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Ironically, hard light is bad for recording sexy time.
It will highlight every pore, every vein, every wrinkle on your nutsack.
One day I will end this ring light fad. It is my ultimate side quest.
It seems my lighting advice has given people a mistaken impression...
These outtakes where the flash didn't go off are also AI generated.
I like this spooky dutch angle one.
I was just starting to learn flash and I didn't have all the equipment I needed. Since corgis are quite short, I had to put the lighting on the ground. The off camera flash was on a tipped over lightstand with a shoot-through umbrella to diffuse the light.
But I had no wireless triggers. And the only other way to trigger a flash, is with another flash. So I used the on-camera pop up flash to trigger the main flash.
But I had two issues.
First, I did not want that dinky on camera flash affecting my picture.
Second, triggering a flash with a flash is best done indoors. The flash will bounce all around the room and eventually hit the sensor so the main flash triggers. When you are outdoors, there is no bouncing.
SO... I took a little handheld makeup mirror and angled it toward my main flash. This blocked the dinky pop up flash and sent the beam of light towards the main flash to trigger it.
I was lying on the wet morning grass, holding a camera in one hand, a mirror in the other, trying to aim the mirror exactly toward the main flash, making crazy noises to get Otis's attention, and trying to get the focus point on his face so I didn't get a blurry photo. Also, Otis was much more interested in sniffing things than posing for a photo.
Here is an overhead view that might help explain.
I await all of your comments saying my amazing drawring is clearly AI generated.
Only 30% of the time did the flash actually go off. Aiming the mirror was tricky and I was doing like 8 things at once. I wasn't even sure I got the photo I wanted. But when I came back to the computer there was one that stood out and it is one of my favorites I've ever taken.
It was the best combination of monumental effort, great discomfort, perfect foggy sunrise light, and just pure luck.
Unfortunately, people like me who use advanced sculpting light techniques are getting accused of using AI more and more. Not really sure what to do about it—other than show the 30 awful photos it took to get the good one.
My 80s sunglasses photo and spoon photo get called out the most.
But it's just good old fashioned gradient lighting which has been used in product photography since the days of film.
So, no need to be suspicious.
Photography like sirfrogsworth's is what the fucken AIs were TRAINED on.
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heeehee haha! here's le comte ory with even better subtitles than last time. for your viewing pleasure and mine. uhh i think i did a q&a on the first post so i will here too
what is le comte ory?
1828 comic opera in two acts, composed by gioachino rossini to a libretto by eugene scribe and charles-gaspard delestre-poirson (funny name i think). it has great music, great characters and some of the jokes are even funny. and it's so gender. however, there's no such thing as a perfect opera; this one, for instance, is french.
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Wooden synagogue in Mykhailivka, Khmelnytskyi region in Ukraine
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his what? sorry, master, his what? his what?
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Lise Davidsen showing the correct way to approach baritones, in rehearsal for Tristan und Isolde, Liceu, 2025. (Photo © Liceu)
sometimes i stumble upon other Trekkies and trekkers in the wild and it shocks me how little they actually care about star trek beyond liking Spock. Like yeah Spock is a great character, they did a homerun with him in 1968, but like there's more than just Spock?
What prompted this was meeting a person who loved The Original series Spock and absolutely loathed Star Trek Deep Space 9 and didn't watch beyond a few episodes.
I understand that not everyone appreciates a show that doesn't have Spock in it, but like there's more to star trek than just Spock. How do I tell you youre missing out on some of Star Trek's best episodes. How do I tell you that you're missing out on the best character development in all of Trek. How do I tell you you're missing out on great characters who wreck your heart.
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no "no opinion" option, i'd like to force all 3 people who see this to make a choice. god himself wants to know.
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Shoes in Vogue (1981) by Arthur Elgort
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Winter Shenanigans
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opera stream: il pirata (bellini) 🏴☠️
when: sunday 18th january, 7pm UK time (check your local time)
where: kosmi
duration: 2h 40m
language: italian (english subs)
production: teatro real 2019
with: sonya yoncheva as imogene, javier camarena as gualtiero, et al.
about: sometimes you get banished and have to join a gang of pirates (it happens. just ask hamlet). but at least your beloved will faithfully wait for you to return. surely she won't marry your sworn enemy. can't wait to be back! (read a synopsis here)
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