Silly Photos of Me 001

Silly photos of me... I would call these duds...

Photographed in October 2011 over the course of the entire month.




















Utterly silly! XD



































































A tree-hugger scheming up stuff...

Yep-yep, I'm a silly lady....

So, can you tell that I went to college to study animation? Looks to me like it shows, very much!
















So... when I see this one, it makes me think I look like I passed gas...
LOL







































These are just some silly photos of myself.
















The wind!






































So, now you know what a total dork I am...

































Anyways, since I shoot so many photos, and delete several which are just horrid! I still keep some which are really silly. I don't publish them, because they're ridiculous... but, I'm publishing these anyway, here, so you know I am a real human being, and also a weirdo! Ha!

Make Up

You don't always need make up to shoot a photo. But, it ALWAYS makes you look better! Men too!



But, even using makeup won't always make you look good if your angles & lighting are poor.









Let me show you several of my duds:


















Oh, yeah! Those are horrid!











There are some ways to explain makeup better than others. And, humor is a good way:






How to Trick People Into thinking You're Good Looking:






Then there's this girl, who cheated ALOT by using a contact lens to make her iris look larger:





In Asia there's this craze with large eyeballs, or making at least the iris look larger.

Here's a video from Taiwan:

Altho' I find Taiwanese TV to be childish & immature, I kind of understand why. They grow up with SO much pressure as a child to do and complete so much work, studies, and many kids have gray hairs because of the stress. So, when they become adults they often look for excuses to be childish & silly. It's way over the top for me, tho'. And, I can seriously be funny or silly.

Don't feel bad if you don't understand them. I can understand the Mandarin, but Taiwan people speak Mandarin with an accent, and sound foreign to me. In this video they switch dialects a number of times, so several parts I can't even understand.





Makeup contorting for MEN (Non glamorous):






Again with all things, you'll need to research, and especially do lots and lots of practice!

That means take lots & lots of pictures!

I personally stink at makeup, and I'm still learning. I'm generally allergic to most makeup and I just found out many lipsticks have lead in them.


So, I generally take several pictures, as much as I can. Then, I weed through them until I find the best ones. Most of the really awful photos I delete.

And, then I make a folder on my hard drive of the best ones.

But, it's not JUST for portraits. I do that with EVERYTHING I shoot. I'm also that way with my sketching. Sketch, sketch, sketch!


I like to have a theme, and stick with it for a while, and just focus on that theme, over & over.

As I do it more often, I will notice an improvement from the various photoshoots I do. Just like flipping through a sketchbook!

See?






That's called practicing!

:)


So, having said that, I'm QUITE sure that all those beautiful celebrities out there, are actually just plain ordinary people too.

A Few Words on Portraits #2 Webcams

Here are a few of my personal thoughts on Webcams.

When it comes to webcams, don't get a webcam less than $50, otherwise you are wasting your money. You will NOT look good AT ALL.

Always, $50 or above.

I personally, would suggest Logitech.

The Webcams included inside of a Laptop is generally AWFUL, I don;t care whether you are using a Windows/IBM or an Apple, they are just trash!

The reason is because you can't adjust the angle of the camera.

So, even if your laptop came with a cam installed, GET A SEPARATE ONE ANYWAY!























This is pretty important, because some people conduct interviews for a job via webcam now, or give interviews on TV via webcams. This can make or break your 1st impression.

Using your webcam in a way that won't make you look too old, too fat, too dark, or too bright is the trick.















The #1 best suggestion I have for you is to mount your camera on top of your monitor, and angle it down at your face. Keep adjusting the camera until you look good enough in your view of yourself. Generally, you will want to see your jaw line, or jaw bone.

NEVER mount the camera angling upward. This will make you look too fat, in some cases too young, or in others too old.

If you have webcam filters, play with those, and be aware of your lighting. Daytime will be different from Night Time.



Now, here are a few tricks I did with Webcam Photos:






Several people didn't know these were webcam photos. Several also didn't believe they were Webcam photos.

But, they are.

I just adjusted them in Photoshop.















So, there's many things you can do with the right software, if you know what you are doing.

But, You will need to make at least a decent composition first.

So, as you can see, I use my artistic skills with my photography all the time.