Merry Christmas, iinom mo na lang yan (have a drink) 120818
Another week concluded. The reason for this season is fast approaching. Just enjoying a couple of glass and bottles to chill and relieve from the stressful errands.
Just going to share my thoughts on doing photography with a sense of mobility.
Today, I tested my phone how it captures to its maximum resolution. The results are just the same as the other typical settings for shooting images using my smartphone.
Test shot for maximum resolution. The size was 4 MB. Post-processed in Lightroom
Oh, and by the way I always use my smartphone as my primary point and shoot camera. What's the name? Well, it's the phone from Asus Zenfone. The name is Zenfone Max.
First picture of this phone using my old low-res camera phone. 071016
I've bought this phone last July 2016. This phone have just met my budget capacity. The design and features seems to be one of most expensive phones, but nope. This phone only costs me than what I've expecting.
The camera has megapixels of 13 MP main and 5 MP front. The main camera has some specifications which is closer to some high-end point and shoot cameras like Canon, Nikon, Samsung, Fujifilm, etc. It has a laser sensor for better performance of autofocus and auto exposure.
The main camera can operate both Auto and Manual. The manual almost have the features like what DSLR cams does. You can adjust the shutter speed, iso but not the aperture. You can also manually adjust the focus. The auto mode for me has an average performance. There are times that auto gives the best quality than manual.
(As I write this blog, there are latest and advanced smartphones to be released with more advanced features that will closely meet the standards of photography. But smartphones like mine will still catch up the trend of mobile photography.)
(You can check the full specifications on this site: goo.gl/ADSU2S)
Captured at a restaurant somewhere in Centro of Naga 100316
Throughout the time that I've been practicing this skill that I like (and I wish I could be expert someday), I do often rely on my smartphone. It gives me the comfort of focusing only to the essentials of learning photography.
When taking pictures, I make some experimentations making creative views by the use of a single phone powered with a feature alike with those real cameras to be called.
Now how about post-processing them? There are many applications to choose to edit your photos after you've captured it. By any means, post-processing is essential to make corrections if you've taken a nice shot but it’s off the angle or have been over exposed, and also its recommended when you're going to present your photos to a big audience. Its like fitting the appropriate attire to wear.
Of all the applications to choose, I just use two main apps, Snapseed and VSCO. The former is useful to make some corrections to your image, the latter is used to add some impressions that will lift up the sense of your image depending on what it portrays.
But sometimes, to make more adjustments and add something more to the photos, I use Lightroom in PC. As I edit my photos which were taken in smartphone, there is no difference of quality in post processing to those which were produced on real cameras. You can't even notice which one was captured in smartphone and which was taken in DSLRs or point and shoots.
Image was taken in Asus ZenFone Max, post-processed in Lightroom.
Image was taken in Canon Powershot, post-processed in Lightroom.
At the absence of those powerful beasts (DSLRs and Point & Shoots), this phone is my primary thing when shooting photos. For now l just borrow them cause I still don't have my own (I hope someday I could have them. So I must work hard off my ass. Haha)
Elias Angeles road 08162016
For this time, I only use legit cameras depending on what I will shoot and only if necessary. I don't just want to rely on the idea of ‘taking photos only if you have a nice camera’. It is true that to take good quality photos you must use better gears and better specs, but it doesn't mean that you have to buy a gorgeous one just to learn something about photography. To learn photography, it is the concept that matters, not just the brand of your camera.
This blog post is dedicated to a person I've recently met. Her name is Cess.
We're already friends on Facebook for a long time. Its just we recently get to know each other personally when she posted something on her Facebook and asks for some piece of advice.
She asked something related to love. (Which I think anyone always asks. Haha) I gave her some advice and some answers to her questions. And the rest was… uhm, history? Maybe. Haha!
She likes modeling. She teaches and train some other aspiring models who wants to become successful in this kind of industry.
Like what I always see on her pictures online, this girl has some confidence to live on her interests. Because of her experiences to it, no doubt that maybe someday she can be a successful model... or can be the next Miss Universe to represent for our country.
Aside from modeling, she also joins beauty pageants. She have joined pageants in schools and local pageants. I've notice a though she have said regarding to it. She said that If it’s a will that she herself can become successful to it, so be it. But if not, she still wants help others to be successful to it.
She also perform Spoken Word Poetry. Sometimes called as Slam Poetry where a person does some kind of a stage performance speaking poems with various themes and thoughts. She always give it a theme pertaining to love, both sweetness and heartbreaks. All of her pieces she speaks sometimes based on her experiences of loving someone and damaged by someone. As a popular millennial-Filipino saying goes: Nagmahal, Nasaktan, Tumula. (Loved, hurt, became a poet).
Her interest in doing this kind of poetry may be aligned to one of the famous Filipino Spoken Poetry Artists named Juan Miguel Severro, Zuela Herrera, Henri Igna and other artists and members of Words Anonymous.
Here are the other pictures of Cess as we spend some time before she performed at the new location of Anthosia Café, at Magsaysay Ave. Naga City.
For more pictures, visit the Facebook page of The Photocurves.
I always notice how most of the people reacting in contrast when they see photographers (both pro and amateurs) taking pictures of anything. They tend to be critics of someone's skill ranting only the flaws and errors, and so judgemental that is out of measures. Well, we can't blame them if it disrupts their own comforts. But there is one thing that they dont always know about photographers. No matter how bad or awesome these people on taking shots, they are the ones who possesses a piece of an image that could be a memory or a may become a part of history. Don't be easily discouraged to continue what you love. Criticisms, judgements, failures and hindrances are just challenges. Always lift up your creativity in a world driven by unpleasant mentality. Just click that shutter button dude! 😉 The photo was taken and shared during the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk in Naga City. Both amateurs and professional photographers gathered for a photowalk around the city.
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Lagi itong nagyayari at di maiiwasan. Ngunit ito ang isa sa mga sukatan kung hanggang saan tatagal ang ating pasesnya. Kung tayo ba'y gagawa ng paraan ngunit makakaperwisyo sa iba, o patuloy na susunod subalit di aabot sa oras na pinagplanuhan, at higit sa lahat ito ay isang pagsubok sa kung hanggang kailan tayo katyaga na maghihintay bago makarating sa nais puntahan.
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