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Norbert last won the day on December 28 2022

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  1. Other religions don't celebrate Easter. If there was a Star of David on a bun it wouldn't be celebrating Easter as Jews don't believe in Jesus as the messiah. Saying that if there was a Darwin Fish on a Easter bun lookalike I might buy it over a hot cross bun for a laugh, only once though as hot cross buns have horrible candied peel in them, which is just taking the pith.
  2. Having followed up on the useful links provided by peak4 I’m coming to the conclusion that: Photography used to be racist in that it did little to address capturing detail and colour tones in dark skin, and subsequent processing and printing made it even worse. The Shirley Card was a problem but hardly surprising as it was introduced in the 1940s when America was overtly racist. It took too long to change though. These days most of the problem is lack of skill, thoughtlessness, and insensitivity. The technology is no longer inherently racist. To answer peak4’s question about when the issue was posed to me, it was recently, and to do with phone pictures in low light (and with back lighting) that made a mixed bunch of people look like some were missing. I think that to say modern photography is inherently racist is now a tad ridiculous. But I could be wrong.
  3. Yes it's been a wonderful welcome back. If I put everyone who's contributed so far except for you, the site owner, peak4 and hackey lad on ignore then SF might be actually useful and a nice place to be. I shall attend to the useful input of peak4 after taking advantage of the nice morning weather. Good day sir.
  4. Thanks. Phone cameras could easily have an algorithm that improves things, my Samsung doesn't seem to have one but perhaps other phones or cameras do? Skin tones with 50% reflectivity should by rights be easiest to capture, but I'm sure I'm missing lots about the subjective nature of pictures and photography.
  5. The Conservatives inherited the best healthcare system in the world. Ooops
  6. Thank you for a considered and balanced contribution, I don't think you've cleared it up though, it still looks like lack of skill is the main contributor, especially as film and sensors are essentially linear as per my OP.
  7. Now you're just the kind of smartarse who could actually help me out here, was this academic a bozo or is there something in it?
  8. I don't know about pathetic but it's about on the level of subscribing to streaming services.
  9. An academic said to me one evening that photography was inherently racist. My initial reaction as a scientist was that film and digital sensors are linear, the amount of light falling on them is proportional to the brightness of the end result. Also, photography is not all about portraits of people but about capturing everything accurately and using the maximum dynamic range of the medium. Perhaps photo-processing labs could be racist but these days we look at most photos on a screen. I have disappointing photos of people with dark skin, and note that ‘white’ skin (e.g. the average Irish person) has a reflectivity of about 65% and ‘black’ skin (e.g. the average Malawian) has a reflectivity of about 27%. I suppose then that white faces will have the benefit of a larger dynamic range to pick out their features. In the digital age cameras could/should have settings to capture dark skin better. Photographers recommend positioning people better with respect to the light, or using lights and reflectors, but much of this is impractical for everyday photography. I’m not interested in the opinions of thick and/or far right people, so what do you normal people think, is photography a bit racist?
  10. I'd be bothered about this if it wasn't for the fact that world food shortages are caused by growing food to feed to animals rather than directly feeding people. On several levels meat = death.
  11. ...and on that note, with Sibon gone, I think we should declare Hecate the winner, and pull the plug on SF, leaving your genius hanging in the air for future generations. Bye
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