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As a lifelong fan of La Cosa Nostra in America, I've searched for authentic portrayals of Yankee goombahs in film.

Goodfellas comes the closest to capturing LCN culture, in my opinion.

A Bronx Tale is also very astute, and Donnie Brasco is pretty accurate too.

Has anyone found a movie better at portraying The Mob than the above films?

(For those about to type The Godfather -- they are brilliant movies but they give the gangsters class and nobility to which they are not entitled.)

Thanks to all who answer.

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"The selection of the proper filter is actually far more important than any choice of lens or camera....the filter has a large and real effect on your image. Lens brand or sharpness does not."

"The more you learn about photography the more you'll also learn that artificial filters and manipulation are required to make a natural looking image."

Source: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/filters.htm

Thanks to all who take the time to answer.

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In Schindler's List (where this all started), The Girl In The Red Coat is there for a purpose.

Can someone show me another image where Selective Colour has a meaning other than "I know how to do it"?

Thanks to all who take time to answer.

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A Pittsburgh, PA couple is suing Google for photographing their house without permission.

The photograph was used in Google Street View.

They claim invasion of privacy, mental distress and a few other things.

Here's the court document:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/04...

What do you think...should they win or not?

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DSLR manufacturers are firing out new models every six months in a battle to the death for market share.

It's gotta end sometime.

When?

And what cameras will we end up with when the war is over?

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He's the psycho killer in No Country For Old Men, played by Javier Bardem.

I thought the movie sucked, but this guy was a total nightmare and deserves Best Bad Guy Ever.

Agree? No?

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My nominee:

Got a baby's brain and an old man's heart

Took eighteen years just to get this far

--- Alice Cooper, "Eighteen"

Your favourite two lines, please?

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I'll go for a Leica M3 -- immortality guaranteed.

How 'bout you?

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https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

Looks to me like Picasa with a better selective colour tool and a basic zit-remover (and a much less friendly interface).

What's your take on it?

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Brokeback Mountain, No Country For Old Men.

And many more.

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http://www.labnol.org/wp/images/2007/06/green-eye-...

(Photo by National Geographic's Steve McCurry.)

I mean a small-format camera (DSLR and smaller).

If so, which one?

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You point your camera at a scene.

You press a button, and the camera, based on a database of 100,000 of the world's most famous photos, selects the most compelling subject matter.

Then, based on the Rule of Thirds, it composes your picture and records it.

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Or the phone book?

When I was a young boy I saw the photos taken by American soldiers at the Nazi concentration camps when they were liberated.

I remember being appalled and enraged that this should have happened...really pissed off that people who called themselves human did this stuff.

I really have never gotten past this and I wonder if any thinking person could.

So: what do the photos of the piles of corpses and the starved and abused survivors mean to anyone today?

Anything?

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A survey of Yahoo! Answers shows a high demand among teenage girls for "flawless" pictures of themselves.

Skin made zit-free, hair straightened, eye colour accented, ex-boyfriend deleted, etc.

Many seem desperate. I know they have no money but they may have dad's VISA card.

Is there profit potential here?

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Today's newspaper tells me that 2/3 of all the Internet users in my country have a Facebook page.

Until now, I've gotten along perfectly well without one.

But now it looks like I'm in a minority.

So can someone give me three GOOD reasons why I should sign up?

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Mine is..."Holy Cr-p that's amazing"...then seconds later: "Holy Cr-p that's an eye-candy gimmick".

Yours?

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Does it even matter what's in a picture as long as it's Eye Candy?

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I know, sounds weird, but that's the vibe I'm picking up.

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