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Don't we already have enough of people pulling out their phone to "capture the moment" and missing out entirely on the "moment" happening right in front of them because they're focused on a screen instead? And then millions of petabytes of crappy videos posted online not actually showing the...

Meh ... :hmm: For me, it's "routine" because there's nothing new about it, nothing special - we (humans) have been doing that for centuries. But we've also being doing it in a way that adds value to the interaction, not simply regurgitating stock phrases. But again, these are all marketing...

But it is just "routine". It's the same pre-packaged samples they keep throwing at us, completely devoid of any real-world context. While there may be some humans who talk like that in real life, to me it sounds 100% computer generated - nothing more than the audio version of the utterly useless...

Ya shudda shot with sodium vapour light! 🤓 Old tech that I learnt about only a couple of weeks ago:

Neither! Ireland. Our ancient writers (and more modern ones) were particularly adept at writing vicious satire about the English colonisers that was only really understood by the native Irish. It was a point of pride to be able to write something in English making fun of the English and have...

Having grown up in a country with a strong tradition of satirical writing - often quite vicious, and wielded as a weapon of subversion - I have much appreciation for a good satirical plot. However, as a writing style it needs to be very carefully crafted, and the object of the satirical...

Hi Lily! :hi: I have a (not terribly) spooky chateau at my disposal, if you're interested - see -> here <- for a thread on the subject.

Looking good. I'm inclined to agree with Nate about the order of presentation - first and foremost, people will be coming to you for their photos, not the studio. On that point, though, in the "studio experience" tab you have a mix of hard-core technical info and softer abstract concepts that...

Round table looking for discussions; also available in square, picnic, excel ... :D This is, for now, an informal networking suggestion. If it attracts positive attention, I'll make it into a more concrete proposal. As some of you know, I have a management role in a music and dance...

Don't you just love a good spectrum? :cool: I'm at the @sfoster end. Watched a first one all the way through and thought it was quite clever; managed about three quarters of a second and thought: "okay, so it's the same voice, same stuff re-packaged, so-so-samey and then drifted off into...

I made my first animations with a pencil and the pages of my school dictionary! Good times. Who needs tablets or AI ... :hi:

As you know, the golden rule for portrait shots has always been "focus on the eyes" ; but that really should be a more lenient "make sure the eyes are in focus" because it'd be a really weird head that needed any of the space behind the eyes to be in focus, but chins, lips and noses are almost...

Okay, that gives you about 8.5cm/3 inches to play with, front to back. Just about enough for most faces, but close to the limit if you have a model with a prominent nose and you focus on the eyes. Might be teaching you to suck eggs, but remember that dof is spread equally in front of and behind...

Definitely less "scientifically accurate", more "photogenic", than before though! :yes: For completeness, I'd be interested in knowing also what focal length lens you're using, and at what distance you have the camera set up.

I would highly, very highly, recommend getting yourself a copy of Affinity Photo. A very reasonably priced one-off payment (think it's about $60-70 at the moment, you've just missed their spring sale :tear:) stand-alone, non-cloud based product with unlimited updates forever. I've been using...

Are you shooting and processing in RAW?

:eek: ... Greetings, caveman! :hi:

Fixed that for you! 🤓 What you're dealing with there is expectation vs reality. In one of the many branches of my professional life, I look at skin up close, and that's exactly how it looks. When "ordinary people" look at skin on other "ordinary people" they apply a sort of in-built soft-focus...

In the last few years, I've twice been the user of a professional photographer, one in the context of a family event, the other as part of a get-this-old-guy-back-to-work incentive :bow: Two different studios, two different countries, but in both cases the photographer provided only a limited...

Yup! :yes: But you need to do that in collaboration with your target clientbase and taking account of the work involved on your part. Concentrate on getting this bit clear in your head before worrying too much about what phrases to use on the website, how much detail to display up-front, or how...