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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.

#reblog #graphic design and merch photography and stuff are so interesting #all this hidden work to get something so visually simple and clean #They wet the concrete before taking pictures of cars btw

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describing commission ideas is so embarrassing. yea this is my guy. and i want you to draw him. jesus just shoot me already

#reblog #my friends I will happily draw your oc and your canon fave holding hands and kissing for a small fee no problemo #Free your soul embrace cringe

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#reblog #it true tbh its a vibe

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Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

#too handsome of a worm not to reblog #behold the worm of prophecy

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humans are a subspecies of elf known for dying really quickly and being stressed the whole time

#reblog #things to say that would start a fist fight in the Elven Court

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!!!COMMISSIONS OPEN!!!

Just a reminder that commissions are currently open! For 60$ USD, you can have a fullbody, fully rendered, digital illustration drawn by yours truly! Just contact me here through Tumblr messages, or E-Mail me at [email protected] to discuss details!

#self-reblog #the usual sporadic self-promotion!

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Bothering the beast

#reblog #yea

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Legendary Holy Blade, by nolan192

#reblog #laugh rule

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i always forget that bird from starfox is named falco lombardi. italian bird. i know his home life is some bananas shit.

#reblog #best thing is that for all we know this is canon because Falco's family life is never addressed #“My overbearin' ma and deadbeat pops drove me nuts after I dropped outta flight school” #“so to get out of the house I ended up formin' the old gang. There. Backstory done. Satisfied?”

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"the 'power of love' trope is such an overused and cliche gimmick" i do not care i will love it always and forever. love prevails and explodes the enemy

#reblog #this unironically tbqh

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Come forth and be welcome to certain eternity, you who have perished! My creators, and the overseers of all things fleeting, bid you easy passing and swift judgement in your final reflections. Though your time on earth has ended, your spirit has been shaped by your nature and coloured by your experiences; through questioning, that form shall be revealed. Afterwith, it shall be your privilege to submit and receive the gift of bliss or burden of pain in accordance with your adjudication. Though your mind has been purged of all its ties to your mortal form, which you can safely discard, you may yet feel anxiety or comfort in your forthcoming reward; fret not, nor be encouraged, your determination is inevitable and invariable, and no actions herein shall have any influence. Before you do away with those limbic impulses, however, my Creators have tasked me with conveying the following question to you prior to your sentencing for what they call... accounting purposes.

Do you deserve to go to heaven or hell?

#reblog #If you played and enjoyed Open Sorcery I think you'll enjoy this game

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Some completed designs from my Patreon, all made this year. You can get these designs and more if you join....! You can use the lineart and mugshots and stuff for whatever you'd like, too!

#reblog #Seriously the amount of bang for your buck is insane #and ruka is like physically incapable of making boring designs everything is very fantastical and inspiring

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as an aroace, im particularly dangerous, because i wont fuck or marry. i only know how to kill.

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holy shit is this gorgeous.

#reblog #oh my GOD the ARTISTRY #Loosing my gd mind tbqh

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!!!COMMISSIONS OPEN!!!

Just a reminder that commissions are currently open! For 60$ USD, you can have a fullbody, fully rendered, digital illustration drawn by yours truly! Just contact me here through Tumblr messages, or E-Mail me at [email protected] to discuss details!

#self-reblog #commissions #Im considering offering portraits too - is there any interest in that?

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!!!COMMISSIONS OPEN!!!

Just a reminder that commissions are currently open! For 60$ USD, you can have a fullbody, fully rendered, digital illustration drawn by yours truly! Just contact me here through Tumblr messages, or E-Mail me at [email protected] to discuss details!

#reblog #commissions

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Generic Medieval Fantasy™ role reversal where the royal chancellor is a jocular goofball with a strange preoccupation with dad-joke-level puns and the royal jester is just intensely sinister in ways that only outsiders ever seem to notice.

#reblog #Me when playing the crimson flower route in FE:3H and finding Hubert so funny that I decided to marry him.