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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

My hope in adding EXIF settings is that it might inspire people with a starting point to conduct their own experiments, so I guess that's helpful to know that it might be useful to help those who are new to photography.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I’ve entered the LCE Photographer of the Year 2025 with a night sky photo I shot in Canada for the "After Dark" category. 🌌✨ There's a "People's Choice" award too - I'd be so grateful for your vote! 🙇🙏 Vote 🗳️ here: poty.lcegroup.co.uk/contest/poty.... Voting ends 28 January 2025.

A photograph of the night sky above Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Among the many cosmic wonders visible in the frame are the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way, and the aurora borealis.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Hi guys, if you happen to have #Instagram, would you mind watching this reel to the end and interacting with it please? IG's AI thinks I am making content for fake followers, and I'm in IG jail now. So I need them to know real people are interacting with my stuff. www.instagram.com/p/DFA1ER_N2R4/

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This is the problem with too many platforms and having some people you connect with on all of them lol.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I guess just looking at it from the outside in the UK, it just looks dodgy af. And I would say the same about any president pardoning any of their own relatives. It's just nepotism.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Is there a genuine chance of Trump "exacting revenge"? Is the state of the rule of law in the US going to be that fragile? I mean you'll still have independence of the judiciary and appeals if things look unfair, right? Or do you think I'm being a ignorant non-US person and being too optimistic?

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I asked this because I genuinely want to know the background behind why this is good. Hopefully someone can explain it in baby terms as we probably have a different narrative on this from "across the pond" and I want to know more about this from your "on the ground" view. bsky.app/profile/wher...

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Literally just looks like corrupt nepotism. Certainly the commentary we are getting here seems to also suggest this is going to cause issues for the Dems. And rightfully so if it is merely nepotism. But I'm sure there are people who know more... so help me understand this plz.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Genuine qu, not trying to troll. Also remember I'm from UK and not US so may be getting a different take. But why is Biden pardoning his son good? Wasn't there actual evidence of wrong doing, even if it being brought to light was for politics? I mean it's very different to just making up charges.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Oh gosh, not the HK MAGAs again I hope...

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Haha I wouldn't necessarily pay too much attention to "influencers" lol. For example, the hype about the X100V and X100VI is just that having shot with the X100VI which I got on release. Got a refund for it because it was defective straight out of the box luckily.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I do love the X-T2. One camera I probably really regret getting rid of, but lenses for XF was annoyingly not that numerous when I sold. Glad to see more XF options coming in now though.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ha that's a GREAT film! That ghost bride song lives rent free in my head LOL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vue...

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鬼新娘 - 傑兒合唱團【高音質｜動態歌詞】

YouTube video by 回到80-90年代聽歌

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I just saw this post of yours, but oh gosh, I have so many from when I was covering the protests taking place in the UK in support of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I've seen those user-made feeds too, but that means a user will actually have to put me on those lists manually. So unless someone does that, it seems my posts are just going into some kind of black hole.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Really? How does that work though because there's a "discover" tab in the home section of this site which sits alongside "following". Whilst I think "following" is literally a feed of those you choose to follow, "there must be some kind of algorithm in the "discover" tab, right?

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Again, this reminds me of why I just got put off Bluesky from when I first joined when it was invite only. It feels like there is quite a lack of "community" here.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Does anyone on Bluesky actually know what the #algorithm is? I have a steady stream of followers, but they seem to just follow and that's it. I've generally asked questions like the one quoted and I only have one person that I know liking it, and no replies and no answers. bsky.app/profile/wher...

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Kind of feel like I want some lighter gear to travel with that gives me reach beyond my Q3's 28 mm fixed lens.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Question for #photography peeps on here. Anyone have experience with shooting both #FullFrame and #MFT / #M43? I know in theory, ignoring DOF, the same exposure settings with higher ISO is likely to have more noise, but want to know about whether it is noticeable for real world shooting / viewing.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Get the feeling this is just as bad as X, but on the other end of the political spectrum? There's vitriol and abusive language on here directed at those who voted Trump, calling them cockroaches. Political disagreements are expected, but dehumanising language is the beginning of something worse.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thanks for that list. Been looking for new people to chat with! Also dropped you a follow.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I figured if London is getting over 90%, that's pretty good. Granted I'm not going to get that full totality effect, but still, I should be able to get some nice photos with familiar landmarks.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

One cosmic event I'm looking. Forward to now is the 2026 eclipse. We should be seeing over 90% coverage in London. Thinking about whether I want to travel to Spain to see if I can see totality, but all the uncertainty about eclipses do put me off from specifically travelling for it.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Me too! Well, there will be others! Have dropped you a follow. Do follow back - looking forward to future interactions. 🙂

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A3 was such a brilliant comet to observe. What a shame though that S1 disintegrated as that could have been even more glorious!

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Didn't some pro-Beijing person comment when they got destroyed during a district council election that the pro-Beijing camp lost because the elections were politicised? I mean, if you complain that elections are political, the writing is defo on the wall for any opposition.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Yeah I agree. I feel the same kind of energy from people on here, except on the other end of the spectrum. That's why I'm already mainly using Mastodon and have bridged my Mastodon account to here so I can just watch from afar lol.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Is that where I think it is? It just doesn't quite look as good as when it was Kai Tak International Airport. Image a screenshot I took in Microsoft Flight Simulator - one of my favourite places to land!

A screenshot from Microsoft Flight Simulator showing a Cathay Pacific B777-200 making the right bank during final approach to runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Thanks for noticing.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

But then this means this is just going to be an echo chamber too, but the other end of the spectrum. Neither is good.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Unless it's the twats from Twitter who have moved here... lol.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I dunno. I have had it since it started and feel entirely the same way. People over on Mastodon just feel so much more willing to chat and have a conversation, if you know what I mean. It feels so much more human back on Mastodon.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If you see this, repost a favourite photo of the sky that you've taken recently. Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) in the night sky above London. #Comet #C2023A3 #TsuchinshanATLAS #Astrophotography #BigBen #London #ElizabethTower #NightPhotography

Big Ben at night, pointing towards the night sky where a faint comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) can be seen in the night sky above London.

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Oh so amazing that you get that beautiful aspect of nature often!

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I dunno... I feel it's more Saturn with such brilliantly defined "rings".

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Oh what how gorgeous! Love how the colours stand out against that creamy background!

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Howard Cheng @wherehowardgoes.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Oh wow, loving the vantage point overlooking the sea of fog! I've sadly never been so high up to see something like this apart from on a plane.

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