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April 28, 2024 - the CW sniper is dead.

Supernatural trends following the passing of the CW sniper. Whilst no official confirmation was published regarding their death, Misha Collins made a statement regarding destiel and since he's still alive, we can conclude that the CW sniper is no more.

The Cross Roads 8 Supernatural convention is currently taking place [x]. As usual, things have been said. There was one statement however which caused the tag to trend and it was (unsurprisingly) by Misha Collins, in response to a question asked by our bravest soldier @sunglassesmish [x].

"If the CW wasn't so homophobic, Dean and Cas would've been balls deep for sure." [x] [x] [x]

Whilst this may not be the exact quote (I haven't been able to find a video yet), this was enough to cause a destiel revival. More things have happened, and people on Twitter are posting under #CR8 in case anyone's interested. Multiple Supernatural tags are trending there as well [x].

RIP the CW sniper, you will not be missed.

#spn #sure why not #let’s carry on forever

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#I shower every day because it relaxes me in the evening regardless of the weather

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ed’s hair accessories ♡

#…is it really edelweiss though? do we have a good still of that? #it looks somewhat frilly for edelweiss to me but idk I’m not a botanist #I just hail from the alps

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Some AirBnB roasting courtesy of Reddit

#yeah I have done airbnb twice in my life and I will never do that again #give me a hotel please

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POV: You’re Stede and you see him, wyd

Hope this Ed’s not too hot for Tumblr lmao

#I put him on all my romance novel covers #ofmd art

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Never enough ace dragons :3

#queer stuff

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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.

#I have to admit with most product ads I have come to assume they’re not photographs at all #but just cgi/digital renderings #actually mostly baffled to discover Clinique would bother to do product photography at all anymore

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#good stuff

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If you wanna know how I spend my free time, this is it:

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restaurants are so sly they dont even try to hide the fact that they have all this food theyll give you big menus full of all their foods and even have nice people to ask what foods you want and because of this youd think it would be a slam dunk but then when youre done eating it turns out theyve been keeping track of all the food you took and somehow now you owe them money. not how i would arrange things

#lmao #she would #ofmd

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#jkr #fuck jkr

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#I will take the hedgehog

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#queer stuff

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Working on something behind the scenes, have this sexy lil number in the meantime 😘💋

#a wedding night kinda look #alternatively: popping out to get milk and bread from the store real quick #ofmd art

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Nothing gives the same kind of random ego boost like managing to finally clean up your home and making it nice. Like ooh look at me, I'm living like people do, I made myself iced tea and I am eating my snack from a real plate. I got floors and shit.