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mothers, completely unprovoked: do you want to hear about this girl getting brutally murdered before you leave the house 🤠

#gabi overshares

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the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

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The Columbia University student divestment encampment protest, April 2024

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#there's something about him when he's wounded #idk it just reminds you that steve is human. he gets hurt too. #idk what i'm saying #steve rogers #marvel

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you know what, no matter what happens at least i'll have red wine supernova by chappell roan

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worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

#me at work wishing the tornado had ripped [redacted] from its foundation after having to go ring on a register

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#i mean...i don't HATE nelly's music #i'm just not in the mood to listen to it all the time

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So I’m seeing Endgame tomorrow and trying to avoid a lot of social media until then but here’s my contribution to the fandom – I’ll draw more after Awesome Con! (I used these character posters for ref x, x, x)  – [ETSY] 

#*pounding my fists on the table* BIG THREE BIG THREE BIG THREE #steve rogers #tony stark #thor odinson #marvel

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"came back wrong" but it's food that you heated up in the microwave

#on a slightly unrelated note if you have an air fryer or toaster oven it does a great job at reheating pizza and making the crust crispy :D

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absolutely losing my mind that a bunch of nimby assholes spent $500k to build a sandcastle that was promptly wiped away

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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.

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#i love pitties so much 💖💖💖 #look at her little face!!!

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A belly can be a "slut waist" too. If you're not a fearful little freak

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saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

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I write for myself

*checks AO3 every few hours to see if I got any new kudos, comments or subscriptions*

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COMPARISON SERIES: Sam Wilson & Bucky Barnes Doing The Iconic Handshake trailer vs episode

#two bros holding hands for five minutes because they're “not” gay #sam wilson #james bucky barnes #tfatws #marvel #mcu #sambucky