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Cheep News SPIDERSSSSSS. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Showing arachnopohobes images of spiders so briefly they remain unaware of them could help them overcome their fear, US researchers suggest. Scans suggested the brain worked harder to regulate emotional and behavioural responses to fear when it was not conscious of it. The women in the small study were shown pictures of flowers interspersed very briefly with images of spiders. The researchers said the technique could be used to treat children. Current treatments are often based on persuading patients to directly face their fear, which could cause serious emotional distress, they said. A phobia is an irrational fear of an object, place, situation, feeling or animal. Phobias are more pronounced than fears, and can become overwhelming and affect day-to-day life. They are particularly common in women. For the research, 21 young women with a phobia of spiders were shown images of spiders for a split second in between image of flowers. They were then shown spider images for a longer time, so that they were clearly visible. Image copyright BRADLEY PETERSON MD At the same time, their brain activity was monitored and compared with that of women with no phobias. In the group with phobias, seeing the spider images very briefly resulted in strong activity in areas of the brain that regulate emotional and behavioural responses to fear. This was unexpected and resulted in the level of fear actually experienced being reduced, the researchers said. In contrast, when women with phobias were exposed to clear images of spiders for a longer time, the brain was unable to control its response to fear, causing them to experience the full force of their phobia. 'Not consciously aware' Paul Siegel, lead author of the study and associate professor of psychology at Purchase College of the State University of New York, said: "Counter-intuitively, our study showed that the brain is better able to process feared stimuli when they are presented without conscious awareness. "Our findings suggest that phobic people may be better prepared to face their fears if at first they are not consciously aware that they've faced them." Dr Bradley Peterson, director of the Institute for the Developing Mind at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, said the technique could be a useful approach for treating children who could suffer significant distress if confronted head on by what was causing their phobia. The study is published in Human Brain Mapping. The 10 most common phobias in the UK are: social phobia - fear of interacting with other people agoraphobia - fear of open public spaces emetophobia - fear of vomiting erythrophobia - fear of blushing driving phobia - fear of driving hypochondria - fear of illness aerophobia - fear of flying arachnophobia - fear of spiders zoophobia - fear of animals claustrophobia - fear of confined spaces NHS Choices says some simple phobias can be treated through gradual exposure to the object, animal, place or situation that causes fear and anxiety. But treating complex phobias, such as agoraphobia, can take longer and require counselling, talking therapies or psychotherapy. Nicky Lidbetter, from charity Anxiety UK, said the current treatment approach for this type of specific phobia was cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). "This approach aims to replace the fear response of a phobia with a relaxation response, through gradual exposure to the phobia inducing stimulus." ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ So tell me. What do you fear? Shh, that's right. I already know "Cheepaphobia". source : http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38880104
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Every once in awhile, I like to look at exposures I've taken a year or two back and see how my perception of the image has changed. I also use it as an exercise to see what skills have developed/improved, which still need work (though there is no such thing as too much improvement ) So I decided to take a favorite old photo of mine, and re-process it. And well... I just had to share the results. The software used is the same (Photoshop, and Camera RAW), though the techniques I used for the color tones, highlights, sharpening- and even noise reduction- have changed. "2 second waterfall" (2014 edit) "Happy Creek" (2016 Edit) Let me know what you think! (And for the folks who are interested, feel free to download and use this image as a wallpaper!) -
Photography How do you organize your photos
Xernicus posted a topic in Art / Screenshot / PhotoGallery / Signature
I'm wondering what your workflow is when it comes to sorting and naming photos. I used to have a system that worked well, but since it's since been over encumbered not only by the sheer number of photos that I've taken (more than 10x increase this past year 2014-2015), but also when I "made" my system, it was when I was shooting in JPEG. It was never designed to have more than one or (maybe two) versions of a file. Now I end up with at least three files. 1 RAW file (plus sidecar) in my 'Camera Backup' folder- which is current copy of my SD card (copied to HD after shoots) 1 TIFF file which is the processed photo out of Adobe Camera RAW. This is just correcting exposure, color space, etc. 1 TIFF file which contains further editing in Photoshop, such as tonal and curve corrections, cropping, etc. Because I know that I need to get these photos organized (I can't even tell you what I've edited, and what's only been touched by ACR) for the majority of my files), I created a new directory, and am looking to start a framework of folders with locations and dates. So here I have my file fresh out of ACR, then the copy from after I applied some Highlight corrections and an Unsharp Mask, followed by another copy which is with a crop. I don't care whether this photo name is IMG_1234 or "Snap Pea Serenade". But having three versions of a file in one folder is a bit extreme, as is having a nest of directories with the Location, then another folder with the date, and another folder for the "Edited" and "Final" versions... Library software has never been my "thing", after I discovered what a mess it made out of my directories when I was establishing my music collection, but I am willing to give it another go. I have all of the Canon EOS software, including ZoomBrowser and ImageBrowser EX- but I've heard some pretty mixed reports about all of Canon's Utilities. Bridge is something I could consider using, but it's never seemed very intuitive to me. Plus Bridge CC likes to keep crashing on me for whatever reason. Anyways, I'm interested in seeing what you guys do to keep the monster mess of photo editing and cataloging down and under control. I look forward to seeing your solutions!
