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Todd, I was too frustrated to stay so I drove off like a petulant child. The last few days we had no clouds and those pictures end up being somewhat Corning. This morning we had just the right amount so I saw it when I got home. I shall try again next weekend maybe.

Get up at 5 and drove an hour to meet up with some people to shoot a sunrise (they were there to surf) and forgot my fucking sd card at home. Yelled at the ocean in frustration and random people came to find out if I was ok. Baaah.

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I made the mistake of picking up Thomas Hardy instead of Thomas Harris by accident when I was first looking for the Hannibal series. WORST. MISTAKE. EVER. He was the most depressing author I have ever read. Can't remember even getting through that book.

I've read all of his work multiple times over. Excellent author.

Last one for tonight.

I tried to clone the bright spots to something in the neighborhood but it ended up looking much worse so I left them be. Lightroom doesn't have many options for dealing with super bright highlights. I'll try fixing the spots once I finish working on the other images.

Thank you Gene. One of my all time favorite movies, Red Dragon, was the inspiration for the past few images. Had my philosophy advisor agreed, my thesis would have been on cannibalism and how it affects the cannibals psyche in terms of emotional and sexual gratification. I find the topic fascinating. Towards the end of the movie, Anthony Hopkins, looks up and says, "Do you dream much, Will? I think of you often..." I get chills every time I see/hear it. In the scene you see Hannibal look up in quite a similar way as the pictures in the last post. Rehan, one of my classmates, agreed to help me play around with some cheap studio lights I recently acquired. We took some usual portraits but I wanted to try to catch her doing something different since she is always smiling and happy. She was sitting and all of a sudden looked up and I remembered the scene from Red Dragon and then spent half an hour trying to light the scene just right. Only post processing done was crop/straighten and sharpening of the eyes. Everything else is SOOC. Here's a less scary one. All taken with a D800, Zeiss 135/2. Lighting varied throughout the images but for my self portrait, I had a light bouncing off an umbrella at a 45 degree angle behind me. Similar set up for her photo but the angle was 10-20 degrees only as her hair were blocking the light. I know there are those two bright spots on her nose from the light but I am still learning. =/

Linux distros.

Nope. It's a server in a spehshul place.

I think I win for now MD

Couldn't find a willing model to help me figure out lighting setups for low key photos, so sat down myself and took some pictures while moving the light around after each attempt.

Who can I complain to at UPS? This is what awaited me when I got home today from school.

What was so special about these black gate caps? All I remember is mikhail salivating over them.

Just got a replacement for the Zeiss 135 (4th one) from Adorama and the box is similarly busted open. FUCK UPS AND FUCK ADORAMA for not using packaging peanuts like they said they would this time. They use those shitty air filled plastic things that get popped and then there is nothing to prevent the box from caving in and getting ripped apart. I'm going to go with pop flash or lens rentals and ask them to use fedex. They better not think of charging me for return shipping for this bullshit.

The amp is out of my visual field so don't care about the different colored led. Ari, this was my one and only attempt at light painting. Took a flashlight and swung at it the amp for a split second but the flashlight was too powerful it seems. Hmm. I posted that picture already. :face palm:

But those have wall warts inside, Ari.

Took a break from studying and set 'er up. Looks great and sounds even better.

Looks great and sounds even better.

Just got the acratech ballhead. Holy shit this thing is amazing. The finish is flawless. They really took a lot of care into designing this.

I saw both those companies the same way but thinking of past orders, B and H orders always arrived safely. Adorama was offering a $170 circular polarizer with the lens so I went with them but it's certainly not worth this headache.

I left her a voice mail a little bit ago.