I grew up loving pictures. I could go on and on with taking pictures. From, 'please, give me one shot, ' I would have over five hundred pictures. I mean this. They say that I am photogenic and maybei did not agree then, but I do now.
I knew all the good poses. Still do. My friends would say, 'Show me how I'll pose. You know that you're the one that's good at ths thing.' Even my brothers say same and ask for pose ideas.
I played dress up a lot and I took pictures. Mostly, I had my picture taken. But I liked to take people's pictures too. They always said that I do good with angles, but I doubt if I do.
Sometime a few years back, I started to take fewer and fewer pictures. I still knew the drill and practiced the poses, but because my phones camera was crappy, I didn't feel the hype to take pictures. I did take pictures every now and then, but they did not quite appeal to me. I like 'neat' and 'crisp'.' I like the full element.
I like to stockpile memories. To capture moments. And I'm really good at taking unaware pictures. You can't be around me and not love picture taking. When I got a new device, I resumed picture taking. Only this time, I spent more time behind the camera than in front of it. There's an endless roll of images in my gallery. Eghty percent of the portraits do not have me in it. And ninety-five percent of the images/videos were taken by me.
I'm like the unofficial photographer for my friends and family. I'm easily the one people would call on to take their pictures. I try, I do. But I'm never satisfied. And so, I soak myself in seeking knowledge.
I follow every good photo - and video-grapher I find, I try to replicate their photos, and I've seen hundreds of videos from YouTube, tiktok, pinterest, and Facebook.
Literally, any and everything on the skill that I come upon, I consume. But I suck at editing. Both photos and videos. The more I try, the more that I seem to be making a mess of them.
This was the first time i tried using the pro-camera on my phone. Had some trouble adjusting the settings.
And I'm not even a pro at this thing. Heck! I'm nowhere near that title. I'm just a girl obsessed with the lens and who would not stop taking shots nor stop learning.
I take pictures and make videos so often. My only concern is that they sit in my gallery. I'm not the person who's invested in social media, so I barely even make status updates. But I'm hoping to do something about that pretty soon. If you've got suggestions for me, share with me, please. I would appreciate it(them).
The above images are random pictures from my camera roll. Frankly, i dont think i feel anything special about them. I take shots when I'm sad, angry, excited, bored, it doesn't matter. So they're products of my camera-craziness.
So yeah, photography and a liru bit of videography, for now, has got to be my superpower.
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