#oceanattic

[darkcoastphotography]

I saw your posts about depression and I also noticed you were being hard on yourself lately. I was having similar thoughts today, except I looked at some photos in your archive and was like "I wish I was as good as he is." After, when I read your posts about not being good enough or not feeling talented enough, it really made me sad and I empathized. Depression is hard, but I want you to know that I look up to your work a lot and it and you are worth loving. We should both be nicer to ourselves.

Man, well thank you so much for this. Today especially has just been a shit show. I’m sorry you had to wade through all my awful posts. I’m glad you think I’m good though, somebody ought to for how hard I work. Yeah, we both deserve to be able to be nicer to ourselves. Maybe sometime I’ll be able to but I don’t think it’ll be any time soon unfortunately.

[darkcoastphotography]

Hi there! I just wanted to tell you that your photography is great. I also have a question, and you don't have to answer if it's too much trouble. How do you get your colors to be so rich and gorgeous? I live in Oregon and shoot a lot of similar things to you (natural settings, water, fog, rain, Northwest stuff!) and on digital I feel like my colors come out so washed out and not nearly as vivid. Do you do anything while shooting? Post processing? Thanks!

Thanks a lot! :) Of course! I shoot using a custom shooting profile based on the 'Landscape' settings, so the saturation is a little toned down, and the contrast is pushed up a little, but for the most part everything is down to shooting the scene properly. It always changes depending on the scene of course, but I'd guess by how you're describing how your shots are coming out that you're exposing for what your camera is telling you is perfectly on 0, which is almost always a lie. The sensor in your camera exposes for pure white, and not grey like it should, so try exposing for 1/3 stop below the midpoint instead, if you don't already. That will make the shot have a higher range of contrast, and deepen colours as well. Hopefully all this rambling helped! Good luck!

[socialcyanide]

Fake Your Death

See the new “Greatest Hits” Trailer (Featuring the song ‘Fake Your Death’). Pre-order the limited edition at http://mychemicalromance.com and the regular ver…

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All I can think of to say is thank you, thank you Mcr, thank you Gerard, Ray, Frank, Bob, Mikey, James, and everyone else in the MCR family. Thank you for the time, thank you for the music, thank you for the inspiration and thank you for always being there. Thank you for continuing to be there, in musical form and as an online presence. Thank you for standing up for us and thank you for relating with us and thank you for loving every minute of it and thank you for knowing when to leave, even though I wanted that to be never. Thank you for making music that perfectly matches every emotion and thank you for telling us to never apologize for having emotions. Thank you for creating so much art and thank you for inspiring so much art, and thank you for showing us how cool and wonderful and powerful art can be. Thank you for loving us and thank you for loving the music and thank you for performing even when you were sick or injured and thank you for putting your emotional and mental health second to the band and to the music and to us and thank you for sharing your stories with us and thank you for coming back to create Danger Days when you could have hung it all up after Black Parade. Thank for for creating a world (several worlds) that continue to fascinate and inspire and thank you for continuing to create art in other forms. Thank for you everything, thank you for the times when you stayed late after a concert in order to meet every fan there, thank you for thanking us when we thanked you, thank you for never judging us, just thank you. 

oceanattic

 said: Is MCR only putting out one more album? If so, I know those feels, that’s what Anberlin is doing and I’m like nooooooo ;-;

socialcyanide 

 Unfortunately yes. They officially disbanded last year and are releasing a greatest hits album on the one year anniversary next month. I'm sorry to hear about Anberlin.