Vancvillan

Audio is always a split second ahead of video, so the commentators sounds like psychics.

I have to reload the page 1-4 times per match.

Doesn't support Fire stick or Chromecast (by far my biggest annoyance, and I've tried side loading the app), so I had to build a shelf to hold my laptop for Saturday mornings so I can induct my ten months old daughter into the world of Claret and Blue on the big screen.

That said, it's way better than any free alternative, and in Canada there's zero interest in screening Championship games, so it's still my lifeline.

I'm watching on a maxed out late model MacBook pro and I have fibre 250/250, so it's not the computer or the connection.

Good result, great effort, looking forward to getting Mings and Grealish back though...

We're really missing Mings...

I know this has been said a thousand times on this thread, but John Mcginn is **** immense.

Only scored two in the first six mins? Season over. DS out.

It didn't look like a handball from the replays...

To quote The Bunk, better to be lucky than good.

I would feel very hard done by if that'd been at the other end...

17 minutes ago, Dr_Pangloss said:

If they can hold out fr £12m+ for Hogan, I'd imagine Konsa, who is younger, a much better talent and courted by bigger clubs than those who looked at Hogan would be at least £15m. I'd be utterly amazed if we signed a player for that sort of fee again whilst we're at this level.

Re: 12m for Hogan, I think the saying goes along the lines of "a player is worth whatever some mug will pay for them".

23 minutes ago, a m ole said:

beautiful! what camera/lens and how much post is involved in the last pic?

We shot these on a Pentax 645z and either the 28-45mm or the 75mm (the interrogation one).  The last shot is pretty wide - 28mm on that camera is around 22m in 35mm terms.  That said, you could have shot them on anything - it's a calendar so the print size is pretty small and we weren't cropping that much. That camera does have killer high ISO performance (the night shot is at 1600, which is crazy high for us), but I don't know how much that matters in the grand scheme of things.  The fact that it's very waterproof was useful.

For post - they are all composites.  Interrogation was the most involved - the dogs couldn't be in the room at the same time, and that room didn't have a mirror on the wall (we velcro'd one on, then took the frame of the mirror from a shot of an internal window in another room).  The light wasn't there, and we had to shoot each dog twice (one for the room, the other for the reflection) to get that much depth of field, so getting them into roughly the same position for two shots was tough.

That last shot was pretty simple - we set up lights then dragged the shutter for the ambient. Shooting the dog took less than three minutes, but he had been practicing wearing the glasses.  We used a different plate for the cars going past, but the dog and car are the same shot.  The reflection in the glasses is dropped in, otherwise we would have been seen in them.

Even the coffee shop is a composite - the dog can't be near a donut without eating it, and the ceiling / sign is way higher than that in reality, so we bought that down a few feet to fit the aspect ratio of the calendar - we really wanted the "Donuts and Coffee" sign in there since that's part of the gag.

Nope.

23 minutes ago, DaveAV1 said:

The nightmare’s nightmare!

6 hours ago, Londonastonvilla said:

Others here seem very certain Bertrand Russell said if you certain about anything you almost certainly wrong.

I'll see your Bertrand Russell and raise you a William of Ockham.

Losing him would be a disaster, both for ability and moral (the fans for sure, probably some of the team).

All I want to see now is a new forum member called Kelvin Gearlish with a first post that reads "my hands aren't hairy but I'm told he's staying (wink, wink)".  

There's been ten seconds of football in the last ten minutes.

On 03/04/2018 at 17:49, The_Rev said:

All of these taken within the last three or four weeks: 

Leicester Railway Station

 

Warwick Bar conservation area, Digbeth. 

Love these two - great exposure choice and the flatter colour grade is great.

Three completely unsolicited thoughts on the others that are just my two cents (and vastly overestimating their worth):

1. Watch your verticals on the cityscapes. The parallax is ok if it's an obvious choice not to correct it, but when there's only a bit of it then it looks like an accident (the Leicester Railway one is just a tiny bit off - not enough to feel like it's intentional though).

2. Go easy on pulling the blues - especially in skies. 

3. For the buskers (and similar shots of people), chat to them, ask if you can shoot them, then get all up in their shit. Or at least a lot close with a wider lens. It'd be great to feel like we're a bit more in their space.

Again, apologies for the critique you didn't ask for.  Dig a lot of the shots, thought I'd chuck my thoughts down on the rest.

A long career of ups and downs with many a story to tell. 

At this point all that's left is the tell-all autobiography "Gabby Agbonlahor: In Ma Wurdz".

Thoughts are with all the Bruce family. A terrible thing to go through - hopefully being together really helps in some way.

Someone needs to put the brakes on all these puns. 

Let's not get too excited. It would be a gouda start. 

Terrible crop and quality but you get the idea at least.