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Shoma on the cover of Figure Skaters Plus Vol.12 🔥🔥🔥

#shoma uno #figure skating #montreal 2024

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professors who have only interacted with other academics for years: “what do you MEAN you don’t know multi-variable calculus yet??”

professors with small kids: “thank you for not putting the lab equipment in your mouths when I turn my back”

#professors be like

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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.

#photography #product photography #interesting

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The cast and the set list for L’Apprenti Sorcier, a Beatrice Berrut and Stéphane Lambiel's ice show (as part of the Rencontres Musicales de Champéry music festival). It takes place on August 8-9, 2024 at the Palladium de Champéry.

Tickets go on sale on May 1st.

#figure skating #stephane lambiel #shoma uno #satoko miyahara #deniss vasiljevs #koshiro shimada #marin honda #l’apprenti sorcier 2024 #site says it will be recorded and aired (thank god) #ice show

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Que n’aurai-je pas fait pour ce Danceny? J’aurai été à la fois son ami, son confident, son rival et sa maîtresse!

#les liaisons dangereuses #le vicomte de valmont #quote #if evil why funny #vicomte de valmont #pierre choderlos de laclos #litterature

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#arcane #jinx #powder #jinx arcane #powder arcane

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Maybe the real treasure was the boops we made along the way

#boop #april fools #art

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2024 Stars on Ice Japan: Osaka - March 30, 2024 Shoma Uno → Boléro IV ～New Breath～ (Instrumental) performed by Tomotaka Okamoto (from Boléro, M. 81 by Maurice Ravel), choreographed by Stéphane Lambiel

#shoma uno #figure skating #stars on ice japan 2024 #soi 2024 #bolero #blue sholero comeback

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#here's your invite!! #ides of march #rsvp: brutus #julius caesar #unicorn

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#shoma uno #figure skating #beijing 2022 #shoboe #oboe concerto

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The tailors at Colonial Williamsburg made a suit for their cat

#tailor #cat #the public fridge

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"Shoma is the last of my 'comrades' who is still competing, and he's still in it, and that's what I look for in a skater"

"I think he should totally go [to the next Olympics]. This is an opportunity for him. A lot of the competitors that he dealt with are no longer competing. He's put in his time; he's a familiar face. He's come back year-after-year, on a consistent basis."

"Shoma is a veteran. I hope to see him go to 2026. I think it would be his best chance to become an Olympic champion."

Patrick Chan about Shoma Uno (2024)

Nice interview with Patrick Chan:

#shoma uno #patrick chan #figure skating #milano 2026 #winter olympics

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Kana Muramoto & Daisuke Takahashi: Birds/Makeba » 2024 Prince Ice World: Tokyo

#kana muramoto #daisuke takahashi #figure skating #piw 2024 #ice dance #gifset

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they should invent a sunday that doesn’t have a monday right after it

#sunday #monday

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Jason Brown receives the Button-Salchow Award

Photos from Jason's instagram.

#figure skating #jason brown #ulrich salchow #dick button #button-salchow award

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8 hour painting💚 @neil-gaiman

#crowley #good omens #fanart

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Colorado-based artist Heidi Annalise

#art #acrylics #landscape