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💕OC Kiss Week💕

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My last drawing for #ockiss25 !

Elsa ( @eatingyarn ‘s Oc) and Vassilyssa having… a moment 😳 🙈

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I'm obsessed with characters we only hear about second or third hand, especially when those accounts are conflicting. No, you don't get to see them, but here's a warped mirror of what other people thought they were. Enjoy your contemplation of how being known is an act of translation and communicates only aspects of the self.

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All right, so based on the last ask I received, here is the poll. 😈

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this gif is fucking frying me

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first dance 🌟 my half of an art trade with @/tidunas on insta!

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— 6:59 AM by Shane Koyczan

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Erenville’s photographic style would be deadpan, meaning his photographs(aetherographs???) are straight forward depictions of the subject. The subject Is the beauty, the artistry, and he is simply capturing it with the tools at hand.

He focuses on details and large value ranges to capture the detail and texture of shadows. Think about photographing the shaded face of a deep red rocky cliff, and the darker shadows cast by the rocks jutting out in every direction. Or the light spots of a frog or cactaur and the highlights of the sun on them.

So he shoots in a greater DOF most of the time (greater DOF = more things in more detail, and an overall sharper image, usual for most landscape photography), probably uses a standard 24-70 mm lens, which means it’s adaptable, but can’t get the good, close up shots of wildlife. I wonder if he’d have a secondary lens, maybe a macro lens, to capture smaller things at a sharper detail, but I’m not sure how often he’d travel with it.

If he tries to take an aetherograph of a frog with a 24-70 mm lens, be can do it, he can zoom in and capture a decent photo, but it wouldn’t be a Close shot, and shooting a subject that potentially small with a standard lens will have a forced narrow DOF, so the entire frog wouldn’t be in focus. Not a problem in of itself, but not the desired outcome if the goal of goL photography is sharpness and detail.

I’m officially thinking too hard about this.

What if I just headcanoned Erenville as a wildlife/landscape photographer…………… an aetherographer…… yes……

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4 shades of blue captured in a single image in Antarctica

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Why is my first suggested tag “eren/ville”

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I understand why people see venats “no more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. henceforth, he shall walk.” as a #hardship breeds character #ease is bad statement but to me in the context of endwalker and in the context of Hermes’ whole deal it was more to me a “you are so fixated on heaven you think earth is a misery. I’m overturning the fast lane you are trying to pave to heaven. Everyone is taking the scenic route”

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Oh my god I just saw this addition. I love that so much! Just like irl, colored analog photography is harder to work with than b/w because it needs to be exposed under special light.

I love this so much, and I think it’s fun to consider like…. a color bleed being indicative of an artist’s style too.

Several of the buildings in Shaaloani have black and white photographs on the walls. I don't think we've seen photography before in FFXIV? Holography, sure, but not chemical based photography.

Do we get any sidequests or other info about this? Haven't had a lot of time to do sidequests yet (argh). I'm really interested to know if my WoL can be lugging about a camera, tripod, glass plates, and volatile chemicals so she can try to send photos back home.

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Actually I want to add too @anneapocalypse pointing out that this technology readily exists in Garlemald, Sharlayan, and alchemy. If you have lenses and boxes and light sensitive film you have cameras and photography.

Alexandria also has digital photography (their advertisements showcase models), but digital photography is out of reach for most of the world, and who knows if digital photography can exist outside of Alexandria (I’m thinking… not in any wide spread way).

But the recent camera emote is importantly a polaroid camera, and analog photography has been happening for centuries.

Anyway I have no conclusion to this. I’m just excited!!

Several of the buildings in Shaaloani have black and white photographs on the walls. I don't think we've seen photography before in FFXIV? Holography, sure, but not chemical based photography.

Do we get any sidequests or other info about this? Haven't had a lot of time to do sidequests yet (argh). I'm really interested to know if my WoL can be lugging about a camera, tripod, glass plates, and volatile chemicals so she can try to send photos back home.

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I get why the camera emote feels anachronistic or immersion-breaking to some people, but for me, who thinks about things like "where textiles come from" in fantasy worlds, that horse left the barn a looooong time ago in FFXIV. 😂

In this game it is pretty clear that "fun to gpose with" is and always will be the most compelling reason the devs will put something in the game, and you can either a) come up with reasons why these things exist (vastly differing levels of technology between different regions, magic, visitors from other worlds, etc), b) decide that the things that don't makes sense to you aren't canon, or c) just not worry about.

I fall somewhere between A and C; if it matters to something I'm writing, I can come up with a reason why it exists, and if it doesn't, I'm not worrying about it. In FFXIV I have a low bar for immersion and that works for me. Even something like wacky character names for me falls under "adventurers like to use weird names."

Not long ago I was asking whether cameras existed in this universe, and now the game has said, "Yup," and I'm rolling with that. Given how common telescopes and other lens-based technology is I honestly don't see any reason why cameras couldn't exist. I could absolutely see Sharlayan having invented them. And in fact I'd almost say Garlemald has to have camera technology with the functionality of their magitek, not to mention the suits of armor with helmets that literally don't have eyeholes. While some parts of this world borrow the aesthetics of medieval European fantasy, it isn't medieval European fantasy, not even really in ARR and HW. Cameras in this world isn't a reach to me.

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What if I just headcanoned Erenville as a wildlife/landscape photographer…………… an aetherographer…… yes……

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oh my god i forgot about this for three(!?) weeks choose your own art

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oh my god i forgot about this for three(!?) weeks choose your own art