Comments by "Benjamin Rood" (@benisrood) on "Essential Craftsman"
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For a channel that promotes craftsmanship, apply some to your camera and audio work, that's also a craft, okay?
To whomever did the audio: you got the Left and Right channels swapped around. All you had to do was listen to this back for a few seconds, good grief. This is fixed in two seconds flat in your editor.
To the cameraman: Try turning auto-exposure off and actually looking at what you are shooting. Plus, it really, really doesn't take that much effort or 💰 to put a little LED light on top of your camera to make it easier for people to see what you are filming. When you see lights above and BEHIND your subject, and you're not lighting a drama, but showing off a product, that's not good. If you can't manage that, then at least, for goodness sake, try to boost the knee/toe of the image a little in the computer. It even happens at around 4:00 when you put the "DEPTH = THICKNESS OF SLAB" title on, see how that makes it easier to see into the shadows? Don't judge exposure/brightness of an image based on a monitor with the brightness turned all the way up, that gives you a totally misleading view, you need to look at the histogram of the image luminance distribution. Always, when looking at image luminance for stills or video, you gotta keep the brightness and contrast of your display turned down low, and use the histogram(s).
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@themalacast I live in a shitty little city in Eastern Europe these days, and let me tell you, as an ordinary, non-disabled person, you should count your blessings that the ADA exists and is enforced. It has massive downstream effects for everyone, including on sidewalks and pavements. Try riding a bicycle, pushing the pram or stroller with your baby or little kid around town where you don't have any of the pesky demands of the ADA. Libertarians are so absurd (I'm as anti-leftist as it gets by the way), you live in a country with something like the ADA and have never had to deal with life in a place that doesn't have any of it, so you think that all it comes down to is a question of trade-offs. No, pal, once you have essential minimum standards that actually provide for things to be practical and functional and consistent, then and only then is it right to worry about the trade-offs of whatever you might consider doing above that. I hate all governments, I loathe all building inspectors getting paid thousands and thousands for doing basically nothing, I like to bitch and moan as much at the next guy, but again, try living in a society without proper roads and pavements of the standard you are used to, and see how you like it. Then, magnify the pain, frustration, and outright inability of access tenfold for disabled people. There are very few genuinely good pieces of legislation out there, and the cost of the ADA is essential because it provides essential requirements.
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