Yep. It’s very cool, but takes a little getting used to at first!

Nah, I’ve used my parents’ induction hob and it’s ridiculously fast to boil liquids. A half pint of milk was boiling over in 20s. Gas stoves can’t compete.

Sonia Sodha

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sonia-sodha

Anything she writes related to trans issues or topics is about as FARTy as it comes.

She is “chief leader writer at the Observer and a Guardian/Observer columnist”

I usually leave it at chroma only as well. Luminance noise is far less unpleasant on the eyes.

I think you’re underselling Darktable somewhat. Being able to use drawn and parametric masks for basically all the tools, and the granularity at which you can adjust the variables across the entire image makes it incredibly powerful for non-destructive editing of photos. There are also numerous filters and tools which can be used artistically.

But yes, for “photo-shopping” as opposed to photo editing you probably will want GIMP as well.

Mildly?

I’m going to assume they’re not British…

It’s tricky to get the saturation right for every viewer. Looks pretty accurate on my screen.

It’s a good camera!

Scotland - Central Belt.

Helped that this patch of the garden gets full sun for most of the day so I could stop down plenty.

I wish I had time to dedicate to bee ID!

Almost reflex downvoted, but it’s not your fault.

Since you’re asking for feedback, I would say the background is a little busy for what I would guess your intent is of having a crisp flower shot.

The framing might be improved by simply cropping out the tulip on the right completely.

If you’d been able to swing the camera around to the left a tick, would that have enabled you to not have the trees directly behind the flowers? Even just pushing them to the side of the frame without removing them entirely could have maintained some background interest without having the contrast of the bokeh edges sitting right next to the sharp edges of the in focus flowers.

This might just be my screen, but it’s a bit dark. Flowers generally like to pop a bit more.

Good focus regardless.

First learn the rules, and then learn how to break them

Better than bitcoin I suppose

Sounds like a nice life? I don’t have much idea what beet farming is like…

Farming what though?

Small mention for Darktable as an alternative to Lightroom.

I’m going to repeat Ursula K Le Guin and Margaret Atwood because it’s hard to overstate how much of everything is in their works. Iain (M) Banks I’ll also echo, but will add China Miéville because there aren’t enough anarchists in this thread.

I appreciate you naming more than one female author!

Reynolds sometimes lacks a touch on the human side of his work. That being said, I’ve not read much of his more recent novels so he might have matured since finishing his 10 year contract.