Morning Discussion

by Alice O'Connor, Feb 02, 2011 5:00am PST

As much as I enjoy the GOMtv StarCraft league, I'm struggling to keep up with it all. With a short team tournament beginning on Monday, I still haven't finished the last season of the main league. Before that, Code A and Code S games had been going for a fortnight before I managed to finish Season 3. It's all jolly nice but there's just so much of it.

I imagine this is one of the reasons sports fans stick to following a single team. I can't explain the other reasons because they'll get all shirty with me if anyone reads this post out loud for them. Do you see what I am implying? It's quite hilarious, is it not? I knew you would agree, imaginary reader I created purely to agree with me. You always do, my dearest friend. I love you. Honestly though, please don't read this out to any sports fans.

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I posted a wallpaper a couple days ago, and about 90% of the replies were complaining of the watermark. I really didn't think it was even very visible, and I've had a lot of my photos stolen online (happens a lot more with landscape stuff than with portraits because there are no witnesses that YOU are the photographer).

Anyway, here's a non-watermarked version of the shot. Please don't steal my shit shack. I'm trusting you. I never post stuff un-watermarked anymore.

http://www.shackpics.com/files/_MG_0995_q05667aoprre83obztrn.jpg

Hawaii, 2011 (Maui north shore)

Feb 02, 2011 12:32pm PST

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I posted a wallpaper a couple days ago, and about 90% of the replies were complaining of the watermark. : mlev
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  Erm, by steal my shit I mean claim you're the photog. By all means, use it as your wallpaper or whatever... : mlev
  - Screw the haters, the watermark in no way made the image 'completely useless' or 'unusable'. Still, if : Nixx2004
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  As a totally amateur and not great photographer can you tell me the lens and settings used when taking th... : orgcaptainnemo
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    Yep! Here's the setup I used: Canon 50D w/ battery grip Manfrotto tripod w/ ballhead Canon 24-70mm ... : mlev
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      He's going to c/p this and use it to post the pic as his on interfacelift. : swiftB3
      
      Sweet pic, btw. Desktop'd : swiftB3
    - Thanks dude! : orgcaptainnemo
    - Nice info, thanks! : prime8
    - Only 1 in 3 of those lenses are any good, :(. Actually I've only seen one good quality one in real life, ... : Wheatloaf
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      which nd filter do you use? i'm curious if you have a screw on filter or a filter system. : j0nchan
      
      Colkin p filter system. :) : mlev
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    I took that with my phone and the flash was set to auto. : Degenerate
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      i hate you : orgcaptainnemo
      
      :Â¬* : Degenerate
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  just sold it for 500 bucks : Dravenport
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    I wanted the watermarked version. Gimme my money back. : edgewise
    - no refunds bitch, peace! : Dravenport
- mlev this is my new desktop, thank you, its awesome. : massdev
- Submitting this to natgeo, one sec... : c0bra
- On my way to KINKOS and shall make my fortune selling these Hawaii, 2011 (Maui north shore) prints. : Phil
- nice! you should clone out that sensor spot in the middle of the sky :) : jenisthebest
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  Woah, I took one almost exactly like that: http://www.shackpics.com/files/mlev_pwndcopy_q9bchfudi1jhnp7e8... : Merconium
  - little more bling tho. : hirez
  - This post needs more love. : granpachook
  - Cool pic bro. : Dontdrop
  - hahahaha : ass-street
  - lol : Dravenport
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    Fucking hell. Seriously though, I once took a photo of a bear in my neighborhood, it got sent on to th... : mlev
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      so no one is making any money off the pics, but you're upset? : Dravenport
      
      Yes. : Nixx2004
      
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      No one makes any money by pirating games either. : mlev
      
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      Okay, that's not entirely true, i'm sure some people do.
      
      My point is, you don't have to make money pirating something to make it illegal and wrong, and really piss off the original owner of whatever work it happens to be.
      
      Feb 02, 2011 1:49pm PST
      
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      Okay, that's not entirely true, i'm sure some people do. My point is, you don't have to make money p... : mlev
      
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      Maybe instead you should be proud you took a shot nice enough for 8 people to want to forward along. You... : twifosp
      
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      lol, come on : MikkleThePickle
      
      What? He's being a little over protective of a shot he didn't intend to use for commercial purposes. : twifosp
      
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      im just curious exactly what the problem is, there's a difference between someone pirating a game and som... : Dravenport
      
      seriously, don't send pics to family or friends that you don't want them sending to everyone else if you' : uebersoldat
      
      Yes, I have indeed found my photos on fb with other people claiming to be the photogs. And it upset me mo... : mlev
      
      Merconium did exactly what mlev asked us not to do. Surely you're not surprised at the result? : Goncyn
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      Seriously, I only did it because I had that absurd signature in a folder. I am little more than a 1hr/mo ... : Merconium
      
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      Hahaha yeah no worries. I'm not upset about this any more than if someone turned that rock into edgewise. : mlev
      
      Good. It is a lovely shot, and I'm jealous you were there. : Merconium
      
      it was actually pretty funny : Goncyn
  - LMAO!! : HL3dsx
  - hahahahahah : Old_Fart
- sweet. I added to my rotating windows wallpaper (landscapes!) : hirez
- Thanks, mlev. Beautiful photo. : Goncyn
- Thanks! : =]Milo[=
- you are a gentleman and a scholar sir. :D : halophoenix
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  That photo is ace - you did good yo. And I'm really good at taking photos, so that compliment means a ... : seven
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    nice lol : RogerDandy
    - i no rite - what's the fun of being good at something, if you can't ocassionally be a fucking huge dick a... : seven
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  Why not watermark your photos steganographically? You could have undeniable proof that it's your photo a... : Herman Toothrot
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    Wut? : mlev
    - steganographically, duh! : mXENO
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      put a stegosaurus on all your picturees : retardhumper
      
      i'd buy a print of that. : ass-street
      
      That's the prehistoric way, there is software that does it for ya! : HL3dsx
      
      That's the first thing I thought of too :/ : Entity
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    doesnt that only work until the image is resized or saved as a different format? : hirez
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      Yeah, a lossy encoding would destroy it pretty well. : Agrona
      
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      I think it would depend on the method used. There must be relatively robust ways to do it. : Herman Toothrot
      
      Nope, not really. Resizing it will mutilate anything like that. : boarder2
- I DEMAND A WATERMARK ONLY VERSION! : gakera
- I saw this on reddit : Slowtreme
- I'm so going to paint that : onji
- sharing is caring : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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  Shacknews: I'm don't care that I got it for free, I'm still outraged : Schnapple
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    What? Are you saying photogs take their pictures at no cost? Or am I completely missing the point of this... : mlev
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      yes, you are completely missing the point of that post. : MikkleThePickle
      
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      Figured I might be. So what was he saying? : mlev
      
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      I want to know too. : Nixx2004
      
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      To people in the future: it was a parody of the people in the thread who are indignant over the watermark : Schnapple
      
      schnapple, what do you say to the people of the past? : j0nchan
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  Needed a bit more Vibrance and less lens artifacts. Download here. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2175873/mor... : historyinthemaking
  - Its a lot more vibrant and less artifacty when I don't have to jpg compress it to get it on shacknews :p ... : mlev
- At first I thought the whitish rocks in the lower left were skulls. Which then made the picture more evil... : Chod

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