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sealrock · 14 hours ago

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febhyurary, day 5: color

23rd sun of the 2nd umbral moon, 1547

my pet project with a colored aethograph, or what I like to call an 'aethochrome', with aetherically enhanced ink to capture colors. featuring my friend and classmate, elaine tatlonghari. taken early morning, with a waxing crescent moon in the background. I accidentally mixed in too much red during the process, and it gives the impression that it's still autumn. —W.J.

#febhyurary #febhyurary2025 #ffxivsnaps #gposers #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv oc #hyur #mygposes.#'cid who's w.j.?' don't worry about it (really it's just a random initial i came up with lol)#but yea idk about this one. i pulled an outtake shot i did showing off elaine's college haircut for this #but whatever it's not a big deal #i like to think this w.j. person invented color photography since garlemald still uses the monochrome technique #though with it came new problems: monochrome aethography doesn't have the same issues as color aethography #in garlemald developing aethographs in b&w/sepia is less expensive and you're only working with /at most/ 3-6 shades of gray #the common man had no need for colors as it was a form of self-expression that was frowned upon #whereas color (painting or aethograph) was typically reserved for the royal family to show the emperor in all his vigor #while the garleans have had aethographs since before the empire began (it's one of the few devices that doesn't need ceruleum to function #and only needs a basic understanding of chemistry to operate. think about those old box cameras with the curtain & flash powder)#eorzea is still catching up to the technology like aethographs/printers/linkpearls #anyway enough loredumping sorrysorry #fun fact: there was no moon in the original gpose. i was fooling around with the texture in ps and set it to 'color dodge'#it was so swag i had to keep it

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