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This picture satisfies requirement 1- selfie. When I am planning this picture, I tried to come up with a way to capture my current state at home and Zoom, obviously, is the one thing that I am interacting with the most in this new reality. So I set up a Zoom call and tuned in with my computer, iPad, and my phone, and I also tried to utilize the gallery view to have as many views of myself as possible. It is interesting how there were four different cameras in this picture, including the camera I was holding. Thee key light in this picture is a lamp that I placed to the left of myself, and the fill light includes the light bouncing back from the wall on my right, and the screen light of the devices. I took this in manual mode and had to use a higher ISO to enable a faster shutter speed and minimize hand-held shaking. For post processing, I increased the contrast to darken the background and added post-crop vignetting to emphasize the subject.
I took this photo with my Canon EOS Rebel T6 to fulfill Requirement 5. Because I couldn't get into Denny Hall, I stood in the corner of the little hallway right before the front door, and I took 7 pictures overlapping one another. Afterwards, I used PTGUI to create a panorama and tie the photos together. Subsequently cropping them and adjusting the exposure and contrast with Lightroom.
I made use of my youngest brother's comic collection at home for this requirement. At the beginning of the day before going out for an official shooting day, I went in my brother's room and happened to notice the colorful bookshelf with famous children's books like Dog Man or Diary of a Wimpy Kid and decided to make it one of my photos for the assignment.
The room at that moment was pretty dark, so I decided to change the ISO to 8000 manually. In order to compensate for the grain, I did some post-processing to smoothen the photo. Beside that, I also increase saturation for most of the colors in picture to better demonstrate the concept of the effect of color as one of the elements of design.
There is no protective equipment requirement in soda can baseball, but soda can box helmets are often traditional.
This photo meets requirement 1. I underexposed the picture by shrinking the aperture, decreasing the shutter speed and decreasing the ISO.
The Pashupatinath Temple (Nepali: पशुपतिनाथ मन्दिर) is a famous, sacred Hindu temple dedicated to Pashupatinath and is located on the banks of the Bagmati River 5 kilometres north-east of Kathmandu Valley in the eastern city of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. This temple is considered one of the sacred temples of Hindu faith. The temple serves as the seat of the national deity, Lord Pashupatinath. This temple complex is on UNESCO World Heritage Sites's list Since 1979. This "extensive Hindu temple precinct" is a "sprawling collection of temples, ashrams, images and inscriptions raised over the centuries along the banks of the sacred Bagmati river" and is included as one of the seven monument groups in UNESCO's designation of Kathmandu Valley as a cultural heritage site. One of the major Festivals of the temple is Maha Shivaratri on which day over 700,000 devotees visit here.
The twelve Jyotirlinga (in India) are the body and the Jyotirlinga at Pashupatinath in Kathmandu (Nepal) is the head over this body.
The temple is one of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams (Holy Abodes of Shiva) on the continent. Kotirudra Samhita, Chapter 11 on the Shivalingas of the North, in Shiva Purana mentions this Shivalinga as the bestower of all wishes.
HISTORY
The temple was erected anew in the 15th century by Lichhavi King Shupuspa after the previous building had been consumed by termites. Countless further temples have been erected around this two -storied temple. These include the Vaishnav temple complex with a Ram temple from the 14th century and the Guhyeshwari Temple mentioned in an 11th-century manuscript.
LEGEND ABOUT THE TEMPLE ORIGIN
Pashupatinath Temple is the oldest Hindu temple in Kathmandu. It is not known for certain when Pashupatinath Temple was founded. But according to Nepal Mahatmaya and Himvatkhanda, the deity here gained great fame there as Pashupati, the Lord of all Pashus, which are living as well as non-living beings. Pashupatinath Temple's existence dates back to 400 A.D. The richly-ornamented pagoda houses the sacred linga or holy symbol of Lord Shiva. There are many legends describing as to how the temple of Lord Pashupatinath came to existence here. Some of them are narrated below:
THE COW LEGEND
Legend says that Lord Shiva once took the form of an antelope and sported unknown in the forest on Bagmati river's east bank. The gods later caught up with him, and grabbing him by the horn, forced him to resume his divine form. The broken horn was worshipped as a linga but overtime it was buried and lost. Centuries later an astonished herdsmen found one of his cows showering the earth with milk. Digging deep at the site, he discovered the divine linga of Pashupatinath.
THE LINCHCHAVI LEGEND
According to Gopalraj Vamsavali, the oldest ever chronicle in Nepal, this temple was built by Supuspa Deva, a Linchchhavi King, who according to the stone inscription erected by Jayadeva 11 in the courtyard of Pashupatinath in 753 AD, happened to be the ruler 39 generations before Manadeva (464-505 AD).
THE DEVALAYA LEGEND
Another chronicle states that Pashupatinath Temple was in the form of Linga shaped Devalaya before Supuspa Deva constructed a five storey temple of Pashupatinath in this place. As the time passed, the need for repairing and renovating this temple arose. It is learnt that this temple was reconstructed by a medieval King named Shivadeva (1099-1126 AD). It was renovated by Ananta Malla adding a roof to it. Thousands of pilgrims from all over the world come to pay homage to this temple, that is also known as 'The Temple of Living Beings'.
OTHER BELIEFS
There are several complex stories involving the origins of Pashupatinath. One story goes, in brief, that Shiva and Parvati came to the Kathmandu Valley and rested by the Bagmati while on a journey. Shiva was so impressed by its beauty and the surrounding forest that he and Parvati changed themselves into deers and walked into the forest. Many spots in the Kathmandu Valley are identified as places where Shiva went during his time as a deer. After a while the people and gods began to search for Shiva. Finally, after various complications, they found him in the forest, but he refused to leave. More complications ensued, but ultimately Shiva announced that, since he had lived by the Bagmati in a deer's form, he would now be known as Pashupatinath, Lord of all animals. It is said that whoever came here and beheld the lingam that appeared there would not be reborn as an animal.
FINDING OF SHIVA LINGA AT PASHIPATINATH TEMPLE
It is said that the wish-fulfilling cow Kamadhenu took shelter in a cave on the Chandravan mountain. Everyday Kamadhenu went down to the place the lingam was sunken into the soil and poured her milk on top of the soil. After ten thousand years some people saw Kamadhenu pouring milk on that same spot everyday, and started to wonder what that would be. So they removed the soil and found the beautiful shining lingam and started worshiping it.
TEMPLE COMPLEX
The area of Pashupatinath encompasses 264 hectare of land including 518 temples and monuments. Main pagoda style temple is located in the fortified courtyard within the complex guarded by Nepal Police and has a police outpost post along with living quarter within. In front of the western door there is a huge statue Nandi bull, in bronze. Along with many temples and shrines of both Vaishnav and saiva tradition.
TEMPLES AND SHRINES IN THE INNER COURTYARD
Vasuki nath temple
Unmatta Bhairav temple
Surya narayan temple
Kirti mukh bhairav shrine
Budanil kantha shrine
Hanuman shrine
184 shivaling shrine
TEMPLES AND SHRINES IN THE OUTER COMPLEX
Ram mandir
Virat swaroop temple
12 jyotirlingha and Pandra Shivalaya
Guhyeshwari Temple
MAIN TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE
This main temple is built in the Nepalese pagoda style of architecture. All the features of pagoda style is founded here like cubic constructions, beautifully carved wooden rafters on which they rest (tundal). The two level roofs are of copper with gold covering. The temple resides on a square base platform with a height of 23m 7 cm from base to pinnacle. It has four main doors, all covered with silver sheets. This temple has a gold pinnacle (Gajur). Inside are two Garbhagrihas, outer and inner. The inner garbhagriha or sanctum sanctorum is where the idol is placed and outer sanctum is an open corridor like space.
THE DEITY
The sacro sanctum, or the main idol is a stone Mukhalinga with a silver yoni base bound with silver serpent. The lingam is one metre high and has faces in four directions. These faces represents various ascepts of Shiva; Sadyojata (also known as Barun), Vamdeva (also known as Ardha nareshwor), Tatpurusha, Aghor & Ishana (imaginative). Facing West, North, East, South and Zenith respectively representing five primary elements namely earth, water, air, light and ether. Each face has tiny protruding hands holding rudraksha mala on right hand and a kamandalu on the other.Unlike other shiva lingams in India and Nepal this pashupati shiva lingam is always Dressed in its golden vastra except during abhishakam, so pouring milk and ganga jal is only possible during abhishakam through the main priests.
PRIESTS
Daily rituals of Pashupatinath are carried out by two sets of priests ;one being the Bhatt priests and other Bhandari. Bhatta or Bhatt are the one who performs the daily ritual and can touch the lingam, where as Bhadaris are the helper and temple care taker priests but are not qualified perform pooja rituals or to touch the deity.
Bhatta or Bhat are highly educated Vedic bhramin Scholars from Brahmin family from South Indian State Karnataka.Unlike other Hindu temples priesthood of Pashupatinath is not hereditary. Priests are selected from a group of scholars educated by Shri Shankaracharya Dakshinamnaya Peeth Sringeri on Rig Vedic Recitation, initiated in Pashupata Yoga by Kashi Math,Shiva Āgama and learned Recitation of Samaveda from Haridwar.After qualifying and fulfilling all those criteria they will be selected for Priesthood by Raj Guru of Pashupatinath Temple undergoing strict examination on Vedas and Shiva Agamas and then the qualifies are sent to Kathmandu for performing Puja and Daily Worship of Lord Shri Pashupatinath This tradition is reported to have started by the request of Adi Shankaracharya in the 8th century, who sought to unify the different states of Bharatam (Unified India) by encouraging cultural exchange. This procedure is also followed in other temples around Bharata-varsa which were sanctified by Adi Shankaracharya. The unique feature of this temple is that only 4 Bhatta priests can touch the deity.Current Bhatt priests of the temple are;
Ganesh Bhat (15th head priest of the Pashupatinath Temple aka Mool Bhat) from Udupi.
Ram Karanth Bhat from Mangaluru.
Girish Bhat from Sirsi.
Narayan Bhat(Recently appointed) from Bhatkal
Raghavendra Bhat (Priest for Vasuki Nath temple only)
Bhandaris or Rajbhandari are the treasurers, temple caretakers, and assistant priest of the temple.
These Bhandaris are the descendants of helper priests brought up by early Bhatts, but were allowed to settle in Kathmandu valley and later assimilated in existing Newar caste of Rajbhandari - a high-caste Chathariya/Kshatriya clan of Kashyapa gotra. Their main function is to help the Bhatta priest and perform maintenance of the inner Garbhagriha. They can have little or no Vedic knowledge but still qualify as assistant priests if they belong from the same family lineage and undergo some basic criteria like caste, gotra, lineage purity, educational qualification, etc. They work in set of four and change in every full moon day. There are a total of 108 Bhandaris.
ENTRY AND DARSHAN
Temple courtyard has 4 entrances in all directions.The western entrance is the main entrance to the temple courtyard and rest three entrances are only opened during big festival . Temple security (Armed Police Force Nepal) is selective regarding who is allowed entry into the inner courtyard . Practicing Hindus and buddhist of Indian and Tibetan descendent are only allowed into temple courtiyard . Practicing Hindus of western descent are not allowed into the temple complex along with other non Hindu Visitors. Sikh and Jain groups are allowed into the temple compound if they are of Indian ancestry. Others can look at the main temple from adjacent side of the river and has to pay a nominal fee of $10 (1000 Nepali rupee) for visiting hundreds of small temples in the external premises of the temple complex . The inner temple courtyard remains open from 4 am to 7 pm for the devotee but the Inner Pashupatinath Temple where the Lingam of lord Pashupatinath is established is open from 5am to 12 pm for the morning ritual and viewing and from 5pm to 7 pm for evening ritual. Unlike many other Saiva temples devotees are not allowed to enter in the inner-most Garbhagriha but are allowed to view from the exterior premises of the outer Garbhagriha.
FESTIVALS
There are many festivals throughout the year .Thousands of people attend these festival.The most important festival is the Maha Shiva Ratri .Bala chaturthi and Teej.
CONTROVERSY OF 2009
In January 2009, after the forced resignation by the chief priest of Pashupatinath temple, the Maoist-led government of Nepal "hand picked" Nepalese priests to lead the temple, thus bypassing the temple's long-standing requirements. This appointment was contested by the Bhandaris of the temple, stating that they were not against the appointment of Nepalese priests but against the appointment without proper procedure. After the appointment was challenged in a civil court, the appointment was overruled by Supreme Court of Nepal.However, the government did not heed the ruling and stood by its decision. This led to public outrage and protests over a lack of transparency. The paramilitary group of the CPN (Maoist), called YCL, attacked the protesters, leading to over a dozen injuries. Lawmakers and activists from opposition parties joined protests, declaring their support for the Bhatta and other pro-Bhatta protesters. After long dissatisfaction and protest by Hindus both in and outside Nepal, the government was forced to reverse its decision that had been declared illegal by the Supreme Court of Nepal and reinstate Bhatta priests.
2015 EARTHQUAKE
The main temple complex of Pashupatinath and the sanctum sanctorum was left untouched but some of the outer buildings in the World Heritage Site were damaged by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.
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This photo satisfies requirement 1. It is underexposed which makes the walk way pop up. The aperture was set at f/13 to reduce the amount of light that came in and achieve this underexpose effect. However, the ISO was auto adjusted to a high number and thus there are a lot of noises in the picture.
This photo satisfies requirement 5. When playing poker I noticed a common color of red present in the chips and the cards. To isolate the color of red, I went ahead and eliminated the saturation of every other color in Lightroom. I also went ahead and increased the saturation of the red color to emphasize it. The aperture of this photo is small to have a low depth of field (allowing the user to focus on the midground). Unfortunately I think I ended up losing this hand.
I took this photo with my Canon EOS Rebel T6 to fulfill Requirement 1. Unlike the picture with Denny Hall where I made sure all of the vertical lines on the windows were parallel, I went closer to the building, and tilted my camera upwards to create a vanishing point. Though the vanishing point isn't as blatantly obvious as the picture of the pillars in Red Square, you can tell that the lines on the windows aren't parallel and will eventually reach a point where they will meet.
I used a large aperture (f/8.0) and a small ISO to stop the photo from being grainy and noisy. Afterwards, I adjusted the contrast and clarity with Lightroom.
This photo satisfies Requirement 5.
I took this photo using a Sony ILCE-7 Viltrox 85mm F1.8 with an aperture of f/2.8, a focal length of 85.0 mm, an exposure time of 1/100, and an ISO of 640.
I made this photo from two photos. One photo was the image of an unknown white flower taken by me and another photo was the photo of my friend (see Requirement 2 of this homework). I first rotated my friend's photo. Then, I chose some available frames to pile up the picture. Each small picture in this photo was processed through some apps on my phone and also through Photoshop. I wanted to create a scene that looks like many versions of my friend in parallel worlds are contemplating at the same time, which caused the space and time to collapse.
Note: I was in Vietnam, which is 14 hours earlier than PST time, so this photo was uploaded on June 1st, 2021 according to PST time.
This photo taken at the Olympic national park satisfies requirements 2. There was a lot of star but no moonlight that night. So in order to get a bright image, i set the aperture to f1.4 and the exposure for 30s. While i set ISO to 800 so that there will not too many noise in this photo. While the shutter speed is 30s, the camera shake will be a great significance. So i set my camera on a tripod and use the sony camera app on IPhone to take the photo so that i prevent the shake and get a good image. I use Lightroom to do the post process by changing the color temperature and increasing saturation, contrast and sharpness. The raw photo was also attached in this album.
Governor Phil Murphy signs a bill to fight high out-of-network medical expenses by increasing transparency requirements on healthcare and insurance providers and strengthening consumer protections on Friday, June 1st, 2018 in Woodbridge. Edwin J. Torres/Governor's Office.
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This photo satisfies requirement 2. I took it off the bridge next to the E1 parking lot, using an f/8 aperture with a 2 second shutter speed in order to create a blurred motion of only the cars lights as the subject. The ISO was also set to 100 to reduce light and noise so the picture was not over-exposed.
The goal of this photo is to showcase the most pure and fundamental tools of a cook and it fulfills REQUIREMENT 1 because it is overexposed to the extent that it is near all white. This photo was taken using a tripod with a plastic cutting board on top of a cream colored lounge chair as the background. A timed shutter was used so that I could pose with both hands in the photo. Because this lens is adapted the aperture data is wrong. The slow shutter speed and aperture (either 2.8 or 4.0 I think) were chosen to lower the ISO and achieve an overexposed look. In post, the photo was converted to b/w and exposure adjustments were made to bring more contrast to the shadows and brighten the highlights further.
This photo satisfies Requirement 4 because the subject of the photo is a macro shot of a flower. This dead flower caught my attention among the vibrant and alive ones so I got really close and took a macro shot of this flower.
In post I adjusted the exposure to show how blue, sad, and lifeless the flower is. I also cropped the photo tight on the flower for more emphasis.
This photo also satisfies Requirements 1 (foreground focus).
This satisfies requirement two because the front subject of the photo is blurry while the background is also blurry. The only focused subject is the flower in the middle. The subject in this photo was dangling high on the tree so I had to extend my lens to 180.0mm to focus on the subject. because it was a sunny day, I had to increase the aperture to make the background darker.
To emphasize the middle subject, I went to LightRoom, whitening, and emphasizing the middle focused flower. This post edit helped brighten the middle fower and satisfying requirement two. This satisfies requirement four because the subject is a plant/ flower.
This photo satisfies Requirements 1 because it is a silhouette shot of a man reading a book by the window at the Seattle Public Library. To capture this image, I exposed for the building and scenery outside of the library. To really exaggerate the silhouette shot, I made a few edits in post. I reduced the expose a little, increased the contrast, and tweaked the highlights, shadows, blacks, and whites. By making these adjustments, I was able get the subject really dark, close to black, while maintaining well exposure of the scenery outside the window.
This photo meets requirement 2. I focused on the rapids in the Tolt River with this photo to capture the snowmelt runoff water from the Western Cascade Mountains during this time of year. I manually set the shutter speed to 0.3, giving me the ability to capture motion blur in the rapids. The aperture was set at f/10 to offset the amount of light let in during a longer shutter speed.
This photo satisfies Requirement 2 for Indoor Natural Light Portrait. In this photo, the light source is from the sun coming through the window. The key light comes from the sun reflecting strongly off of white sheets. Fill light comes from the reflecting light off of the walls. I used a long focal length (66mm) for a flattering photograph, and a fast shutter speed (1/125 sec) to reduce camera shake. The wide aperture keeps the subject in focus while blurring the background (a very colorful painting my wife made).
These two articles illustrates how statistics can be manipulated. In order for a Chinese passenger to get on a plane, the passenger must present a negative Covid test taken within 48 hours. That is a requirement of the Chinese authorities. But countries such as South Korea and Japan require yet another test upon arrival. South Korea defends its policy by citing "people traveling from China who tested positive for Covid-19 went up 14 times from November to December." Well, in November, while China was practicing its zero Covid policy, there were practically no one tested positive. So 14 times of an extremely small number is most likely still a very small number. The first article below demonstrates that. China's international outbound bookings were described as "way down" from pre-pandemic level, but it went up by 192% from the previous year.
On top of that, South Korea is currently facing a very high infection rate, so the chance of visitors contracting Covid while visiting South Korea is quite high. It baffles me why anyone would want to visit any of the countries listed on the Johns Hopkins screenshot above. Here in the U.S., we have been warned that practically everyone may catch XBB.1.5.
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/1/12/chinas-flight-booking...
China's flight bookings way down despite reopening, data shows
China's outbound flight bookings were at only 15 percent of pre-pandemic levels in the week after the country announced it would reopen its borders, despite a 192 percent jump from the same period last year, according to travel data firm ForwardKeys.
Low airline capacity, high airfares, new pre-flight COVID-19 testing requirements by many countries and a backlog of passport and visa applications pose challenges as the industry looks to recovery, ForwardKeys Vice President Insights Olivier Ponti said in a statement on Thursday.
www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/south-korea-shares-eye-open...
South Korea shares eye-opening Covid statistics to defend its new rules for travelers from China
South Korea on Tuesday hit back at claims that its Covid rules for Chinese travelers are "discriminatory," saying more than half of its imported cases are coming from China.
In a response to CNBC, Seung-ho Choi, a deputy director at the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said that up to 80% of "imported confirmed cases" in South Korea are coming from China.Choi said the number of people traveling from China who tested positive for Covid-19 went up 14 times from November to December."
www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/china-stops-issuing-visas-t...
China stops issuing visas to Japanese and South Korean visitors as spat over test mandates for Chinese tourists widens
Japan and South Korea protested the visa stoppage, the AP reported separately on Wednesday.
South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin said he finds it “significantly regrettable” that China stopped issuing short-term visas to South Koreans and called for China to align its pandemic steps with “scientific and objective facts.”
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno criticized China for “one-sidedly” restricting visa issuances to Japanese nationals “because of a reason that is not related to COVID-19 measures.”
Tens of thousands of people have resumed travel in and out of China after the country lifted almost all of its border restrictions, ending three years of strict pandemic controls. Photo: Tyrone Siu/Reuters
In the U.S., the seven-day average of new cases stood at 63,982 on Tuesday, according to a New York Times tracker. That’s down 4% from two weeks ago and below the recent peak of 70,508 on Christmas Eve.
The daily average for hospitalizations was up 15% to 46,900. In an alarming statistic, the average for deaths stood at 580, up 50% from two weeks ago.
Cases are currently rising in 22 states, as well as Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Northern Mariana Islands. In Maryland, cases are up 170% from two weeks ago.
On a per capita basis, New Jersey and Rhode Island are showing the highest rates, with New Jersey recording 32 cases per 100,000 residents and Rhode Island 31.
Cases are also high on a per capita basis in North Carolina and South Carolina, as well as Mississippi and Florida.
Other COVID-19 news you should know about:
• Cyprus has joined the list of countries mandating COVID testing for tourists from China, the AP reported. The health ministry said it was heeding the advice of the European Union’s executive arm in requiring passengers from China to submit results from a PCR test taken 48 hours before their departure. The ministry also recommended the use of protective face masks on all flights to and from Cyprus as well as in any areas where people gather in large numbers.
• The Chinese air-travel regulator is preparing to allow airlines to fly more routes between China and the U.S. following the lifting of COVID travel restrictions, state TV reported Wednesday, as the AP reported. U.S. and Chinese airlines are among some 40 carriers that have submitted applications covering some 700 flights per week involving 34 countries, China Central Television reported on its website. It gave no timeline for when normal flights might resume.
• The Pentagon formally dropped its COVID-19 vaccination mandate Tuesday, but a new memo signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also gives commanders some discretion in how or whether to deploy troops who are not vaccinated, the AP reported. Austin’s memo has been widely anticipated since Dec. 23, when a new law gave him 30 days to rescind the mandate. The Defense Department had already stopped all related personnel actions, such as discharging service members who refused the shot. “The Department will continue to promote and encourage COVID-19 vaccination for all service members,” Austin said in the memo. “Vaccination enhances operational readiness and protects the force.”
Getting the flu can increase the risk of getting a second infection, such as strep throat. The Wall Street Journal’s Daniela Hernandez explains the science behind that, plus what it means for the rest of the winter and how we can protect ourselves from the tripledemic. Illustration: David Fang
Here’s what the numbers say:
The global tally of confirmed cases of COVID-19 topped 665.3 million on Wednesday, while the death toll rose above 6.7 million, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University.
The U.S. leads the world with 101.3 million cases and 1,097,660 fatalities.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s tracker shows that 229.3 million people living in the U.S., equal to 69.1% of the total population, are fully vaccinated, meaning they have had their primary shots.
So far, just 48.2 million Americans, equal to 15.4% of the overall population, have had the updated COVID booster that targets both the original virus and the omicron variants.
This photo meets the requirement of taking burst shot of motion.
I used a fast shutter speed to freeze the motion of my friend on the swing. The aperture was automatically set at that value because I used Tv mode. ISO 100 is enough to give proper exposure. I used continuous shooting to capture the series of motion.
Post processing include adjusting tone curve, noise reduction and vibrance. Then I used the stack feature in Photoshop to stack the images.
This photo is taken for requirement 2 and all vertical lines are parallel to each other because I took this photo by looking straight ahead. I took this photo with 35mm, f/5.0 because I was standing on the other side of the road and I hoped to get as close as I can. Since this photo is taken outdoors, I used ISO100 to keep best quality.
I stood there for a couple of minutes until I can shot someone walked past by right in the middle of the gap between two buildings. I also used selected color this time and I chose to make the man "colored". In this way, it really makes a strong contrast of the cold buildings and the man.
This photo primarily satisfies requirement 1, but also satisfies requirement 5. I took this at a pond upside down and manually decreased the ISO to 80 and the shutter speed to 1/400th of a second. This caused the part of the picture that was not in the pond to remain bright, but the pond portion to become very dark, giving the illusion of a night sky. Because the grass area around the pond is doubled, it is also hard to see where the horizon line is, breaking the normal rules of composition. In lightroom I then increased the whites level to give greater contrast between the normal ground and the image created by the pond.
(Staff Photos by Rob Mattson/Amherst College, Office of Communications) The first-ever "Trash to Fashion Show" brings together creative thought, ingenuity, scraps, students, models and a fearless ability to walk a runway, all in an effort to creatively bring rubbish out of the scrap piles and into the world of recycle couture, at the Powerhouse, on the Amherst College campus in Amherst, Mass., Thursday night, April 23, 2015.
Prior to the event, students were encouraged to collect trash and recyclable items, and design an outfit to model. Charged with designing textiles made primarily from post-consumer materials, which had to have been used, diverted and/or recovered, students and teams scoured campus and local businesses to put their ideas into practice. These ideas were judged on and awarded prizes for best overall design, presentation and use of materials, with additional awards given for most creative use of materials, the crowd favorite, and best teamwork. To read more about the pre-show requirements and criteria, link to www.amherst.edu/campuslife/greenamherst/recycling/trash-t....
This photo fulfilled the requirement 5 & 1
I took this photo in a cloudy weather and using my sony a6000 with E 55/210 mm lens for discovering the macro world. This is a part of the man-made suspension bridge. I zoomed in the lens and made the focal length of 210.0 mm, at f/6.3 aperture and 1/ 400 sec. shutter speed and ISO 3200.
Photo processed through Darktable 2.0.3. I used color-correct, changed the brightness, exposure and contrast slightly to make the contrast more vived.
This photo taken near UW Quad that fulfills requirements 2 and 4. I still used the small aperture and Aperture Priority Mode. The pink flower is main subject I want to take, and other elements, including the background and the stem and the leaf of the flower are a little blurry.
Requirement 1: overexposure.
It was a very grey cloudy day with poor lighting, and I wanted my photo to be very minimalist and simple. So, to accomplish my idea, I used aperture priority mode with setting aperture to f/9.0 and using ISO 640, I also set up +4 exposure compensation to make sky plain and as white as possible. Since crows are totally black, the photo looks like black and white one, but it’s actually taken in color.
In post-production, I cropped photo to remove part with yellow sticker on the street light so nothing gives a clue that this a colorful photo.
This photo fulfils requirement 3 - bugs. The spiders two front limbs lifted gives the impression it's waiting for prey before it strikes. With its pale exoskeleton it's perfectly camouflaged against the plant head it clinging onto. I chose this photo because it makes something a small as this spider look threatening. Showing this much detail brings out just how effective predators they are. I took this photo with a A7iii and a 55mm with 26mm of lens extenders. I had the camera in aperture priority and closed it to f/8.0 to get the whole scene in focus. To minimise camera shake, I increase the ISO to 640 to make the camera increase the shutter speed. To ensure I hit the correct focus, I used auto-focus continuous and object tracking.
In post process, I brought the highlights down and increased the clarity to make the spider stand out from the head of the plant. I also rotated the image to make the spider face more towards the viewer.
I took this photo with my Canon EOS Rebel T6 to fulfill Requirement 2. I stood outside of Denny Hall and made sure all of the lines on the windows pointed vertically, parallel to one another. Once I made sure of that, I set the aperture a little lower but still pretty high to f/8.0, and the ISO to 100 to keep there from being any noise. I set the shutter speed high to better the exposure because there was a lot of light.
Afterwards, I altered the contrast and exposure with Lightroom to make the colors stand out more.
This picture I took of an apartment complex in downtown Tacoma. I zoom in a little bit to remove the vanishing point. In posy, I increase the saturation and make the blue in the sky a lighter blue to balance out all the colors from the apartment. That is also why I leave a little bit of the background in the picture. I didn't want it to be ”too much” for the picture.
Participants respond to a made-up emergency — a lost radioactive source combined with a flood in lower Austria — during the IAEA’s first-ever course on preparedness and response to a nuclear or radiological emergency combined with other emergencies. During the one-week course, participants learned about specific requirements response professionals should meet to effectively respond to such combined emergencies.
Traiskirchen, Austria, 12 December 2019
Photo credit: Laura Gil Martínez
This photo was also taken for the requirement 2 and 5. It was almost the same to the pictures before but more brighter than them. Since the sunlight covered more places when I walked toward the hotel. I controlled the sharpness in order to give more details of the trees.
It took me 2 weeks to get this explained by Amazon, and by that time I'd guessed on my own. The "Community Guideline" says you have to have spent $50 in the last year to have the privilige of posting a review. It says that special deal mechandise doesn't count toward the $50. Yeah, it's a new requirement since the last time I posted a review.
Turns out they also DON'T count your purchase toward the $50/yr threshold if you use credit card ***reward points***. It doesn't say that anywhere I could see, not in Help or the FAQ or the "Community Guidelines. But after multiple on-line text chats all provided no explanation for this error message, I got an email, that I can't reply to, that admits the issue is that credit card reward points don't count as purchases. That was over 2 weeks after I first saw the problem. I made an additional purchase to be sure I was over the $50 threshold, but it still wouldn't accept a review.
It took me a while to guess, because transactions with reward points look like this in your transaction history:
Payment Method
MasterCard **** **** **** ****
Rewards Points
Order Summary
Item(s) Subtotal: $15.99
Shipping & Handling: $3.99
Total before tax: $19.98
Estimated tax to be collected: $0.00
Rewards Points: -$19.98
Grand Total: $0.00
I've worked with enough billing and inventory systems that a 0.00 grand total doesn't necessarily mean 0.00 transaction value. Could be $0.00 balance because I bought something and paid for it.
But here's a partial rewards points / partial straight payment charge, and thinking about what this says is how I realized they don't count rewards points purchases:
MasterCard **** **** **** ****
Rewards Points
Order Summary
Item(s) Subtotal: $16.84
Shipping & Handling: $2.98
Total before tax: $19.82
Estimated tax to be collected: $1.84
Rewards Points: -$19.74
Grand Total: $1.92 <========== Only shows because payment is a mix of rewards points and non-rewards points.
For a third party credit card, where they are getting all the value, this is, at least, morally wrong. Unless Citi Bank strong-armed Amazon into giving them a discount when reward points are used to buy from Amazon's site. Might be, but I doubt it.
If a customer has an Amazon-issued credit card, reward points DO come out of their skin. And they don't want to let third party cards have an advantage over their own card, so nobody's reward points are recognized. I can understand that. I can understand why they don't state it publcly, they don't want to admit it. If I was doing that to my customers, I'd be embarased too. But I wouldn't ever do that to a customer.
I've put up a lot of book and music reviews and some product reviews on Amazon. I've even gotten positive feedback on my reviews. But since I've mostly used reward points this year, I can't put up reviews. I haven't paid them enough in the way they want to be paid, so I don't qualify. I don't fit the community guidelines.
I'd like to think my previous reviews may have helped highlight the desirable qualites of what they're selling. But fair and truthful reviews aren't good enough. I have to make purchases in the last 12 months to defray the cost of, that is, to cover, uh, to pay for, well... they don't take down my previous reviews, just prevent new ones. So I have to make new purchases to cover the transaction costs of accepting my new reviews.
That doesn't sound like a community guideline, its sounds like maintaining current customer status. Nobody who might read what I wrote would know or care how much I spent in the last 12 months. It has no bearing on how useful, truthfull, concise or engaging my comment is. Its has nothing to do with "community", which is why it isn't mentioned in the Community guidelines. The person who wrote to me treated as if it was something I already knew, because they already knew it.
Well that'll learn me, eh? Amazon won't accept new reviews if I don't buy anything. My standing as a reviewer absolutely depends on how much I spend at Amazon in the most recent 12 months. For the good of the community. What rubbish!
Seeking answers to these questions is indeed necessary to zero down on the best Water Pipes for Sale which cater to your taste, requirements and most importantly budget.
I used a 135mm lens for this photo, and then stood close to a cluster of branches and leaves so that my lens couldn't focus on them at all. I also pointed in the direction of the sun, which is where the dark shadows came from. I also set the shutter speed to 1/2500 so that I would capture a bit of the blur from the wind moving the leaves, but not enough to completely smear the photo. The photo is edited to bring out the purples and a bit of a boost on the green, but otherwise is untouched.
This satisfies requirement three because nothing is in focus. I did this because the blur brings out more colors and light spots than a focused photo, and so this becomes a more abstract color-focused image rather than subject-focused.
This photo is taken for requirement 5 with f/2.8 and ISO 800. I took this photo in my room so I chose a high ISO to get a fast shutter speed. It is the back of a watch. I found the cold metal and the components in the watch very fascinating. I tried create a sense of coldness so I make the photos into B&W. With the macro lens, I can see the details more clearly. I also did some lighting with my table lamp to create the feelings I want.
This photo satisfy requirement 1. I "froze" his action at throwing the ball. I thought his pose was... interesting. From the top, his hand movements reminded me of setting in volleyball; from the bottom, his legs reminded me of a mix between a ballerina in pointe and a girl getting kissed from a cliché screen in a romance movie. The camera setting is the same from the previous image where I took it on burst mode.
This photo satisfies requirement 4. I shot this photo when I was on my way to Chinatown. I saw this discarded sign that looks pretty cool as it seems merges with the wall so that I shot it without hesitations. I tried to shot the photo with the wrong white balance at first hand, so I set the white balance to manual. I chose ISO 50 and f / 4.5 to make this photo not over-exposed. I also used 1 / 160 to get a lower noise image. During the post-production process, I used Lightroom to make the image more blue, more contract and bright. This wrong white balance setting makes the image bluer, which fulfilled the requirement 4.
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This photo fulfills requirement 2. It was taken indoors near a window which has sunlight coming through it. The light of the photo is the light from the window that the subject is nearest. The fill light comes from the window to his left which is much smaller. This allows for the right side of his face to be illuminated and the left side slightly illuminated. I took this photo with aperture set to f/5.0 and shutter speed set to 1/40 because it was somewhat dark in the room aside from the windows and I wanted the subject to be well exposed but not overexposed. I imported the photo into Lightroom but did make any changes.