Commercial photographer here, shot for big brands and independents, with some super-fucking-expensive stylists. Never used anything like that, with the exception of coffee brands using whipped face cream instead of edible cream because it lasts much longer on set and they don’t give a fuck. Brands like McDonalds have learned from being sued, and document the whole process, weighing each ingredient so they can prove it’s real. The reason it looks fake as fuck is that they spend ~30 mins assembling one burger with tweezers and pins and hand-selected pieces of salad etc, syringes to pipe the sauce exactly where they want it etc.

Knitting stuff fron the 50s, glassware from the 60s, and probably a load of crockery/kitchen stuff that is at least 20 years old. My speakers and amps are 80s (although they have new cones) and guitar stuff from around the millennium.

Don’t fucking marry her you idiot.

My 128GB DDR4 Corsair kit went up to like 900

I have a friend in food marketing in the UK, he moved to a new role as head of Protein at the start of the year. The machine is in full force here too.

The craft I’m paying for is in the taking of the photos, processing is subjective and isn’t going to transform a shitty photo into a gorgeous one. Your restaurant comparison is shitty, it would only make sense if I was asking to just plate the food myself.

They were boring because of the lens choice and lack of effort/skill of the photographer. Processing isn’t going to do anything to change that.

I found a guy willing to chuck me RAWs for a lower price, still felt a bit ripped off. He shot 90% of the day on a walkabout zoom and the photos were nothing special.

Zooming with your feet (and switching primes) is part and parcel to events photography. If I see a zoom lens at a wedding I will judge the photographer.

Nice shots but if you’re wanting gorgeous candid shots of fast moving action (like weddings/events), you’re gonna struggle without the expensive glass/body.

Skill issues at play here lol

Can I counter your first point with this?! (sorry about the music)

https://youtube.com/shorts/uoMMJLBVFec?is=KidgxXrW1DP_R5qD

And this:

https://youtube.com/shorts/EzaQNGwnOIQ

‘Sky Puke’ shows are common I get it but there is genuine artistry out there.

Yall saying throw this in at max temp, if its going straight from the freezer and has heavy toppings this is not going to turn out well.

I have had pharmacists refuse to hand over the script after asking a few questions because it turned out the prescribing doctor was actually very incredibly dangerously wrong.

Yes pounds sterling, gambled on the finest American clinical-stage biopharma for that sweet sweet volatility.

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~£50,000 overnight fucking around with meme stocks. Good times. 2021 was a wild year.

Scissii duh

One of the shittest cars I ever owned (Ford Fusion) turned the volume way down when stopped automatically. Should be standard but I’ve never seen it any other car.

I mostly miss the degauss button. And all the free steel balls fron the mice, they were good for milling media.