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Prepping Nikon Picture Control types for use:
1. Using the Picture Control Utility in View NX2, for each Picture Control create a variant, with the following settings, (adjustments set to Manual in the Picture Control utility):-
Sharpening = auto
Contrast / Brightness = auto
Saturation = auto.
Note you first click the "Manual" button (to enable customisation) then proceed as follows
2. For each Picture Control type, name each (and save) as follows:-
Standard = as "Standard auto" variant
Portrait = "Portrait auto"
Etc. so that you have an auto variant for each Picture Control type, to get you started using them, in VNX2.
You can Export these pre-sets to your camera via SD card, refer to the help (ticked on the schematic.)
Once you have saved all the 'Auto' variants for each Picture Control type, then you can start to process your NEFs, using these saved custom settings. You can do this in the field when out shooting, or post the shoot, in VNX2 / CNX2.
Double click a NEF to bring it into the Edit window - then view the camera applied Picture Control type, then decide if you want to change / experiment.
You will or should notice a dramatic improvement in quality.
You will most often find very little extra sharpening is required.
N.B. Don't start messing around with curve customisation, until you know what you're doing and have built up experience with the customisation I've outlined at the top of this posting.
John Shields
Saison (John Shields Guest Chef Dinner)
San Francisco, California
(October 12, 2013)
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Allyson Myers helps a cook at Sylva Food Solutions prepare a vegetable for drying.
Sylva Food Solutions (SFS), founded by Sylvia Banda, is the largest processing company of indigenous vegetables in Zambia. SFS not only buys produce from local, rural farmers and packages it and sells it to local supermarkets, but they also train local farmers in the post harvest drying technique, which entails solar drying vegetables including sweet potato leaves, pumpkin leaves, cassava, okra and African eggplant. As an NGO, this subsidiary of Sylva Foods has trained over 9,000 rural farmers thus far in the country, enabling them to enlarge their production capacity and engage directly with domestic markets. All the raw materials come from these small-scale farmers. As the business and demand grows, USAID has contributed assistance and helped set up 20 training schemes with small holder farmers all over the country. 80% of the farmers who benefit from the training are female. The World Bank has also provided grants for machinery and processing equipment.
Banda founded the company with a strong desire to promote Zambian food and produce locally, as a key ingredient to a healthy life. In addition to the food processing business, she also runs a successfully catering company, restaurant, and is building Zambia’s first accredited university for the hospitality industry—which will be up and running in September 2012.
Although the business mostly sells its products within Zambia, Banda has recently worked with the African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP), as part of AGOA, to export products to the US. They help train female agribusiness workers to meet US FDA standards.
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In July 2012, Chegg gave eight college students the first-hand opportunity to see international aid programs in action by sending them on an internship in Zambia and South Africa with ONE. We want to educate and empower youth fighting for change with all the necessary tools to be the strongest possible advocates for social good.
U.S. Airmen with the 22nd Airlift Squadron and the 60th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron prepare a C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft to depart for Scott Air Force Base, Illinois to participate in an aeromedical proof of concept mission, Dec. 2, 2018 at Travis Air Force Base, California.
Active Duty, Reserve and Delaware Air National Guard Airmen worked together during the PoC to test the cargo compartment of the C-5M with the goal of establishing the aircraft as part of the universal qualification training program for all AE crews. If approved and certified, the C-5M will have the capability to move three times the current capacity in one mission compared to other AE platforms. (U.S. Air Force photo by Joey Swafford)
Sanded and some filler in the rougher areas. Needs primer so we can see what we're doing from here on out.
Preps went hunting in the yard for dinosaur bones. They found many.
They found all sorts of dinosaur parts and built skeletons. They worked so well together and on their own, and as a whole group to make long necks, T-Rex, stegosaurus and flying Pteradactyls. Well done Prep archaeologists.
Gotta get al the pets ready for the move!
I've outgrown my house slightly, so im having to move to a bigger house! So to mark the occation, a set of photo's featuring my current home setup.
House: [Since 1975] - Large Skybox 19
Chairs: Kalopsia - Poufs
Framed Butterflies: {vespertine}-butterfly collector
And
12.erratic / coc - assorted butterflies frame
Beads: *ionic* Luces (curtain)
*ionic* Colorines (curtain)
Plant: Happy Hibiscus RARE
Birdcage: [ free bird ] My Pet Budgie Pet System
Outfit:
Hair: Magika Hair // Kiki
Top: Razor/// Punk Seraph Hoodie - Sleeveless - S Pink
Jeans: ~Shabby Cat - Mischa Belted Capris (blue w/brown belt)
Socks: ~silentsparrow~ Socks of Random (Cupcake socks)
Shoes: *Epic* 8-Bit Heart Sneaker Wedges! {Rainbow.B.Pink.v.2}
Another gem which i found at the Paddocks when i was at Brands Hatch, was this somewhat special Lotus Evora. It looked like something for the track, but it has number plates. So what is it?
My theory, is that this is a Lotus Evora Enduro GT Concept car, one of a couple, which were all made as base form racing cars, made for the GT4 and GTE racing series, where the Evora would partake. The colour scheme of these were definitely F1 GP Edition looking, which made me think it was actually one. However, they don't have a rear diffuser like this does.
A very strange car, however my god it looked amazing!
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Vendors prepare to serve meals at an industrial park in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A USAID-funded program will save 540 tons of charcoal annually through the use of cleaner cooking technology at the industrial park.
Photo copyright Kendra Helmer
Construction site workers in last minute preparations at the project site.
Photo credit: Alex Kamweru, USAID/Kenya