Braden Nesin

Braden Nesin

@hellapositivepinup.com

Photographer of butts, mostly http://hellapositivepinup.com This is an anti-ICE account

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Braden Nesin
@hellapositivepinup.com

It was never easy for me to make a living as an artist, but for most of my career at least, it's been easy to get gigs, albeit low paying ones. Now even offering sliding scale while being at the top of my game it's like pulling teeth, people like my work but aren't buying it or shoots for themselves

Braden Nesin
@hellapositivepinup.com

I have long felt my job a good bellweather for the economy, because it's something people can easily live without, so only people with disposable income hire me. Most of my clients are poor or middle class, and right now there isn't a lot of disposable income to go around anywhere below the top 10%

Braden Nesin
@hellapositivepinup.com

All that to say while I know all signs are pointing towards things getting worse, I really hope they get better instead, I really like being an artist and I really wanna keep doing it

Braden Nesin
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Finally back in the darkroom, dialing in some test prints. 5x7 paper is about $1.25 a sheet but still big enough to do a proper assessment for an 8x10 print (I hate "test strips") and way cheaper than the ~$3/sheet that 8x10 costs.

Braden Nesin
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I vastly prefer split filter printing, but that requires a lot more dialing in vs using a single contrast grade. Basically, I expose the paper first with the 0 filter to set the highlight detail where I want it, then I use a 5 filter to crisp up the blacks.

Braden Nesin
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I tried it a few different ways, you can see my settings on the whiteboard, but it's hard to fully assess a wet print, so now I'm going to let them dry and then decide which looks best, or if I need to try again. Then I can fire off a run of final prints at 8x10, so look for that post tomorrow!

Braden Nesin
@hellapositivepinup.com

The washing machine that was left behind by the previous owner was leaky and shitty and then it died, so we bit the bullet and got a big ol' combo washer/dryer, and fuck what a quality of life upgrade for someone with ADHD, highly recommend

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emi gennis
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obviously many more important takeaways from the French approach to protest, but much respect to the absolute varsity level Whimsy of throwing a whole ass piano at the cops

Braden Nesin
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Man the ADHD is kicking my ass but I told myself on Thursday that I was taking the weekend off of work anyway. Just feels like there's so much to do and every five minutes something else pops into my head. Tomorrow I'm gonna pop an Adderall, but for now I think a Lego kit and an audiobook

Braden Nesin
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Been playing through Harold Halibut and uh, it's really not living up to the hype. Clunky, weirdly paced, and everyone is mean to Harold for no reason, which just isn't my sense of humor, I find it incredibly frustrating. Halfway through now and it's short enough I'll finish it, but dang

Braden Nesin
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Spent a few hours today cleaning the darkroom and organizing prints. Tomorrow I'll digitize a bunch and then get back into printing more regularly I hope.

Braden Nesin
@hellapositivepinup.com

Decided on a whim to whip up some fresh salsa: local tomatoes, a couple shallots, fresh oregano, thyme, cilantro, garlic, and lime, some black garlic I had lying around, a couple chipotles in adobo, a dried ancho, and some freshly toasted cumin and smoked black pepper. Gonna be even better tomorrow

Braden Nesin
@hellapositivepinup.com

Finally made some progress on updating my portfolio, hopefully I'll finish Phase 1 this week and then I can get cheap 4x6s printed of everything so I can work on sequencing for Phase 2. Haven't done this since 2019 whoooops