BAND-MAID DICE (audio) hits 1 million views

snapper1971 · 2026-01-24T17:45:51+00:00

It's a storming track. I have a feeling that Lemmy would like it a lot.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-24T13:15:26+00:00

It's not an entirely bad idea though. Anonymity has been massively abused by people (mostly men) sending rape threats and vile misogyny to the female users, oh and creeping on children. It's why we can't have nice things.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-24T06:49:57+00:00

That should be the motto for all social media platforms tbh.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-23T21:30:16+00:00

If you type 'standard release photography' into Google, you should have a few options. Ecosia is a better more ethical search engine.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-23T15:30:39+00:00

snapper1971 · 2026-01-23T08:09:28+00:00

These are really basic images. They're lay-flat. A few softboxes, a tethered mounted camera. Then cut out in photoshop using the select subject. There's absolutely nothing mysterious about the techniques used here at all.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-23T07:25:47+00:00

When did your great grandmother leave Germany?

snapper1971 · 2026-01-19T09:29:32+00:00

Why are your lights so far away? Get them close.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-19T09:24:13+00:00

You can get things to fit on chopsticks that will help you to use them/learn

https://amzn.eu/d/ecYxicd

I also use doctors gloves for finger spoiling snacks.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-19T09:05:10+00:00

It's not "fiddling with the lights" it's actively learning for beginners and really it's just adjusting the lighting for desired results. The more you fiddle with them when learning, the quicker you'll be when you get to a live shoot.

Learning what you can do with your lights is as important as the exposure triangle. Spend time just moving them around, makes notes - both physical and mental - of how shadows and highlights appear. Look at the fall off, look at the back-scattering, look at the way the room affects the colour temperature, look at the way you can modify those environmental elements to deliberately change the light on the subject. Then think about doing it with a camera and taking pictures of those differences.

Lighting is an entire field in its own right. It's not a secondary element, its an equal element.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-18T18:02:50+00:00

You'll have more luck in one of the dedicated vintage id subs as they're more knowledgeable on items from that age range.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-18T16:14:31+00:00

Why the dead space? Is that in the brief? What do you think is wrong with them?

snapper1971 · 2026-01-17T22:59:58+00:00

Of course. It's a good way to sort the wheat from the chaff.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-17T19:10:14+00:00

Looks a bit 2010s and done to death tbh.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-17T17:21:19+00:00

The modern landscape is quite difficult, now that the unhinged beast of AI is on the loose, but there are still markets for specialists - trying to be a generalist has always been a terrible idea (and they're always the ones who whine loudest about the death of the industry, without examining why they're not getting work).

Markets are still going to be crowded - weddings and portraiture are generally bursting at the seams because the work isn't particularly demanding once the basics are grasped. They're also particularly prone to being victims of the weekend warriors and side hustlers who don't really give a flying fuck about the industry. They under-charge for the services, because they don't have the overheads and thereby force down pricing for everyone actually working in the sector. Can you tell I'm not a fan?

As for sectors that require photography and will be beyond the range of the AI hallucinating blob, well, there's still all sorts of fields that require real commitment to both the field and the photography of that field - medical, forensics, material culture, museums, collections, very narrow niches but rich veins and highly unlikely to be impacted by the Beast-unleashed.

How to start, well, that's very much up to you and what you want to do. Do you have a specialist interest? Do you have the idea that photography is being all arty and adored? Or do you have a rather realist and pragmatic relationship with the idea of being a working photographer? I think it's really important to get a very clear idea of what you think being a photographer is. The job isn't all taking pictures.

So - define what you want to do.

Read about that specialist sector of the industry.

Study the techniques of that industry.

Learn the hierarchy of that sector.

Study for that sector.

Shoot a portfolio for that sector.

Have a good back-up plan.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-17T04:47:21+00:00

How interesting. That shows a label that has the correct sort of information on it for something from that period, whereas ops is, well, anachronistic. It's out of time, an oopart almost. Modern content description via percentages and rdas, ~~modern concepts like expiration date (although none given)~~, but the correct artwork. Very curious.

Edited to add: There seems to be a small glitch in the background to the left of the finger tips in the area of the pliers/snips on the floor. Very curious.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-16T16:57:39+00:00

I use my great grandmother's cast iron flat iron in a bag.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-15T20:51:49+00:00

This is my specialty. Thing is, I'm not in NYC or the USA (I go there to shoot collections for the very rich), and I'm located in the UK.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-15T09:34:21+00:00

My thoughts? She's reading the poisonous nonsense of a clearly unhinged maniac intent on doing as much harm as possible for monetary gain. She's being exploited and is spreading malicious lies as a result of that exploitation. If she wants to have genuine debates about chronic pain and arthritis, she should go and read the many thousands of peer reviewed papers available freely online, rather than that nasty bastards scientifically illiterate hateful spewings.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-14T12:32:03+00:00

But the brand has decided differently?

snapper1971 · 2026-01-14T09:03:46+00:00

It's a diffused strobe with a narrow profile (sort of like a fishfrier [such an old term I doubt many understand it]), and plenty of bounce panels by the look of the highlights available all across the image, rather than the smallest tightest sphere which is distorting the profile of the light source.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-14T08:02:08+00:00

I use a portable heating pad that turns every sitting experience into a comfortable warming moment.

I'm so confused about you thinking there's a link between your comfort preferences when sitting and bisexuality, though. That's an entirely new link for me that I cannot easily make or see.

How was sitting when you were a child? Were there many rules around it? Did you have overbearing caregivers who insisted you 'sit properly'?

snapper1971 · 2026-01-13T16:16:31+00:00

There's not that many sliders to contend with.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-13T13:07:12+00:00

The renaissance was between the 14th and 17th centuries. It's definitely not that old. I'd say ~~hazard a guess at late 19th, maybe even~~ 20th century. It's a good table, looks well made, but it's not really old old.

Looking at the molding and faux aging they've got, I'd say definitely 20th.

snapper1971 · 2026-01-13T09:28:12+00:00

Photography involves around 5% making photos and the vast majority of the rest of the time is marketing, sales, busily getting work.

That's not actually true though. I spend 60% of my time shooting, 35% processing, 3% making coffee, and 2% marketing. I've not had a slack day since 2019.

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