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I watched a few more videos, read some more reddit /r/photography posts, and generally got some new ideas for things. I've been playing with lighting a little bit and more often I've been getting up at midnight to try new lighting stuff (because it's the best time for staging!). When thinking about what to make the subject of my lighting experiments, I decided that my trusty saxophones should be first up. One, because they deserve it, two, because they sexy. Used my 16-50mm kit lens and prime 50 on the tenor (solid gold) with a couple of freelensing attempts. Just the prime on the baritone (black and gold). I used a battery powered worklight

I usually don't have trouble sitting down and grinding through something if I'm interested in it. However I've been there trying to slog through something and it seems insurmountable from the numbers and lack of motivation. So when it comes to going from a day of shooting (the thing that is, ya know, generally more fun) to processing said photos, I feel it helps to have the right environment. I found my old folder of BGMs from Ragnarok Online the other day. If I had to provide one example for why playing games can be beneficial it's this; grinding at RO has improved my grinding score +5. I put on some classic BGMs, generally places I used to