A better place

The most interesting thing is that he wasn’t the only one. A guy who called himself Victor Lustig did the same thing with the Eiffel Tower.

You know what? Maybe keep that kind of comment for the porn communities.

Well, it fully depends on the effect you’re after. In this case there was no background to blur and I wanted her body fully in focus. The flashes are by far powerful enough to work with f/4.5 which makes focusing a lot easier. For other shots I did use the f/1.4.

• Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark II
• Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4
• ISO: 100
• Shutter speed: 1/80s
• Aperture: f/4.5

Lighting is mainly a soft box on either side, both slightly above head height and set back a bit to create the shadow in the middle of the face. The rest is quite a bit of fiddling around with the RAW. For comparison, here’s what it looked like straight out of the camera:

Same project at least. This one is from day 2. I think you helped on day 5 or 6.

When I updated my lemmy instance, I forgot to update pictrs as well which broke the uploads.

I shut down my pc for the day but I‘ll try to remember to post it tomorrow.

Ah damn… it worked when I posted. Imgur must have broken it again. And for some reason I can’t upload directly to lemmy, I get a weird error.

Okay, I‘m honestly confused why this is collecting downvotes without comments? Do people see the NSFW tag and downvote without looking at the photos, thinking I‘m abusing this community to post porn? I marked it as such because the photos technically contain nudity though I wouldn’t consider them erotic art.

Or are my photos really that bad?

You have been banned from !pyongyang@lemmy.world

I just made it 62.

The 99 bottles of beer song is (was?) a popular programming exercise to teach beginners about loops. Singing it in real life would be pretty annoying because you would essentially repeat the same two sentences for a couple of minutes. Apparently, the PHP developers were planning to order one beer each, sing the song and get on everyone’s nerves. The C++ dev stopped this by buying all the remaining beer at once.

The choice of languages is probably OP’s own prejudice. These days I’d say PHP devs are on average older and more experienced than JS and Python devs, just because almost nobody learns PHP as their first language anymore.

The bakery down the road from where I grew up used to hold the Guinness world record for the largest version of a local specialty.

I’d finally finish some of my personal projects.

Over the last few years, I’ve had so many ideas for stuff, both video games and just basic useful software. This is where the curse of being a professional software engineer kicks in. I know that I’m experienced enough to actually make those things but after a full day of work, preparing dinner and getting the apartment in order, there is just not enough time and energy left to get my ass in front of an IDE again. I’d love to have the opportunity, even if just for a year or so to pause my day job and spend my energy on something that is actually mine and has emotional value for me.

On top of that, I have a couple of hobbies that would benefit from having more time. Photography, HEMA (fencing with proper swords), board games, 3d printing and painting miniatures… one thing is for sure, I wouldn’t get bored any time soon.

Learned that the hard way. Within less than a week went from happily living in the house that I had grown up in, that I was renting from my father and that I was planning to eventually buy or inherit to having to look for an apartment because he sold it. The worst thing? That he never gave me a reason or even acknowledged how much he had hurt me. Quite the opposite, he later asked me to help the new owners set up their tv as if it was nothing.

I got hit really hard by 2048. I didn’t even play it that much but my brain started looking for groups of identical things and imagined how they slide into each other to create something new. Plates on the kitchen table, seats on the train to work, identical cars…

Yeah, that should read “all other citizens of earth”.

That‘s correct and indeed unfortunate but not what we were talking about.

There’s a chance that framework might build something. Lately they’ve been asking what to build next and modular phones were one of the most frequent answers. While their parts are not fully open source, their interfaces between the modules and the firmware are. For the laptops, you can already replace basically anything with a custom version.