You take a vacation and stay at an expensive hotel.
The hotel and service, in your opinion, was horrible.
You write a negative review on a review website.
The owner of the hotel contacts you and offers you a 50% discount if you take the negative review down.
You good?
Is this ethical?
How would you feel knowing that your stay at the hotel, based on favorable reviews, was probably because of this practice?
From: Tourist Retractions
Shooting Mode: Av Aperture: F5.6 ISO: Auto D+ Lens: 200mm Focus: Auto
My Goddaughter went to the Homecoming dance on Saturday with her girlfriends. They all got dressed at 13700 and she asked me to take pictures of them.
I am not a photographer but I can play one on TV since I have groovy camera equipment. I said yeah because I hadn't taken pictures in a while and hey...I couldn't mess it up too much ya know?
Taking pictures with a DSLR camera can be kind of daunting for people who are used to camera phones and point-and-click cameras. This is why a lot of people with fancy cameras tend to shoot in straight auto mode. Nothing is wrong with this...I guess...but just knowing the power your camera wields should make you want to do more with it.
Shooting Mode: Av Aperture: F5.6 ISO: Auto D+ Lens: 200mm Focus: Auto
The main thing I wanted to do with them is take some fun pictures that showed their personalities as well as some pictures that perfect young ladies should take. There are so many duck lip / booty pictures shared by young women online these days that making sure we took some classy pictures was important to me. They've since seen their pictures and I loved the reactions from them.
I took close-ups of each girl, mid-shots of each girl, full body pics of each girl and then small group pics and full group pics (some including their mothers). It was a cloudy and overcast day so that was good. Little known fact by novice photographers is that shooting on a cloudy day is actually ideal. The sun can mess you up man!
Sunset was around 6:30pm so we walked out of the house at 5:45pm for almost perfect lighting.
This is a blooper pic of them almost falling down wearing heels in soft dirt (it rained the night before) on a hill! LOL! Who would take a picture of a group of poor girls about to fall? That would be me! LOL!
So, here are a few tips I've learned along the way by just doing it. I have books and read photography sites but honestly...they are all snobby with the information. They talk to you like you should know other stuff already. They seriously need to know how to explain stuff mo'betta.
There is seriously so much more, of course, but that's pretty much all I did to take these pictures. You can scour Pinterest for different poses and just keep a list of the shots you want to take. Prepare for the super giggles from the girls because they are in super extra awesome mood. LOL! Have fun!!!!!!!
Share your tips too so we can all learn!
Is this you too?
I love watching "Family Feud" with Steve Harvey. He is honestly so perfect in it. I find myself HOWLING with laughter at his facial expressions sometimes. Dude makes me weak.
Then...he does something to remind me, yet again, why I wish a cow would eat him.
Steve Harvey Launches A Site To Help Women 'Become More Dateable'
What say you? You signing up? You know...cuz you're single because you're someone BROKEN.
SIP: Can I have a piece of him? Please?
Me: Not today bruh...not today. *sigh*
To my knowledge, no one I used to date came out of the closet later in life. They went on to marry women and start families. Not everyone can say that with sexuality in the South still being something hidden if you live what they consider an "alternate" lifestyle. I know a couple who were both gay and decided to get married, adopt kids and be a family. They are rumored to have side pieces but it's all uber discreet. "Honey I'm going play racquetball." "Excellent honey! On Saturday I'm going shopping."
If it works for them...not my circus, not my monkeys.
Last night on the Viola Davis show, a young woman in law school found out that her fiance slid swords with one of her classmates when they were 16 at a prep/boarding school they both attended. *BLINK* The way it came out, all in public, outside in the open...would have made me jump crazy right then and there. The first time it came up would have been a resolution to the conversation RAT.THERE. Wouldn't have been no speculation. I would have known EXACTLY what old boy meant when he said, "Looks like we have more in common than we thought."
Here's how that would have gone down with me:
EXT - PORCH OF HOUSE - DAY
Monnie and her fiance are hugging on the porch as her colleagues come out of the house.
MONNIE
Everyone, I'd like you to me my fiance Booty-Boo. He's the governor's lacky.
VIOLA
Be late again and you fail.
CLASSMATE
Booty-Boo! I miss you! Come back to me!
BOOTY-BOO
It sure is nice to see you. Now go 'head on now...
CLASSMATE
Looks like we have more in common than we thought.
MONNIE
What the fug you mean 'bout that? Booty-Boo! What the fug he mean?
BOOTY-BOO
Monnie we can talk about this later. It was nothing.
MONNIE
Oh hell no! You used to be gay? I know your azz didn't! Classmate! What the hell!
CLASSMATE
Yeah...I had your man.
VIOLA
Da hell yall doing? This is unprofessional!
MONNIE
Viola...check yo' wig...I need to handle this shit RAT.NAH! This mofo used to be gay and I have a hoity-toity dress that is the cost of my meal plan for 3 years.
VIOLA
Oh...used-to-be gay huh? Girl...handle that. You gotta be wise about who you marry. I married this White dude who be tipping out and well...
See...couldn't be me. Idda kept his ring, bought me some wine and went to my people and laid low for a minute while he got his ish out my house so my heart didn't break completely to pieces. I'm of the mind that people who are gay are gay. You're not going to be in a relationship with me mad because you couldn't be who you really are. You'll start taking ish out on me that ain't got nothing to do with me. I'd be like, "Honey, you want to go out to eat?" And you're all, "Leave me alone! You're ugly! Do something with yourself!"
*BLINK*
I know someone who married someone who used-to-be-gay. She didn't know and he had to keep coming up with new reasons why he couldn't um...erra...perform. He made her so insecure, she shrunk and became this old mousy looking woman. When it finally came out she was furious he tried to "put that ish on me Ricky Bobby!" She probably still in therapy for the job he did to her.
Like...I know of men who are cheating who pick fights with their wives so they can tip out mad so just imagine.
That said, what would YOU have done in her situation? Could you marry a man who neglected to tell you of a homosexual experience he had and then you found out about? Do you think men can have homosexual experiences and not be gay?
