#camera nerding

[oldafcameras]

The Legend of Korra has TERRIBLE animated cameras. Screenshots taken from season 1 episode 9, Out Of The Past.

Here we clearly see someone with a 4x5 bellows camera. I'll give them credit for the flash, which is accurate if a tad early for when the setting is calling back to. Since it's fantasy, they can do what the want. What they CANNOT do, is clearly show a plate camera and treat it like it's digital. The way he's holding it he's looking at the blank plate holder. And he's exposed that same plate about five times in this short scene.

This one straight up implies this camera is an SLR. For those of you who just had a moment of 'Huh??', an SLR is the kind of camera where you can see if your image is in focus before you take the picture. DSLRs are a digital version of that, and most younger film cameras are SLRs, the analog version. A plate camera, like this one, relies on a rangefinder if it has something at all. Having used similar cameras, they typically require you to hold the camera at your waist or chest and look into a small mirror mounted on top of the lens.

This is a plate camera. (This is actually likely the style or model they were referencing) They are essentially the high resolution cameras of the film world, they take pictures on metal plates of varying sizes, but the standard is 4 inches by 5 inches. If you think of those old cameras with a cloth covering your head, that's the kind of camera we're talking about.

'But Jack', I hear you ask, 'those cameras had a viewfinder on the back that showed if the subject was in focus!'

I answer you that that was for a very specific reason: the lens on those cameras operated differently than the one this camera is harkening back to. I'll save the explanation but know that this is a different kind of camera.

In short: Legend of Korra, for as much as I love it, gets a D in Vintage Camera Portrayal.

[xoxo-ren-xoxo]

'omg mumbo is kinda buff and athletic in real life?? but he's such a nerd!' i hate to say it but this is just a description of every professional cinematographer ever

[ollycohens]

oh no you guys. i’m going to spew things i’ve realized while rewatching umbrella academy. I’m realizing were all being too sucked into fanon things after being stuck without canon content for so long. We have convinced ourselves Five acts like a mean mean dude to everyone but rewatching, i’ve realized he’s only stressed and is saying things out of panicked anger, especially in s1 with the apocalypse dooming over them. he acts soft to his siblings multiple times, he’s really not as mean as we write him in fanfiction. he is a little crap though, that’s for sure, and i love him for that <3

also realizing that the siblings don’t hate five. they just literally don’t know him at all. he came back a completely different person after 17 years for the siblings, they don’t know five, he’s a stranger so of course they’re gonna be cold to him. it’s like, “i don’t know you well, but you’re always going to be my brother in the end”.

ALSO. for those who ship some of the siblings, uhm… i’ve seen a lot of you guys try to prove that they don’t see eachother as siblings and more like academy students, but they very much say in just about every episode that they see eachother as siblings. they don’t actually SAY that word by word but they say things like “she’s our sister”, or “our dad”. if they say OUR dad… bro. i’m not even going to continue, you can put it together yourself. But, i do realize why people ship the siblings. I am not defending incest shippers but with umbrella academy i can see why people have resorted to it. only 3 of the characters in the main sibling cast has romantic partners. people like shipping people, people love writing romantic relationships, but with only diego/lila, dave/klaus, and sissy/viktor, (i’m not going to count five/dolores for now) people are desperate with the need to ship the rest of the siblings with someone, and since there are only a few actual canon characters in the show that interact with our main 7, people start shipping them together… yikes. anywho, that’s all for that peice. i blame the show writers as well for shipping luther/allison, they did not have to do that, but i’m hoping it was only to convey the severity of what childhood trauma does to people.

ALSO THIS HERE SHOOK ME. I actually think Reginald cares for the siblings. i hate to say it, but it’s true. caring for them does not mean being good, though. he was a horrible father, and person, but he genuinely did care for the siblings, in a like, “being the best is the best thing for you, i will make you better, for your sake, even if you don’t know it now, you will see that i am right” kind of way.

also why has NOBODY MENTIONED THIS. in season 2 when diego first reunites with five in the asylum, while he’s walking into the visitors room, he’s staring at five with this heartfelt, soft look, and then says “five…” in the most soft spoken voice ever 😭 your honor i love them

ALSO UGHHH THIS. IM GOING TO FREAK OUT ABOUT CAMERAWORK AND METAPHORS HERE SO BARE WITH ME. we as a fandom complain about the lack of flashbacks five has due to his ptsd. we’ve seen his first flashback since getting back to his family in s1 during the van scene when he gets triggered by those kids playing and starts thinking about his own childhood, i’m guessing. i ate that scene up, and was sad to see that be one of the only deeply vulnerable scenes he has in the season, and during my first watch i thought they’d never bring it back up. but they do!! i may be stupid for not realizing but whatever. in season 2, when five is trying to explain at elliot’s with all his siblings around that another apocalypse is coming, everyone starts talking about each other. as someone who studies film and camerawork, i love this scene. we see the camera focus on five as it slowly zooms in. it doesn’t switch scenes at all as the siblings voices overlap and echo over eachother. this whole scene conveys him getting overwhelmed and he starts to zone out, starting to think of the nuclear war he saw his siblings in. the scenes of the war start quickly switching through, showing many different scenes of it before it switches back to five, who says “guys, you all die. i want to forget it but i can’t” which just UGH its so well done there. if you think about it, he was starting to slip into another flashback. he was triggered by talking about their deaths in the war but was handling it well until the siblings started fighting, where we see the overlapping voices happen. it portrays him losing control and being unable to pull it back together with too much going on for him to focus on grounding himself. we DO however, see that five was able to pull himself out before he fell too deep into the flashback. i love how they show this through them still having the scene showing the war, but then fives voice starts talking over the scene which is still focusing on the war as if he was pushing it back and forcing himself to come back to the present.

thank you for reading if you’ve made it this far, i will continue to freak out another time <3

[nnikoneko]

He is petty enough to do this every year with more and more glee i truly believe

[hello-god-its-me-sara]

I think Peter’s a camera nerd, I like when he’s actually into photography and not just taking selfies for the bugle

I like the idea of Harry being a little shit and hiring Peter for OsCorp press shoots and other stuff like that

I like the idea that Peter has a standard Nikon or Cannon (or both) and that the dork saves up for lenses and that Harry will buy him camera stuff as gifts

I like it when he has an Instagram just for his pictures bc of course he does

I like the idea that he just loves taking pictures of everything and Harry loves it and thinks it’s adorable that Peter has a million picture of park squirrels and wood stumps because they’re just so interesting to photograph Harry

And he loves his DCLRs but he’s also a pretentious film nerd

Just

✨Peter and cameras✨

[maypersonne]

I think that Shen Yuan should looks painfully average like some guy in your class that you couldn't recognize out of it cause he's so nothing but Binghe is crazy head over heels about him and the thing wrong with him (everything) makes him genuinely believe that sy is the most beautiful man alive

[nouns-are-bad]

09 soap would absolutely be able to take 22 ghost in a fight and would be evenly matched

09 ghost and 22 soap would watch their counterparts fight and take bets while eating popcorn

[frnkiebby]

i really want to see the pics~🎃

[skhardwarevers1]

everyone SHUTJRBRFUCK UP I am admiring the music video (I fucking. Love videos so much) I don’t know a single word of that song but it goes so hard. This I know. GGEHSHD MV

[frunbuns]

Obsessed w the way they lit Henry in this scene. It's all so soft, and warm, and cozy, and almost dream-like, not to mention that backlighting is so flattering. And the way it lights his hair like he's got this halo as if he's some kind of angel from above. They didn't have to go that hard, but they did. It keeps me up at night.

[livingfast04]

Au where Steve and Eddie buy their first house- no longer renters actually buy it. It's a great little place, pretty cheap. Needs some Love. It's a four bed room three and a half bathrooms. No upstairs because Steve's not great with Stairs. It's on like at least 3 acers of land. It's not very big despite the amount of rooms- perfect for them. They don't realize until afterwards that, they also inherit a Feral Cat Colony.

That's it- that's the whole au- Just Steve and Eddie taking care of a Feral Cat colony. They name all of them- and take in Kittens to be fostered and adopted. They get all of them their shots. They take the older cats to get fixed as well.

It does piss Eddie off when people start dumping their unwanted cats on the property- not because he and Steve don't want more cats (or can't pay to take care of them) because one- it's so incredibly irresponsible take them to the Shelter!! Or knock on their fucking door. And, not only that- It upsets Steve, a lot. People just abandoning living creatures is a very sore spot for his Beloved, and Eddie will not stand for it.

The older cats that are super friendly in the Colony eventually make their way into living in the house.

(They also own a bookshop in town that has shop cats-)

[liesofasilvertongue]

The trend of Z covering his face when he’s experiencing overwhelming emotions continues.

[tyra-atm]

👿🔙🔛🔝

[secondlifep]

Lunch and a short walk at the peninsula ...

[entropyvoid]

Headcanon that Alhaitham can’t do math for shit. Man may be smart, but his specialty’s linguistics for a reason. Kaveh, who can do complex architectural calculations in his head in a split second, figures this out and starts throwing random equations at Alhaitham to annoy him. They start out complicated, but eventually Kaveh starts to suspect that Alhaitham deflects his questions to avoid the embarassment of not being able yo do it quickly, and starts dumbing them down to gauge just how bad he is at it. But he’s never completely sure that Alhaitham isn’t just throwing things back at him to be a dick.

“Hey Alhaitham, what’s six times sixteen?”

“How much was the rent last month, Kaveh?”

Or

“Hey Alhaitham, what’s nine plus three?”

“I don’t know Kaveh, how many drinks did you have last night? Because you sure didn’t pay for them.”

[jtl-fics]

12-27-23 WIP Wednesday

WIP Wednesday Again Folks!!

Here's how it works:

Send me an ask with any of the options below and I will write a snippet of that fic.

You can send multiple requests (but don't be going crazy and request like 5 of the same haha)

Here is what I have on offer this week:

1. Math Nerd AU

2. New Kings AU

3. Foxhole Bake AU

4. Smalls AU (Part one) (Part two)

5. Pretty Boy

On a Cruise ship this week due to my long held belief that the week between Christmas and New Years should be spent being a lazy piece of shit.

Check out 12/13/23's Round-up: HERE