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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 tripped and fell down and a new product happened! these signs and stickers have a re-writable surface. you can write on them in dry erase marker and terrorize yourself into doing more frequent file backups! there's a sticker version, and a little card version that just so happens to hang perfectly off a standard-size tack. great for digital artists, programmers, photographers, writers, and other creatives who should REALLY BE BACKING UP THEIR STUFF. SERIOUSLY. MULTIPLE BACKUPS. AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN PRACTICALLY DO IT.

get 'em here!

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reblog to give the pervious person a nice rock

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Is it me or has this site become much slower as of recent?

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kind of obsessed with this security question option my doctors office has given me

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist.

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The most rare, top-tier eclipse photo would be the Solar Earth Eclipse, but the Apollo 12 crew's attempt to capture it was marred by camera shake. They said it looked spectacular, though.

Types of Eclipse Photo [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

Types of Eclipse Photo

[Eclipse during totality] The standard

[Partial eclipse with lighter sky] The partial

[Two Cueballs and Ponytail looking and pointing at the sky] The reaction shot

[Eclipse during totality with red "ribbons" around the Moon] The fancy lens

[A blurry ring of light in the center] The focus issues

[The rear of an SUV] The traffic jam

[A dark circle on Earth's surface] The astronaut

[A gray cover of clouds] The "frustratedly looking up the cloud situation in Australia for 2028"

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It isn’t actually raining here but @alackofcharacter showed me this and it made me laugh.

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PEMDAS is a conspiracy according to far-right idiot and friend of Elon Musk.

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Tumblr feels so different without the boops

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staff: our april fools joke this year is a silly feature that doesn't really do anything but give you a button to boop other users! they have to opt-in first though :)

me:

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Several live aquarium YouTube channels had to break off their sponsorship deals when BetterKelp admitted to selling their pets’ data. It was all a phishing scam.

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(bad) Idea: Pronoun selections for multiple pronoun users where you have the ability to set relative rates of each pronoun. Like maybe like:

See you could set relative frequencies of each pronoun, and order them.

And yes I did mock this up using Visual Basic 6. That's just how my brain works.

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Hey Tumblr! Try this thing I made:

#codeblr #programming #coding #stemblr #science #musicals #musical theater #broadway musicals #Broadway #music #game #online game

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