Monthly Archives: February 2014

KINGBACH

Here’s my favourite “viner”, Mr. KingBach

KINGBACH THE VINE KING

 

He makes funniest videos in 6 seconds, and I love his jokes on Jordan Shoes.

and this one about The Hunger Game is also hilarious

with Vine, embedding videos in blog post is easy because you can clearly see an embed link right below the video to copy and insert in your  blog post. And the videos will keep repeating till you pause, because it’s only 6 seconds and people usually watch it more than once.

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.

Olinda

The previous long weekend ( Australian Day ) was great.
Me and my girlfriend went on a 2 days trip to Olinda, Dandenong.

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It was 1 hour by train to Croydon, then another bus up to the mountains to Olinda. The weather was beautiful and we really enjoyed it.

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The best part of it was our accommodation. We stayed at a beautiful cottage on the hills , surrounded by tress and flowers and the sun shining through the leaves to our bedroom window.

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I brought a tripod with me so we improvised cause the landscape there was beautiful and myself as a photographer can’t just look. Dressed up with a couple outfit, we really enjoyed what we captured there. So here are some photos of us in Olinda.

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People there were nice and friendly. We had dinner at a bar/restaurant and breakfast at a lovely cafe shop the next morning. Everything was so nice and peacefully.

Such a good getaway trip !

More photos are on my page LinhLuu Photography .