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Cake day: February 10th, 2024

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  • Originally, I believed that I can’t build an HDR image from the mini-3 AEB-shots, as somehow HDR from JPEGs seems to not be a good idea, and apart from Photoshop there’s no software around that fully understands the DNG format of the more modern DJI drones. Then I found that I can just put them in gimp and manually build the HDR part. That meant that quite some shots I’ve taken last year could be rescued :)






  • Someone asked the other day ‘why so photoshopped’, when I basically did nothing to the image’. The commenter was downvoted heavily and I thought that’s not good. I liked the discussion tbh. So I thought more transparency would be good on what I do with the images. I only do this for fun, so don’t have anything to hide








  • TL/DR; c/pics and c/photography are the only places I share images.


    Wow - that’s quite the compliment for a dude who just likes to post holiday images. I don’t post my pictures anywhere else, as I don’t believe in letting Meta and others commercialize my photos or feed their AI monsters with it.

    I like it here, I like the federation, I like that nobody restricts my upload size or compresses my images and I really like the vibe of the whole place and that I can just pay a buck a month to cover my costs instead of lots of ads and data scraping. Some months ago I thought c/pics is great but it could do with more content. So instead of complaining I started posting my own humble tries here, following the motto mediocre content is better than no content.

    I’ll take your question as encouragement and keep posting.






  • Sensor noise on higher gains I’d guess. Normally I take images like this in manual and fiddle around with the settings until I get it right. In this case I had to be quick because the light was changing by the minute so I shot in auto. But I agree with you, I also liked the effect here that’s why I kept it.










  • The oldest traces of mankind in the cave go back to the Celtics, so quite some time ago. It is well explored. The cave is only accessible with licensed guides. We went in the first kilometer, where everything is still pretty tame, no protracted crawling etc + it was a dry day with low water levels. But yeah, 2h in and you know you will take 2h again to get out. That’s the point where you start wondering what happens if someone breaks their ankle…

    The guide explained to us that there is a cave rescue team that comes and gets you out of anything happens, but it takes roughly 14 h to get someone injured back out again o.O