#I also need to learn how to draw faster just to make more Kris art

[wisefurret]

Krispy Kreme is making new donuts? Krispy Kreme is making new donuts!

Please help the Kris hyperfixation has been going strong for 4 years now I love them so fucking much

[oh-beyond]

Saviour AU - Part 1

He wasn’t rich like the others, he didn’t really fit, but he was part of the group, the rich boys that had investments in one of the biggest companies in the country, they were powerful and handsome and they could get anything the wanted, money had corrupted their every day actions, money that Byun Baekhyun didn’t have, to what extent was he like them?

You were lucky enough to be delivering the coffee every morning, you just wanted to see him, and to see him meant seeing the others too…

You had faith that he was different… just don’t trust him too much he might surprise you, and not in a good way.

Business AU/Angst/Smut in future parts.

Baekhyun x Reader ft. Chanyeol & Lay (Mentions of EXO OT12)

Masterlist

Saviour Masterpost

Part 2 > 

Notorious. The least it could be said about this group of boys. They went to all-boys school near where you lived, it wasn’t a private school, it wasn’t even for rich kids, but everyone knew that they chose to get there to be able to buy their high scores. Other people said that they were in that school because simply they would stand out, in a private school for rich kids they would be just like everyone else, and that is exactly what their families didn’t want for them, teaching them from young age that they were unique and above everyone else.

What drew your attention was that they always were together, sometimes you would be really close to them when their amazing cars with drivers came and collected them from the bus stop near your house. They also visited the convenience store you worked at as a part-timer to get junk. You didn’t know anything about them, just that they were gorgeous, too gorgeous to be just school boys.

They didn’t look the same age, some looked older than you some younger, some were Chinese… All this information you were gathering without really knowing why. Why were you so intrigued? It’s not like you’d ever be able to talk to them.

Your duty was to sweep the floors, those same floors that they stepped on although the yellow sign of ‘wet floor’ was very visible. Rich boys, bratty, sassy, and too unreachable.

One day you were as usual just doing your thing, you heard the Chinese chit-chat behind you, your heart pumped blood faster, they were there, followed by the sound of glass cracking in the floor, you walked to the isle where you distinctively saw the head of the tallest one, there was a broken bottle of soju in the floor, you bowed without making eye contact and lowered yourself to clean it.

“Go get another bottle and let’s go.”

“Guys they won’t sell it to you, you are all underage, why are you like this?”

“Yeah and here comes the wise Lay, Suho hyung said the guy here would sell it to us if we give him a couple more notes.”

“Just go to your father’s office and go wild with all the booze there’s in there.”

“And what will I do? My father is in freaking China, you are lucky, perhaps I should visit Mr. Kim more often in his office.”

“That sounded disturbing LuHan, shut the fuck up and let Kris try and pretend he’s over 18.”

You stood up at all this nonsense, today they were only 8 visiting the store, still intimidating, and what was said about your boss really made your stomach churn. Indeed the tallest one Kris tried buying the alcohol and he didn’t even need to pay extra, he looked old enough, getting a dozen bottles and leaving the store really proud. As you saw them leave you lowered yourself again cleaning the remaining glass cutting your finger in the process.

“Ouch!”

“Are you alright?” the melodic sound of this guy’s cute accent and incredible deep dimples taking your hand looking genuinely worried. So they did make eye contact with peasants, suddenly forgetting about the cut and the blood and everything around you contemplating his incredibly perfect skin.

“I am, I’m alright.”

“Be careful, it’s very sharp, you need help with that?”

“Oh no, please, it’s my job.”

“Yah! Lay, what the fuck are you doing?” asked one of the Korean guys.

“Oh no he is in ‘nice guy’ mode.”

“Maybe she is pretty, let him live.” Teased another one.

The guys waiting for him outside kept mocking him, nevertheless he gave you a tissue before sprinting outside.

“Done?” Asked Kris.

“Do you idiots have a heart even?” Lay was pissed looking anywhere but his friends.

“We are so proud of you gege, now let’s get drunk.”

You watched them walk away happy to have acquired the alcohol being all underage, they were not good kids, but just that Lay guy… he was, you knew he was, so that was enough to get even more attached to these hypnotising boys that all the neighbourhood talked about.

*****

You started really getting too curious. Nothing harmful, you just wanted to see them closely, to know more about them. When you asked your friends at school you were surprised that they all knew about where they hanged out. Most of them were into sports, some more than others and that is when your feet took you to the park on the last Friday of the month, their monthly get together for a session of showing off, it was more of a show than anything else, they loved the attention.

The very tall intimidating looking one Kris was shooting balls at the basket, he had his own fan club of hormonal teenage girls cheering for him along with the guy that was just simply leaning on the basketball pole, doing absolutely nothing but looking like a greek god sculpture. Much paler and shorter, however just as impressive, not sweaty like like the tall one, but his tank top revealed how toned he was. You heard Kris calling him Suho. Every time you learned the name of one of them you got excited. Your feet took you closer to admire them in action and learn more things about them. 

Next to Kris and Suho was a foxy looking tall guy, unique and distinctive, he was stretching before he took a pair of nunchakus that he used like a pro, and wow… was he giving a show or what? 

He was being circled by another boy on a skateboard, he was also tall and was fair skinned like Suho. He had the look of a proper vampire, even his canines stood out as he teased the boy in his martial arts practise, his features sharp and again really intimidating. They were pure work of art, he had broad shoulders that made you wonder how he fitted through doors.

“Move away Sehun-ah.”

“When you learn how to say it properly. Your accent is horrible Taozi.”

“I’m hyung bitch, better than your non-existant Chinese asshole.”

“I’ll call you gege if you say it properly.” Kept teasing Sehun.

“Stop it kids, what’s with you two?”

“Don’t waste your breath Suho, they are just a pair of babies" stated Kris before shooting another ball.

You walked further in the park curious to see the rest, coming to the small football (soccer) pitch. You recognised the cute one from the store immediately. He was way too excited scoring goals, constantly hugging another guy that had eyes like no one did on the face of the planet, was he half feline half human? Impressive to say the least, they were being called LuHan hyung and Xiumin hyung by another 2 boys. One had a beautiful smile cheeky and playful and you heard a few girls commenting about the bright yellow t-shirt he wore to draw attention to him, Chen, the owner of that smile, there was something extremely cheeky about him, apart from being the loudest. The other boy looked plainly scary, his thick eyebrows and his angry yet serene looks gave you the chills, his lips were just too perfect not to give a proper look, D.O was his nickname and he didn’t like to lose to LuHan and Xiumin.

Wondering where the guy with the dimples was, you just had to follow the screams of the excited girls with no life to find out, accurate description of you right now. You’d never ever scream or let these guys affect you too much like the bunch of losers grouped watching them.

But your heart nearly stopped when you saw a sad one sitting on one of the skatepark rails, he was looking at the skateboard he had in hand doing nothing out of the ordinary other that stealing your breath… 

Breathing, yes that is what you needed to do or else you will turn blue.

“Yah Baekhyun-ah! Come on join me.” Exclaimed this tall guy with huge ears dumb looking yet handsome.

“My skateboard is shit, the wheels, they’ll break anytime.”

“Man I told you you can take mine, you are my brother, why do you keep pushing me away? Here take it! It’s not even new, just chill man.”

“I looks expensive, I feel like a burden, you keep doing all the things for me.”

“Of course it’s expensive and you are stupid, just go, come on show me what you’ve got.”

“Really Chanyeol-ah?”

“Yes Baekhyun.”

Baekhyun, Baekhyun, Baekhyun, Baekhyun, Baekhyun… 

The name rang on your ear, you were so close you heard the whole conversation as if you were part of it. This wasn’t your plan, you can’t like any of these guys, firstly you were too young, secondly you were nobody. You’ve seen them so many times yet they never saw you, you were a shadow and now you were drooling watching Baekhyun on the skateboard. He was amazing, his hair was dark brown messy atop of his head, he wore a simple checkered baby blue shirt that was opened a button too much, he wasn’t toned like Kris, Suho or Tao, but he just stole your heart and was stepping on it with that skateboard, your eyes following him…

“Hi!” That melodic voice with the cute accent “you are the girl of the store right?”

“Y-e-s, you remember me?”

“Why wouldn’t I? How is your finger? I’m Zhang Yixing by the way, but they call me Lay, it’s my nickname.” He said offering his hand for a handshake.

You offered your hand shyly, he took it shaking enthusiastically “I’m ___.”

“Nice to meet you ___, I am sorry for what happened last time, the guys are just uncontrollable” he smiled.

“Who is this hyung?” Inquired a gorgeous tan boy coming with his skateboard close to where you were, you thought it would be illegal not to sign him for a modeling compny, just mesmerising.

“Hey Kai, this is ___, she works at the convenience store we always go to.”

“That one were we get all the alcohol? Nice!”

“Yo Kai, give me your skateboard.” voiced Chanyeol.

“Where is yours?”

“Baekhyun has it” Chanyeol approached eyeing you wondering who you were.

“Meet ___, she works at the convenience store.”

“Really? I never saw you there, I must say your store is like heaven, your boss is so cool, can he like adopt me?”

They were too comfortable around you, and you were just panicking in case Baekhyun would join this improvised get together.

“I’m Chanyeol, you are cute.” He offered his hand.

“Easy there man! We just met her.” Interjected Kai.

“Yeah doesn’t change the fact that she is cute,” he turned to you “very cute,” he added caressing your hand with his thumb, you pulled it away.

“Yah, didn’t you want the skateboard? Take it and leave.” Shouted Lay when he saw how uncomfortable you got.

“You should be really thankful that ‘we’ are even considering talking to you, look around you pet. See all them girls loosing their panties to talk to anyone of us?”

Did Chanyeol just say panties? Your heart sank to the floor.

“So smooth hyung, as always, I can’t believe you.” Reproached Kai.

“I am so sorry ___, you see some of us are a bit stupid like Chanyeol here, don’t mind to him, it’s been a pleasure to meet you.” Added Lay.

“I think I’m going to go, I am sorry for intruding.” Your eyes travelled to Baekhyun and the whole world stopped, the other guys talking sounded like ‘blah blah blah’ and at some point you didn’t even see them, it was the sky the earth and Baekhyun.

“Not at all, we will meet again I’m sure.” Said Lay with a comforting smile.

Kai and Lay waived at you while you watched how Baekhyun stood with the skateboard, most probably wondering what was that encounter about. You wanted the ground to swallow you whole as you felt their eyes making holes on your back while to walked. Soon a group of 4 girls came asking a thousand questions about them, you just walked ignoring them, earning yourself some nice insults.

They did come again of course. Regularly, you hid in the toilet every time you saw them from afar approaching the store. You couldn’t, you were too weak. You watched his back from the little gap as you opened the door, he was different, he just made your heart flutter, why him? They all were impressive and the aura they had could make anyone sway, but it was him. Baekhyun, the one that made you sway, and no one else.

Chanyeol visited a few times alone, he would look around as if looking for something, or someone. It wasn’t until that day that he asked for you that it hit you. You sighed in relief when your co-worker told him you were not working, she must of noticed how you avoided him when he came to the store.

What you didn’t plan on was to find Chanyeol outside the store when your shift ended that day.

“Not working? Are you avoiding me?”

You jumped and gasped in surprise turning around to meet his questioning gaze.

“Me? No not at all Chanyeol-ssi.”

“So you remember my name, that’s a good start. Are you probably acting shy? Hard to get?”

“Hard to get?”

“Want to hang out with me sometime? Feel very privileged, girls usually run after me, they do the talking normally… but I… so what do you say?”

“I am 16, I am not allowed to go out, I am sorry.” 

You sprinted but he just chased you with his skateboard as you bumped into Baekhyun, you were chest to chest when you turned around the corner.

This encounter made you even more nervous, you touched him and his face was incredibly close to yours, his knitted eyebrows looking at Chanyeol that came right after you.

“Did you just refuse me?”

You looked at Chanyeol and back at Baekhyun who looked just as pissed.

“Let’s go Chanyeol, don’t get why are you so bothered, she’s nothing.” Said Baekhyun after scoffing.

“No one says no to me.” Chanyeol at this stage was enraged.

“Chanyeol-ahm let’s go.” Suggested Baekhyun patting on his friend’s back leaving you finally breathing out.

And that was the last time you saw or heard of any them, last time you saw of Baekhyun.

You graduated from highschool and moved to the city and that story was a childhood memory .You had a highschool crush with one of the amazing rich boys gang from back home.

Your law carrier was not going to plan, training for over 2 years wasn’t paying the bills. Your parents couldn’t keep supporting you, and at your age you felt ashamed as your dream was to be the provider after college finished. The dreams of a naive girl.

You decided to leave your dreams behind and be realistic, working as a barista wasn’t all bad, it was a job, it earned you money, you enjoyed it a lot and learned the art of it. You introduced the hand dripped coffee that earned you a lot of praising from your boss and your customers.

“Yes our barista ___ made the coffee.” You heard your co-worker say to a customer, you smiled to yourself as you poured the coffee.

“Are you ___?” Asked someone nodding your head working away, “your coffee is magnificent.”

“Thank you!” You said lifting your head from the cup to the customer.

It was none other than the guy nicknamed Xiumin, he looked even more impressive than 10 years ago, his hair shorter styled perfectly with some spikes at the front, wearing a very expensive looking suit, his eyes… same feline looking eyes from highschool years, it was disturbing that you remembered everything about him in such detail. You also recognised the other 2 guys that followed him, Chen that looked sleepy leaning his head on Xiumin’s shoulder, he looked much more built fitting his suit to perfection, his hair styled in a way giving a nice view of his glorious forehead, and the boyish looking LuHan munching on a muffin just as beautiful as 10 years ago.

“Your skills are amazing, would you consider delivering to our company? This is my business card, we will treat you good.”

“That’s for sure.” Said LuHan.

“Can we go now hyung, headache…” Whined Chen.

“Get him a double espresso shot, can you do that precious?” Asked Xiumin.

You dusted your apron and fixed your cap, your first day in this impressive corporation, Kim Minseok gave you the advantage to wonder freely in the last floor, as he said ‘your coffee is like no one else's’ you took pride in that statement and thank the heavens that he was a coffeeholic, this just meant coming more often, you had the faith that Baekhyun will make an appearance.

Before knocking the door to Xiumin’s office you heard your own heartbeats as you swallowed.

“Thank you for considering being part of this Baekhyun, please take a seat.”

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A/N: Thanks for reading, feedback always welcomed ^_^ 

[aniamajewska]

Structure - evaluation

9 June 2021

Final Images

The “Structure” brief, following the name, was an architecture photography project. I had to find an interesting object and take at least five photos, one of which was to be taken with a wide lens to show the entire building, in two photos I had to present the perspective control, and the other three could be more creative and show fragments of the building or interesting details, for example.

Architecture photography is widely known both in art and in commercial work. A very interesting field of photography that I could take a closer look. Even before my studies, I liked to photograph buildings, especially abandoned, old ruins. Somewhere in my head I had a sense of aesthetics and symmetry, which I always tried to capture when composing a photo. Now, when I was about to shoot a project on a topic I know a little bit, it was very nice. I really like to spend my time calmly and not to rush anywhere, so I can fully focus on my work and spend as much time as I need. I don't like when my thoughts are overwhelmed with tons of other things to do in a short time. It completely distracts me. Nevertheless, working on this project was very enjoyable. Planning and research were very important.

First, I chose the V&A Museum in Dundee. I looked at photos on the street on google maps and planned a photo trip based on a few days of following the weather forecast and waiting for my husband's day off, because I did not want to go there alone. The museum was closed that day so I couldn't go in, and I didn't get a permission to use a tripod or a monopod inside or outside the building, so I thought it was a bit of nonsense. I took the photos handheld trying to be as creative as possible in terms of point of view and composition. I wanted to take photos in the evening and use a tripod, but the fear that someone might have some objections, I chose a different time of the day than I actually wanted. I was thinking about going back there.

Unfortunately, I had to waste too much time traveling and I preferred to spend this time on further research for another project. I decided to find another structure somewhere in Glasgow and I spotted Hilton Hotel when driving via M8 motorway. Thought I would go and make photos of this building. I did a quick google maps search for street view pictures and checked the weather. I took photos in the evening before sunset, but the sun went down very quickly, and I didn't get all the photos I wanted but went back there the next day and finished shooting. I chose mid-afternoon as the building has a north face and I was hoping to catch some light then. I didn't use long exposure to create my photos and I regret deeply. I tried to, but it was too bright and unfortunately, I don't have an ND filter that would allow me to shoot long exposure during the day. Now I know that it is worth investing in such glass. I think the effect would be much better. I'm not keen of night photography because of my general health and my body gets cold quickly.

On this project, I was very inspired by Lesley MacGregor, who I met when she was a guest at my college. I immediately liked her person and her individual approach to work as well as the sense of aesthetics and minimalism. The next photographers I found and had the opportunity to learn more about their work while doing my research were Danica O. Kus, Kevin Saint Gray and Julia Anna Gospodarou or Jeanette Hägglund. I draw inspiration from all of them when it comes to an artistic and often abstract approach to architectural photography. The extremely sophisticated points of view and the use of a long exposure time made a great impression on me. As already mentioned, I regret that I did not use this technique myself. I will definitely use it in my next project. I also really liked the photos of Marchand and Meffre, who co-create a series of documentary photos about architecture, often photographing historic, abandoned buildings, such as old theatres in North America. Kris Provoost and Andrew Prokos, Keith Hunter and David Gutierrez specialize in more commercial architectural photography, primarily urban structures and their interiors, designed to be beautiful and functional at the same time. Looking at all these galleries, I couldn't just go to the next ones without looking at all the photos in sequence, so that's why it took a long time to do my research. If something interests and inspires me, it fully absorbs my attention and I enjoy it.

As always, my favourite part of the work, besides taking photos, is post-production. I usually used upright auto-correction of perspective distortion in camera raw, but with these shots, that alone wasn't enough, and I had to learn about other techniques for controlling perspective. I have found that the free transform tool in Photoshop is very good and quite effective, while being easy to use and fast. One of the tasks of this project was to show how the perspective can be controlled. This is another skill in Photoshop that I have acquired, and I am very happy about it. The other thing is working with colours. This was also one of the reasons that I decided to change the object. Hilton Hotel has many windows and glass elements of the facades that could reflect lights and colours of the sky. I thought it may be more interesting and challenging to work with colours matching in post-production. I’m perfectionist and I love to see my images nice and clean, without any distraction in the frame. I put a lot of attention to clean images from dust spots or some stains mainly using clone stamp tool.  

While working on the project, I didn't encounter any particular problems, except that I couldn't use the tripod in Dundee. But I found out, did a web research about the rights and permission that photographers have in a public area. I found out after fact, that I could actually legally use the tripod in a public space, so the lesson learned. A thing that I wasn't aware of in the beginning when I was planning the shots was Sun tracking. At the first time when I was photographing the building, I was there a bit too late and I didn’t catch the light before it disappeared behind the other buildings. I got back there few more times to get the best shots I could. Although I knew where the sun would be, I was not 100% sure that the sky would be a nice clear blue. Twice I didn't have good photos because there were clouds, I was hoping for a glimpse. I've been watching the weather for several days. And once I was early in the morning, but it was foggy, and when it went down, the sun already started to rise and unfortunately couldn’t lit the front of the building nicely because it is surrounded by other tall buildings. I decided to shoot between 6 pm-9pm but I went back there the next day between 8:30 pm-10pm to be sure I wouldn't miss a nice sunset. Maybe the sky looked nice, but the building didn't look good for me. I find myself good with manual camera settings and using a tripod in unusual adjustments to get creative viewpoint. I used low ISO and great depth of field, set aperture at f/22 and I used self-timer of 5 seconds delay on shutter release to avoid camera shake when pressing the shutter button. One image was taken at f/11 and shutter speed 1/125 because I couldn’t use the tripod from this particular point of view, as I was standing on the footbridge over the M8 and the fence was too high for my tripod, so took the image handheld and overhead supporting camera with the fence top barrier. 

I have certainly learned a lot from working on this project including how early architecture photographers like Berenice Abbott or William Henry Fox Talbot, Edward Steichen and Julius Shulman have approached to the subject. Now, perspective control methods are not much different than the old ones. Modern cameras function the same way with tilt and shift lenses that do their job perfectly. In addition, working with digital cameras and modern lenses is much faster and easier when it comes to traveling. As I have already mentioned about, photoshop has tools helpful in perspective control and it is a solution for people who do not have specialised lenses for photographing architecture.

I am quite happy with my photos. I think that I successfully managed to meet the requirements of the brief. I finished it ahead of deadline. My weakness was the rush which caused stress that prevented me from focusing my attention on good planning at the first time. But in fact, it was a good experience for me and I have drawn conclusions on time and I managed to reshoot. I learned how to use sun tracking application and I gained new experience related to navigation. I ordered ND filter for my lens and I will definitely use it in the future works. I believe that both my photos and the work I put into the whole process from pre-production to the final presentations are quite good in overall.