Red Ring Tupperware Party, Unabridged (18)

Hey gang!

While I'm waiting for some pics from today to download, I'll tell my sordid tale...

I had business with my daughter in our little downtown today, so I brought stuff for some Urban/street photography while I was waiting for her. I had put enough coins in the parking meter for a while, so I went out with my 5DC and my 24-70 to shoot some spring flowers and some little architectural captures, which I like to share with our "Urban Fragments" thread. All good clean fun!

So, I work my way around the area -- churches and government buildings and various structures, and was having the proverbial time of my life and toward the end of my parking time I came to the "Federal Building" office building -- it has some stuff that interested me so I proceeded to get some stuff, ending up in front of the main sign, and I got close enough up on the grass to get what I felt was a pleasing composition and fired away...

Sounds all cool until you register that at this point I was standing on government property, nothing against the law, but of enough interest to bring out a guard who began asking in a very friendly way what was up, and again very nicely explained they are perfectly happy with folks taking pictures of the buildings and such just not security entrances and such and I happily said we're cool, and all was well...

That is, until he got the idea that "just in case" he would ask for my ID. I shrugged "sure, why not?" and, being as I was on government property sure he had the right to do that. And then, he figured just for security's sake he would radio my info in and things got more, well, no problem but I began to be aware of the time passing by. This was not a quick radio in -- it took time for the dispatchers to run my nefarious ID for whatever reason, tick, tick, tick...the friendly banter continued, but several times I said "I sure hope they hurry things up!"

Well, of course, finally he gave me my card back and sauntered into the building and I headed back to my car...back to an expired meter and a parking ticket...

Grrr...

sorry to hear that, Tony. I'd just put that down to bad luck and bad timing.

but did you have fun out with your daughter?

Harm wrote in post #12084681
ahhh, so you don't really need noise ninja.

perhaps you just need a new camera that has very little noise effects

After using the NR in LR 3, I don't see a point in buy/using NN anymore. I still have NN but, use it as a stand alone app.

^^That's total suckage Tony.

jdizzle wrote in post #12084819
After using the NR in LR 3, I don't see a point in buy/using NN anymore. I still have NN but, use it as a stand alone app.

Depends the processing technique. The way i use it in PP cant be done in LR. Thats why i dont do NR in LR. Different strokes for different folks

Harm wrote in post #12084812
sorry to hear that, Tony. I'd just put that down to bad luck and bad timing.

but did you have fun out with your daughter?

Well, it was business, but I did have fun shooting while it lasted!

Aw Tony.. That really is major suckage. Ouch!!

vipergts831 wrote in post #12084880
Depends the processing technique. The way i use it in PP cant be done in LR. Thats why i dont do NR in LR. Different strokes for different folks

What I meant was that it totally depends on the image. The LR3 NR is pretty good for majority of images with little to no noise but, for some heavy nr, I would use NN. Better?

do we get to see the photos then?

Damn Tony! Sorry to hear about the hastle you were given.

jdizzle wrote in post #12084945
What I meant was that it totally depends on the image. The LR3 NR is pretty good for majority of images with little to no noise but, for some heavy nr, I would use NN. Better?

Yes better Dont do it again emelio

Anyway, I'm playing with a few shots in DPP on my laptop -- I've been doing that lately before getting "serious" in Lightroom.

Here are a couple of the offending parking meters, in a parking garage:

I think you should sue them for Entrapment Tony! Obviously the Gubmint security wonk is in cahoots with the meter readers!

Thunderbird 12 .. Public Affairs Officer Major Kristin Haley

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

Yeah, well!

Anyway I had fun trying to get even the flowers with some street/urban "environment"

ahhhh, springtime....

still waiting for anything to bud & blossom here...