Simple Yet Functioning - Weekly Photo Challenge (Simple)

Simple Yet Functioning - Weekly Photo Challenge (Simple)

We, almost all the people living on this planet, tend to make simple things complicated for some reason. But it’s still good to see that this tendency has started to make a U-turn in the latest years. The furniture for our daily use, for example. I photographed some of my furniture from my home for your view and for the weekly photo challenge themed “Simple” this week. The one at the top is a simple reading lamp. The one on the left is a simple chair. Both of them are obviously from IKEA :))…. Both are simple, yet functioning.

So which one would be your choice (as a photograph, I mean) :::

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It’s basicly a bunch of flowers still trying to survive by that little sunlight they get indoors and half-a-liter water in a vase. How amazing it’s to see them so still although they know they’ll just fade away in couple of days.

Wishing you all the calmness and peacefulness you might ever have no matter how hard life can be.

A Bunch of Peace: Weekly Photo Challenge (Peaceful)

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Hrant Dink’i yok ettikleri günden bu yana tam beş yıl geçti. Beş yıl önce onu yüz binler İstanbul caddelerinde akarak, milyonlar ağlayarak uğurladı.
Beşinci yılında o büyük dayanışmayı, o sessiz çığlığı, o çok büyük anlam taşıyan demokratik çıkışı tekrarlamak dileği ve umudundayız.
Beş yıl boyunca cinayetin yargılanma sürecini hepimiz içimiz burkularak, öfkelenerek, isyan ederek izledik. Karşımıza üç beş tetikçi çıkardılar ve bununla yetinmemizi istediler.
O yüzden 19 Ocak 2012 Perşembe günü Hrant Dink’i olabildiğince büyük bir kitlenin katılımıyla anmak daha da bir anlam ve önem kazanıyor.
Ama bunu olabildiğince geniş kesimlere duyurmakta ve katılımlarını özendirmekte sizin yardımınıza, desteğinize şiddetle ihtiyacımız var. Katkılarınız olmadan bunu başaramayız.
19 Ocak Perşembe günü saat tam 13’de Taksim Meydanının Elmadağ’a olan yönünde toplanacağız ve AGOS’un önüne yürüyeceğiz.
Slogan yok. Örgütsel flama, bayrak yok. Bu sessiz bir çığlık.
Önümüzdeki Pazartesi, Salı ve Çarşamba boyunca ulaşabildiğiniz herkese, üyesi olduğunuz her mail grubuna, meslek örgütüne, STK’yabu çağrıyı duyurmakta bize omuz verin.
19 Ocak günü kendinizin de o yürüyüş kolunda  saf tutun.
Şimdiden teşekkürler…

Hrant’ın Arkadaşları

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Anti-gravity: Weekly Photo Challenge (Launch)

To be honest, this week’s theme for the photo challenge was quite challenging to me since there is actually no exact word that stands for “launch” in Turkish. Therefore I hope, levitating from the ground leaving your shoes behind will be a good expression for “launch” :)… well, even if it’s not, there it comes :)

Hint: There’s actually no jumping in this photo. I just had to lift my feet up and down continuously while the cam was in the burst mode to shoot several photos. All I had to do later was to pick the best shot and certainly apply some effects on it :) Eventually that is what I ended up with… You may click on the image to view it bigger.

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Keeping Warm: Weekly Photo Cahllenge (Winter)

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Balance: Weekly Photo Challenge (Between)

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The first app I’m going to use is Snapseed. This is a photoshop-like application available on the appstore. Although there are plenty of options/filters on this app, I only used it to make some adjustments on brightness, contrast, white-balance and saturation. I also had to straighten the image only a little bit clockwise. Finally I ended up cropping my image to make my face appear approximately at the center. You may certainly choose to align your face to more left or right. That is totally upto you :)

Second app I used was FocusTouch. This application is used to make the image blurry except the areas you want to keep sharpened. What you have to do is actually quite simple. In my case, I painted my face but not the trees at the background to keep my face as it is but to make the background blurry. This effect gives your image a nice depth and a 3D feeling. By the way, you may click on these thumbnails to see them in full size. Just make sure you are not painting the background as well while you are painting the edges. To prevent this you may want to start painting on the original photo.

Next up comes one of my favorite application, Noir. Though you may find it a bit too much, I personally like the effect of light centering at a certain area leaving the rest darker. In my case, my face was the area receiving the brightest light. Oh, before I forget, this application desaturates your photo as well. You may later pick a black, green, blue or brown tint according to your taste. What you actually have to do with this app is to play with the lightened area, brightness, contrast etc.

Another favorite application, Color Effects was my next choice. What you do with this application is basicly paint any area of a black & white photo to any color you want. The app automatically turns your photo black & white. Then you can either paint the area you want to its original color or to another color of your choice. But since our original photo was already in black and white, I chose to paint my face to a color closest to skin color. Ok, I admit I look rather nausious with this yellowish look :) but we said “an artsy self-portrait”, right? :))

Well, my personal choice for a final touch to a photo is light effects most of the time. And for this purpose LensLight application comes in quite handy for me. I basicly picked yellow octagons to blend with my yellowish face :)… On left side you will also notice a bar where you can adjust how bright your light will blend over your photo. Never hesitate to play with other options. But once you find your perfect combination, go and save it to your photo library since you may forget the settings if you want to try other combinations as well. So here’s how I finalized my masterpiece :)…

There are plenty more photo applications for iPhones which I find way to easier compared to photoshopping. They are definitely not a substitute for photoshop but just for simple needs, such as a special photo for your blog, for example, I admit these apps are perfect to say the least.

So what photography applications do you use on your iphone? Please do not hesitate to share right below in the comments area.

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24 Aralık Cumartesi saat 16:00′da Taksim meydanında buluşuyor, Emek sinemasının önüne yürüyerek basın açıklamamızı okuyoruz. Sonrasında ise müzik dinleyerek, sohbet ederek, sessiz sinema oynarak Emek sinemasının önünde sabahlıyoruz.

“Sağduyunun, vicdanın sesi suskunluğa mahkûm edildi. Şimdi o vicdan çıkış yolu arıyor.“ Hrant Dink

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