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I feel like it’s pretentiousness-dependent, some places you’ll never be a local in the minds of your new neighbours.

Not a critique of the pic you’ve posted (which is gorgeous btw), just mentioning as you’ve called out the noisiness that comes with high-res crop sensors, and sharing what worked for me.

I really like Darktable, but if you have a Mac or Windows machine (or check if they’ll work with Wine, I didn’t try as I needed to get a mainstream OS for unrelated reasons), it’s definitely worth giving the paid options a go, use the free trials. The first time I tried on a pic taken at night on a fast shutter at 5-digit ISO I was astonished.

This one’s only at 2500 ISO, but here’s a sample 1:1 crop with just optical corrections:

In Darktable, with the default workflow followed by profiled denoise (which incidentally creates a 67MB intermediate DNG, the CR3 is 45MB):

And denoised in Photolab on default settings:

I use an R7 too and have been shooting a lot of night sports. 8-12k ISO to get a fast enough shutter and yeah, unsurprisingly noisy af.

Not sure what you’re processing with but Dxo Photolab cleans them up amazingly well, I found it noticeably better than LR. You need to shoot in Raw for the good NR stuff, but for me personally I do that anyway for the flexibility to adjust some of the settings I inevitably got wrong in the moment. I have zero affiliation with them beyond being happy with the product.

That was for the NZ market

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Leo Moracchioli’s cover of Adele’s Hello

I don’t hate Adele’s, but it’s a song that I kind of allow to keep playing if it comes on. Leo’s is one I actively choose to play.

Pitbald

Colonoscopy and gastroscopy make a spit roast, endoscopy is a term that covers procedures using an endoscope in general.

I know this because I tried to make a similar joke many moons ago to a family member who was working in endoscopy at the time, now I get to pass on the pedantry!

Thought they had duplicated the mug shot at first, then I realised he must have been beside himself

Having seen many a Russian dashcam video and thus being an expert on such matters, I believe the full title included it being in a Lada on any icy road but they had to trim it for length.

At this rate I’ll be able to part out my homelab and pay off my mortgage soon

Needs GUD-BOI plates

I’m actually looking into processing software right now. Thanks Adobe! The list of options to consider just got a little shorter.

I asked my father in law if he minded me asking for his daughter’s hand in marriage. We were already quite close and although I was confident in the answer I was still putting myself out there. It wasn’t about ownership or anything like that, it was simply a nod to tradition and I know he appreciated the gesture.

He also loved being the first to know haha

I had no idea butterflies took such enormous shits.

“What’s brown and sticky?”

“A stick.”

This one’s been doing the rounds in my family for as long as I can remember.

I get the sentiment, and I’ve said it before but when my current daily goes, an EV of some sort will likely take its place. Even given the poor charging infrastructure where I am, mathematically it is clearly the sensible choice.

But for the things I can’t measure with a calculator, I’ll have at least one ICE vehicle for a long as it’s feasible to do so. There are boxes that EVs - and I’ve spent plenty of time with them - simply don’t tick for me.

Multi storey reverse shark park garage