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Would you eat this?

I would eat this

I would not eat this

I have eaten this (positive)

I have eaten this (negative)

Remaining time: 6 days 23 hours

Food: Ghanaian oto

Ingredients: yams, red palm oil, red onions, shrimp bouillon, sea salt, hard boiled eggs

sirfrogsworth

The Egg Project

I'm a member of an advanced photography training community. My mentor creates challenges to help demonstrate certain concepts.

This one required shooting a pop-art-style egg photo to show how specular highlights change with hard and soft light.

This was the example image I was to emulate.

A specular highlight is just a direct reflection of the light source.

With hard light, specular highlights are perceived as brighter. To get hard light, the light source must be smaller (or more distant). So the reflection is smaller, but also more concentrated in intensity.

With soft light, the light source is much larger (or closer). So the intensity of the reflection is spread out over a larger area. So it is perceived as dimmer.

Think about looking directly at a flashlight versus shining it against the wall. The same number of photons are involved, but your experience of them is vastly different.

If you are shooting someone with glasses and the light is reflecting brightly, you can move your light much closer to reduce its apparent intensity.

I worked for 10 minutes at a time over a period of 4 days. I got some fake eggs so I wouldn't have to spend energy cooking. Frustratingly, they arrived with a matte finish. They would not take on a specular highlight at all. So I ordered some automotive clear coat and sprayed the fake eggs on my deck.

You may have noticed my context-less egg art on my deck railing in another post. It was drying in the sun.

The clear coat worked well, so I proceeded to glue the egg to some colored construction paper and tape it to the wall in my kitchen.

I don't have a top-down rig to shoot things from above, so I felt this was a creative and low-energy solution.

A bonus aspect of the challenge was to create a Photoshop composite in which I retain the shadows from the hard light example and the gradient specular highlight on the egg yolk. I can't decide if I like that or the soft light version better.

It feels nice to have accomplished something creative. I am struggling so much with boredom as I recover. And doing anything productive is physically challenging. But I've got my birds and now my egg.

I'm making art again and that is really helping.

I got distracted, I was gonna look for a reaction pic for the mosquito thing. Looked on pinterest, wanted to share my memes and still haven't done the fkn post.

My leg is unbearably itchy. That's it-

Though wondering what's worse, the itchy feeling of a tattoo healing or a mosquito bite.

meme drop #2

#lol

My meme drop #1

#lol

"Death is a concept invented by the Jedi"

#I fuckin love this bit sm #check out worthikids btw they're amazing #(it's on youtube)#I can hear it in my head lol

#had to share this one bc it's killing me

🏆extreme swag (prioritizing rest and peace) *You fill your days with focusing on what you need, this has led you to realise the true purpose. Getting infinite bread. Truly the answer to the universe is NOT 42, but infinite bread = peace*

#does anyone even use that word anymore..?

petersolarz

Untitled © Peter Solarz

herpsandbirds

A little brown-belted bumblebee (Bombus griseocollis), so big and heavy they were pulling down the stems of the monarda 🥹 When they took flight near my hand their wings beat with so much strength it created a cool breeze I could feel.

fucxingcuties

forlornmelody

Things that are normal in Mass Effect that should be normalized now:

After you make 999,999,999 credits you are banned from making any more money. People have to pay you in omni gel or nothing. All the work you do from then on is pro-bono, baby.

AI is illegal.