of my published photos are on Flickr, but I also have a physical backup on a HDD at home which gets synced to Backblaze continuously.
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« Last Edit: November 10, 2018, 07:57:26 PM by IainC »
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Khaldun
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Really nice shots. Like the last two especially.
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RhyssaFireheart
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That middle pic is fabulous! Can I use it on my desktop?
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Mosesandstick
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Of course, it'd be my honour.
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IainC
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Mosesandstick
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Adorable kitty! Did you have to go far out of Bangkok to get to this place?
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Teleku
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Pretty sure he's just down by the main river that runs through Bangkok.
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IainC
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It's the main government district around a couple of the royal palaces.
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Khaldun
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The cat in the cannon is pretty classic.
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Signe
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I just got caught up on this thread (from August!) and, OMG, there are some gorgeous pics.
Having said that... don't you guys ever stay put? ;p
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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IainC
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Teleku
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Nice! I love Chiang Mai. I’d kill for a position up there, but they don’t have any permanent positions for what I do at the consulate (we support it out of Bangkok).
Please tell me you ate nothing but Khao Soi.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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IainC
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Khaldun
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Yeah, nice sharp clarity from that lens.
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IainC
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RhyssaFireheart
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Those are all great, Iain but that first one with the reflections in the building is my favorite!
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Khaldun
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Yeah, that's a great shot.
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Count Nerfedalot
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That last shot with the foreground flowers in focus and the remaining 90% of the picture out of focus ... intrigues me. I don't think I like it. But it keeps drawing me back trying to figure out what you were trying to do with it. Definitely not your standard tourist snapshot. I like the B&W shot of the same structure much better. But I think you are trying for something with that blurry shot that I should learn. Maybe both pics are attempts to compensate for a setting having fabulous architectures and textures but cursed with a drab overcast sky? The B&W brings out the textures, while the narrow focal plane kind of brings out the colors.
Hmmm. I've done some playing with focal plane with macro photography but that's about it. Might be time for me to pull the trigger on a nifty-50 and start experimenting.
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Yes, I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
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IainC
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That last shot with the foreground flowers in focus and the remaining 90% of the picture out of focus ... intrigues me. I don't think I like it. But it keeps drawing me back trying to figure out what you were trying to do with it. Definitely not your standard tourist snapshot. I like the B&W shot of the same structure much better. But I think you are trying for something with that blurry shot that I should learn. Maybe both pics are attempts to compensate for a setting having fabulous architectures and textures but cursed with a drab overcast sky? The B&W brings out the textures, while the narrow focal plane kind of brings out the colors.
Hmmm. I've done some playing with focal plane with macro photography but that's about it. Might be time for me to pull the trigger on a nifty-50 and start experimenting.
The sky was definitely a factor, it was the worst kind of bright sky but with no texture that makes photos look like crap. For the last one, I wanted the setting to be a texture rather than the subject of the photo. I didn't want the huge bokeh from going wide open, because I wanted the background to still be discernible without actually being sharp, so I shot it at something like f/5.6 (there's no EXIF, it's all film). That way the flowers at the front are the subject, and the setting becomes a frame for them. Maybe I should have opened it up a bit more to make the effect more pronounced but I liked the feeling that I got from this one.
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Khaldun
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I like the idea. I think in general when you've got an in-focus foreground and an oof background, the foreground has to be the star; the background has to intrigue/complicate what you're seeing.
I'm contemplating doing a big series of pictures in and around the campus for use for a webpage and I am aware that I tend to shoot underfocused/dark images. I want something that's a counterpoint to stock images--that isn't as generic and insincere as most of them--but that is still professional and competent. I think I have to figure out how to shoot bright and big (and with proper focus) without framing conventional, cliched, or staged images. Going to be a challenge. I may for the first time in a long time shift off of a 100% manual setting on a shot so I can really focus on composition and lighting.
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calapine
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Just a phone snapshot, but I like the light play.
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Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
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Khaldun
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Yeah, snow at night tends to do really cool things to night-time light sources. Great image.
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