Lean into the urban hellishness: You can get good pictures just about anywhere. Figure out what story you want to tell and then find the moments that tell it: Frame them in a way that highlights the story.

Alternately: Travel!

Sounds like you should adjust your subscriptions?

That’s me, and I commute on cheap entry level bikes and e-bikes. Sometimes I even skateboard or walk! It’s not without risks, but you’re statistically more likely to die from living a sedentary lifestyle: In fact, even mountain biking is statistically beneficial to your health, despite the risks of serious injury. People really underestimate how bad sitting around in a car for huge chunks of our lives is.

edit: lmao at the downvote, really???

Stop on by !micromobility@lemmy.world - I commute almost every day on a bike or e-bike (sometimes I even skate).

You don’t even need stabilization/vibration reduction, you just need a faster shutter speed (and/or better light/light sensitivity). VR/IS/whatever the company calls it can help, but if you can set exposure to 1/125 or 1/250, that should be fast enough to negate the tremors. If it isn’t, bump up the ISO setting and open your aperture as wide a possible, then set it to a faster speed - if that is still too slow, you can look at getting faster lenses (lower aperture) or adding more like with a flash, reflector, or studio lighting.

When you are using a tripod, use a remote shutter to eliminate vibration completely (even if you didn’t have tremors, a remote shutter is still a good idea when you’re using a tripod).

You can get cheap used or refurbished DLSRs online, but if you’re using a film camera, another thing that will help you is switching to a higher speed film (try at least 400 ISO). If you’re on a budget, look at used prime lenses - they’ll have a very wide aperture for not a lot of money. They are available for film and digital cameras alike!

Sorry to hear about your tremors and I hope this advice was helpful, keep shooting! I think you’ll find having a remote shutter or release makes a big difference. If you have an old film camera, it most likely has a mechanical shutter release. If you aren’t sure, post the camera model and one of us can probably help you find something.

Probably my childhood home that I grew up in.

So what? It’s still a relevant tale of stupidity, perhaps more relevant than ever now given current US politics.

This is why you don’t gut the educational system.

Cover the printer to protect from dust and seal your filament in airtight containers with some sort of desiccant.

I drank once when I was 17 but didn’t really care for it (rootbeer and vodka, not great, not terrible).

Fair point, even with guns there’s spall that can get you if the bullets hit something hard, but the fact that we don’t use this kind of design kinda highlights that it’s not worth the trade off of visibility vs protection.

Good luck taking a round to the head even with this thing on.

Hasselback^2

I’m struggling to decide between hasselback, mashed, potato cakes, and scalloped.

To make matters worse, I have discovered the existence of bloomin potatoes and pommes anna.

I was going to say hasselback but now I might change my answer.

Albino Blacksheep, Cracked, early message boards (/., Digg, reddit, etc, before they turned into garbage), NewGrounds, RatherGood

Challenge him to an arm wrestling contest

Gross.

I heard about this but remain deeply skeptical about whether it would actually work: Most of the shit people claim “AI” can do seems to be bullshit.

Warum nicht?