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Re: Capture One Smumug export plugin
We’ve been in discussions with them to build an upload plugin but do not have anything at this time. Capture One v12 requires us to write separate plugins for Mac and windows — Which operating system do you use?
Florida Wildlife
I've finally made it back to Florida from Montana. I went out the other day just outside my backyard in Orlando where I grew up, Shingle Creek for you locals, and captured the usual; wetland birds, turtles, and otters! I know of a few spots, but does anyone else have a favorite location around Central Florida that they would like to share? If so, please do and thanks! Anyways, Here are a few shots I captured yesterday:
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Re: Upcoming API Changes - Please Read
2.0 has been in beta for over 4 years now. Although the beta tag may not have an impact on how the API actually functions day-to-day, what it says to me as a partner is that you are reserving the right to break or change things with little or no notice. I would ask you to either promote the 2.0 to 'stable' as soon as possible, or provide a better explanation of why it still has the beta tag.
Re: 35mm Negative Scan line grain
This answer is not definitive, but...
The colored grain appears to be in near-white but not pure white areas. It also looks very digital in nature, the red spots don't look like film grain. Both observations suggest it's possibly digital noise from the scanner sensor. These are negatives, so very light areas are actually from the darkest part of the negative, and in digital the dark areas is where sensors are noisiest. Maybe it's a limitation of the sensor's dynamic range. Scanning enthusiasts look for the sensors with the widest dynamic range to get the lowest noise, but dynamic range is not easy to find out from spec sheets, and the scanners with great dynamic range for film are not cheap.
The horizontal lines look like a separate issue, possibly related to the precision of the scanner stepper motor. Check the HP scan software to see if it has multiple quality modes, try the highest quality/slowest speed mode.
I have a different scanner, a pure film scanner, and it can be set to do multipass scans to average out artifacts like scan lines and sensor noise, at the cost of a much longer time per scan. If the HP scan software has a higher quality option, it may include multipass scanning, or multipass might be a separate option that you have to turn on.
Show and Tell: Best of Alaska Wildlife
Looking for some locations to photograph wildlife in the late winter-early spring of the year 2019 if anyone cares to share, otherwise, lets see some of your favorite shots from Alaska! Here are some of mine:
Winter Lights at Newfields at the IMA
Saturday evening I participated in the Winterlight exhibit at Newfields, a seasonal light show at the Indianapolis Museum of Art - https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/arts/2017/11/17/5-best-light-displays-within-winterlights-newfields/852641001/. ( This is a pretty spammy link, but if you can go to the Reader version without the ads it is pretty nice, - on my MAC I click on the icon in the left side of the header at the top of Safari ( If I try to post that link here, it just sends you to the page you see in the link I included )
My daughter in law purchased the tickets a few days ago, and made a smart decision to enter the display at 5 pm, just about 20 minutes before sunset, and before much of the crowd. I took only my 7D MkII and a Tamron 16-300 mm zoom and no tripod, since I wasn't certain tripods would be allowed. I know they are not allowed inside the museum , so... all my images are handheld, shot while the lights were dancing to the music of the season.
As we entered the grounds, the sun was still above the horizon and the sky was partly cloudy and orange to the west.
As we walked towards the Lilly Mansion the lights in the yard were lovely
The inside of the mansion was festively decorated, but pretty dark, most of my images shot at ISO 12000 or higher so I won't display them here - l did catch a frame of the car in the garage - a 1917 Pathfinder - yup, that is a fact
As the music played and the sunset farther below the horizon, the yard came alive with color and dance
The sky continued to darken, until only the lights in the trees could be seen - some trees had over 70,000 lights, it was quite an beautiful thing to see on a 50+ degree evening in November
Comments and suggestions heartily encouraged
More about the IMA can be found here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Museum_of_Art
Re: Bug or something about my customization for "Download" next to download button or something conflict
In the formatting line above the text box you are typing your post in, you see something looking like a vertically mirrored P followed by an I. Mark the text you want to show as code then click that symbol and chose Code (fourth option from the text). Et voila your code is presented in a readable form once you post your comment. 
Good luck.
