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#THIS #hate it #so much #the future is now #unfortunately

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your man doesn’t have the mental strength to caramelize onions 

#i'm your man

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Remember this joke?

Well, I am going to do something similar only with photography. This is a photo someone took for an Amazon review of their Clinique products.

Honestly, it is not a terrible photo. They did some staging. They have an interesting background. All of the labels are legible. It is properly exposed. This would be a perfectly acceptable product photo for an Etsy page.

I've been taking these advanced photography courses in preparation for whenever I am able to create a new studio in the house. And my teacher is a photography badass. I just watched a 6 hour class on how to recreate a professional Clinique ad. And at first glance it looks deceptively simple. It's just some skin care products being splashed with a little water.

Which is why I wanted you to see an average person for reference.

This is what Karl Taylor came up with.

And I don't think I've learned so much about photography in one tutorial before.

Product photography is just loads and loads of problem solving. You have to light the chrome caps with a gradient. Which requires giant diffusion scrims.

Those big white panels are literally only there for the two chrome caps.

You need a pure white background, but you can't let light spill all over the studio, so you put up giant black light blockers.

And you have to add another light just for the orange bottle on the right.

Oh, and if you want the bottles to glow, well, you have to hide a silver reflector behind them.

But you still want the edges of the bottles to be darker so they have some contrast. So you add some black tape to the sides.

And in order for the reflective labels to have bold black lettering, you have to reflect black cards into them.

Ack! Karl's beautiful bald head is showing up in the chrome caps! He must put on the naughty blanket.

And once you get every aspect of every bottle perfectly lit, you finally get to yeet some water at it all.

I don't love product photography because I have a weird obsession to help greedy corporations make their wares look more beautiful. I love it because it is a complicated and challenging new puzzle every time. Every product is a different shape and requires a different technique to make it look its best.

I don't know if I will be able to live up to Karl's standards.

This is about the level I was at in 2017 before I quit photography.

I have so much more knowledge in my brain now. I'm really hoping I can surpass that.

#this is incredible #i honestly always thought it was just — photoshop?? #like goddamn this is FASCINATING #and your pics are gorg too froggie — looking forward to seeing what you do in the future! #photography

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Boston trans girls searching for a name should know that you get free lifetime admission to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum if your name is Isabella

#and non-Isabellas can get $5 admission w a museum pass from the BPL! #don’t mind me shilling my workplace lol #also the gardner museum is dope #museums #boston #library blogging

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@chainsawunicorn

hell yea man flip that mushroom !!!!!

#we stan an autistic king #dungeon meshi

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strap is such a beautiful noble and sexy word meanwhile dildo sounds like the name of an italian clown 😭

#i'm SCREAMING #tagged for me #via message

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very cool but also kind of a dick move

#very cool but also kind of a dick move #love that for them #birds

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#THERE IS SO MUCH TO UNPACK IN THIS SCENE

#DALEKS SPINNING IN THE BACKGROUND

#DONNA GENUINELY BEYOND EXCITED TO LITERALLY SHARE A BRAIN CELL WITH NOT ONE BUT TWO OF HER BEST FRIENDS WHO HAPPEN TO BE THE SAME PERSON NOW

#TENTOO BEING SMUG ABOUT WHATEVER HE THINKS HIS BEST BIT IS THAT DONNA GOT

#TEN CHEWING ON HIS SONIC SCREWDRIVER HAVING NO IDEA HE IS ABOUT TO LOSE EVERY FRIEND IN THIS ROOM IN A SPAN OF THE NEXT FEW HOURS

#ROSE AND SARAH JANE HONESTLY MIND BLOWN THAT THERE IS NOW A 3 DOCTORS - 1 BRAIN SITUATION

#AND JACK IS HAVING EVERY INAPPROPRIATE THOUGHT IN EXISTENCE CROSS HIS MIND

#SO. FUCKING. GOOD. #ugh i love #doctor who #tenth doctor #donna noble #my queen

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HAPPY NEIL BANGING OUT THE TUNES DAY TO EVERYONE!! :D

doodled instead of studying!!!!!!!!!! because this is more important!!!!

#neil banging out the tunes #413

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Nobody's talking about how Glinda called her "Elphaba" at the beginning of defying gravity (when she was mad) and when she softened she inmediatly switched to "Elphie". It's canon that she calls her by her whole name when she's angry.

#TRUE AND REAL #wicked

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ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

#happy neil banging out the tunes day #and happy homestuck day #bc that is always and will always be my first reaction to april 13th LMAO #once a homestuck always a homestuck I GUESS

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never miss my mark 🏹

#i'm so gay for her #artemis #hades game #this is beautiful

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Kim Kitsuragi the man of all time!!!!!! Using him as motivation to draw studies

#this composition is sick op #love it #lavender husband kim kitsuragi #disco elysium

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Hades sticker designs I did last year! ✨

I kept forgetting to post them XD Should I make a Meg one as well? 🤔

#THESE ARE SO CUTE #op please make a Meg one too #hades game #zagreus #thanatos

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Pros of hyperfixiation:

Happy!

Art ideas

Life is good

Cons of hyperfixiation:

I am going to blow up

All my art is of the same guy

If I don't think about this 24/7 I get violent

#true and real #goblin issues

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Tactoon-cat Cartoons

#god these are good #cats

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Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.