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I have been wanting to learn more about photography, but as you guys now know or may not know, I lack commitment and motivation. Tonight was different though! I got home from a wonderful day out and even though I did not want to, I set up my lights and my camera. I use a Nikon d3300 and just some studio lights I bought about three years ago. So I get home and start Youtubing ” how to take self portraits” and then luckily for me my favorite Youtubers popped up, Mango street! Surprisingly enough their “how to” was one of the few videos of theirs I hadn’t watched. If you are like me and have no idea what you are doing but want to learn, they are the channel for you. They are incredible photographers and videographers. Everything they put up is so aesthetically pleasing to my eyeballs and not to mention they are super funny. I’ll leave their channel and Instagram down bellow!

Tid bit fact about me, I have no patience. Ask anyone who knows me in the slightest. If it involves a lot of effort or a lot of time to figure out you can just see the look of irritation and frustration appear on my face. I know it is childish but that’s who I am, but, in my defense I’m trying to change that.

Once I have everything set up I begin to tinker. I start off with just putting the camera on portrait mode. You know, the camera does all the work for me and I imagined the photos would come out decent. I was wrong and after about ten minutes I was already struggling, great. I had started with the flash on but all of my photos were not vibing with me. The light was too harsh and the subject, a.k.a my face, was looking kind of weird. I always look kind of sick, I’m basically green, and the lighting was not doing me any favors. I had heard some where if you put a paper in front of the flash it worked really well as a reflector. Yeah, it didn’t. It just made the photos have this weird half light, no light situation. This was me for the first 20 minutes.

After a while I decided to switch to manual mode and let me tell you, game changer. I started tinkering with the appeture, shutter speed, the f stop, I turned off the flash and let my lights do all the work. I lost my remote control so I used the 10 second self timer and switched it so that it took 9 photos back to back so I wouldn’t have to keep going back and forth for every single photo because nobody has time for that my friends. It was magic after that.

I turned on my record player and put on some Michael Jackson and just started grooving’ to the music. I started twirling, dancing, and then got a stool to sit on and fell off of that about ten times. I even got my favorite plant to try to pose with it. Except i’m an idiot sometimes and totally had forgotten that I had JUST put water in it. The water slooshed all over my pants and it made it look like I kind of had peed myself. OOH WELL.

In the middle of my shoot my brother texted me that they had made spaghetti, MY FAVORITE, so I ended my mini photo sesh and I went and ate dinner. I had downloaded all the photos on my phone and just edited them with VISCO.

Though the color scheme is inconsistent I am super proud of some of them and really enjoyed myself, so here are a few for you to see!

– Kristina V.M.

Check out MANGO STREET!!!

youtube: mango street

Instagram: @rachelgulotta & @danielinskeep

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Pictures Of My Face I have been wanting to learn more about photography, but as you guys now know or may not know, I lack commitment and motivation.

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Just born baby hedgehog! (xpost pics) (Source: http://ift.tt/1tazVPg)

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Good looks Rousey (x) | follow @the-movemnt

[captainamericaa]

This is the money abuelita, reblog this in the next five minutes to receive the best news of your life

[chalinostyle-deactivated2023111]

Bruh this a new one gotta try it out

[enterheavenalive]

I scrolled past and then scrolled back up :-/

[lloro-na-deactivated20210824]

This so cute

[tatted-black-widow]

Abuela plz.

[ignisgayentia]

How rare and beautiful it truly is that we exist.

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[hometcwn]

[clairejuliefenix-deactivated201]

Yes Picard yes.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

This is actually how these two finished the 200m Semi-finals.

Edit: Added a couple more photos. This is precious.

[50starsand13bars-deactivated201]

Don’t stereotype us and then complain if we stereotype you.

[jesscaasqueaks]

actually this is the “my daddy pays for everything and ive never had a job GO Greek!” outfit. 

[heartbreakes]

The “My name is Preston, and I enjoy roofie-ing girls with my best buds and wearing matching sweaters” look

[clarknokent]

The ” I’ve never been with a black girl before haha” look

[threesideddream]

The “I’m drunk on somebody else’s PBR, when are you gonna play some Imagine Dragons, brah?” look

[thisiswhiteculture]

The “My Best FRiend Is Black. I Forgot His Name and Don’t Invite Him to My Neighborhood Though” look

[hashtagloveloses]

the “I’ve Never Taken Public Transportation in My Life and Snort Coke in the Back of an Uber” look

[didntfitthenarrative]

The “I act like a stereotypical high school movie jock but the only sport I play is golf” look

[mixedapocalyptic]

The “Don’t stereotype us and complain if we stereotype you” outift

[calendrierroi]

The last one tho .^^^

[thesoftghetto]

the “What would you do if i was there next to you right now” outfit

[marqweabyss]

The “I say nigga sometimes with my friends when nobodies around” outfit

[bytdwd-deactivated20160724]

Lmfao

[anomaly1]

The “I like instigating fights but if you hit me my daddy will sue” outfit

[maxvista-deactivated20161110]

The “without me?” outfit

[reverseracism]

The “poor people are lazy and my parents are rich because they work hard outfit”

[joshs-friend-tyler]

The “u got kik” outfit

[dahli-uh]

The “nah I could never be friends with a gay person. What if they hit on me?” Outfit

[africanmani-deactivated20170514]

Oh my god.

[5jroc]

The 🐐

[ink-pedia]

marla moon

[icarvus-moved]

Patroclus put on the armor because how else could he save the man he loved from himself

when the spear pierced his stomach he felt no regret  (l.e.h)

[dennys]

If you’re up really late studying for finals, try swapping your contact solution with coffee for a quick pick-me-up.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

dennys you’re taking a serious risk here don’t forget people actually tried drilling holes in their iphones to get the headphone jack back

[thankssun]

i hate when people use “millennials” as an insult like???? i didn’t even want to be born u can’t use that against me

[choppedandfoodnetwork]

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[glumshoe]

my uncle

-is allergic to chocolate -is physically incapable of laughter (it comes out as a hiss, like steam escaping a pipe) -has weird long vampire teeth -once led a chemical attack on some college students who had bullied his high school chemistry class -named his bicycle Tom Bombadil -got hired twice for the same job as himself and his fake identical twin because his boss wouldn’t hire him full time -is the only member of my family to have shown me open and unconditional support -is a clean-cut nerd… who used to be a psychedelic Deadhead and follow them around on tour -enjoys snacking on an exercise formula called “goo”; his favorite flavor is “plain”. Plain goo. He gave me a box of it for Christmas once and it’s as gross as it sounds. -cannot touch mangos -teaches meditation seminars at his Buddhist temple -has begun studying magic -used to be obsessed with cults, especially Scientology, and would just… spy on their temples -is so fucking weird -used to drive a car that he’d covered entirely in plastic lizards, until someone stole it -is terrified of the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz and still has nightmares about them

[glumshoe]

-is sending me on a roadtrip to the National Radio Quiet Zone for fun and education

[glumshoe]

-showed up to a family outing downtown this morning, wearing nylon shorts and expensive leather Oxford formal shoes -cried himself to sleep as a child because he desperately wanted a pet alligator -has experimented with god knows how many psychoactive substances…. For Science -is a literal masochist, as discovered this afternoon, when he told me all about how he’s addicted to the “excruciating pain and unexpected pleasure” of physical therapy -has feet so long he has to get shoes custom made for him - they have, in the past, been mistaken for clown shoes -once took his girlfriend on a date to lick the St. Louis Arch, in winter, and later revealed that he only framed it as a date ‘cause he was afraid of going alone in case his tongue got stuck to the metal -told me that he loved how bananas made his whole throat feel tingly, was surprised to find out that bananas are not supposed to have this effect -was disappointed that I did not bring a book on demon conjugation to the family reunion, because he wanted to compare it to his own translation -got banned from going down a slide today because he was dripping wet and had clearly been swimming…. he was just really sweaty from climbing the stairs

[glumshoe]

-sent me a check but forgot my legal name and put my nickname on it instead (it can’t be deposited and he hasn’t sent another)

[glumshoe]

this is what he wore to a family outing downtown

[glumshoe]

He showed up to our Christmas Eve dinner wearing a dress shirt, fancy slacks, and flip flops. All he ate was a bowl of smoked oysters.

[thatcandleontheflooroverthere-d]

@bunsuh this was a trip from start to finish.