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For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF
In article , Bill W
wrote: Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. what does it take to move beyond threat level and actually carry it out? |
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For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF
On Wed, 10 May 2017 23:00:07 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , Bill W wrote: Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. what does it take to move beyond threat level and actually carry it out? After they told me I had to pay them to tell me how to fix the problem that *their* update caused, I was at the tipping point... And this was after I told them exactly what was wrong - a munged boot sector. "Oh, well at this level 1 customer support, no one knows anything about MBR's and those things. You have to get that info at level 2, our paid service". It's almost exactly like ransomware, except that a lot of Googling came up with a fix. About 10 commands (bootrec & diskpart commands) typed into the command line - really about 60 seconds if you type fast, and it's fixed. The ridiculous part is that the Windows install/recovery files (Media creation files) come out differently depending on whether you choose to write them to a USB drive, or to a DVD. Some tools are missing in the USB version, and a couple of the commands fail, the critical one being bcdboot. |
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For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF
On 2017-05-11 02:56:34 +0000, Bill W said:
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:32:33 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2017-04-24 02:23:27 +0000, Bill W said: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:05:53 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2017-04-24 01:34:56 +0000, Bill W said: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 14:11:11 -0700, Savageduck wrote: OK! I found an inoffensive subject for those folks who would like to play. So here is the SOOC JPEG Acros rendition (14MB) with the RAW file (50.5 MB RAF), and for the folks who just want to peek without dealing with the big files, a resized JPEG (791KB). With LR or ACR the Adobe version of Acros is available in the Camera Calibration panel. If you care to try AlienSkin Exposure X2, they have a 30 day trial (works as stand-alone and/or as LR/PS plug-in). https://www.alienskin.com/exposure/ Their Acros simulation is found in their film presets as "Fuji Neopan 100 Acros". Resized JPEG 791KB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6yfxuwsez20iv60/_DSF4283RS.jpg SOOC JPEG 14MB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mes7v4u49jliphb/_DSF4283.JPG RAF 50.5MB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9m981iseihumw2q/_DSF4283.RAF I suck at this. I need a couple of more months. What happened? You were the most enthusiastic at wanting to play this game. What sort of issue are you experiencing? The issue is that I suck at it. To be honest, I spent only a short time so far. I decided to just pick a basic B&W preset, and start with that. I decided that the exposure, tone, contrast, and micro-contrast were the main issues to start with, and I couldn't get anywhere with those. But again, I spent only about 10 minutes so far. I'll get back to it later. OK! Don't drive yourself crazy with this little exercise. ;-) Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. Anyway, I should be too embarrassed to post this, but here is my pathetic try: https://www.flickr.com/gp/48982192@N05/w7af6P Just more proof that I can get really lost in post. All of us can, and do get lost in post. Not bad, not bad at all. BTW, if racing is of any interest to you, I have a "Videos" album on Flickr, with exactly one video. Let me know what you think of the woman driver in the Grand National. Ruthie should learn to stick in her lane. Don't bother letting me know what you think of my video skills, though. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF
On Wed, 10 May 2017 20:13:07 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On 2017-05-11 02:56:34 +0000, Bill W said: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:32:33 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2017-04-24 02:23:27 +0000, Bill W said: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:05:53 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2017-04-24 01:34:56 +0000, Bill W said: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 14:11:11 -0700, Savageduck wrote: OK! I found an inoffensive subject for those folks who would like to play. So here is the SOOC JPEG Acros rendition (14MB) with the RAW file (50.5 MB RAF), and for the folks who just want to peek without dealing with the big files, a resized JPEG (791KB). With LR or ACR the Adobe version of Acros is available in the Camera Calibration panel. If you care to try AlienSkin Exposure X2, they have a 30 day trial (works as stand-alone and/or as LR/PS plug-in). https://www.alienskin.com/exposure/ Their Acros simulation is found in their film presets as "Fuji Neopan 100 Acros". Resized JPEG 791KB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6yfxuwsez20iv60/_DSF4283RS.jpg SOOC JPEG 14MB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mes7v4u49jliphb/_DSF4283.JPG RAF 50.5MB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9m981iseihumw2q/_DSF4283.RAF I suck at this. I need a couple of more months. What happened? You were the most enthusiastic at wanting to play this game. What sort of issue are you experiencing? The issue is that I suck at it. To be honest, I spent only a short time so far. I decided to just pick a basic B&W preset, and start with that. I decided that the exposure, tone, contrast, and micro-contrast were the main issues to start with, and I couldn't get anywhere with those. But again, I spent only about 10 minutes so far. I'll get back to it later. OK! Don't drive yourself crazy with this little exercise. ;-) Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. Anyway, I should be too embarrassed to post this, but here is my pathetic try: https://www.flickr.com/gp/48982192@N05/w7af6P Just more proof that I can get really lost in post. All of us can, and do get lost in post. Not bad, not bad at all. Regardless of the results on their own, an A/B comparison isn't very close. BTW, if racing is of any interest to you, I have a "Videos" album on Flickr, with exactly one video. Let me know what you think of the woman driver in the Grand National. Ruthie should learn to stick in her lane. True, but an amazing recovery. She never touched the wall. But you are right, she did lose the thing. This was a lower level meet - not NHRA, and you could see the difference in the driving. If you look at the LVMS Street Car album, there is a series of photos of another car that did hit the wall. The guy did walk away - into the ambulance. There was a lot of sloppy driving. |
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For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF
In article , Bill W
wrote: Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. what does it take to move beyond threat level and actually carry it out? After they told me I had to pay them to tell me how to fix the problem that *their* update caused, I was at the tipping point... And this was after I told them exactly what was wrong - a munged boot sector. "Oh, well at this level 1 customer support, no one knows anything about MBR's and those things. You have to get that info at level 2, our paid service". customer support is mostly useless, and at the larger companies, they just want to get you off the phone because they're rated on number of calls. It's almost exactly like ransomware, except that a lot of Googling came up with a fix. About 10 commands (bootrec & diskpart commands) typed into the command line - really about 60 seconds if you type fast, and it's fixed. The ridiculous part is that the Windows install/recovery files (Media creation files) come out differently depending on whether you choose to write them to a USB drive, or to a DVD. Some tools are missing in the USB version, and a couple of the commands fail, the critical one being bcdboot. welcome to windows. |
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For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF
On 2017-05-11 03:21:53 +0000, Bill W said:
On Wed, 10 May 2017 20:13:07 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2017-05-11 02:56:34 +0000, Bill W said: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:32:33 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2017-04-24 02:23:27 +0000, Bill W said: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:05:53 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2017-04-24 01:34:56 +0000, Bill W said: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 14:11:11 -0700, Savageduck wrote: OK! I found an inoffensive subject for those folks who would like to play. So here is the SOOC JPEG Acros rendition (14MB) with the RAW file (50.5 MB RAF), and for the folks who just want to peek without dealing with the big files, a resized JPEG (791KB). With LR or ACR the Adobe version of Acros is available in the Camera Calibration panel. If you care to try AlienSkin Exposure X2, they have a 30 day trial (works as stand-alone and/or as LR/PS plug-in). https://www.alienskin.com/exposure/ Their Acros simulation is found in their film presets as "Fuji Neopan 100 Acros". Resized JPEG 791KB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6yfxuwsez20iv60/_DSF4283RS.jpg SOOC JPEG 14MB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mes7v4u49jliphb/_DSF4283.JPG RAF 50.5MB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9m981iseihumw2q/_DSF4283.RAF I suck at this. I need a couple of more months. What happened? You were the most enthusiastic at wanting to play this game. What sort of issue are you experiencing? The issue is that I suck at it. To be honest, I spent only a short time so far. I decided to just pick a basic B&W preset, and start with that. I decided that the exposure, tone, contrast, and micro-contrast were the main issues to start with, and I couldn't get anywhere with those. But again, I spent only about 10 minutes so far. I'll get back to it later. OK! Don't drive yourself crazy with this little exercise. ;-) Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. Anyway, I should be too embarrassed to post this, but here is my pathetic try: https://www.flickr.com/gp/48982192@N05/w7af6P Just more proof that I can get really lost in post. All of us can, and do get lost in post. Not bad, not bad at all. Regardless of the results on their own, an A/B comparison isn't very close. It looks OK on its own, presented within Flickr. BTW, if racing is of any interest to you, I have a "Videos" album on Flickr, with exactly one video. Let me know what you think of the woman driver in the Grand National. Ruthie should learn to stick in her lane. True, but an amazing recovery. She never touched the wall. But you are right, she did lose the thing. This was a lower level meet - not NHRA, and you could see the difference in the driving. If you look at the LVMS Street Car album, there is a series of photos of another car that did hit the wall. The guy did walk away - into the ambulance. There was a lot of sloppy driving. Drag racing isn't something I follow other than stumbling across it. Our local track, Laguna Seca near Monterey hosts the type of event which grabs my interest. So If you care to leave the Vegas area to visit the California Central Coast in August, you might find The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, both entertaining and interesting. http://www.mazdaraceway.com/rolex-monterey-motorsports-reunion Then you can get shots like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rb2bajck7onu6iv/DNC4947Aw.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/lmfiv1gfylj41aa/DNC4996Aw.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/ypnjhfkqrqjlb6j/DNC4537Aw.jpg -- Regards, Savageduck |
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For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF
On Wed, 10 May 2017 23:31:40 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , Bill W wrote: Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. what does it take to move beyond threat level and actually carry it out? After they told me I had to pay them to tell me how to fix the problem that *their* update caused, I was at the tipping point... And this was after I told them exactly what was wrong - a munged boot sector. "Oh, well at this level 1 customer support, no one knows anything about MBR's and those things. You have to get that info at level 2, our paid service". customer support is mostly useless, and at the larger companies, they just want to get you off the phone because they're rated on number of calls. It's almost exactly like ransomware, except that a lot of Googling came up with a fix. About 10 commands (bootrec & diskpart commands) typed into the command line - really about 60 seconds if you type fast, and it's fixed. The ridiculous part is that the Windows install/recovery files (Media creation files) come out differently depending on whether you choose to write them to a USB drive, or to a DVD. Some tools are missing in the USB version, and a couple of the commands fail, the critical one being bcdboot. welcome to windows. One of the last things I said to them was, " I guess this is why people move to Apple". It might be a couple of years, but next time I think I need something new, I will be looking at them for the first time. |
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For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF
On Wed, 10 May 2017 20:53:52 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On 2017-05-11 03:21:53 +0000, Bill W said: On Wed, 10 May 2017 20:13:07 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2017-05-11 02:56:34 +0000, Bill W said: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:32:33 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2017-04-24 02:23:27 +0000, Bill W said: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:05:53 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2017-04-24 01:34:56 +0000, Bill W said: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 14:11:11 -0700, Savageduck wrote: OK! I found an inoffensive subject for those folks who would like to play. So here is the SOOC JPEG Acros rendition (14MB) with the RAW file (50.5 MB RAF), and for the folks who just want to peek without dealing with the big files, a resized JPEG (791KB). With LR or ACR the Adobe version of Acros is available in the Camera Calibration panel. If you care to try AlienSkin Exposure X2, they have a 30 day trial (works as stand-alone and/or as LR/PS plug-in). https://www.alienskin.com/exposure/ Their Acros simulation is found in their film presets as "Fuji Neopan 100 Acros". Resized JPEG 791KB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6yfxuwsez20iv60/_DSF4283RS.jpg SOOC JPEG 14MB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mes7v4u49jliphb/_DSF4283.JPG RAF 50.5MB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9m981iseihumw2q/_DSF4283.RAF I suck at this. I need a couple of more months. What happened? You were the most enthusiastic at wanting to play this game. What sort of issue are you experiencing? The issue is that I suck at it. To be honest, I spent only a short time so far. I decided to just pick a basic B&W preset, and start with that. I decided that the exposure, tone, contrast, and micro-contrast were the main issues to start with, and I couldn't get anywhere with those. But again, I spent only about 10 minutes so far. I'll get back to it later. OK! Don't drive yourself crazy with this little exercise. ;-) Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. Anyway, I should be too embarrassed to post this, but here is my pathetic try: https://www.flickr.com/gp/48982192@N05/w7af6P Just more proof that I can get really lost in post. All of us can, and do get lost in post. Not bad, not bad at all. Regardless of the results on their own, an A/B comparison isn't very close. It looks OK on its own, presented within Flickr. BTW, if racing is of any interest to you, I have a "Videos" album on Flickr, with exactly one video. Let me know what you think of the woman driver in the Grand National. Ruthie should learn to stick in her lane. True, but an amazing recovery. She never touched the wall. But you are right, she did lose the thing. This was a lower level meet - not NHRA, and you could see the difference in the driving. If you look at the LVMS Street Car album, there is a series of photos of another car that did hit the wall. The guy did walk away - into the ambulance. There was a lot of sloppy driving. Drag racing isn't something I follow other than stumbling across it. Our local track, Laguna Seca near Monterey hosts the type of event which grabs my interest. So If you care to leave the Vegas area to visit the California Central Coast in August, you might find The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, both entertaining and interesting. http://www.mazdaraceway.com/rolex-monterey-motorsports-reunion Then you can get shots like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rb2bajck7onu6iv/DNC4947Aw.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/lmfiv1gfylj41aa/DNC4996Aw.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/ypnjhfkqrqjlb6j/DNC4537Aw.jpg Yep, Laguna Seca is a real racetrack. The speedway out here has 3 road courses, but they are used only for testing, track days, and "drive-a-race-car" outfits, no competitions or any sort of spectator events at all. I finally bought a car that I actually enjoy driving, so maybe I will head out that way. |
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For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF
In article , Bill W
wrote: Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. what does it take to move beyond threat level and actually carry it out? After they told me I had to pay them to tell me how to fix the problem that *their* update caused, I was at the tipping point... And this was after I told them exactly what was wrong - a munged boot sector. "Oh, well at this level 1 customer support, no one knows anything about MBR's and those things. You have to get that info at level 2, our paid service". customer support is mostly useless, and at the larger companies, they just want to get you off the phone because they're rated on number of calls. It's almost exactly like ransomware, except that a lot of Googling came up with a fix. About 10 commands (bootrec & diskpart commands) typed into the command line - really about 60 seconds if you type fast, and it's fixed. The ridiculous part is that the Windows install/recovery files (Media creation files) come out differently depending on whether you choose to write them to a USB drive, or to a DVD. Some tools are missing in the USB version, and a couple of the commands fail, the critical one being bcdboot. welcome to windows. One of the last things I said to them was, " I guess this is why people move to Apple". It might be a couple of years, but next time I think I need something new, I will be looking at them for the first time. macs don't care if they're booted from internal or external drive, whether it's usb, firewire, thunderbolt or sata. as long as the system on the drive is compatible with the mac, it will boot, without any changes necessary. they can even boot and install macos over the internet to a blank hard drive. there is also a recovery partition, which is automatically installed (and is used for more than just recovery), so you don't actually need a separate emergency boot disk. |
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For those Who Care to Play: Acros SOOC + RAF
On Thu, 11 May 2017 01:24:58 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , Bill W wrote: Well, I finally got my photo computer working again a little after I hung up on MS customer support, and a little before I reached the bomb threat level of frustration with them. what does it take to move beyond threat level and actually carry it out? After they told me I had to pay them to tell me how to fix the problem that *their* update caused, I was at the tipping point... And this was after I told them exactly what was wrong - a munged boot sector. "Oh, well at this level 1 customer support, no one knows anything about MBR's and those things. You have to get that info at level 2, our paid service". customer support is mostly useless, and at the larger companies, they just want to get you off the phone because they're rated on number of calls. It's almost exactly like ransomware, except that a lot of Googling came up with a fix. About 10 commands (bootrec & diskpart commands) typed into the command line - really about 60 seconds if you type fast, and it's fixed. The ridiculous part is that the Windows install/recovery files (Media creation files) come out differently depending on whether you choose to write them to a USB drive, or to a DVD. Some tools are missing in the USB version, and a couple of the commands fail, the critical one being bcdboot. welcome to windows. One of the last things I said to them was, " I guess this is why people move to Apple". It might be a couple of years, but next time I think I need something new, I will be looking at them for the first time. macs don't care if they're booted from internal or external drive, whether it's usb, firewire, thunderbolt or sata. as long as the system on the drive is compatible with the mac, it will boot, without any changes necessary. they can even boot and install macos over the internet to a blank hard drive. there is also a recovery partition, which is automatically installed (and is used for more than just recovery), so you don't actually need a separate emergency boot disk. All stuff I didn't know, but that points to the usual stumbling block - I'd have to learn a new system. I'm old... |
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