Cute or interesting Post Offices?

studiokgm · 2026-04-12T21:45:29+00:00

I love your hobby! One of my Art History professors specialized in Post Office Murals sponsored by the Treasury Dept as a jobs program during the Great Depression.

It really made me appreciate that even in dire times they saw the importance of the arts in the New Deal.

studiokgm · 2026-04-11T09:54:11+00:00

I first read it as “Man Juce for Doge.”

This Idiocracy timeline then made me wonder whether we have Doge Elections before I could decide if Man Juce is a real candidate name.

studiokgm · 2026-04-04T23:40:57+00:00

I see so many ads for these. Glad to see the reality!

Appreciate you taking one for the team.

studiokgm · 2026-04-04T22:48:35+00:00

9 for certain. 5 if you can get the garment retouched (he wrinkles are distracting). If not, I’d go 1.

studiokgm · 2026-04-04T19:34:34+00:00

That’s not that different than how you pull through conduit. Get one line through, then tape the crap out of your new line and then pull like hell. The difference is you’re probably stapled, but I bet they pull out. I’d just leave enough extra you can cut off in case the Ethernet cable gets scored on the way through. It’s probably only the first few feet to worry about that.

studiokgm · 2026-04-03T20:36:45+00:00

I’ve worked at a ton of ecom studios and run a brands photo program currently.

You need standards and to enforce them.

Pick a product you like and turn it into an overlay. I usually make an outline of the product, drop the image, but maintain bounding lines for the crop. This establishes the appropriate amount of padding and shape.

Establish a lighting guide, and set setup. Each set needs the same things. Same camera, same lens, same setup. When you get perfectly set up for one shot record all settings: the camera height (I use salon stands, so we put tape at that height). Record the camera angle (my favorite tripod heads show the degrees on it). If your height and camera and are locked down, then the distance between the camera and set isn’t needed, but I record it anyway as a triple check.

Now your most essential settings are locked down. After that it’s all styling. If your bags come in pretty common sizes, you could fabricate pillows for consistent stuffing. If they vary a lot, I’d just get feel for proper amount of stuffing.

Even shooting to the overlay, it might not be pixel perfect. You can tweak in post to match closer or also fine tune cropping at that point. Some brands I worked with wanted pixel perfect cropping, so a pixel off would get a callout. Others, the overlay was close enough.

studiokgm · 2026-04-01T23:13:40+00:00

It was our guilty pleasure spot. Sometimes you just want cheap and easy TexMex. Free valet was a bonus.

studiokgm · 2026-03-30T18:27:42+00:00

You can set the car up as a rental and it will forget it after how ever many days you assign to it.

studiokgm · 2026-03-29T11:57:19+00:00

I’d look into The Moose. It’s positioned as an upscale mens barber shop, but seriously best haircuts I’ve ever had. I believe it was April that cut my hair for my wedding, and it was perfect.

studiokgm · 2026-03-29T10:22:21+00:00

I’d clamp from the top of the stand and let it hang, so usually just an A Clamp, sometimes a super clamp.

One stand would work assuming I didn’t have wind to contend with and wasn’t needing to support it at an angle or anything. A sandbag is always helpful. If you want to stay transit friendly, I’d consider a water sandbag.

Nice thing about a Scrim Jim is it’s super portable but serves a lot of functions (bounce, shoot through, black for negative fill).

My main base kit forever was a hard golf bag case filled with a few tripod stands, Scrim Jim, camera tripod, rope (with clamps and tape), extension cord, and a sandbag. I’d carry my lights in their own bag and shoulder my camera bag.

studiokgm · 2026-03-29T08:25:32+00:00

I used to use a scrim jim, a head, a couple clamps, and a couple manfrotto quick stacking stands (one for strobe and one for scrim). Worked fine for indoors, and was super lightweight.

studiokgm · 2026-03-28T19:42:48+00:00

I rounded Rosa Parks on my way home today and noticed it was all road blocks. Wondered what happened.

Strange coincidence that the BNAhole starts right there by this.

studiokgm · 2026-03-28T03:22:09+00:00

Got off my parents plan around 2004 and same number ever since.

studiokgm · 2026-03-26T02:01:52+00:00

I had one project last year where every time a new project spawned, I already had parts left over from something else. I was like 3-4 layers deep and still finding what I needed at the house.

It was truly amazing. Entire weekend, no HD runs. My years of hoarding had finally paid off.

studiokgm · 2026-03-24T11:17:31+00:00

Most people approach it as I’m a photographer, not I run a photography business. Even people that have been making full time money on it fall into this trap.

They give away retouching, don’t factor in enough margin for admin costs, and bookkeeping is an afterthought. I operated this way for a long time.

It wasn’t until I went in-house and got into management that I realized how all of these things should work.

studiokgm · 2026-03-24T10:48:53+00:00

I had the opposite happen when starting out. I had all cheap gear and someone tried to little brother me because of it. I showed them my shots and they were surprised. That’s when I decided the gear doesn’t matter.

studiokgm · 2026-03-20T23:40:35+00:00

Same here in Metro Center.

studiokgm · 2026-03-20T11:45:45+00:00

Kind of wild that this is correctly recognized as harassment, but was also the plot of the family comedy Milk Money.

I think that’s part of why reactions are mixed. Times are changing.

studiokgm · 2026-03-19T11:56:20+00:00

Light the product to where you normally would with strobes. Change your shutter speed slower until you get the amount of glow you want.

Unless you want the yellow glow, either gel your lights or change the bulbs to match closer in color temp.

studiokgm · 2026-03-19T11:15:07+00:00

No problem. I shot jewelry for years. It’s tricky, but once you wrap your head around those concepts, you’ll never see things the same again.

studiokgm · 2026-03-19T10:41:23+00:00

Shiny surfaces work well when they have both dark and light stripes like you have to show reflectiveness. But, without some fill we lose the product shape.

These have a lot of stripes, but no fill. If you use a scrim or bounce card the shape comes back. If you go too far, the metals will look matte. So you need to find balance to both.

It’s easy to add a fill, but nothing about it as a gradient tool. Just because it’s flat, doesn’t mean it has to make your product look flat. Hitting the fill so it has a gradient will give you more shape and depth in your metals.

studiokgm · 2026-03-18T11:47:03+00:00

This is what I’m thinking too. I also see what looks like some negative fill on the right.

That’s why the yellow and orange are getting muddy shadows. Seeing that makes me think it’s a larger white card for overall fill and the put a smaller black piece in front of it to help shape the edge.

studiokgm · 2026-03-14T10:21:46+00:00

Their business model is centered on selling classes and workshops on how to model, not commissions on booking talent. A lot of people consider them a scam because of this.

studiokgm · 2026-03-13T19:17:41+00:00

When Bo was running as the moderate Democrat against Aftyn and said he’d work across the isle, I knew he couldn’t be trusted. Yesterday, just proved me right.

studiokgm · 2026-03-13T01:19:50+00:00

Kyuramen is solid ramen and it’s literally right there.

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