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I got my new lens so I can finally take some pics of stuff thats small/farSquirrels like roti [link] - though its probably bad for their blood pressure
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I played with levels a bit - and messed with the saturation to get it just the way I like 
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I am never good at editing shots 
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just play the buttons man - the good thing about digital is the undo button
I'm sure you'll get it if you do
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yeah that is true, I'll try it
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You're using GIMP right? Theres a ton of tutorials floating around for it [link]
and you might want to get UFRaw if you don't have it already - it lets you edit raw files in GIMP
[link]
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I have gimp, and Photoshop I mess around a bit with both. Thanks for the links
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he's all yours man 
Thanks for the
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Fantastic contrast.
It's blinding, if you look at the snow and then the squirrel. I like how it's almost blended in to the twigs and such under its feet.
The positioning isn't bad either, although I would have personally placed it in the left corner a bit more instead of the left side.
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Thanks
I wish I'd gotten a bit lower - but the little guy ran away as soon as he heard the shutter. To the left how so?
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Ah, that sucks. >.<
How do you mean how so? O.o
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yeah animals and their reflexes - what can you do. Though pidgins in the city are totally adapted to humans - the pidgins even eat fast food chicken 
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I know! When you run towards them, they just stand still, walk a bit further away and look at you with contempt.
Although, we have pigeons, not pidgins. O.o
Well... the squirrel, I guess.
It's an 'it'. Sue me. xD
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haha making fun of my spelling - I imagine you sitting in front of your PC laughing much like this [link]
English is a messed up language man - don't blame me
Makes sense - but the poor guy would be so offended... theres a Native American somewhere with a single tear rolling down his cheek
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Well, actually, I was very confused, and that baby is darn right evil.
But yeah, I actually went to google and typed it in to make sure we were talking about the same birds. O.o
Dude, you live in the US. The spelling there is...
And also, was the accent of that woman American too?
Similarly, it would be offended if actually, the guy was a girl. >.>
So in essence, best stick with 'it'
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I think that child has fused 
Pidgin is apparently a fake language or a hodgepodge of language(s) - and the birds name is spelled pigeon (in all parts of the English speaking world I think)
Yeah thats an American accent - sounds a bit like Sarah Palin (was Governor of Alaska ran for Vice President) - I'd say its a Midwestern accent.
You got a point there man
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Oh yeah, I would say so.
Itβs scary for one so young to have mastered that. O.o
Yes! I thought it was something like that.
Ooh⦠You need to get that sorted. Shoot it down before it shoots you!
My firefox never misleads me. xD
I wonder where yours is misleading you to. O.o
Interestingβ¦ Itβs a funny one.
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Shoot the evil baby? Firefox? the squirrel ? o.O - perhaps they're all a part of the conspiracy
I wish I knew where it was headed man - I wish I knew
Its a kind sounding accent man
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Knowing the evil baby, if we came within distance to hear its laugh, it'd kill us purely from it.
The other two might be more easier to shoot. O.o
Kind?
KIND?!
It was downright evil too.
Oh really?
How are they funnier?
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You maybe right about the baby
How did the mother sound evil man ?- I think your
Man - where ever there is Hollywood there is the American English accent - its the norm - where as the British accent is really an aberration
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I don't know if that accent is the norm, for you.
Honestly, I haven't
Uh-huh. >.>
That accent is poor. Absolutely poor.
It sounds like this one: [link]
My accent is more along the lines of this: [link]
And American actors can do British accents well enough. >.>
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My accent is much like this [link] - and my thoughts are almost always along the same lines
how come you're not
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My accent is like a BBC anchor accent, yes. That's the only one I can find that's similar to my own accent.
That's just too cute.
That accent isn't as bad as the other, actually. I don't know if it's just because the other was a female, but it was too whiny. >.>
It's intriguing... accents I mean.
I don't know, but I know that I never
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What a horrible accent to have man - so formal, but I guess everyone outside of Britain must think you're a genius simply cause you speak the way you do
Where do you think accents come from?
what ? Man - if I wasn't so lazy I tried to find that message where you said that
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Formal? O.o
Isnβt that all just about perception anyway?
Ah, but you see, I donβt know. I donβt know what other people think of British accents.
Thatβs an interesting question. o.O
Doesnβt the many languages we have now originate from something that was mentioned in the Bible?
I never said that.
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you're right - it is just a perception, and I wonder if colonialism has anything to do with it. Colonial masters subduing a people and exploiting them could leave quite a mental scar...
I've been trying to bring myself to read the Bible - but I haven't yet (honestly I'd rather read the apocryphal texts)...I do think all languages are linked cause humanity is linked. I think much like how our physical appearances changed (people with greater exposure to the sun got darker etc.) language changed as we did...
It is an interesting question for sure - never gave it much thought - what do you think?
Dude you definitely said something like it as far as I recall, I could be wrong...
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Thatβs true. =/
Some say that the scars you donβt see are the hardest to heal.
I havenβt read the Bible, but Iβve heard and read snippets before. Reading the Bible would be like reading the Dictionary. >.>
Still, it would be so much easier if we all spoke the same language, although⦠possible more boring, but still.
Hmm⦠Well, it is said we used to grunt. O.o
It said something about Jesus (Or God) making it so that all his disciples spoke different languages so that they could pass on the word of God and stuff. I really donβt know.
If one steps away from that and goes to logic/science, then one would think about evolution and how weβve just evolved in different ways and all of that.
Oh really? o.O
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You're right about that
I don't know if its like the dictionary - I'm sure there's wisdom to be found in it...depends on the person interpreting. Most people now project their own inner faults in to their holy books and find justifications for things they know to be wrong.
If we used to grunt what would cause us to change ? I think there isn't any other animal thats able to conceptualize abstract ideas. I imagine if I say it was raining - in your mind you picture it raining. But if I said it to a monkey or a dolphin - I think they'd think its actually raining (if they could comprehend the words) . I don't think animals can form sentences for the future or past tense
Even according to evolution all modern humans would have a common ancestor right? I mean that all races of human beings are of the same origin and racial & lingual differences are small adaptations that have occurred due to geography/diet perhaps...
I'm too lazy to look up something thats not all that important - and I don't even know where to look
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Thatβs true, I guess.
Hmmβ¦ Some do, yes. You donβt really need the Bible or any other holy book to justify for things that people know to be wrong. People will just come up with an excuse regardless. =/
Grunting in different ways? O.o
I mean, a clan could get separated, and then grunts could evolve at different paces into different things, leading to the languages we have today.
True, that. =/
Still, a lot of our words come from Latin, no?
Mm-hmm. That makes sense.
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True - people make excuses
What would cause the change from grunting to actual language where we can communicate abstractions ? You could argue social cohesion, but birds and other animals that move in groups seem to get along fine (perhaps better) than us in group situations...
I think there are just a few root languages right? Indo-European (Hindi, German, Persian, Latin) - Semetic (Arabic, Hebrew) and I guess the African and Asian languages could share a root...
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To actual language, I imagine⦠quite a lot of time.
Possibly because we have more intelligent thoughts than they do, and possibly what society has done to us too⦠that, and environments and stuff.
I mean, an animalβs life is pretty simple, no? Of course, I donβt know what itβs like to be running around wild and free, but itβs all about survival for them.
There are a few root ones, yes. I thought German came from Latin? O.o
Mm-hmm.
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But what came first our "superior" intelligence or language? I would study a bit of linguistics cause it seems slightly interesting - but I imagine its really dry...and I know I lack the perquisite knowledge to really even think about the details of it.
Yeah animals are driven primarily by instinct rather than any sort of intellectual motive.
[link]
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Interesting question, that.
Because we weren't that superior, intelligence wise, back in those days... We just evolved to be, no?
Mm-hmm. I'm not a great fan of linguistics myself.
Woah... O.o
Where did you find that?
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Honestly I don't know - science is prone paradigm shifts, but I love reading stuff on it as it comes out (short articles not books
I asked Google - and he was kind enough to point me in the right direction
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Ah... Interesting.
Oh right, of course.
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Indo-European is a classification for the people that migrated to Persia, India and Europe - so I just looked up Indo-European language tree, to be a bit more precise
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Ah... I see.
That's... logical. O.o
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Beats my seagull hands(paws!) down!
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nah - if you saw the original photo its pretty average looking - its all in the photoshopping afterwards
That new lens is huge - and quite awesome
Thanks for 
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There's nothing wrong with the photoshopping mate! That's all part of the process and skill too! Looking for the extraordinary in the ordinary around us!
I'm jealous of your new big lens already!
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Tomorrow morning I hope I get some decent shots of birds
Don't be jealous your camera is way faster than mine
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I just love the way a camera makes you look at the world over and over again in different ways!
The kit lense that comes with the camera isn't too wonderful, but I shouldn't complain, I think it's mostly down to what you do with a camera! You're certainly doing the right thing!
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yeah - I had the kit lens until a few weeks ago - art is all about doing what you can with what you've got right?
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Well I'm certainly not disappointed with my first experiments, which were mostly on automatic, with a little manual control thrown in! I definately agree with the second part!
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You may want to get this plugin for GIMP if you're going to edit your pics on the PC much - it'll let you edit the files in the raw format [link]
PC editing gives us a chance to try and catch up to the guys with a few thousand dollar lenses
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Oh! Thanks, Kamal! I'll check it out now.
Does that mean you are using the GIMP too now? I'm assuming Photoshop comes with that plugin already installed?
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I was trying to play with my raw files on GIMP but it couldn't open them. I want to see how its different from photoshop with raws
I'm not using it yet though - still on photoshop for all my editing
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I like this picture you took, Kamal~~
there are a few squirrels in our backyard also~~
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