Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Tumblr Text posts!

Here is one of the most random photos in the world. Tumblr Text posts are famous on every social media. I'd say they're most famous on, of course, Tumblr, and Instagram. Text posts are mostly famous for being funny, and making absolute no sense at all. I'll tell you it was super hard finding a text post photo that was appropriate. Not only are text post funny, but there are a lot of famous ones out there that give you chills, and make you want to be a better person, I guess. A lot of people on tumblr are very weird and aggressively happy. Anyways, whoever might be reading this, I hope this photo made you laugh, and maybe you want to look at more text posts. If you do, I suggest maybe following a text post account on Instagram, or simply find your way to Tumblr.

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Stephen Curry

Here's a photo that I took and edited a while ago.
The guy in the back shooting the ball is not
Steph Curry. Although, he is a basketball player, as you could see. Steph Curry is one of the many people he idolizes on the NBA.

I've made a lot of photos related to basketball and sports, because that's what people are interested in. I use to hate anything to do with sports. But now that I've been hanging out with a lot more active people, I'm bound to at least start getting interested in watching them.

This is a pretty simple photo to edit. I used an iPhone 5c to take the photo, and the app I used was Picsart. All I really do is pick a blur effect then erase the blur to the original to the things I really want people to focus on. First, I had to find a photo of Steph Curry to fit the photo. Then, I made the opacity really low to give it that disappearing or fading effect. With the quote I just picked a font, and made it the colors of Golden State Warriors, the team Steph Curry is on.

This photo sounds pretty simple to make. It was really frustrating to me. I had to restart on the photo about three times because I kept on messing up. Even then It's still not the best. I think the thing that matters is that when it was done, the person I made it for was more than happy. That just made me want to do more better things for other people.

SwizZz

      Here is a photo of one of my absolute favorite rappers. His name is Justin Ritter or best known by his stage name SwizZz. This is a really random post, but I want to talk about him. SwizZz is 28 years old. His birthday is September, 28 1987. He is apart of a record label called Funk Volume. There are other members apart of Funk Volume too, such as Dizzy Wright (artist), Jarren Benton (artist), DJ Hoppa (DJ/music producer), Damien Ritter (co-founder), and the most recognized rapper off of Funk Volume Hopsin (co-founder/rapper).


     All of the rappers on FV are unique in their own ways, and all have a different majority of fans. I like SwizZz because he has a unique flow, and his punchlines, or the final phrase of a joke, song, or story, are probably some of the best in hip-hops history. Although SwizZz does have some singles out there, he has not released an album. When he does, it will be called Rock, Paper, SwizZzors.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Photography

I talk a lot about my family on my blog because they're a huge impact on my life and photography. My mom broke my camera, and I wasn't very upset because she claims that she'll buy me a new camera which never works out. Either way I'm totally fine with it because I still have my phone that I could take and edit photos with. I have an iPhone 5c and the quality of the photos I take with it are surprising good. I say surprisingly good because it's a little phone that could take photos like an ok camera.

Taking photos with an iPhone is pretty good, but you could do things to the photo to make it look like it has higher quality. For example you could probably download any simple free editing app and it'll have brightness, contrast, hue, all that good stuff. What you would be looking for is the sharpness. If you turn the sharpness up more it'll kind of look like you took the photo with and actual camera. Also you could turn the brightness up and make it look all pretty. Whatever looks good to you.

In my opinion editing photos is super fun. Just transforming photos to make them look prettier, or uglier is amazing. You could literally do whatever you want to the photo and no matter what at least someone is going to like it. Even making someone not really your photo is awesome because you're making that person feel an emotion from something you created. Thats the kind of stuff you could benefit from hate.

I've never really had to deal with hate on the photos I take and edit. I just get input from people that I don't really like. They're just telling the truth about the photo. So I can't say anything bad about it. I honestly don't know how I'd react to hate. I'd probably be a little offended at first. Then shake it all off, or at least vent to people. I think if you let hate get to you then that would mean that the person that's hating on you wins, and you don't.

I've been getting comments lately that really help, and motivate me to become more interested in photography. I appreciate it so much. It makes me excited to see what other things I could do with photography. I also just love having other peoples opinion on the things I do. I want to discover other photographers so I could be inspired by them and think of more photo ideas.