u/diegodan1893

It's the same zoomed in photos everyone else took, but I'm still happy I can say I took these.

Seeing totality in real life was such an amazing experience, and I was surprised at how red-orange the sun looked, I guess because it was near sunset, so I tried to reflect those colors in the white balance I used when post-processing these photos.

Taken from Embalse del Ebro in Cantabria, Spain.

EDIT: Wow, compression killed these. Here are links to the same photos on Twitter in higher quality:

• https://x.com/diegodan1893/status/2089727164090360115?s=20
• https://x.com/diegodan1893/status/2089725048458182662?s=20
• https://x.com/diegodan1893/status/2089725488583324138?s=20
• https://x.com/diegodan1893/status/2089726283882131724?s=20
• https://x.com/diegodan1893/status/2089726665647595754?s=20

Hatsune Miku Fashion Series - Outdoor by Taito. Based on an illustration of the great Ogipote.

For some reason, as soon as I unboxed it, my brain started screaming "yellow background!"

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The bird is from the pop-up book “Encyclopedia Prehistorica” by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart.

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It is a composite of two photos and I cheated a little bit with perspective, but it is less edited than you might think.

This is an old film camera. When the back is open and you press the shutter, you can see what's behind the camera through the lens. The image appears flipped both horizontally and vertically, so if I wanted the figure to be right-side up through the lens, the figure itself had to be upside-down. With that in mind, I thought it would be really cute if it looked like she had climbed onto the camera and then looked down through the lens from above. The problem is she is wearing a skirt, so I spent a lot of time trying to get her in a position that didn't look too lewd. It might not look like it, but she was quite stable in this position, since the hair acts as a support.

Once she was in place, I opened the shutter and I could already see her face thorough the lens. However, she was half a centimeter too short and wasn't completely centered. If I lowered her body to center the head, the camera started obscuring her too much and it was less obvious that the figure was on top of the camera. I was already forced to combine two photos, since opening the shutter requires me to hold the shutter button, and I didn't want my hand in the final image, so I decided to move her a little bit in the second photo so that the body was visible and the face in the correct position.

Other than that, the image you see through the lens is completely real.

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