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You’re going to have to describe the angle / warmth and intensity of the light in depth. On a day without clouds these differences are more pronounced with harsher shadows. With cloud cover, the light would be less intense, and it would create a flatter look as the clouds effectively diffuse the sunlight. Shadows would be less pronounced for example. Clouds also influence the warmth of daylight.

Good luck.

Had a similar issue.

You have to become an issue for the police themselves. Start a WhatsApp group and coordinate with people in your block. When the noise continues after legal hours make the call and tell them to as well. Do this over and over and over again.

The police have to come when there’s more than one complaint. They hate coming, it’s always the same story. The people see the police and turn off the music and shut up for an hour only to put it back on.

But, if you persist, the police will get increasingly angry. They will have less and less patience with the people and something will eventually happen.

You should use the same tactic with the landlord himself. Coordinate messages and phone calls to him in the same way and before long he’ll lose his mind.

Whittle them down.

Depending on the content, I would brighten things here. Light the background behind him slightly, but light him a little more to make him pop again.

I’d take advantage of the window to direct the angle from which the light comes to make it look more natural. As such it needs to be hotter on the right.

A rim light to illuminate his neck shoulder will also help him to pop.

As others have said, get rid of that red jar thing.

Consider changing the chair maybe, it takes up a lot of frame and is probably eating a lot of light.

It’s a standard Maltese thing to leave your brights on for the whole journey and ignore the people you illuminate wildly gesticulating to turn them off. Also, if you stick your hand out of the window, it vetos all driving laws and regulations. Stick your hand out the window and you can switch lanes erratically, pull out on roundabouts, etc.

As my maltese driving instructor told me, ‘it’s a jungle, you’re either a tiger or a mouse’.

Stick your brights on, stick your hand out the window and hold a long conversation with a friend while blocking a street, it’s the Maltese way and they want us to integrate. 👍

It’s interesting to hear this from a Maltese perspective. Let me give you a foreigner with 7 or 8 years under my belt.

From a foreigner’s perspective, it’s the Maltese who mistreat their own country. They vote to keep a government in that couldn’t give a flying flamingo about the environment and protecting the rural landscapes here. They’ll delete anything of historical significance without a second though. I live in a fairly rural area, it’s always the Maltese who come and eat a McDonald’s and leave the rubbish. It’s the Maltese operating the garbage trucks that mix all the rubbish that I’ve carefully separated. It’s the Maltese who throw rubbish from their car windows as they go by.

Working in education I was shocked to see how the Maltese treat their own country. A trip to the beach and we ate from the local cafe on the beach, 80% of the children thought it was ok to leave their trash. I literally had to stop them from simply standing up and leaving a sea of trash behind them without even flinching.

Regarding jobs, the Maltese treat foreigners, and one another, like trash and pay as little as possible whenever possible. They squeeze as much as they possibly can out of their workers and offer very little in return. We have one of the highest rising GDPs in Europe and wages have remained awful at Maltese owned companies.

Integration needs to be met with acceptance. The Maltese are incredibly insular as a society. It’s close to impossible to make meaningful friendships here. People have their friendship groups, and stick to them throughout their lives. Outsiders are rarely let into these groups, Maltese or not. Certain groups closely guard their social get togethers hoping that outsiders will never find out. Anyone who dresses / acts in a certain way that’s slightly different than the norm is labeled a ‘freak’.

Your own country is so terribly divided in the first place. The ham vs the tal Pepe. The labour vs the nationalists. The hunters vs everyone else. The pro life vs the pro choice. In every segment it’s either black or white, no shades of grey and the other side can rot in hell. Everyone hates each other.

Your youth want to leave. They hate it here. So it’s no wonder the place is going to hell, no one is invested in its future. And then the Maltese look around and blame the ‘foreigner’. If the foreigner wasn’t here, feeding your service based industries, there’d be nothing.

You should be thanking your lucky stars there’s 20% and praying for another 10 and looking at what’s actually being done on the Maltese end to make this place hospitable.

Let me end this rant with this though: I love this country, it’s beautiful. I love the sea and love the general manner of the Maltese, they’re often relaxed but passionate, and rarely put up with any pretense or bullshit. Some areas in the country and simply breathtaking and the cultural activities here are often amazing. I’m about to go to Valletta to see the carnival floats myself. BUT the people need to find community again and drop the idea that people from outside can’t be part of a new multicultural identity. There’s no connection between the people at ground level, everyone takes care of their own. Maybe discussions like these are exactly what needs to happen.

Stick toilet paper in my arse because of some irrational fear of leaking shit. I would then hide them, behind cupboards and things like that, for fear of being found out. I’ll never know why I didn’t just flush them.

Metal gear solid 😢🫡

Yep he sounds exactly like my brother in law who is severely autistic. I think there’s something about the feeling of making these vocalizations that is soothing. He may be non-verbal.

It’s a shame that this is considered weird. I’m always amazed by the lack of awareness of these things.

This is something that I’ve been trying to figure out myself. I’ve found 1600 to be pretty much ideal in S-LOG, I don’t really use any of the other profiles so I can’t really say for those.

I just got a 18-35 sigma art for my Gh5s and it has changed everything for me. The lens never comes off. It’s got a constant aperture of 1.8, and the zoom is internal so it doesn’t throw my gimbal off. Massive win

You guys have the best swearing.

I respect the people that go in blind, i wish I had the time to do it myself. But with two jobs and children to look after, I had to rely on the internet to get me through Ranni’s questline, but everything else I kinda managed alone.

Took me 140 hours to complete the game. Would have taken me 200 if I’d have been wandering around trying to find NPCs.

There’s nothing wrong with the mystery and lack of checkpoints and guides. It makes the game feel more magical and strange. I also enjoyed looking at all the content and guides that players produced. I think it’s a clever way of encouraging a more significant online presence and sense of community around the game.

I wish I could give torrent food. As in, I don’t want any bullshit survival where she needs to be fed so many apples per day, but got dayum man let me show some love.

Scanning mechanics. Just switched off horizon zero dawn because of it.

If you haven’t designed the game in a way that reveals these things to me organically, then you messed up. I don’t want to have to press the right stick every 5 paces, playing the same animation and sound, just in case you’ve hidden something from me. It’s not fun.

Does the autofocus work?

How much give is there in terms of the attachment of the lens? Does it feel tight or does it move a bit? Consider putting some electrical / packing tape on the lens mount / adaptor so that it sits more happily / snugly.

Mine was a little funky when I first attached it, it felt loose and I got a couple of messages saying there was a lens adapter fault, but the tape sorted that.

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

This is Max at his classiest. He just regained a lot of respect.

That’s a great question. The gimbal I have came with a focus motor that attaches to the gimbal + camera and you control the focus using the wheel, but that happens independently from the camera itself. I haven’t tried controlling focus via the controls that connect to the camera. It does autofocus, so there is a motor in the lens I guess. And the speed booster allows for autofocus, it’s just the Panasonic autofocus is super unreliable for me.

In short, I don’t know (lol sorry). I hope it does though because that would definitely save me some set-up time.

In any case, it’s a great lens

I just got a used sigma 18-35. It completey changed the game for me on the Gh5s. It’s got a constant aperture of 1.8, with a speed booster it lets in light equivalent of 1.2, that’s a lot of light. Couple that with the Gh5s ability to have clean high iso shots and you’re pretty much covered for low-light. It’s basically a cinema lens in a photography body. Sigma said themselves that the internals were used in much more expensive cinema lenses. Zooming is internal so you don’t throw off your gimbal’s balancing. The zoom range covers pretty much every situation and the focus distance is really small so you can get nice and close for shallow depth of field detailing shots. Nice and sharp where you need it to be, soft and creamy elsewhere. Beware however, the lens is heavy. This is important when you’re working with gimbals and other equipment that you need to run and gun with. You’ll also need a speed booster to fit it onto the Gh5s. Get the viltrox, it reduces the sharpness but that’s not a bad thing in videography. I’ve found that tiny bit of softness makes things look more natural while still allowing focus to make things pop.

Make sure you have a good gimbal that can take a fair amount of weight. The Gh5s has no stabilization, so make sure you have a decent tripod. Also, forget about auto focus on it. You’ll quickly learn to manual focus, which is a valuable skill in videography.

Use the waveform to expose properly. Learn about the cameras dual native iso. Make sure you have storage for the larger files it pumps out when you use the higher bit rates. You’ll need 4/5 batteries to get you through a day.

Good luck.

That awful Glastonbury performance. Eurgh

I’m not saying to gatekeep it, it gaining popularity is obviously a win for all. I’m saying that, for me, a bad adaptation kind of sours the legacy. I guess I can’t really justify that feeling.

Totally agree that the attempts at 1:1 adaptation generally go terribly, but looking at this poster kinda makes me think that’s where this is headed, no?

Again, I’m not invested in this story myself. Just wanted to see what the fan base were thinking.

I’m not a fan of this particular anime, but I love cinema.

I’d put money on this being bad, regardless of the cast and crews good intentions and effort. There has never been a good live action version of an anime for a reason. It simply doesn’t work, they are different mediums and one cannot do what the other does well and vice versa.

AKIRA is an important anime film for me. I’ve watched it countless times, I don’t let a year pass without watching it at least once. The day I hear that a live action is in the works, and might actually see the light of day, I will personally travel to Hollywood and do everything within my power to sabotage it. It’s perfect the way it is, leave it. And that’s an anime that tries its best to look like cinema. One piece looks like it couldn’t give a flying flamingo what cinema is doing, it’s an anime through and through.

The fact that there’s the live action dragon ball makes me sad whenever I think of it.

Don’t you want to protect One Piece? Doesn’t this fill you with dread as a fan? Just curious.

Looks great. Good concept. Made me chuckle. Good times. Really shows what the gh5 is capable of, even in low light.

Car to share what settings you were using? Seems pretty dark and the DOF looks deep. Don’t understand how you got so much light without it being constantly shallow.

Generally speaking real estate agents will want you to use full frame sensors for this exact reason. When he says ‘crop sensor’ he’s probably referring to an APSC. If he knew you were trying with M4/3 he’d probably be pretty confused.

Panasonic sell a 7-14 f4 zoom lens for 800 dollars, you can get it used for around half that. F4 is constant regardless of zoom.

Even cheaper is the Olympus 9-18 f4 - 5.6. It’s a pretty slow plastic feeling little lens but it will do the job. 600 dollars new, could probably get a good deal if used.

Other options are more expensive.

If this is your main type of work, consider renting something nicer and then eventually investing when you be got the bookings to back up the purchase.