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Hey Mickey @heymickey.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 16:13 UTC

Dominos Pizza should make pizza dominoes. Like little rectangles that are garlic bread on half & pizza with like one pepperoni or sausage on the other

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 11, 2024 at 00:23 UTC

The dialogue itself isn't helping, but the actual delivery of the lines makes this sound way more aspiring-serial-killer than was probably intended.

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 18:07 UTC

Oh! That's really cool! The hill/rock face on the second picture really looks like it's turned out nicely too.

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 17:33 UTC

Ooh, nice ground texture. What's the material?

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 02, 2024 at 17:42 UTC

That color chip on the very top sure is oddly shaped!

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 23:10 UTC

Okay then! My one suggestion to really take the product catalog look all the way is replacing the grey fabric with ...probably posterboard, honestly. Cheap to replace as needed and available in pretty matte finishes that don't give a specular highlight when bent to make a background sweep.

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 22:56 UTC

I'm not sure if any of that was a useful answer to your question. <:D I can say that I have not remotely recently thought lighting was any problem with your product photos, so I don't think you have a pressing need to change things up if you're happy with your work flow.

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 22:49 UTC

Eventually switching to studio strobes ultimately didn't change much except that now I was shooting at 1/200 generally and didn't have to worry about being perfectly still or shooting in an otherwise darkened room. Being blinded by the lights was suddenly a risk, but otherwise no difference.

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 22:47 UTC

And of course dimmer for longer doesn't make much difference apart from one of convenience. I for a long time was shooting with 2 and 3 second exposures using a remote or a timer with homemade lighting solutions or entry level purpose-made lights...

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 22:45 UTC

You're right. I should have elaborated my thoughts more. It's what I get for trying to have two conversations at once. :D

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 22:44 UTC

I kind of like generally having everything independent because sometimes there's some pesky glare on a surface you just absolutely don't want pulling a highlight and it's easier to shift a single light than it is to try and block inside a tent or box.

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 22:42 UTC

Enclosure might be a little easier to execute since you're combining diffusion and bounce surfaces all at once, but you can certainly get the same effect with lights and bounce cards on stands or arms around/attached to an open table.

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 22:39 UTC

It's a common enough problem. And I imagine most kids watching X-Men had Bugs Bunny's context much more readily at hand than the genuine classical meaning.

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 22:37 UTC

Right. This foam board set up is largely meant to take the place of other diffusers. Depending how you have things arranged, it could be used together with them if you shine the softboxes in from the open front and let the light bounce off the walls to get more fill in the shadow areas.

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 22:24 UTC

I ended up liking open format with light boxes, but I did still utilize enclosed style sometimes. What I did for that was getting three of those foamcore boards from Dollar Tree, and some little L brackets and screwing the panels together as a free-standing unit.

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 22:19 UTC

I genuinely love that you go for the PVC pipe construction for your mini-studio rigging. That takes me all the way back.

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 22:17 UTC

<3

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Chris @chrisrtxv.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 01:21 UTC

My idea which I have not actually pursued was putting Ravage and Antagony together with Shadow Panthers as troops and setting them up as The Tripredacus Agents.

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