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Cake day: September 18th, 2023

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  • Yeah, 50 is nice until you want to zoom. I’ve found a lot of use with a 70-300 I got cheapish a month or so after getting my first camera but the electronics are becoming less reliable so I’m looking at others in the same range now. Very easy to spend a lot of money but I’ve been having fun with some weird vintage lenses. Got a 500mm soviet one a couple of months ago and that’s surprisingly sharp, I think I spent around £30 on it.















  • Diffuse “daylight” lights can work fairly well, you want around 5600k for a neutral light. You want the whole food to be in focus but having a wide aperture can help lock in the focus to just the food. The rest is composition though and part of that is just rearranging until it feels like it looks good. Oh and i think you’re better off not cutting the plate off like that or being closer, so centering more like you said could help.




  • It was pretty hostile but there was a lot of democratic process and the key thing was the ratcheting up over a good 10 years before they really went for power. They would take small pieces of power and grow their control incrementally until they had too much momentum for any other group to deal with them. Also some groups thought they could use them to their advantage and reign them in when things were sorted. They were getting the highest votes but it was a mixture of a lot of things and they pretty quickly stopped being democratic votes after the first few elections. Lots of propaganda, a large amount of coercion at least initially, some blindness and unforeseen consequences but a decent portion of the population supported the whole thing. At least that’s my understanding.