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I made this photograph in November of 2007.
Mouse came to live here in May of that year. By mid-September, she was allowing occasional touches through a horse fence, but only if you squatted or sat, and only if Fidget would come over first and stick around. In those days we referred to Fidget as Mouse's agoraphobia service dog.
We had gone through about six weeks of through-the-fence touching before I made this photograph. Mouse jumped up for an over-the-fence hug a couple of days after this picture was taken, and then came over for a hug inside the pasture the following week.
The whole process took six months.
The latest playground craze. Luckily my son works in a shop that sells them so he can buy them before they go on the shelves!
Freezing rain and fog. Ice on everything. Strange white light after sunset when it's usually amber or blue. We all frolicked for an hour until Mouse went back to her pasture.
Inspired by NilsoBrix's Magic Folding Lego Cubes. Site is brix.nilso.eu/?cat=13
LEFT TO RIGHT
1. Red is equipped with Excessive Assault Turrets, Armor Plating, and Frigate Engines.
2. Borg Cube similar to NilsoBrix's. No Systems.
3. White Unfolded Frigate. No Systems.
4. Brown is equipped with Support Muzzle, Catapult with Company, Radar Dish Tower, and Frigate Engines.
The latest playground craze. Luckily my son works in a shop that sells them so he can buy them before they go on the shelves!
The latest playground craze. Luckily my son works in a shop that sells them so he can buy them before they go on the shelves!
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE - THIS CUBE HAS BEEN ASSIMILATED... - A Magic Folding "Fidget" Cube inspired by a Star Trek Borg cube.
This is my new Lego fidget toy, the Magic Folding "Borg" Cube.
I hope you like it :-))
Series of six. I had the opportunity to watch a falconer exercising his Peregrine on the Downs. Normally all I see of a Peregrine is a quick flash and its gone, so it was a good opportunity to get some close-ups. One day I may get the same of a wild bird. Would be nice!
Fidget, napping with the ducks and geese this morning.
Moving day went well. After a couple of discussions to get our feeders sorted out, we're all getting along amiably.
8/25/2019 A boy playing on the sidewalk at the Brighton Jubilee street festival. Sony a7. 7Artisans 35mm 1:2.0.
Fidget and Mouse doing their late afternoon how-are-you ceremony after being in different paddocks all day.
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Motivation
This image was soft because I missed the focus a little and cropped a lot. I tried a new-to-me sharpening trick that I've been fiddling with lately, It works better on extremely soft images than regular sharpening does.
How sharpening works
Sharpening works by drawing bright halos around darker objects. There are two variables that you can adjust to affect the apparent sharpness of an image. Simple, one-slider, sharpening tools adjust both variables simultaneously. To use the method set out below, you need a sharpening tool with two sliders, usually labeled "strength" and "radius". This type of sharpening tool is usually called "unsharp mask", "USM", "smart sharpen" or something similar. Any sharpener with strength and radius sliders will work.
The stength slider controls the halo's brightness. Brighter halos look sharper but more artificial. If the halo is too bright, things that should look like string begin to look like wire. That's the property we complain about when we say that an image looks oversharpened
The radius slider controls the width of the halo. Broad halos more effectively isolate the dark object than do narrow ones, and this increases apparent sharpness up to a point. But in an average size image, halos broader than 2 or 3 pixels look artificial and awful. I usually set a sharpening radius of about one pixel. Anything broader looks strange, at least to me.
How to do normal sharpening
The normal rule, then, is medium sharpening strength and narrow sharpening radius. You set the radius for 0.8 to 1.2 pixels and increase the strength until the image looks a tiny bit sharper than before, being careful not to overdo it.
How to do the sharpening trick
What if you set the sharpening strength very low and the make the halo very broad? For example, you can set a strength of 5% or 10% on a slider that ranges from 0% to 100%. You can set the sharpening radius (width) to 20-200 pixels. You create a very broad halo around dark objects, but the halo is only a tiny bit brighter than the original pixels were. In fact, the halos overlap in lighter-colored areas, increasing midtone and highlight brightness. This type of sharpening has the effect of darkening pixels if neighboring pixels are dark and lightening them if their neighbors are light.
If overlapping halos cover large parts of the image, the technique can lighten a picture enough that you may need to darken it a bit by using the exposure, brightness and contrast sliders.
I learned about this from a tangential remark in an article explaining how Silver Efex Pro's "structure" slider works. Adobe Camera Raw's "clarity" slider does something similar. It seems that a lot of people know about the technique, but I was unable to find a how-to article.
(So I wrote this one.)
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It was all my fault, actually. Everyone wore themselves out barking at a fox who was yipping away out in the brush around sunset. The fox left, and the dogs eventually subsided into silence. I got curious as to whether it had been a male or female, so I listened to some audio samples which got everybody revved up again.
I figured that since I had ignited another barkathon inadvertently, I would go out with them and take pictures of the action. These doggies put up with a lot.
(It was a vixen as it turned out.)
new today, 50L this weekend only for the Energy Weekend Price goup!
On MP: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Orphic-Fidget-Backpack-Peaco...
Come see the store we're now open and im pretty proud of the build: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odysseus/44/167/21