Knuckledragger

Now that's just odd. I was blissfully unaware of keyboard cat until about 5 minutes ago, when I got him by that AIM worm that connects to unsuspecting users. I was connected to a Yahoo user and the message I got was "Play him off, keyboard cat." The Y! user got something about me being suicidal and needing help.

There was no one behind her. The wall of the nightclub is only about two feet back, and I use fairly tight framing. The dancefloor is to the right of her.

I took this photo at the club where I sometimes work. I'm rather pleased with it.

I've had "Drive/Driven" stuck in my head for days.

I used to read that magazine when I was in highschool. I think there might be a box full of old issues in my mother's basement. There was another publication that was much shorter lived called Audio-Video Interiors. The gear featured in it was always as Serious (I distinctly remember a beautiful NYC apartment that had a surround system featuring five Bose cube speakers) but the photography was drool-inducing.

Thanks. All of those were taken with the EF 17-40mm F/4L.

Photomatix has been making me angry, so I've been checking out some of the competition. This is the first image I've done with Dynamic Photo HDR. The app itself is arm-gnawingly ugly, and reeks of its Windows/CrossOver origins. Furthermore, its controls are alien and difficult to use. All of that said, it made a decent end product from the source images I fed it, where Photomatix 3.1.3 only produced crap. I don't think Dynamic Photo HDR is going to replace Photomatix in my HDR workflow, but it looks like it has some potential to work with troublesome source files. I do wish that it was slightly (massively) better coded, and at least passed EXIF info. This image was made with three exposures and not post-processed at all. Twilight over Moody Bridge Road in Hadley. Made from one raw exposure in Dynamic Photo HDR, and cleaned up in Photoshop. I've processed this shot previously in Photomatix and Photoshop. This time I ran it through DynamicPhoto HDR, on the "Ultra-Contrast" setting and futzed with the controls a little bit. The image looks a bit like what the tone compressor function in Photomatix produces. I still find DPHDR to be seriously counter-intuitive and juniorized, especially compared to Photomatix. That said, it isn't nearly as frustrating as Photomatix has been since version 2.5. The color saturation is a little lurid in this one, but the hue is pretty good. Another of the "I forgot my tripod" series. I set my camera down on the railing of the upper level of the Edgartown wharf and fired off three bracketed exposures. I was unhappy with the results I got with them in Photomatix, so I ran them through DynamicPhoto HDR. I then worked over the HDR composite in Phototshop at length. I'm pretty happy with the end results.

Wow, I missed this thread while I was on MV. No, the OP doesn't mind. That room is filled with awesome. I just got back my second Mac C22 pre and Dynaco Dynakit Mark IV monoblock back from the repair guy. They're now sitting on my living room floor next to my other C22 and MC75. I have entirely too much to do today to futz with them, but if I'm not working in the nightclub this evening, I'm going to set the two C22s up and try out the phono pres. If I'm really motivated, I'll take some internal pix.

I read that as "Monkey Clip" and thought "WAT."

Reality: Perception:

Frightful sauce.

You're in the right place, then. Awkward sauce.

PEW PEW PEW. No, just the jpeg.

Oh, I have one of those.

Oh hai. I remember this thread.