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ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
So like for a brief, shining moment, /p/ was awesome. The front page was filled with picture threads and technique threads and almost no gear whoring. Now, there's been a backwash of trolls.

The thing that I'm curious about is, do the trolls lurk in /p/ and wait for it to get too good? Is it just coincidence? Or is it just that /p/'s returning to its normal state and it just hurts more since there was a day or so of good shit?

Ohwell.

In any case, a tow truck plowed into four cars outside of my apartment this morning at like 3am. I took pictures.
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>> Anonymous
They were all /o/ fags and they mentioned Butterfly.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
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I've been working on getting myself to actually underexpose pictures in dark conditions like this rather than trying to bring everything up to the 18% gray that my meter wants. If for no other reason, it means a lot less blurriness if I just accept that a crapload of my frame is going to be pegged at 0.

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>> Anonymous
>>165875
does that say niagra?

im going there next year for school
>> elf_man !!DdAnyoDMfCe
I think the trolls come with the greater activity. You know, when people actually show enthusiasm or enjoyment.
Possibly it's a choice between good threads plus trolls, or bland gear threads.
>> Anonymous
>>165875
It's working. These are some of the best photographs I've seen from you.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
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>>165877
As in, Niagara University?

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>> Anonymous
>>165882
is that license plate for real
>> Anonymous
>>165882
Holy shit @ the licence plate!
Bricks were SHAT
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>165894
No.
>> Anonymous
>>165897
thats your car, isnt it.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
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>>165898
Nope. This is.

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>> Anonymous
>>165901


you drive a Freightliner?
>> Anonymous
>>165882
nope, im going to niagra college, for film studies this up coming semester
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>165902
Heh.

No, I drive the Prius that got freightline'd into.

The story I heard was that the tow truck driver swerved to miss an animal. Though if that's the case, he was going way, way too fast anyway. If he were obeying anything even vaguely approaching the speed limit, he shouldn't have been able to side swipe two cars, send one car flying into the communal front yard of the apartment complex, and still have enough kinetic energy to turn my hatchback into a compact.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>165906
Ahh. I believe I'll be on the other side of the NY/Ontario border from you, then.
>> Anonymous
>>165907
How'd you make the fake plates so convincing?
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>165911
Perspective tool in Gimp.
>> hatefag
>>165882
>>165875
>>165872
Excellent. Surprisingly good work considering the situation.

>>165871
Ruined with all that horrible purple grain around the lights on the left. Could have been good otherwise.

>>165901
>>165883
Snapshotty documentation-style shit.


The one that impresses me the most is>>165875
The thumbnail looks like crap and I keep popping it open to see why it sucks so bad, but the full-size image is actually interesting and evocative.

Good job.
>> Anonymous
>>165930
>Ruined with all that horrible purple grain around the lights on the left. Could have been good otherwise.

Technically anal crit is technical and anal.
>> hatefag
>>165945
>Technically anal crit is technical and anal.

Ok, you're right.
We should definitely ignore the fact that even the resized the picture looks like total shit and just judge the photographer on their intent, not on their final images.

Great idea!
>> Anonymous
>>165951
I don't think it looks like shit at all. Sometimes a lot of noise adds to a picture, because we're used to seeing it and associate it with certain things. I think this is the case here.

Noise isn't a big deal 90% of the time anyway unless you go in looking for it. Photographs have noise. Get over it.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
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>>165930
>Ruined with all that horrible purple grain around the lights on the left. Could have been good otherwise.
Agreed, now that I look at it with good posture.

I really need to get one of those monitor arms. My normal reclining slouch puts me slightly out of my LCD's correct viewing angle, so I didn't see the noise and it looked overall darker.

Re-processed it.

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>> Anonymous
Also, I can't imagine anyone wanting to print it larger than it shows up on screen. The subject doesn't invite itself to 36x24 inch prints.
>> hatefag
>>165966

Much better.
It's a shame that you loose so much detail by darkening the image, but at least it doesn't look like your camera is broken.

>>165964
Noise at 100% is fine and should be expected.
Noise at 50% can sometimes be OK depending on what you're planing on doing with the image.
But in this case we're looking at a resized-for-the-web image that still shows a TON of very distracting noise. If I saw this in print I'd assume that the printer was broken. If I didn't have these other pictures to compare it to I'd think his camera was broken or that he was using a shitty P&S.

If you like it that's cool and all, but it doesn't look good and I don't think it's the look that ac was going for.
>> Anonymous
>The thing that I'm curious about is, do the trolls lurk in /p/ and wait for it to get too good? Is it just coincidence?

it's the weekend... weekend /v/ suffers from the same shit.
>> hatefag
>>165980
>weekend /v/ suffers from the same shit.

/v/ has really gone to fuck lately though.
I don't know if it's gotten too popular or what, but it moves too fast and it's just the same shit overandoverandoverandoverandover again.
>> Anonymous
>>165983

it's not so bad in the wee hours of the night. britfag and ausfag /v/ still have some charm. but goddamn, weekends destroy this place. i blame a large migration from /b/
>> Anonymous
>>165974
Let me ask a question: what is wrong with visible noise in a photograph? How does it negatively affect the photograph?
>> Anonymous
>>166006

it negatively effects the photograph by looking like shit.
>> Nikon !!eX1E3IhZL8k
>>165871
Shitty pictures are shitty.
>> Anonymous
>>166020

qft
>> Anonymous
Anyways-

Weekends 'reset' /p/ back to whatever amounts to zero around here.

After a good week, it can seem like a bunch of trolls, but the weekends are always the worst. I generally stop reading /p/ after friday morning and don't come back to it until about...

now-ish.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>166020
You're just cranky 'cause I said I don't like trolls.