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@Tim Except the device isn’t in our pockets, but regularly in our hands and face, including the baby’s, nowadays. A decade ago, toddlers began to have phones or tablets as pacifiers. 
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I’ve seen multiple examples of this and it’s disturbing. Some kids in Portugal are even gaining a portuguese-brazilian accent because of how much youtube-kids they watch, which mostly has Brazilian youtubers. (Not that there is anything wrong with the accent, just a way to demonstrate how much it impacts them.)
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Love that… a remarkably accurate depiction of the future! Or what was the future rather…
Albert “blinded” by the morning sunlight (i.e., behind the shadows of the mini-blinds). He has really cool whiskers that go every direction. 
Albert will turn 15 this summer.
Edited Google Pixel 4a cellphone shot
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I was lucky today with many opportunities to get good captures 
And to think I almost convinced myself to stay at home… Really need to just “get out there” a lot more.
PS: As suggested by some users(And like it is in the manual) I now apply D&S local contrast first and then the sharpening presets, and the results are incredible.
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Love that first one especially!
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Gotta love how this thread has kept on plugging since July…thanks to darix for starting it.
I went to a local market today to shoot some B&W, but when I got there I just wasn’t feeling it and the camera didn’t even come out. On the way home I went past a local beach. Needless to say, after a major cold snap, nobody was swimming!
This isn’t a final edit, but, you know, “no old shots allowed.”
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Random view of a random lake in the Nahuel Huapi National Park.
It’s the second consecutive week with temperatures above 25 C, even pushing into the 30s, without rain, which is very hot and dry for this time of the year.
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I thought this kind of funny - like a moth to the light!
PS I don’t have anything to do with the company on the van - not advertising!
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When you get a nice February day, make the most of it …both me and the turtle!
I love the way the ripples make the reflected pine trees look like paint brush strokes. This is a fairly significant crop of a 24 mp image:
I have neither the glass nor sensor to work this far out, so it’s kind of marginal.
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such a nice take, I like the crop. for me the quality is fine 
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Fun and funny: definitely matches your description. 
I believe you could change the mood and story of the photo depending on how you edit the photo. E.g.:
- Suspenseful/noir
- Different decals
- Different time of day
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Thanks, and good idea! Later, I could post it as a play raw … see what people come up with
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We had yet again unexpectedly nice weather today – 20C, sunshine and no wind to speak of. But the rain is coming, for a day or two. So I headed out to shoot <something>. I found this little pond with a bit of mid / late afternoon light working. The light is about all there is, since the compo isn’t earth-shattering.
Just to make life difficult for myself 
and because the dynamic range was very high, I did this as a (hopefully) de-fanged HDR in Affinity Photo from six images bracketed 2/3 stop between. As little as I know of regular processing, I know even less about HDR – Unbelievable but true. I’ve rarely been a fan of it and in this case it might better stand for “Half Done Results”… LOL
At any rate I tried to tone down the glow-in-the-dark aspect a bit but I was guessing at what to do. I had to tame a few artifacts, particularly some electric green glowing highlights …a 50% opacity small clone brush in darken blend mode can work wonders.
Anyway, six shots processed in ART 1.18.1 and Affinity Photo.
Thanks.
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So, I went out yesterday to take some pictures, but weather was foggy (again). This picture of my home town Greußen came out interesting anyways…
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