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IPHONEOGRAPHY TIPS AND TRICKS

HOW TO MAKE YOUR CAPTURED-BY-IPHONE PHOTOS LOOK GREAT?

Here are some tricks and tips for you guys to have a nice, artistic online presentation 🙂

  1. First, the APPS ! Here are the name of some must-have apps on your iPhone / Android : After Light, VSCO CAM, Picsart, Mirrorgram, InstacollageFree, Instagram, etc.
  2. Don’t just use 1 app at a time, use multiple ! Always try different apps for one photo! For example this photo I made just with my iphone : 62383_10201103673188794_315575507_n
    I used After Light for retouching color such as applying Black&White filter, add more sharpness and shadow. Then I chuck it to Mirrorgram, which creates a reflection to makes it look kinda abtract. Then with Picsart, I layer another photo onto my current photo, as you can see in the photo above.
  3. After Light’s filter “Russ” is the key. Always use that. Your photos will eventually turn out good whenever you click to that filter. If you like faded film color for you photos, use VSCO CAM, my second favourite photography app !
  4. There are certain modes that affects greatly on a photo such as Brightness, Contrast, Sharpen, Saturation, Crop, Rotate, Temperature. Make sure you understand and play out with them with your photos.

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Looking back at how you capture a photo with an iPhone. Its not hard, but no easy either. Switch to HDR to get the finest quality photo. Hold still when you click capture cause it takes up to 1 or 2 seconds to render the photo you just took in the best resolution. If you wants to focus something, touch that object, or hold your finger there and the focus length will locked, which also helps you to have nice bokeh photos,just like on a DSLR camera. Then, use crop smartly to get the good composition out of every photo.

  • With food photography, try capture your meal/dish up above, 90 degree from it. Make sure you clean out all other unnecessary items on the table. 1554405_715500065148417_2041586809_n 1743710_715500191815071_1869678051_n
  • With landscape photography, always use HDR. Then throw them into After Light and increase the Clarity section. 1794510_716419445056479_1773643004_n1560444_706564016042022_803662399_n
  • With street-life photography, always try Black & White filter. It will look more abstract and soulful.1525576_706563932708697_677627241_n
  • With fashion/outfit photo, remember a good composition is a full body one, don’t take away the feet or some of the hair. Make sure your whole body is fully in the imag
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here’s some useful few techniques how to shoot with an iPhone.

Narrative

Michael Joy, the granddaddy of hypertext fictions, in 1987,  published what is recognised as the first major narrative of this genre, afternoon: a story, which he created with Jay Bolter using the software and hypertext application, Storyboard.

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Hypertext offers readers and authors the same type of freedom, in a far more seamless fashion. Furthermore, the idea of narrative in hypertext expands beyond the written text, incorporating visual or audio content that goes along with the fictional narrative.

Miichael Joy talks about how paragraphs on different pages could go with other paragraphs in other parts of the book. Douglas mentions how interactive storytelling meets a desire that many readers have – a desire for the inexhaustable story. A book no longer has to stay the same every time you open it up. Sounds cool to me. Imagine playing video games like God Father, Grand Theft Auto, you are able to choose your path and experience new plots every time you play.

( Agreeing with Tim‘s view on this. )

 

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On the other hand, I’ve been too familiar with linear structure which there’s beginning and ending , and an interesting body part betweens.

Overall, It was mentioned that hypertext is quite a unique technology, and therefore cannot be compared to print media. The hypertext narrative must be treated as its own entity. We just need to balance the two and treat them equally, as they are both close and useful to us these days.

 

 

 

Barrier?

I got myself into a pretty funny / awkward / complicated situation yesterday that I’m still thinking about it and cant stop wondering.

So I bought this bag which is handmade by a friend of mine. cool bag and I love it.

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So I was wearing it yesterday to go a little bit shopping for my little brother at home. I walked into Nike and as I walked in, the barrier beeps. At first i thought its okay, that barrier might have some technical issue that I dont know of. 10 minutes later I walked out and it beeps again. The staff said its okay and all,same with me. But then as I walked into other 5 different stores in Melbourne Central, it beeps everytime I walked in or out. I have nothing in my bag though, only a pen, a notebook and bottle of water.

I got cheked by the staff a few times yesterday and it was so embarrassing yet funny that I can’t figure out why.

So here’s a video I took of what happened ( sorry for swearing )

what’s wrong with my bag?

I got home and started to google it a bit but I can’t find any answer for what just happened to me. Is it the technology behinds the barrier, or the materials that my bag was made of ? I swear I didn’t steal anything though. Or its not my bag that did that ?

Anyone have any answer to this ?

p/s : the bag is made with leather and ropes, simple as that.

 

 

#iphoneography

The hashtag and the iphoneography.

I consider myself as an internet addict. I’m on facebook most of the time, take photos and comment on instagram, watch more than 20 videos on youtube per day, etc.

So that I find the hashtag thingy  so intereting and amazing. Myself as a photographer, I want the world to see my photos. So thats when hashtags comes in usefully. Its like a tool to connect people from all around the world.

And there’s another thing that i love – iphoneography . Thesedays, bringing a 10kg weight of camera and equipments to me is to tiring. So thats when an iphone comes in handy. You will be amazed by looking up online to see how other people take photos with their iphones. Stunning. Some of them even look better than photos taken with a DSLR camera. Nowadays with all the new apps , editing color and combining photos can be done on your iphone as well.

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Here’s my photos taken with an iphone 5.

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Ideas from Hypertext

There are many arguments both for and against hypertext writing.

Supporters argue that hypertext more closely follows the associative paths of the human mind. Detractors offer the argument that the linearity of print follows time sequence and the flow of narrative.

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“The hyperlink war – LAURA MILLER , THURSDAY, JUN 10, 2010 01:01 AM +1000 “.

http://www.salon.com/2010/06/09/links_2/

And yes I agree with both of them. Since now hypertext plays an important part in life, people are so used to it that they depend on it. Myself included, and also affected by its advantages. Seems like my writing skills and my grammar not only not improving but also getting worse because I depend on it to much. One click then I’m lost in the internet with so many un-related information that attracts me and totally forgot about what I was reading/writing.

Not only hypertext but also with other social media,smartphones, tablets, with just one click, touch, press , Im lost in the most amazing and informative world of the Internet. And by that I cant never get anything done. Like finishing this post. Meanwhile writing down what I’m supposed to research and write about, I have other tabs having music playing, sports, photos, etc.

I also find a funny example of life these days getting lost in all the distractions in life and cant never get things done.

http://youtu.be/ncIJlSAO1VY

But you cant get rid of it . The only thing you can do is to control and balance yourself.

IFTTT

 

What is IFTTT?

IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections, instagram post to blog, facebook status to tweeter , soundcloud trakcs downloaded to dropbox, etc.

Amazing right? Everything on the internet nowadays are linked together, which makes it so so useful to internet users, like myself. I’d love to show what I capture on instagram on my blog , and share a track that I’ve been listening all day.

For example, there’s this super quick way to share your new post on WordPress to Facebook.

–       Go on IFTTT ( or just click that hypertext )

–       Search worldpress

–       Go on the “ All Time” bar

–       Click to New post on WordPress to Facebook

–       Active both of your channels

–       Click use recipe

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Easy right? I love sharing things from my blog to my other channels, just so that my posts are everywhere on my friends new feed ( lol ).

Hypertext

This is the very first time I’ve actually learnt about the concept of hypertext rather than just knowing its definition as “text displayed on a computer display or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text which the reader can immediately access, or where text can be revealed progressively at multiple levels of detail”.

 

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As my understanding, a hyperlink is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow either by clicking or by hovering or that is followed automatically and Hypertext is text with hyperlinks. As I understand more about Hypertext by reading this article The history of Hypertext by Jakob Nielsen on February 1, 1995.

 

We can clearly see that nowadays, hyperlink has made life much easier and quicker with just one simple click on a blue underlined text. Even in this blog , hyperlink are used to link it back to my readings and to other referneces. How useful is that?

But, there comes an idea which states that Hyperlink break the traditional way of reading, non sequential, people can jump to anywhere, not follow a particular order like reading a book from start to end. Moreover, as it is now widely used around the world, accessible to everyone, privacy and security should be concerned. Nothing is really safe on the internet.