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Michelle has a little problem with love... Will she learn to love some day? :)
Michelle is a Feeple60 Nanuri mod from Fairyland.
Thinking big is the beginning of living big. It is the first step on the way to our goals. There might be times when people will tell you that you need to lower your expectations. But that is just because they live a mediocre life. So, don't listen to such naysayers. Listen to your dreams. Thinking big: Learn more. Do more. Become more: ift.tt/1k6ute2
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Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~Henry David Thoreau.
Let's walk..........
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" THINKING PLACE "
I've always loved doing miniature images, but never posted any because I wasn't that great at pulling them off. With my time being pretty empty over the last few months, I've had ample time to sink into photography, photoshop and education. I'm really into composites and the endless opportunities they can provide in photography, so I really want to get better with them. I still need quite a bit of work, and more knowledge, but I think I pulled this one off pretty well... let me tell you... it's a lot of work to get the lighting and angles right.
Shutter Click.
I discovered this Quick Curl Skipper in my horde of doll stuff. Had to give her a Growing Up Skipper Body because that’s what I had. I poured hot water over her matted hair to detangle it. Now I’m thinking of rerooting her and giving her bangs. This hair is not that great. Thoughts?
This is one of the many subway scenes I've shot with my iPhone....
I thought it was an interesting photo, and I gave it three stars in my Aperture rating system. But not five stars, so it never did get uploaded as a "public" Flickr photo.
Note: shortly after I uploaded this photo, several Flickr friends "faved" it; so I've changed the photo's status to "public."
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Whether you’re an amateur or professional photographer, it’s hard to walk around with a modern smartphone in your pocket, and not be tempted to use the built-in camera from time-to-time. Veteran photographers typically sneer at such behavior, and most will tell you that they can instantly recognize an iPhone photo, which they mentally reject as being unworthy of any serious attention.
After using many earlier models of smartphones over the past several years, I was inclined to agree; after all, I always (well, almost always) had a “real” camera in my pocket (or backpack or camera-bag), and it was always capable of taking a much better photographic image than the mediocre, grainy images shot with a camera-phone.
But still … there were a few occasions when I desperately wanted to capture some photo-worthy event taking place right in front of me, and inevitably it turned out to be the times when I did not have the “real” camera with me. Or I did have it, but it was buried somewhere in a bag, and I knew that the “event” would have disappeared by the time I found the “real" camera and turned it on. By contrast, the smart-phone was always in my pocket (along with my keys and my wallet, it’s one of the three things I consciously grab every time I walk out the door). And I often found that I could turn it on, point it at the photographic scene, and take the picture much faster than I could do the same thing with a “traditional” camera.
Meanwhile, smartphone cameras have gotten substantially better in the past few years, from a mechanical/hardware perspective; and the software “intelligence” controlling the camera has become amazingly sophisticated. It’s still not on the same level as a “professional” DSLR camera, but for a large majority of the “average” photographic situations we’re likely to encounter in the unplanned moments of our lives, it’s more and more likely to be “good enough.” The old adage of “the best camera is the one you have with you” is more and more relevant these days. For me, 90% of the success in taking a good photo is simply being in the right place at the right time, being aware that the “photo opportunity” is there, and having a camera — any camera — to take advantage of that opportunity. Only 10% of the time does it matter which camera I’m using, or what technical features I’ve managed to use.
And now, with the recent advent of the iPhone5s, there is one more improvement — which, as far as I can tell, simply does not exist in any of the “professional” cameras. You can take an unlimited number of “burst-mode” shots with the new iPhone, simply by keeping your finger on the shutter button; instead of being limited to just six (as a few of the DSLR cameras currently offer), you can take 10, 20, or even a hundred shots. And then — almost magically — the iPhone will show you which one or two of the large burst of photos was optimally sharp and clear. With a couple of clicks, you can then delete everything else, and retain only the very best one or two from the entire burst.
With that in mind, I’ve begun using my iPhone5s for more and more “everyday” photo situations out on the street. Since I’m typically photographing ordinary, mundane events, even the one or two “optimal” shots that the camera-phone retains might not be worth showing anyone else … so there is still a lot of pruning and editing to be done, and I’m lucky if 10% of those “optimal” shots are good enough to justify uploading to Flickr and sharing with the rest of the world. Still, it’s an enormous benefit to know that my editing work can begin with photos that are more-or-less “technically” adequate, and that I don’t have to waste even a second reviewing dozens of technically-mediocre shots that are fuzzy, or blurred.
Oh, yeah, one other minor benefit of the iPhone5s (and presumably most other current brands of smartphone): it automatically geotags every photo and video, without any special effort on the photographer’s part. Only one of my other big, fat cameras (the Sony Alpha SLT A65) has that feature, and I’ve noticed that almost none of the “new” mirrorless cameras have got a built-in GPS thingy that will perform the geotagging...
I’ve had my iPhone5s for a couple of months now, but I’ve only been using the “burst-mode” photography feature aggressively for the past couple of weeks. As a result, the initial batch of photos that I’m uploading are all taken in the greater-NYC area. But as time goes on, and as my normal travel routine takes me to other parts of the world, I hope to add more and more “everyday” scenes in cities that I might not have the opportunity to photograph in a “serious” way.
Stay tuned….
Well, this is my Gatling Gun. And I have been tagged several times. So, uh, here we go
1. I am thinking of making a LEGO American Civil War group.
2. I have no friends on Flickr that are my friends out of the internet.
3. I have met Badger
4. I have 4 protos.
5. I am a 1st Class in Boy Scouts
6. I used to play hockey.
7. I am half Mexican, but I am pretty white.
8. Ich bin ein viertel Deutsch.
9. My favorite animal is a penguin.
10. I have 5 chickens, 2 buttonquail, 1 dog, several fish, 1 rabbit, and 1 cockatiel.
I will be needing people to help with my group. I will need someone to be incharge of contests as I am not able to host them. I will judge. Let me know if you can help.
What are you
really thinking
about just now?
Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt have lots of tips to break those creativity blocks in Oblique Strategies, one of which is represented here.
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