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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

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Thanks so much for your ask! I’ve meant to do a tutorial like this for a long time. This is the way that I draw big girls, though it’s quite a short and basic tutorial. I hope it helps!

the “area of gain” part was pretty much taken directly from -here-, a VERY informative and helpful tutorial. Here’s a couple of tutorials that I think are pretty good: link and link.

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Some euphrasias i drew in college

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koivu ja tähti

or the birch and the star, is a finnish fairytale written by zachris topelius about two siblings, taking place during "isoviha" (great wrath) or the russian occupation in finland in 1713 to 1721

the siblings are abducted to russia as children and run away ten years later in order to make a journey to find their home in finland, guided by two birds and a memory of their homestead birch tree with a star shining through it's leaves

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As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

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do you ever hear people talking about something and you’re like. fuck. let me be real for a second. i’m too much of a commie to have this conversation

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That feeling when your best friend visually reminds you of the most traumatic event in your life

Part 1/ part 2/ part 3 / part 4

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dreaming city

#Reblogging again because WHY DOES IT HAVE SO LITTLE NOTES THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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bro biffed it

#what is that thing

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In this case, I'll make my own justice

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Yumprincess Commission

#Fuck I like anime girls #i'm no better than a man #because i am #a man

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“i check mirrors to make sure it’s a reflection and not a replacement” and “any flaws in appearance must be addressed lest i get reprimanded” and “i feel compelled to check reflective surfaces because what if my body is Wrong in some way? the presence of mirrors fills me with dread” and “if i were to have a home, there wouldn’t be a single mirror inside. i never want to see myself again”

#Posts made by my grandmother

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The agonising feel when a character tag is full of shipping that you Simply Do Not Vibe With. The solution is, naturally, to keep scrolling. But the wince, the WINCE.

#You guys do know about blocking tags right #Right

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No in between. Reblog if you vote pleas

#Oh thats cold #Not cool that's like cold for me lmao

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#YKWJHD #YOU'VE DONE THE OPPOSITE

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【 Pokémon Fanart / Kaleidoscope 】