![]() The presidential action ordered the Department of the Interior (DOI) to pause further lease sales “pending completion of a comprehensive review and reconsideration of Federal oil and gas permitting and leasing practices.” Biden had campaigned on the promise to halt new oil and gas leases. Oil and gas leases have been under scrutiny since President Biden signed Executive Order 14008 in January last year. This complicates the landscape in which activists and climate-forward administrations can block oil and gas leases. The law also pushes the sale of certain controversial leases through, despite the ongoing back-and-forth in the courts. This limits the impact that the government can have when making land available for renewable deployment. The bill requires that a threshold amount of federal land be offered up for oil and gas leases before any land is granted for wind and solar leases. Perhaps the most troubling aspects are the provisions regarding leasing for federal land development. While praise for the Inflation Reduction Act has been vast from the environmental community, criticism has arisen from climate activists over the law’s allowances for the same oil and gas–based energy structures the country has always known. I can’t say it’s perfect but it’s gone from an image that never saw the light of day to one that I keep on my Flickr photostream.A rig and supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico Final step was to downsize to 1000px tall using the bicubic sharpener setting and save as jpeg. These are more aggressive settings than I normally use but actually made much less impact on the final image than Focus Magic. Then I downsized to 2000 pixels tall and ran Nik Output Sharpener at a fairly high setting, with the Focus slider pulled up to 30%. I then cleaned up a few fringes using the clone tool and ran it through Nik Color Efex to correct the colour balance and give the contrast some help. The correction factor was 19, so it’s at the upper end of the corrections that can be done. The sharper version was put into Photoshop CC and first thing I did was run Focus Magic as a layer. The original raw file was converted in Lightroom. So much better than any of the usual sharpening techniques and tools, and so I bought it and use it every now and then when I stuff up a shot that can’t be taken again. ![]() About 6 months later I came across Focus Magic and remembered this blurry image as the perfect test. A quick chimp at the rear screen afterwards didn’t show the focus problem so I thought I was cool and moved on to the next shot.īack at home I saw the problem and had to leave the shot as unsavable. The skater was only above me for a fraction of a second and the camera was set up to ignore such brief changes in focus, so even with an ultra-wide angle lens the shot ended up being focused on the distant sky rather than the guy. The trouble with this was that I completely forgot about how the autofocus would work. So I lay on my back in the bottom of the basin and had the skater come flying over me. I had the idea of shooting from below the skater so I could better see his face. A few years back I was shooting skateboarders at a local park.
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