You’re right. This is what’s being described as humiliation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWZU4zrOoLE

The headline is riding the popular sentiment regarding this particular clip without discussing it much at all.

I’ve read variations of this click bait headline from dozens of sources.

One would have to have a sense of humility in order to be humiliated.

The headline should read: Unsurprisingly, Trump rejects the truth in favor of the lies that keep him in power.

You have two light sources of different colors.
Diffuse your light source and block ambient light. This is best achieved, in part, by increasing your shutter speed and using a strobe. Without the strobe, you should get a black image. Adding a diffused strobe would minimize specular highlights. I also find it helpful to use props (plates) that don’t reflect light as much. Speaking of props, the table looks like it’s from an office lunch room.

The camera is at an awkward angle.
You’re not totally parallel with the table and the carrots aren’t perfectly perpendicular. Always nice to get it perfect in the shot but this should be fixable in post.

Carrots are raw.
I’m not sure if you want to cook them, maybe just blanch them for a minute then cool in ice water so they at least look appetizing. Blanching would bring out more color too.

That might seem like a lot but it’s really not. I mean, you gotta make do with what you have so ignore the comments about props. Work on composition and lighting and, if you’re shooting food, make it look edible. If you don’t have a diffuser or strobe, your first step should be blocking that ambient light. You want a large black surface facing the carrots from the bottom left. To diffuse light, you can try covering your light source with a piece of parchment or tracing paper or a white sheet.

This is actually a great submission and easy place to get started. Not too complex. Should be easily improved upon.

Edit: I will say, after looking again at the tiny thumbnail version of this, the lighting looks interesting. It almost looks painted with light. It’s not until you look at the full size photo that you can spot the inconsistencies.

None of the alliance members, including the US, currently spends 5% of GDP on defence, according to NATO figures. Poland is the highest spender in GDP terms at 4.12%, followed by Estonia at 3.43% and the United States at 3.38%.

I’d like to see people respond to a headline that reads, “Trump demands US increase NATO funding”.

Anyone here old enough to remember the Exxon Valdez?

Great. Then we agree you can just remove it. No harm done and you can easily move on with your life.

If you’re just “using an app”, the whole thing would be meaningless to you.

Do you also send thanks to abusive partners because they force their spouses to learn to cook for them?

I mean, yeah. It’s great that homeless drug addicts get to know how to use the public transit system so well 👍

You are delusional. You’re fitting your narrative into the situation without the ability (or desire) to step back and observe the reality.

People are learning mandarin because they are so addicted to this form of social media that they are choosing to learn a new language over using other forms of social media.

LOL Good job injecting your narrative into something completely unrelated.

These platforms would not be as successful if they were just about offering a nice place for friends to congregate. If that were the case, Myspace would still be relevant and forums would still be more active than FB and Reddit.

Here we are on Lemmy - free of ads and algorithms and corporate control. If it was all about people searching for means of connection, what aren’t more people here?

Because the corporations have created an algorithm to maintain engagement to show you ads. Engagement is driven by strong emotions. Strong emotions are created by chemical reactions in your brain. What you’re being shown on corporate controlled social media is what they know will keep the chemicals flowing aggressively around in your grey matter.

People have been alienated for millennia. The internet has existed and has been embracing outcasts for over 40 years. I would suggest that you take a step back and consider why people are choosing one platform over another and what differentiates the platforms from one another.

This is a case where people are so occupied with a platform proven to threaten their nation’s national security and their own perception of reality that they would choose to embrace that foreign adversary over their own country. If that’s not an addiction, I don’t know what is.

I hope you find a place of peace to congregate with others who make you feel known. Corporate controlled social media should have never been that place.

Dude. How do you say “addiction” in mandarin.

I just want to make you aware of what nearly every person starting out with photography eventually comes to learn sooner than later: you and your hobby and your bank account will go through some changes. Don’t expect to put out a couple thousand dollars and be done with it.

Of course, a cropped sensor is more than a reasonable place to start. Some would argue it’s a reasonable place to foster a career in photography.

Ergonomics has more to do with what kind of photography you’re shooting than anything else. Sports and wedding photography will dictate the need for a different set of controls than landscape or studio photography.

I’m a slow picture taker. I started with shooting film in the early '90s on a Canon AE1 Program. The ergonomics of the Fujifilm cameras spoke to me. I have been able to do some photoshoots for events, for bars/restaurants, and did a lot of studio photography with Fuji XT cameras. There have been times I found Fuji limiting in either its control system, it’s autofocus, or (more often) it’s low light performance. Most of the time my experience has helped me to work around any limitations. For example, it’s totally possible (sometimes preferable) to take great high ISO black and white images in low light when color images would look like ass. The high ISO noise in Fujfilm cameras can be great in B&W.

As I started getting into adapting third party lenses to my Fuji system, I became more invested in the characteristics of the lens itself. At the same time, as I was using manual focus lenses more and more, my photo taking got more intentional. It just made sense for me to shift to Leica where I could slow down even more and take advantage of the total characteristic of an expensive lens on a full frame sensor. As the name implies, a cropped sensor is not gathering the characteristics of the perimeter of the lens. I can tell you that my gateway combination was the Fuji XE2 and Voigtlander 40mm f1.4. A fantastic affordable manual focus pocketable-ish setup that I sometimes wish I still had.

I have different cameras for different things. The only digital cameras I have right now are the Leica M-P and Fuji X100V. The rest are 35mm and medium format film cameras. I’m shooting different subject matter today than I was five years ago so the cameras and ergonomics work well for my current needs. If I were to start shooting something else, I’d first consider how fast the subject was moving and what focal length I’d need then build a system around that. Last I looked at cameras, I was considering medium format or the Lumix S5 IIX. If I were considering a career in landscape photography, I would certainly get a medium format camera.

Another word of warning from experience, don’t spread yourself too thin. I had so many cameras and lenses but didn’t have the time to really become proficient with any of them. Again, this pointed me in the direction of Leica. One camera and a few quality lenses will make you a better picture taker than a cabinet full of gear.

I started my digital photography journey with the Fuji X-T10. The photographs I’ve taken with it are still among some of my favorites. The last Fuji camera I owned was the X-T3. I’ve since moved on to Leica.

IMO, there’s little advantage to the Fuji system these days, aesthetics aside. Full frame mirrorless cameras are practically the same size and price, offer better low light performance, and better image quality.

I would say the first question you should ask yourself is how large you intend to print your images ten years down the road. I’ve had good results printing XT3 images up to 36" but I wouldn’t really go beyond that. The more you learn about photography, the more time you spend in post production zoomed into your images, the more you’ll notice the hardware’s shortcomings (even if others don’t). You never know when you’ll take a shot you fall in love with and want hanging on your wall. You might just want to post on social media now but your prerogatives may change down the road.

Then consider low light photography. The low iso performance of a full frame camera is almost always going to be better than on a cropped sensor.

Next, are you a collector? A lot of people can easily get obsessed with trying different lenses. For me, I started getting into adapting manual focus M Mount lenses to my Fuji which ultimately led me to Leica. Before I knew it, I amassed a collection of a couple dozen lenses just for X mount. Ebay gets something like a 30% cut on electronics now so it’s not as easy to buy and sell things as it used to be.

I would take a look at the lens options for each mount. The cameras themselves may be relatively comparable in price but the lens prices can get out of control. As a nature photographer (which I am not), you may want to look at zoom lenses in the 70-200 range. Compare the costs of these lenses across the board.

The analog esthetic of Fuji is what it took for me to switch from film photography. It’s a great gateway to digital. Eventually, the image quality became more important than “how it looks on a shelf”. Honestly, how it looks on a shelf has never been something I’ve given any thought to. How it feels in the hand and the joy it brings to use it in the field is what got me out of the house to take more pictures. You’ll have to figure out what your priorities are in the coming years and make adjustments.

If you want to stick to a budget, do not count on any camera you buy right now to last you a long time. Even the life of a lens is becoming shorter. As the resolving power of image sensors increase, manufacturers are forced to create better and bigger lenses to keep up. If you were to spend maybe three to five thousand dollars, then maybe possibly you might be able to keep shooting with what you have for a decade or more, if you’re okay missing out on advancing technology.

Lastly, (landscape/slow-moving wildlife) don’t forget to budget for a good tripod. That should last you forever so get the best one with the features you need.

Oh, last lastly, do not be so quick to take the first word of advice you get nor listen to popular “influencers”. The internet has given us all easy opportunity to digest and rehash biased (paid for) information about things we have little to no hands on experience with. Be cautious of any with affiliate links.

I’m making a comment, not a review. But you’re very welcome. I hope you enjoy the film for what it is and watch it repeatedly as we all should to absorb the artist’s intent.

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Nice :)

I genuinely enjoy messy fever dream movies.

Could a better movie be made to drive home the same point? Sure.
Do audiences want to see that movie? I highly doubt it (see: Don’t Look Up).

This is the terrifying part. Coppala presents dire warnings with historical precedent. They’ll go over the heads of a lot of people while many will make a choice to ignore them. People don’t want to be told their comfort system is broken and they need to break free of it to progress. The masses want status quo and to be sheep – as long as they have cheap gas and eggs. So even if the movie were less messy, the warnings still wouldn’t land any harder.

I think it’s fair to comment separately on the narrative of a movie and the production of a movie. I’m a regular (American) person, not a film maker. With Megalopolis, I’m far more interested in the narrative than if the movie was edited proficiently. To be fair, Coppola probably didn’t do us any favors by distracting us with the “fever dream” of it. But I also don’t think it’s fair to the artist to have to meet the audience where they are. There’s good debate to be had there.

Fiction writers have been sending us warnings for hundreds of years. It’ll never be enough to bring change. Coppola believes humans are capable of infinite progress and utopia. I think it’s evident that the whole of us aren’t intelligent or shit-giving enough to pick up on or act upon the warnings.

I recently saw this mind bending time travel movie called Primer.

Kidding.

A few indie movies I really like are Ink (2009), Sidewalls (2011), and Cashback (2006). I’ve linked to some trailers but I hope people just jump feet first without knowing or presuming anything.

Ink is super low budget but it’s really one of my all time faves. It starts off sort of like film school assignment early 2000’s dystopian scifi fantasy and ends as tear jerker. The full movie is on YT here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIdqnPxfzj0

2022’s Vesper was fantastic but I assume a lot of people know this one.

Also, for those looking for some 90s nostalgia, I recently rewatched Singles (1992) for the first time since the nineties and it still holds up.

Not sure why you think this.

You just reiterated what I said.

If you were to rip a Bluray to your computer, you’re legally not permitted to watch that movie if you’re no longer in possession of the disc.

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You can legally rip a Bluray for backup purposes. If you sell or give away the Bluray, you have to delete the backed up copy.

Technically, if the FBI were to ask you to prove ownership of a digital copy and you had lost the disc, it would be illegal to retain that digital copy.

Bypassing DRM is illegal because the DMCA explicitly prohibits the circumvention…

Yes. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a law that covers copyright protections.

Everyone should generally assume that unless you have something tangibly in your hand, you either do not own it or you may very easily and/or suddenly lose access to it. You could test this by trying to access the content without having to sign in to something.

All these streaming and subscription services should be considered ease of access conveniences. In other industries, you pay a premium for something to be prepared for you to consume. In the subscription industry, you’re paying less because you’re not paying for the content but for a license to temporarily consume the content (and probably because your info is being sold to advertisers).

Fun Fact: If you were to rip a Bluray to your computer, you’re legally not permitted to watch that movie if you’re no longer in possession of the disc. This is because you’re not purchasing the content of the disc but the license to view the content. Decrypting DRM is illegal not based on whether you own the content but because the DRM encryption itself is separately copyright protected.

That’s a perfect response to enforce my observation that people no longer have the sense of what words mean.