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Santa Monica Sunset

🕑 Added 2017-12-11 05:53:49 +0000 UTC

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QTori

I really wanted to add in bokeh! But I thought I was already overdoing it with a lot of the camera effects, since I didnt want to stray too much attention from the main focus point of the piece :P I use to go overboard when I first experimented with it so Im turning it down a little. The drinks and food were highly requested on it was part of the pitch for the commission in the first place hahaha. Glad you love it!

Ah, this is gorgeous. I really love the way you initiated this being a picture taken from a camera - the lighting with the foreground a step or two under exposed but the sky exposed properly really makes this look like it just came right out of a camera shot on a lense without a proper circular polarizer, and of course the very obvious shallow soft focus. I'm a slut for bokeh and I don't really see any but the blur still sells the effect to some level. And then little details like the drinks and the mostly-eaten food makes this feel really lived-in, like they were just shooting the shit for a while like two casual playful girlfriends and then one of them decided mercurially to go in for a kiss, and who would reject a kiss in a time like this?

QTori

Exactly what I was going for! Just realized that Patreon is compressing my uploads this whole time, I'm going to be adding a full res version as a file attachment and add a bonus :)