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Great photos, great stories!

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Always appreciate you popping in. Ty.

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Interesting and inspiring. Too early morning (for me an addicted night owl) to think clearly enough to write more. Except I intend to go out soon and try to use what you showed here to make something new for me at least (such as ground up - no wordplay intended - or steadied slow shutter speed, maybe at night). And still thinking (too much!) about what’s worth sending of my “work.”

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please check yr email when you can. Don't want mine to get lost in your spam folder.

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Got it. With thanks. Escaped spam. Sent back a looong response with some links and embedded images. Which may have been spammed at your end. Hope you don’t mind getting such a wall of words.

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Got it! More soon...

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Nice story and excellent pictures. I'm not sure I would be keen on solo night shooting in a city like Boston. I do my night shooting with an RX100 and the stabilisation on that camera is terrible, so I do often push the ISO up. Unlike you, I have gone the AI noise reduction. route with DXO PureRAW. It's so good I find I'm sometimes adding back a little fake noise back in Lightroom to give the pictures a little more character.

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I hear you. I won't be long for noise reduction. I have had to do a for-hire job at night, and noise reduction was essential. Same with jobs I've had in music venues. But for my own work, that's where I can set my own rules and live with the results. Thanks for the comment and your eyes. I really appreciate it.

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I love this story and the perspective. Cheers

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I enjoyed the images and the stories behind them. Thanks for sharing.

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You are welcome and thx for the restack!

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I want to escape out the slit in that window screen.

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Go for it! I can't promise the landing will feel good though.

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Exceptional work. Just exceptional

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check yr hotmail acct so my email to you doesn't get lost in the ether. Thanks!

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Thank you thank you thank you.

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You’re good in cyanotype! Also, why shooting in f9 the street cleaners … guess

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I wanted detail. It was early in night shooting. I prob over compensated. I knew i could do 1/2 sec without jitters, so f/9 was my limit.

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