***March 12, 2023 - March 18, 2023 Weekly Show, Tell, and Critique***

Ontarian said:

Beautiful scenery Bill. Be a great area to tour.....Don

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Birddogman said:

I had to take my truck to the Ford dealer in New Holland to be inspected. That's the heart of PA Dutchland, near places like Blue Ball, Intercourse, Goodville, etc. So, I took the camera along for the ride, while dodging buggies on the road.

Speaking of driving buggies on the road, here is an apparent "driving essential".



It was a nice day, so long lines of laundry were hung out to dry at the Amish and Mennonite farmhouses:



A 300 year old church in Churchtown (where else?):



A view of an 18th century house in Churchtown from the graveyard:



Yesterday wasn't a gym day, so we stopped by the big lake for some exercise on the way home. It was actually warm enough we could have been sailing on the lake instead of hiking around it. Nancy by the lake - water levels are still low:



Bliss swimming - the air temp was high 50F degrees but the water was still COLD:



Joy playing in the water:



Nancy with cellphone - the dog action photographer:



Greg

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Bill Borne said:

Who would want to live in a town called intercourse?

Thanks for the pics and comments, Greg

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Bill Borne said:

Papa48 said:

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Dak on cam said:

Papa48 said:

This scene is a field near our house that caught my eye after an early men's breakfast meeting, today. It was taken with a used RX10 I just bought. (Our granddaughter has my other one.) It's heavily cropped, and probably over-processed in Snapseed, but I like it. As an aside, we see deer, coyotes and foxes regularly cross this field. Once in a while a guy and his dog hang out here, but it's too close to houses for hunting.

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The colors look off for a sunrise: I suspect that the camera's white balance was aiming for a more neutral scene coloring in view of the tinted light. There may be a point to explicitly pick "cloudy" or even "shade" white balance to keep the camera from compensating for the low color temperature automatically.

The EXIF appears pretty much stripped, so my after-the-fact "shade" setting may not correspond to the actual result of picking "shade" whitebalance in-camera or with a raw processor knowing about the camera white balance.

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Applying "shade" setting to the image in Rawtherapee

This is probably overdone: it makes for a rather dull sky... But there is probably some in-between that better catches the atmosphere.

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Here is my take on it



used a Photoshop add on to

correct neutrals by clinking on snow and then upped contrast very slightly.

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Thanks for contributing, Bill. That really pops! (The actual scene was softer.) I like your color treatment.

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Thanks! Maybe I should not have upped the contrast?

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Dak on cam said:

KBTinto said:

I sometimes enter the main DPReview Challenges more as a way to keep myself occupied (looking over my pics, deciding which one to submit, etc. ) than anything else.

Then I checked my gallery ...

https://www.dpreview.com/galleries/0582064422/photos/4331851/dsc00292-b



My first thought was that I was losing it because I had submitted a day time shot for a Challenge requiring night ... my second thought was I had submitted already but then totally forgot about it ... which got me really worried .. but no ... someone had downloaded my image and submitted it as their entry. Never thought it would happen to me ... but .... there it is.

KB

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Here is the deal with filing a complaint: if you are unlucky, the entry will get removed by the host and you'll never get to find out just who submitted the entry.

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Dak on cam said:

I have no idea whether a normal host can find out how long your gallery entry existed so that your ownership would be provable.

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Dak on cam said:

One can still complain when the challenge is finished I believe.

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Dak on cam said:

In my book, that kind of behavior should be enough for a 10-year ban of entering a challenge. I have no idea what the point even is: with ballot stuffing and date manipulations, you can at least delude yourself that you are only doing what everyone does and are helping luck a bit to give your picture the deserved appreciation, but entering someone else's photograph?

What kind of delusion does one need here to have a motive?

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Birddogman said:

GGGRRR! I truly don't understand why someone would do that - to claim glory that isn't his? How can there be any satisfaction in that? Makes no sense to me.

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Birddogman said:

Years ago I walked into a Sportsman's Show to find an outfitter/guide had a booth set up with this photo (in giant form) as the back of his booth.



You may recognize Maggie and Chase.

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Birddogman said:

When I asked him about the photo, he told me that those were some of his excellent dogs and what a great trip I'd have bird hunting if I hired him as a guide. Unlike your situation, where you don't really know the culprit, I had the benefit of the fact that this lying, stealing SOB was standing right in front of me. Let's just say that things didn't go well for him or his booth and he was banned from ever attending the exhibition.

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Birddogman said:

I hope you can catch your SOB, KB!

Greg

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