you read about the usa 100 years ago and you go "damn it sounds like getting attacked by wild dogs was like a coming of age thing- a sort of tragedy that befell the old masters, that necessitated a whole profession around catching and preventing the formation of roving dog packs, what happened to us as a country? why don't i ever get attacked by wild dogs like the artists whose work so inspires me?" and then it happens to you and you go "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh I See"

ella the catgirl, alley cat with unknown outdoor cat, spinach, orange creamsicle, a statue, a drawing, squimbleshanks, and topaz

dramatic life

you know the drill

very much leaning in to the artifacts that retinex and local contrast boosting can create. To Heighten The Fear.

i am Enjoying having access to a tripod finally.
30 sec exposures, experimenting with turning on and off phone screens for face lighting. shout out to my friends for being way more creative with that concept than i was initially even thinking

perfecting the in camera settings for this.
the front dial controls the digital filter (bound to toy camera, Color [saturation], high contrast, and vignette),
custom image is set to cross process,
jpeg quality set to 6MP,
"highlight correction" on (helps control the extreme color posterization that can happen around highlights with these setting [still does happen which is fun, just not as dominantly])