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  • Exactly lol. The rest of the scene had clear context that the image was overexposed and the white balance was too warm.

    Anyone that understands photography instantly understood what was happening in that image. I’ve had people try to fight me and tell me I’m wrong about that, but I’ve been a professional photographer/videographer for over 15 years. Quickly identifying a technical issue with an image like that is like breathing to me. I do it every single time I take a picture, so over 10,000 a day on average. All I can say is trust me. that image was overexposed and too warm, You can tell by the way it is in the background, and if you can’t see that then my words won’t help you.









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    i guess I’m my mind “quite good” is better than “good”

    like “quite” is a synonym to “very” in this context as I understand it. maybe to a lesser degree, but it’s certainly a positive modifier. i would use a similar scale if those two were swapped.

    maybe that’s just my dumb american vocab or something, but i would be very confused by that scale as it stands.







  • even banning trans people from enlistment is intentional for keeping people they don’t like down. historically in america military service has been a MASSIVE social stepping stone for the underprivileged. it’s hard for them to call you a coward when you fought in a war for them. it’s hard for them to say you would be a bad neighbor when you were a good brother in arms.

    many black families used it as their first step out of poverty and into acceptance. now trans people, who are derided as cowards and corrupting influences on your community, are being denied that privilege. vance and co. are very aware of this.


  • I’m always a big fan of a strong backlight on furry animals like this. try to catch them at golden hour with the sun mostly behind them. you’ll either need a bit of fill light or to bring the shadows up a touch in post for it to really pop in that situation. if the dog is patient you can literally just use a piece of foamcore board to bounce the sunset back into their face. in this photo i even had the sun flairing into the lens a little. it helped that i was shooting up a hill. made it easier to line up the sun, but i was still laying on the ground to get this.

    as I mentioned in the post you’ll want to open that aperture to get a nice dreamy shallow look like this. you also want to get as close to the subject as you can while maintaining a good frame (fill the frame) and make sure the background is far away. an open field works great for something like this. you should also always try to be at your subject’s eye level as a general rule of thumb. yes, being higher or lower can work, but there needs to be intent behind doing it.

    shooting very large dogs like that will make it much harder to get a photo like this one. the 45 1.8 will seperate the subject well, but it won’t blow it out into a dreamy blur like this when aimed at moose dogs. you’d need something longer like a 135 1.8 or an 85 1.2. that said, you can still make a very nice looking portrait, it just won’t quite look like this.

    you also don’t want it to be overly sharp. sharpness tends to make the fur look less soft and cute. if it’s like a doberman doing a nobleman pose then you probably want a sharp look, but if it’s a cute little puppy like this one i tend to remove sharpness in post or shoot on vintage glass.

    it’s not cheating to use treats to pose them. it’s not unreasonable to take a nice picture of the owner holding them. if all else fails, just chase them around at their eye level on burst mode. try to catch the sun lighting then up nicely from behind.




  • the etiquette is to find the original yourself, it’s usually not that hard, just reverse image search it, or not post it. why would you feel so obligated to share a comic with no author that someone else made?

    it’s easy to be a shitty person without intending to. that’s why we need to police our own actions and be conscious of the effect we have on others. when sharing the already stolen art we are perpetuating a problematic cycle. just because you didn’t start it and many others are doing it, that doesn’t make it less wrong.

    sharing someone else’s dumb joke is one of the lowest forms of interaction anyway. i have numerous friends that have devolved into that being the only way they communicate with others. i mostly just don’t talk to them anymore. i really don’t care about the reels they send me. no one should ever feel like they have some kind of right to post someone else’s art.

    i also generally hate the anti self promotion rules so many subteddits have. the ones that don’t are objectively better that the ones that do. what would you rather see? one more shared content mill whith the same 50 posts over and over and exclusivity stolen art. or something like r/comics with like 10 artists that all use it as a common platform to share their work.

    you may find the content that is currently popular there questionably horny, but that’s more of a reddit demographic problem than an issue with letting artists self promote. in just arguing that i prefer a platform like that where you interact with the artists and new authors pop up and disappear regularly. you also get unique interactions like the artists quickly throwing together a comment reply as a bonus panel.

    my point is that this place could be a better community than so much of reddit if we use it as a history book and learn from its victories and mistakes. it starts with policing ourselves and each other towards these goals. not reposting unatributed slop is one of those things we should not be doing if we want a good community.



  • I’ve just straight up told an employer before that if a smart phone was required to do my job then they needed to provide me a company phone.

    they found other options for me, but it really pissed off my supervisor. eventually i left because he was an asshole. gave them a -1 day notice and just stopped showing up. i do freelance work now. they deserved that hit.