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GIVE IT 10-15 YEARS AND WE’LL ALL BE GROWN UP AND AN ENTIRE NEW SET OF KIDS WILL BE ON HERE BLOGGING ABOUT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOWS AND BANDS AND MOVIES AND BOOKS

THE ONLY THING THEY’LL STILL BE BLOGGING ABOUT THE SAME AS WE WERE IS DOCTOR WHO

Republican sabotage is a much more prominent aspect of their governance than is ever reported.

FAFO.

DOGE destroyed your contracts. You make no money. Why were you not concerned?

Voting for GOP has consequences.

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I used a gooseneck bendy arm with an alligator clip to suspend the glasses.

Then I erased it in Photoshop.

The lighting technique is called gradient lighting. If you are hoping to try this yourself, I will warn you mirrored sunglasses are probably going to be difficult if you are a beginner.

This video shows all of the equipment you need to do gradient lighting.

And you can see Karl shoot a pair of sunglasses here.

If you are interested in gradient lighting, wine bottles are a little more suited for novices.

Ironically, hard light is bad for recording sexy time.

It will highlight every pore, every vein, every wrinkle on your nutsack.

These outtakes where the flash didn't go off are also AI generated.

I like this spooky dutch angle one.

I was just starting to learn flash and I didn't have all the equipment I needed. Since corgis are quite short, I had to put the lighting on the ground. The off camera flash was on a tipped over lightstand with a shoot-through umbrella to diffuse the light.

But I had no wireless triggers. And the only other way to trigger a flash, is with another flash. So I used the on-camera pop up flash to trigger the main flash.

But I had two issues.

First, I did not want that dinky on camera flash affecting my picture.

Second, triggering a flash with a flash is best done indoors. The flash will bounce all around the room and eventually hit the sensor so the main flash triggers. When you are outdoors, there is no bouncing.

SO... I took a little handheld makeup mirror and angled it toward my main flash. This blocked the dinky pop up flash and sent the beam of light towards the main flash to trigger it.

I was lying on the wet morning grass, holding a camera in one hand, a mirror in the other, trying to aim the mirror exactly toward the main flash, making crazy noises to get Otis's attention, and trying to get the focus point on his face so I didn't get a blurry photo. Also, Otis was much more interested in sniffing things than posing for a photo.

Here is an overhead view that might help explain.

I await all of your comments saying my amazing drawring is clearly AI generated.

Only 30% of the time did the flash actually go off. Aiming the mirror was tricky and I was doing like 8 things at once. I wasn't even sure I got the photo I wanted. But when I came back to the computer there was one that stood out and it is one of my favorites I've ever taken.

It was the best combination of monumental effort, great discomfort, perfect foggy sunrise light, and just pure luck.

Unfortunately, people like me who use advanced sculpting light techniques are getting accused of using AI more and more. Not really sure what to do about it—other than show the 30 awful photos it took to get the good one.

My 80s sunglasses photo and spoon photo get called out the most.

But it's just good old fashioned gradient lighting which has been used in product photography since the days of film.

I'M FUCKIN ANNOYED BECAUSE SIRFROGSWORTH DIDN'T ANSWER THE FUCKIN QUESTION

If you look at the thread, Simpletruth2022 did not answer the question.

I don't have a clue where to get a custom porn video shot. And as long as I don't leave a top level reply, I don't think I am responsible for coming up with an answer.

The DIY ring light answer was the most upvoted response and it had bad information, so I felt obligated to correct it.

There were other answers in the thread. This was the second most popular.

I don't know if this is a good answer because I know a lot of erotic photographers need a very stellar reputation in order for their clients to feel comfortable and safe. They are called "boudoir" photographers because people feel more comfortable going to the "tasteful nudes" person rather than the porn guy.

Also, video is a completely different skill set requiring a lot of different equipment.

Photography lighting is not the same as video lighting. We mosty use flash rather than continuous lighting. Some newer strobes have more powerful continuous modeling lights, but those often have loud fans that could screw with the audio.

Photographers typically don't have audio equipment or sound treatment in their studios. And they probably aren't familiar with how to capture high quality sound.

Photographers don't have video monitors for their cameras. They don't have fluid head tripods. They don't have handheld grips or gimbals. If they are using an older camera they may not have reliable video autofocus. That is a fairly recent innovation.

You can rent all the stuff needed, but you have to know what you need and how to operate it.

And photo editing is not even close to the same as non linear video editing.

Unless she can find an erotic photographer with proper video experience, I worry she is not going to get the professional results she is hoping for. She might find a photographer that is eager to do the job. And said photographer might think "video can't be that hard" because most photographers are egomaniacs. And then 3 months later a new reddit thread will appear... "I paid $1000 to make a porno and everything is blurry. How do I get a refund?"

And that college filmmaker idea sounds... inadvisable. This kind of personal content requires trust and professionalism. Boudoir photographers have entire privacy workflows in place. That feels like asking someone to show your sex tape to their entire dorm.

I suppose it depends on the risk one is willing to take with their sexual privacy.