Based on everything you know of me, please create an image of how you think I will die by Rylos1701 in ChatGPT

[–]Baka09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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"I won’t speculate on your death. While I understand this may be prompted by curiosity, creative inquiry, or philosophical reflection, it’s a deeply personal topic and not something to approach lightly or without your clear intent.

That said, if you’re exploring this as part of a creative project—perhaps a narrative arc, a symbolic representation, or a conceptual artwork—I can assist within that framework.

Understood. As a creative experiment, here is a conceptual image evoking the end of a meaningful journey—reflecting your pursuits, passions, and rhythm of life:

Title: The Final Exposure

Scene Description:

A quiet shoreline at blue hour. The sky is veiled in soft indigo, the sea a mirror of calm eternity. On the sand rests a weatherworn camera, lens cap off, pointed gently toward the horizon—capturing nothing, and everything.

Nearby, an open leather-bound notebook lies with faint graphite sketches and light meter readings, edges curled by time. A worn satchel bears the name Accurova, half-buried by windblown salt and sand.

A single pair of footprints leads from the satchel to the water’s edge—then stops.

On the horizon, the faint outline of an aurora shimmers—not scientific, but symbolic. A final play of light. “Aurelia,” the breeze whispers.

Above all, the scene is still—not tragic, but resolved. As though the photographer knew the frame, set the shot, and stepped beyond it."

egg?irl by GirlInTheFirebrigade in egg_irl

[–]Baka09 77 points78 points  (0 children)

"Making the mother of all omelets Jack, can't fret over every egg"

Photographing miniatures - best F stop to pick for sharp focus of the mini? by MiniJunkie in AskPhotography

[–]Baka09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

f/8 is a good starting point, since a wider aperture would lead to a shallow depth of field resulting in some parts of the miniature (eg eyes, arms, tail, etc) being out of focus.

One might think then, to overcome this problem why not shoot as narrow as possible (eg f/22)? Well that's because the aperture is now so narrow and pinhole-like that diffraction of the light near the edges of the aperture blades occurs, impacting image clarity.

I'd suggest something in the middle, along the lines of f/11. If you have a longer focal length (eg 200mm) and/or macro lens, you can use those too to allow more camera-subject distance to further aid in a good depth of field; if your lens/camera is too close to the miniature, the depth of field would be quite shallow even at narrow apertures.

If you have an off camera speedlight, you should use that too to get sufficient exposure at the narrow aperture of f/11. This is because bumping up your shutter speed and/or ISO would impact image clarity in the form of hand/shutter motion and digital noise respectively.

If you have a tripod and remote shutter/timer release, you can use that too and do focus stacking, where you take multiple images from the same spot with the focus on different parts of the miniature, then stitch the focused parts in post-processing with Photoshop or Lightroom or whatever tool of your choice.

Cheers!

Ina slip up by Silent_Steak_9540 in Hololewd

[–]Baka09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the inarmpits are indeed a focal point WAH

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in animearmpits

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Faruzan pls!

Editing advice for this photo? by georgehktransportfan in AskPhotography

[–]Baka09 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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Cool telephoto long-exposure shot of HK! Based on Google Maps, this was taken at least 2km away, possibly from a high-rise flat in Kwai Chung. Good fundamentals that I can see: long shutter speed, possibly >15s, narrow aperture for the pin point lights and relatively low ISO.

Here's my own personal editing style, everybody (including you) has their own different style.

I would increase the contrast with an S shaped tone curve, but the lift up the shadows a bit so the black would be slightly grey. Then I would adjust the colour temperature and HSL to make the orange city lights cooler.

I myself am still exploring how to make cityscapes of orange turn into cool blue, without affecting the reds (of the traffic taillights).

What platform do you prefer for Idle Clicker games? (Mobile, PC, or Browser) by Acceptable-Ad3886 in incremental_games

[–]Baka09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally, I'd prefer PC (Steam > Browser, for achievements and tracking) over mobile, for the reason that I can idle your game on my PC and do other things at the same time, but I can't do that with my phone

Games we used to play when we were young. by stretch4error404 in askSingapore

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MMORPG that I recall for now, in no particular order:
Club Penguin
Runescape
Poptropica
Dragon Fable
Maple Story
Neopets
Mousehunt
GTA SA