Composition 2

Project365 Frame 066 Mar 7, 2013 1320 hrs



Keeping with the same idea of taking a picture on a squirrel's perspective, here is a photo of my car's left front wheel. I didn't know what came of me when I took this. All I know is that I am aware now of taking a picture from a different perspective as much as the "Rule of Thirds".

Composition

Project365 Frame 065 Mar 6, 2013 1150 hrs

My second lesson in Photojojo University is about Composition. The main two learnings I got from these online photography lessons is the "Rule of Thirds" and how to try different perspectives. Rule of Thirds is a rule of thumb for visual arts like paintings and photographs that suggests to imagine two equally spaced vertical lines and two equally spaced horizontal lines on the whole image and place the main element along these lines or on the points where these lines intersect. It is not always a good thing visually to place the main subject right on the center. It also suggested to try different perspectives in taking a picture.

After the lesson, our assignment is to take a picture keeping in mind the "Rule of Thirds" from a perspective of a squirrel. I got this picture in our driveway and put my iPhone cam behind some rocks at the foot of our pine tree.

Instant Brunch

Project365 Frame 064 Mar 5, 2013 1000 hrs

Waking up late this morning, I felt so hungry. The worse thing, Im home alone because my folks went to their dental appointment. Checking out the kitchen, I found the usual bread, peanut butter and some tea. I was craving for something else but I felt lazy to go and eat out. Then I found some frozen dumplings in the fridge so I made myself an instant siomai noodle soup. Its so easy to make, a pack of instant noodles is what you need and viola you have your instant siomai noodle soup to savor.

Baked Potato

Project365 Frame 063 Mar 4, 2013 1400 hrs



Lunch time on may days off is either eating out with my friends or just having lunch in the house. Mostly on Mondays I always hit the gym early so after that I usually have lunch at my favorite restaurants. This week though, my left ankle is hurting so I decided to stay home. Our lunch was not the usual fare, we had baked potatoes and some barbecued ribs to go with it. It's not usual that we have baked potatoes so we actually don't have stuff for toppings. Fortunately we have butter and some spinach dip so I used it as toppings for the potatoes. I know it was unusual to have the spinach dip as toppings instead of sour cream and the like but I guess I have to make use of what is available. Bottom line I was so stuffed.

High Dynamic Range (HDR)

Project365 Frame 062 Mar 3, 2013 0950 hrs


High Dynamic Range or HDR is one feature in the built-in camera app on iPhones. It corrects the brightness or darkness of your subject by taking three shots simultaneously and combine them resulting to a better exposure of your photo. You need to hold the camera steady and ensure that your subject is not moving so that the resulting picture will not be a ghostly double exposed photo.

The featured photo for today is taken with the HDR on but purposely misuse it by shaking the camera mid-shot resulting to a double exposure effect. This is my first assignment at Photojojo University.

Panera Collage

Project365 Frame 061 Mar 2, 2013 0930 hrs


This is a collage of what I ate during my last visit to my favorite cafe´ the Panera Bread. I had the spinach salad, french onion soup and an egg souffle´ and downed with the acai berry iced tea.

Photo Lessons

Project365 Frame 060 March 1, 2013 1330 hrs


I'm currently enrolled at Photojojo University. Its an online photography class where you learn the basics of taking good pictures using a phone camera. Its now becoming a trend that people choose their phone's camera feature in snapping pictures over digital cameras. Phone cams are always handy wherever you go, and always ready to snap pictures. I took these lessons to improve my photography skills or in this particular case, my "iphoneography" skills because Im using my iPhone 4S on all the photos featured in this blog. Lets see if this works out well. For the meantime, I made a collage using an app out of the previous pictures I took and were already featured in this blog.