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>>23137068
You still have some options anon, hang in there. Depending on what time you get off, you could skip out after work to snap a few in the early morning/afternoon before sleeping. Alternatively, if you get actual time off at any point you could stay up 'till sunrise then and get some photos. If you have the fortitude to deal with it, you can do what I've done to snap my sleep schedule from day to night and just pull a 24/36 hour day so you get the chance to take care of the daylight activities (I wish every business was 24 hours while simultaneously not wanting to damn more people to third shift hell.)

For night photos, you'll need a few things- a tripod of some kind is going to be essential to prevent things being blurry, but if you're broke as hell (same) you can use a bag of beans or rice and a 10 dollar cable release from amazon so you can trigger the camera shutter without touching it (which will move it slightly, and introduce blur.) Set the shutter speed to a slow value (upwards of a second depending on how dark it is, and don't be afraid to tweak the settings until you get things how you want. Basically, the slower the camera shutter fires, the more light the sensor takes in, and so a slow, stable camera is usually the best tool for trying to take photos at night. (Also if there's a streetlight around, you'll probably have to do some color correcting because in my experience they make everything orangey.)

You could also invest in a flash (or a portable ring light if those exist?) to light things up, or do some cool things with a slow camera and light trails, if you wanted, and while I talk about cameras, there are probably similar tools for phone photographers; certainly tripods exist.

Night can be a pain in the ass to work around, but it also has its own opportunities to be creative. Sometimes the photos still don't work out how you wanted, but there's still value in trying to take them anyway! Your next photos will be better for the times you've tried before. You can make it happen, just maybe not in the way you'd expect. It doesn't hurt to try! Do what makes you happy, anon -- and if it takes a while to get there because working literally drains the life out of you, that's okay too. Sometimes just being alive is all we can do. Your dolls aren't going anywhere. Take all the time you need.

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Sex dolls and other topics are better served in /ona/