Exactly. This reminds me a lot of Vegas and Winterrose relationship. And to a point, even Tonk and Ryry. Interesting to see the development
John, I was photographer for decades, 35 mm. I had multiple cameras, multiple lenses, multiple light meters, you name it, the whole nine yards. I shot film like I was drin king water, and each roll had 36 exposures (pictures).
I devoured every book about photography I could get my hands on. If I couldn’t afford to buy it, I would sit in a library or bookstore and read it.
Then came the Internet and the digital revolution. And, while I was still shooting 35 mm film, I was selling digital cameras.
What I’m saying is, I have a little bit more knowledge about photography than your average guy with a smartphone. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just that my history provides me with a much broader background and knowledge base to draw from.
Unfortunately, I’m no longer able to do any of that.
There is a genre of photography known as straight photography. It embodies sharp focus, rich detail, clarity, etc. These are the foundational elements that modern photography was built upon. And with each major improvement in photography came the ability to be a better straight photographer, i.e. better lenses, better cameras, better film, etc.
In straight photography, elements such as form, sharp focus, rich detail, high contrast, and rich tonalities are emphasized. This approach respects the medium’s technical visual language, distinguishing it from other visual arts like painting.
I am a straight photographer, or rather I was a straight photographer.
Obviously, none of us have any control over pre-production on this site, which would be things like the use of and manipulation of the camera and it’s settings, choice of lenses, taking the picture, etc. We have to settle with what these cameras spit out to us, which, I’m sure you’ll agree, is not great in most cases.
So, we’re left with post production to make corrections and improve upon what these cameras give us.
I’ve looked at all the pictures you posted, including the edited one. Now, show me the same courtesy, and examine the three photos I posted above. Then, tell me that the faces in those photos are not the same. And I’m not talking about exposure.
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Well, I guess most of the confusion stems from the fact that her face is heavily distorted in John’s original screenshot to begin with. Her face is at the edge of a picture taken with a wide angle lens. So it’s bent out of shape and diagonally (accounting for how her face is angled in the original picture) elongated.
With your background in photography you’ll know more about how these distortions work than I do. Everybody else just look how towards the edges of VHTV pictures straight lines are not straight lines.
So, her face is quite distorted, only when we look at it in the context of the full wide angle photography, our brains know how to deal with it. But when you take an element for the edge of a wide angle picture and put it in the centre of a less distorted image, we can’t compensate the distortion anymore and something seems just very wrong with her face. The face is just too long and somewhat deformed. That’s why, to be honest, the thing that your composed images first reminded me of was that 1985 Cher movie “Mask”.
p.s. When I edit videos and zoom in zoom in on smaller areas of the VHTV footage, that distortion becomes a problem, too. Sometimes I have to rotate the image by a few degress to make it seem less wrong.
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You’re absolutely right. Wide-angle lenses often exhibit optical distortions. The one you’re referring to is called barrel distortion, where straight lines, especially near the edges of the frame, appear to curve outward. This distortion is inherent to the lens design and is more noticeable around the edges of the frame. It’s a fixed characteristic of the lens.
This particular lens is not that wide, so the distortion is not that great. You can check the straight lines on the right edge of the picture, and even Ricci’s head is straight up and down.
My personal belief, which I’ve communicated to John, is that this is a different girl all together. She looks nothing like the other pictures John has posted since then.
PS You do love your movies.
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Could you tell me if the second round with Kendal, which took place around 8-9 AM, will be added to the archive?
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Jesus Christ man, you’re phenomenal. No words…
Which took place on February 5, 2025, around 8:20 AM.
Let’s hope that it was added and it’s just not released yet 
wow what a woman who 
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By the way she behaves…i dont think she likes sausages!! Lol
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I’m 100% that she does 
That’s her boy
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In fact, they were admiring a sausage on the phone 
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John, can you add some videos of her? she is very hot