What is in your cup? - Page 1787

cromag · 11-17-2013, 09:30 PM

I used to be a fairly regular partaker of Tullamore Dew. I can recommend it.

CRussel · 11-18-2013, 01:05 AM

Ah, well. Too bad. The party got moved, so I had to settle for Lagavulin and Glenmorangie. I started with a double Lagavulin, but that was the last of the bottle, so life was tough, I switched to the Glenmorangie. Their 12 year. It's a decent malt, not as peaty as the Lagavulin, obviously, but quite nice.

Then off to the MS store to buy a new Surface 2, and then back to the hotel. Now to crash!

Bilbo1967 · 11-18-2013, 03:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CRussel

Ah, well. Too bad. The party got moved, so I had to settle for Lagavulin and Glenmorangie. I started with a double Lagavulin, but that was the last of the bottle, so life was tough, I switched to the Glenmorangie. Their 12 year. It's a decent malt, not as peaty as the Lagavulin, obviously, but quite nice.

Then off to the MS store to buy a new Surface 2, and then back to the hotel. Now to crash!

You do have a tough life, don't you

Tea - Typhoo - in my cup.

ProfCrash · 11-18-2013, 08:47 AM

Green Pu Erh in my cup.

I have tried a bunch from a puerh shop online and I have enjoyed them but I can't say I can tell the different ones a part. I probably need to do a side by side tasting.

Stitchawl · 11-18-2013, 12:04 PM

I've a small glass of rum beside my computer, as I try to pare down all the photos I took last night at the Lantern Festival. Here's a couple of Khom Loy rising up over the walls of the Old City. All those little dots of light in the background are other hot air balloons already too high to really see. There must have been over 20,000 released over Chiang Mai last night. I took some photos from my window showing thousands of them, but haven't finished editing them yet.

Stitchawl

orlok · 11-18-2013, 03:15 PM

Those lanterns are so clear they look superimposed. Beautiful.

Rioja (red) wine in my glass, as I relax after a 150 mile round trip to Milton Keynes.

Stitchawl · 11-18-2013, 09:10 PM

The minstrel of the dawn is here
To make you laugh and bend your ear
Up the steps you’ll hear him climb
All full of thoughts, all full of rhymes
Listen to the pictures flow
Across the room into your mind they go
Listen to the strings
They jangle and dangle
While the old guitar rings

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN5eSxMPlcg )

Good morning, everyone! Rain washed out the late night revelries yesterday, thank goodness! Firecrackers play a BIG part of Thai festivals, and it has been sounding like folks were using half-sticks of dynamite. Thanks to the rain we could actually get to sleep last night! More photo editing this morning, fortified with a mug of my local "English Breakfast" tea and a plate of Phad Grapow Gai from the Food Lady.

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Originally Posted by orlok

Those lanterns are so clear they look superimposed. Beautiful.

I'm experimenting with a new process called 'High Dynamic Range' which can be use to make a photo look more real than real, or very stylized depending on the buttons and sliders. It's far more complicated than I thought, but it seems to be the incoming fashion for photography, and many of the magazines have already started requiring it for submissions. Here's another done with the same process....

It's going to take me a while to learn to control it.

Stitchawl

VydorScope · 11-18-2013, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I'm experimenting with a new process called 'High Dynamic Range' which can be use to make a photo look more real than real, or very stylized depending on the buttons and sliders. It's far more complicated than I thought, but it seems to be the incoming fashion for photography, and many of the magazines have already started requiring it for submissions. Here's another done with the same process....

It's going to take me a while to learn to control it.

Stitchawl

HDR images from most people tend to over saturate the colors and look pretty much like a cheap jpg that someone used an "auto fix" kind of tool on. HDR done right is freaking cool for getting a dark sky to look right with a light cityscape for example.

Have fun, if you have good understanding of why the camera fails to capture the image in the first place, you will be able to speed up the learning curve... if not, well trial and error works too!

Stitchawl · 11-18-2013, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VydorScope

HDR images from most people tend to over saturate the colors and look pretty much like a cheap jpg that someone used an "auto fix" kind of tool on. HDR done right is freaking cool for getting a dark sky to look right with a light cityscape for example.

Have fun, if you have good understanding of why the camera fails to capture the image in the first place, you will be able to speed up the learning curve... if not, well trial and error works too!

I'm finding it easier to use with shots taken in daylight than when shooting slow speed 'available light' night photos, especially for color. The flames from the burning wax rings of the Khom Loy was the only light for these photos, and trying to balance exposure, white balance, and shutter speed, yet not get them to look like they were shot with a flash, was a trial!

Stitchawl

CRussel · 11-18-2013, 10:51 PM

What's amazing to me is all the stuff that modern electronics makes possible on the camera. We used to do many of these same techniques in the darkroom, and it was very much an art, not a science. I love the idea of being able directly control it on the camera with the instant feedback.

A diet coke kind of day. Though I did have a mug of "Tazo English Breakfast" tea made with a tea bag. I can't say I'd recommend it. Didn't get to Peet's today, but it's on the list for tomorrow or Wednesday.

Stitchawl · 11-19-2013, 08:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CRussel

What's amazing to me is all the stuff that modern electronics makes possible on the camera. We used to do many of these same techniques in the darkroom, and it was very much an art, not a science. I love the idea of being able directly control it on the camera with the instant feedback.

I can't tell you how many different filters I used to carry when going on a shoot... Between the screw-on filter stacks for 77mm and 72mm, each with 6-8 different filters, and the dozen slide-in glass plate filters, I needed an extra camera bag just for them! These days I carry a polarizing filter, a neutral density filter, and three graduated neutral density filters, all in a pack the size of a paperback book! Anything else can be replicated in either Photoshop or on the camera.

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A diet coke kind of day. Though I did have a mug of "Tazo English Breakfast" tea made with a tea bag. I can't say I'd recommend it. .

Don't know if it's the same in B.C. but Tazo brand was what was sold as tea in Starbucks in Japan. Not bad as ice tea, but the next thing to vile when served hot!

Now that it's evening, it's time for a glass of fresh mango lassi!

Stitchawl

CRussel · 11-19-2013, 08:58 AM

Yup, that's what Tazo is here, too. And yes, vile comes close. Their green tea is a very generic China Green, but at least drinkable. This wasn't.

ProfCrash · 11-19-2013, 09:40 AM

Yup Tazo is not good. They do make a great Ice Tea Pitcher that I use.

Another random Pu Erh Toucha. I do love my Pu erh.

Little Man loves playing with tea tins and tea makers. I swear they are his third favorite toys. He likes putting his favorite toys in the empty tea tins and using them to make noise. I now have to check my tea makers and empty tea tins for toy cars, little people, and other random objects.

I really wish we could read their minds because I would love to know what he is thinking. I know that what he is doing is not random and that he is learning. Fine motor skills opening and closing things. Hey I stick this in hear and shake it and it makes noise. Ohhh the lid is kind of cool. Colors (green, blue, red) and all sorts of stuff but it just seems so random.

dreams · 11-19-2013, 02:08 PM

Stitchawl - The Lantern Festival photo colors look so different, almost unreal. (Thanks for posting those; it is always so fun to see different things and areas.)

ProfCrash - It was always so fun to see what my son did with odd play things. Boxes were a favorite "toy" for such a long time. Oh, and blanket tents to hide in. I use to lay a blanket or sheet over the table and he had a special play area and later he called it his "fort" and "read" books while inside.

Lazy morning today, so Sumatra Coffee in my cup.

ProfCrash · 11-19-2013, 02:19 PM

dreams: Yup. He loves playing with the soap boxes and empty toilet rolls we use to distract him with in the bathroom. He has brought more then one to his play area and spent a good amount of time putting things in the soap box and then taking them out. I am trying to figure out why we buy him toys at all. Christmas this year will be lots of art supplies, clothes, and books. A few toys (like a sit and push fire truck/bike/bus type thing).

Wrapping will be bags with tissue paper. I figure he will have hours of fun and we can stay well under $100.

Finished a Code Red Mountain Dew. Going to head home and take a walk. Spin class tonight and it is cold out so I skipped my work walk. Not a habit I want to get into but it is cold out (let them winter time whinging commence)

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11-17-2013, 09:30 PM	#26791
cromag Surfin the alpha waves ~~ Posts: 26,540 Karma: 459765791 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: New Jersey Device: Jetbook Lite & Mini, Nook STR, Kobo, Hanvon N516, Kindle 2, Androids	I used to be a fairly regular partaker of Tullamore Dew. I can recommend it.

11-18-2013, 01:05 AM	#26792
CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,298 Karma: 80074820 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3	Ah, well. Too bad. The party got moved, so I had to settle for Lagavulin and Glenmorangie. I started with a double Lagavulin, but that was the last of the bottle, so life was tough, I switched to the Glenmorangie. Their 12 year. It's a decent malt, not as peaty as the Lagavulin, obviously, but quite nice. Then off to the MS store to buy a new Surface 2, and then back to the hotel. Now to crash!

11-18-2013, 08:47 AM	#26794
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	Green Pu Erh in my cup. I have tried a bunch from a puerh shop online and I have enjoyed them but I can't say I can tell the different ones a part. I probably need to do a side by side tasting.

11-18-2013, 12:04 PM	#26795
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	I've a small glass of rum beside my computer, as I try to pare down all the photos I took last night at the Lantern Festival. Here's a couple of Khom Loy rising up over the walls of the Old City. All those little dots of light in the background are other hot air balloons already too high to really see. There must have been over 20,000 released over Chiang Mai last night. I took some photos from my window showing thousands of them, but haven't finished editing them yet. Stitchawl

11-18-2013, 03:15 PM	#26796
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Those lanterns are so clear they look superimposed. Beautiful. Rioja (red) wine in my glass, as I relax after a 150 mile round trip to Milton Keynes.

11-18-2013, 10:51 PM	#26800
CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,298 Karma: 80074820 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3	What's amazing to me is all the stuff that modern electronics makes possible on the camera. We used to do many of these same techniques in the darkroom, and it was very much an art, not a science. I love the idea of being able directly control it on the camera with the instant feedback. A diet coke kind of day. Though I did have a mug of "Tazo English Breakfast" tea made with a tea bag. I can't say I'd recommend it. Didn't get to Peet's today, but it's on the list for tomorrow or Wednesday.

11-19-2013, 08:58 AM	#26802
CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,298 Karma: 80074820 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3	Yup, that's what Tazo is here, too. And yes, vile comes close. Their green tea is a very generic China Green, but at least drinkable. This wasn't.

11-19-2013, 09:40 AM	#26803
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	Yup Tazo is not good. They do make a great Ice Tea Pitcher that I use. Another random Pu Erh Toucha. I do love my Pu erh. Little Man loves playing with tea tins and tea makers. I swear they are his third favorite toys. He likes putting his favorite toys in the empty tea tins and using them to make noise. I now have to check my tea makers and empty tea tins for toy cars, little people, and other random objects. I really wish we could read their minds because I would love to know what he is thinking. I know that what he is doing is not random and that he is learning. Fine motor skills opening and closing things. Hey I stick this in hear and shake it and it makes noise. Ohhh the lid is kind of cool. Colors (green, blue, red) and all sorts of stuff but it just seems so random.

11-19-2013, 02:08 PM	#26804
dreams It's about the umbrella Posts: 25,110 Karma: 56250158 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Sony 505\| K Fire \| KK 3G+Wi-Fi \| iPhone 3Gs \|Vista 32-bit Hm Prem w/FF	Stitchawl - The Lantern Festival photo colors look so different, almost unreal. (Thanks for posting those; it is always so fun to see different things and areas.) ProfCrash - It was always so fun to see what my son did with odd play things. Boxes were a favorite "toy" for such a long time. Oh, and blanket tents to hide in. I use to lay a blanket or sheet over the table and he had a special play area and later he called it his "fort" and "read" books while inside. Lazy morning today, so Sumatra Coffee in my cup.

11-19-2013, 02:19 PM	#26805
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	dreams: Yup. He loves playing with the soap boxes and empty toilet rolls we use to distract him with in the bathroom. He has brought more then one to his play area and spent a good amount of time putting things in the soap box and then taking them out. I am trying to figure out why we buy him toys at all. Christmas this year will be lots of art supplies, clothes, and books. A few toys (like a sit and push fire truck/bike/bus type thing). Wrapping will be bags with tissue paper. I figure he will have hours of fun and we can stay well under $100. Finished a Code Red Mountain Dew. Going to head home and take a walk. Spin class tonight and it is cold out so I skipped my work walk. Not a habit I want to get into but it is cold out (let them winter time whinging commence)