Just After Sunset

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As a beginner, the wider and faster your lens is, the better your results will be. Unfortunately, these lenses can be pretty expensive to buy, but might make a great option for a rental. If you’ve identified a composition you’re excited about, renting a Sigma 14mm f/1.8 will virtually guarantee good lens performance. The Rokinon 14mm is a much more budget-friendly option, although it’ll require manual focus and may have more image quality issues. Color noise reduction is a little easier. Color noise is visible as specs of “wrong” color in areas, or even color in colorless areas, like red dots in the dark sky. It’s easier to remove than luminance noise without negatively impacting the image, although going too far can still remove some low-level color details and saturation. For color noise, I recommend that you just bump the color noise slider up until your image looks good at 100%. Stationary Bike This is reminiscent of the old "weird King," where the mundane turns bizarre. A guy trying to lose weight spends hours on a stationary bike and literally goes into another world. A young man stands at a Wyoming railway halt. His train has been derailed, his girlfriend has abandoned him for the bright lights of town; the dregs of the sunset recently "faded to bitter orange" over the Wind River mountains. He is about to discover — or at any rate to admit — that he's dead. Around him on the platform the other benighted travellers huddle together like the cast of a 1940s movie: everyone is far too familar with everyone else. Assembled here by circumstances beyond their control, they jeer at one another's uncertainties while the High Plains wolves howl in the darkness and the relief train brings no relief.

That being said, I have a lot of complaints about this book. In the early stories in the collection, SK almost seems like a parody of his thirty-years-earlier self that wrote the dark, more seriously-toned stories of Night Shift, injecting awkward humour and jokes, along with lax, crude prose (e.g. descriptions such as: "man-tits") and short forms of words that almost seem like street slang into the stories. This gave the early stories a comedic and oddly relaxed undertone, which I didn't care for and found to be very un-Stephen-King-like. His stories usually have at least some pervading sense of dread, and that was largely missing here.Gone,” she said, and pointed to the door with the sign over it reading TO SHUTTLE, TO TAXIS, CALL AHEAD FROM COURTESY PHONE FOR HOTEL VACANCIES. They stood outside the Crowheart Springs railway station, holding hands in the moonlight like Hansel and Gretel outside the candy house. To David the long building’s green paint looked ashy gray in the moonlight, and although he knew WYOMING and “THE EQUALITY STATE” were printed in red, white, and blue, they could have been any colors at all. He noticed a sheet of paper, protected from the elements by plastic, stapled to one of the posts flanking the wide steps leading up to the double doors. Phil Palmer still leaned there. She thought it over. The wind rippled her dress as it would the dress of any live woman. “I don’t exactly remember,” she said at last. “Isn’t that odd?”

David had a five in his wallet, but the foyer of 26 was empty. Beyond it, a big hardwood dance floor was crammed with slow-dancing couples, most wearing jeans and cowboy boots and clutching each other’s butts as the band worked its way deeper into “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.” It was loud, lachrymose, and—as far as David Sanderson could tell—note perfect. The smells of beer, sweat, Brut, and Wal-Mart perfume hit him like a punch in the nose. The laughter and conversation—even a footloose yeehaw cry from the far side of the dance floor—were like sounds heard in a dream you have again and again at certain critical turns of life: the dream of being unprepared for a big exam, the dream of being naked in public, the dream of falling, the dream in which you hurry toward a corner in some strange city, sure your fate lies on the far side. He retched again. To his own ears he sounded like a bad-tempered dog on a hot day, trying to bark while half-strangled by a too-tight collar.' He looked at the mirrored wall on their left. There he saw a nice young couple from the East Coast, stranded in Wyoming. In her print dress she looked better than he did, but he guessed that was always going to be the case. He looked from the mirror-Willa to the real thing with his eyebrows raised.These multi-second long exposures aren’t without their benefits, however. Along with capturing much more light (great in nighttime situations), they also open up a wide range of artistic possibilities. With longer exposures, you can get interesting effects like light trails from passing cars, moving water can smooth into puffy clouds, or you can even “paint” light into the scene using a flashlight. As your exposure gets longer, you can also decrease your ISO or stop down your aperture because you have more light to work with, decreasing the noise in the shot or increasing the depth of field . Nikon D810 + Nikon 24mm f/1.4 @ ISO 640, 30 sec, f/2.2 The Gingerbread Girl is your basic survival thriller, a woman versus a maniac serial killer in the Florida Keys. Yet there was a fundamental problem with beer any undergraduate understood: You couldn't buy it, only rent it.'

Graduation Afternoon: A graduating teen's day at her rich boyfriend's family home is very abruptly interrupted. The Cat from Hell - another awesome story! This one actually left me feeling nauseous by the end... I will no longer be able to trust cats again.Hush, Helen,” the Rhinehart woman said. Maybe her first name was Sally, but David thought he would have remembered a name like that; there were so few Sallys these days. Now the world belonged to the Ambers, Ashleys, and Tiffanys. Willa was another endangered species, and just thinking that made his stomach sink down again. So, Just After Sunset is not Skeleton Crew or Night Shift. Most of the horror is not as raw in this collection, but King spends more time on characterization or just playing with scenes. However, when one story stood out to me — The Cat from Hell — and made me think "Now that's the old King," I was gratified when he mentioned in his author's notes at the end of the book that it was one of the stories he wrote for a men's magazine 30 years ago that just hadn't happened to make it into any of his previous short story collections. This is also the month of Saturn’s eastern quadrature (on Nov. 23), where the globe casts its most prominent shadow on the rings from our Earthly viewpoint. The globe of Saturn too is seen lit slightly from the west, so the whole ball-and-rings system takes on its most three-dimensional appearance. On Nov. 20, take note of Saturn sitting to the upper right of the first quarter (half) moon. Like any new skill, learning night photography can be an iterative process. When you get your first shots on your computer at home, don’t be afraid to look at them with a critical eye. Understanding the impact of exposure settings and technical elements can make for a better photo taking experience any time you use your camera. This is the kind of place where you can count on four fistfights in the parking lot before eleven,” David said, “and often one free-for-all inside just before last call.”