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Yesterday I attended TIFF to see the Premier of The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington. During the show, the fire alarm went off and we all had to evacuate the building. Luckily the fire dept. gave us clearance to re-enter and see the end of the show. It was a violent, but very good show.
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This piece of American history, "the Equalizer," is a Colt model 1873, Single Action Army (SAA) revolver, the gun that you see in all the old western movies, and the gun that, along with the Winchester '73 repeating rifle, is generally referred to as one of the guns that won the west. You saw it in "Showdown at the O.K. Coral," and in real life, it was adopted as the standard U.S. military service revolver in 1892 and was favored by lawmen, cowboys and desperadoes alike. Often one would be armed with a Colt SAA and a Winchester '73, both chambered for the .44-40, a pretty meek cartridge by today's standards, but it got the job done and had the very real advantage of providing one round that fit both the rifle and the revolver.
I bought this one, chambered for the .44 special, 25 years ago, and had I really wanted to maximize the "Classic" value of it, I would probably have been better off buying one in the more traditional .45 Colt chambering; but this has the advantage that I can use the same dies for reloading the .44 special as I can for my .44 magnum, and with the cost of ammunition being what it is today, loading your own ammunition is a must, unless you're a lot wealthier than I am (I've been hand loading all my ammunition since I was 17}. I haven't shot it all that much (haven't done any shooting in the past couple of years), and when I have shot it, I've tended to baby it, using only light loads and staying far away from the near .44 magnum loads loads that Elmer Keith favored before he and Smith & Wesson developed the real .44 magnum by stretching the .44 special cartridge case a small fraction of an inch. It's a crying shame to leave it locked away in a dark closet, and I've really gotta take it to the range, which is only three miles from my house, and give it some exercise.
ODT, "Blast from the Past," "Arms," "Classic," "Historic."
My entry for Light Painting Competitions and Themes- December 2011 - Household Objects
Quite a frustrating shoot, first the switch on my digital light wand falls to bits and then my el wire breaks. Grrrrr. It could also really do with a slight exposure, contrast and white balance tweak, but the competition has a SOOC rule (although not everyone seems to obey it!)
Title and idea inspired by a comment made by Sprogz
A "tea equalizer" at the Chá Porto Formoso museum factory. Founded in the 1920, the factory operated until the 1980s, serving both the national market and exporting internationally. The operations ceased due to the small production, limited by Sao Miguel's characteristics, and in 1998 the facilities were restored to operate at small volumes, compensated for by the side operation as a museum. It is very interesting to go through the factory and see each stage of the tea production process. Porto Formoso, together with the nearby Gorreana Tea Factory, are the only facilities in Europe to process the leaves of "Camellia sinensis" for tea production. Some scholars argue that this plant, the source of green tea and black tea, was introduced in the Azores in 1750 by the ships returning from the East.
New Haven Railroad Pullman heavyweight parlor car Noank, Pullman plan 3917, is seen in a yard, ca 1940's. This car is has an ice activated air conditioning system, with three ice storage bunkers mounted to the under-body. The trucks used on this car are of the more modern design six wheel straight equalized integral cast design with the pedestals included.
The name of the photographer that captured this image on film is unknown. This is a modified, enhanced and cropped photo scan that is from a B&W image that was on the Internet.
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A Model 2 coilgun, heavily customized by an unknown interplanetary gang. Has a cut-down stock, a different, much more compact barrel assembly made from an ''Ultracompact'' kit. Has a customized Mk.3 bayonet found on an M2c MIR, but it can come without it as well. The gun itself is fairly rare, as the gang didn't last long before disappearing.
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I got bored and did this. Hope you like it I guess.
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Credit goes to caiobrazil (a fella from dA), for the inspiration.
Had to equalize to check for some dust spots, but i found the rendering rather pleasant, so i kept it...
One image equalized, one exposure corrected and one color-balanced; mixed as layers in The Gimp. As you can see, I like grain...
The Equalizer / El protector
--¿Qué ve cuando me mira?--¿Qué ve usted cuando me mira a mí?..
--"What do you see when you look at me?"-- "What do you see when you look at me?"...
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Description: I developed this image of the Heart Nebula IC 1805 from 110x300s subs or 9.17 hours of total exposure time. The Optolong L-eXtreme Dual Bandpass Light Pollution Filter passes H-alpha and OIII wavelengths such that the red from the H-alpha tends to swamp out the blue from the O(III). In the nonlinear postprocessing phase I apply Histogram Transformation, Local Histogram Equalization and Curves Transformations in small doses in multiple steps.
Date / Location: 26-28 January 2023 / Washington D.C.
Equipment:
Scope: WO Zenith Star 81mm f/6.9 with WO 6AIII Flattener/Focal Reducer x0.8
OSC Camera: ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro at 100 Gain and 50 Offset
Mount: iOptron GEM28-EC
Guider: ZWO Off-Axis Guider
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI 174mm mini
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Light Pollution Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme Dual Bandpass
Processing Software: Pixinsight
Processing Steps:
Preprocessing: I preprocessed 110x300s subs (= 9.17 hours) in Pixinsight to get an integrated image using the following process steps: Image Calibration > Cosmetic Correction > Subframe Selector > Debayer > Select Reference Star and Star Align > Image Integration.
Linear Postprocessing: Dynamic Crop > Dynamic Background Extractor (both subtraction to remove light pollution gradients and division for flat field corrections) > Background Neutralization > Color Calibration > Noise Xterminator.
Nonlinear Postprocessing and additional steps: Histogram Transformation (multiple times) > Local Histogram Equalization (multiple times) > Curves Transformation (multiple times) > SCNR Noise Reduction.
Luminance HDR 2.3.1 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk06
Parameters:
Contrast Equalization factor: 0.73
Saturation Factor: 1.08
Detail Factor: 12.7
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PreGamma: 0.24
CLAHE stands for Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization, implemented as plugin module for ImageJ.
Suggested by Bushman.K it was found to be not quite compatible with the solar images, but works well on the Moon :)
The lunar image of 04.07.2015, around 23:30 MSK, taken with TIS DMK23 via 2x Barlow on Meade series 6000 80 mm f/6 triplet refractor.
Panoramic image of six panels, 20% of 1000 (ok, 200) frames stacked, stitched in MS ICE, deconvolved (AstraImage Richardson-Lucy, Cauchy, 0,3-9), wavelet-sharpened (1-10-15-5-1), CLAHEd in ImageJ (127-255-2), wavelet again (1-5-10-5-1) and some contrast added in PS.
Note: the white square is the histogram trap for deconvolution to correctly normalise the processed image. I was finally able to save Aristarchus from becoming saturated.
Luminance HDR 2.3.1 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk06
Parameters:
Contrast Equalization factor: 0.94
Saturation Factor: 1.16
Detail Factor: 3.9
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PreGamma: 1
A little girl splashing her mother with brightly colored powder celebrates the Indian Hindu festival of Holi in Foster City, California. The look of joy on her face is worth a million dollars. The ancient tradition "Holi", also known as the "Festival of Colors" dates back to as early as the fourth century and commemorates the beginning of spring, the harvest and the triumph of good versus evil. Rooted in Indian mythology, the festival also celebrates equality. The colors that people throw at each other during the festival serve as a symbolic equalizer in the contest of India's caste system (it means that the caste doesn't matter anymore).
Seven Steps: Equalization - 3 (of 7) - Canon EOS M & Canon 18-55mm IS STM (EF-M Mount) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Student activists from CT Students for a Dream (C4D) and supporters rally to demand justice in higher education for undocumented students with legislation that equalizes access to student-generated funds: State Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut, Thursday, April 13, 2017.
"In Connecticut, public colleges and universities set aside a proportion of tuition revenue to be used as ‘institutional aid’ to assist students with a demonstrated financial need. However, immigrant students who have grown up in CT and have graduated high school here are not eligible for this student-generated aid. All Connecticut students, including undocumented students, pay tuition and therefore contribute towards this institutional aid pool of funds. Yet Connecticut does not allow immigrant students access to institutional aid themselves. This aid is student funded, we believe all students who pay tuition should be be eligible to receive it.”
the great equalizer.
Water is in short supply in the deserts of Namibia. All kinds of animals gather in these small collections of water called waterholes. They drink together peacefully till some of the big cats show up.
Before moving into environmental politics (and the national parks), my research and teaching focused on the political economy of international trade. So, of course I thought of Paul Samuelson's 1948 Factor Price Equalization Theorem when I saw this scene at the Hot Springs Historic District in Big Bend National Park.
The scene also illustrates a common practice studied by economic anthropologists, the silent trade. (Marcel Mauss, "The Gift," is the locus classicus.) A community may leave out gifts for a neighboring community, who will take the gifts and leave gifts of their own. If both sides are happy with the rate of exchange, the gift-giving (or trade) continues.
Here, Mexican artists leave craft goods for American tourists, who pay for the goods by putting money in the can at left. The Department of Homeland Security defines this practice as "smuggling" and may confiscate the items if you purchase them.
And, yes, I'm a lot of fun at parties.
Publicada en "Cómo la hice":
www.comolahice.com/2012/04/ecualizador/
Publicada en ALTFoto, el 16/04/2012:
Luminance HDR 2.3.0 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk06
Parameters:
Contrast Equalization factor: 0.76
Saturation Factor: 1.58
Detail Factor: 24.8
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PreGamma: 1
By their very nature, Raintings are already sort of artsy, but I added some auto enhance, equalize and sharp to it. This was a row of shrubs and their shadows after dark.
ABOUT RAINTINGS
Rainting is a word I coined describing a painterly effect, achieved by photographing the subject through glass that is being rained on, like a windshield or other. It achieves an oftentimes pretty or soft flowing effect, and sometimes other-worldly. It is usually creative, fun, and fluid, seldom harsh in my opinion. I have an album of them on Flickr. Rainting is already in "The Urban Dictionary" but I would like it to also be in a more sophisticated/educational type of dictionary. I started a public Flickr group of Raintings on New Year's Day 2020.
The more collegiate type of dictionaries say that the word has to actually be used by people before they're likely to publish it. So if you like the word and my idea, say it loud and say it clear and take a few Raintings and post them to my new group. Using my word and trying my new group are not inclusive of one another.
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This particular image has what I call a Faux Rainting effect. It wasn't actually raining; just a spray bottle of water on my truck window. I'll put it in my new Raintings group, but eventually I'll try to label the ones that didn't actually use *real* rain. The majority will be real rain, as that is what I used to take my beginning "Raintings" when hadn't yet thought of a name for what I described above. And that is why I rhymed my word of Rainting with Painting. My State of Oregon USA is known for lots of rain; so I shouldn't have to resort to Faux Rainting too often (grin).
Actually it was half faux rainting and half real as it started to rain while I was out.
For Dave C. and other Flickr friends, the *soul* of this one was taking some nighttime shadow pix and also enjoying the real rain, as we need it so badly with all of Oregon's fires lately. My daughter and granddaughter, as well as hundreds of others, lost their home, vehicles, everything completely.
A spokesman for the fire department said that some light/moderate rain would be extremely welcome, but that too much/or I surmise too hard of rain can pose bad problems. It seemed light to me tonight. I hope it was.
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"DSCN7971RaintingAAShrubs&ShadowsRESAMeqlshrpInitFlickr092520"
Jupiter has its "Great Red Spot"...our sky the other night had a yellow one.
Equalized clouds are pretty darn cool!
"G.I.Joe fields several multirole armored vehicles that can be relied on to provide close-in air defense - most notably the Equalizer and the Mean Dog, both of which are also ferocious in the ground combat role. Unlike these weapons systems, the Sky Sweeper is a dedicated air defense platform, with limited uses against ground targets.
It carries a radar-guided double 25mm cannon and four short range Surface-to-Air Missiles that are transported horizontally, but typically rotated 90 degrees and launched vertically. But the Sky Sweeper's most potent contribution to air defense comes in the form of a large search radar that it can unfold and rotate in 360 degrees from its roof. This radar gives much longer range warning of air threats, including aircraft and missiles, and the information it collects is effectively used as a force multiplier, to increase the effectiveness of other anti aircraft weapons systems. The Sky sweeper carries basic short range air defense package of its own and it will enhance existing anti-aircraft capabilities of any G.I.Joe vehicles it operates in tandem with."
The Sky Sweeper was released as part of the futuristic themed BattleForce2000, back in 1987, when the 21st Century seemed like far away. BattleForce2000 had various separating and combining features that never worked very well in practice, and many Joe fans consider this subteam to be a bit of an embarrassment. But the basic vehicles had some pretty promising designs and one of the strongest IMO was the Sky Sweeper - a dedicated "anti aircraft tank."
www.yojoe.com/vehicles/87/skysweeper/
I've done away with the separating bunker that becomes part of a larger "Future Fortress" gestalt, and focused on the basic design and function. Between the role and the name of the Sky Sweeper, I wanted to give it the best possible air defense capabilities I could, so I imagined it as a long-range radar carrier. I even considered giving it no weapons at all, but in the end the side missiles and rear turret won out because it is just more fun that way.
"Cobra has come to deploy a number of air assets, and G.I.Joe ground forces need to be able to sweep the skies of airborne threats. Enter the Equalizer. Based on the venerable Mauler tank, the Equalizer is armed with a pair of 30 mm autocannons and six SAMs built around a search and tracking radar system. Optimized for short-to-medium range air defense, the Equalizer can track multiple targets, including helicopters, low flying planes, and even missiles, and attack them in order of threat level.
Its 30mm autocannons can also be directed in the direct fire role against ground targets. They are fearsome weapons against any light or medium armored opponent, and their high elevation makes them useful in urban combat and mountain operations. The Equalizer has a crew of three - a driver, commander, and weapons operator."
The G.I.Joe Equalizer www.yojoe.com/vehicles/89/equalizer/ was clearly inspired by Cold War era SPAAGs such as the German Flakpanzer Gepard. I loved the unusually realistic camouflage, and always thought this looked like an absolutely badass toy. The turret on the original seems a little outsize to me, so I redesigned it to be a little smaller, while still keeping the same weapons and radars. My version also has space for the weapons operator to take cover in a "hatches down" position. The hull is simply a recolored rebuild of my Mauler hull, which is a little fragile, but has a nice, low profile. Building new versions of existing vehicles saves a lot on design (R&D) time, and many Joe vehicles were recolored over the years, so I might be doing more of this, including some more personal takes on old designs.
I lightened this, gave it an equalization technique, a maximum technique and light sharpening. These trees are where I live. My neighborhood is likely the second largest Christmas Tree Capital of the World, Monroe & Alpine area of Oregon.
The larger brothers and sisters of these trees have already been heading out to other parts of the nation by huge truckloads. Seems early to me, but some people buy their tree right after Thanksgiving.
If you are tempted to criticize the size, resolution or quality of this image ~ please don't ~ I used a Sony Mavica Digital (sub-megapixel) camera, which was State of the Art in 1999 ~ Digital Cameras have since come a long way
(810babychristmastrees&snoweqlmaxresamltshpadj)
(MVC-810 most likely file number)
The *soul* for this photo is it made my soul feel good to see all these adorable baby Christmas Trees, and rather than being harmed by the winter snow, they seemed to be thriving on it.
Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk
Parameters:
Contrast Equalization factor: 0.722
Saturation Factor: 0.8
Detail Factor: 5.1
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PreGamma: 1
This is my latest machine, just finished yesterday.
I am calling it The Piano Player. It was made for my father's 75th birthday party which is tomorrow. He taught himself to play piano when I was a kid, and I remember him sitting with his earphones on playing away with no music to hear. I thought it would be fitting for me to make this for him since I am a self taught woodworker.
When the handle is turned, the keys that the fingers rest on move up and down and the corresponding equalizer bars in the back move with them. It is made from Cherry (frame), Maple (keys and mechanical parts), walnut (black keys and finishing dowels), Padauk (equalizer bars), and Yellowheart (hands). The final machine took close to 60 hours to finish, including having to make a custom box to transport it in. That does not include the concept and study models I started with. Dimensions are approx. 22"x16"x10"
I hope to have video edited and ready for upload sometime this coming week, along with a bunch more pictures