This morning, because I really am a little bit crazy, I woke up at 5:30 and walked (with my tripod and camera, wearing an orange construction vest) down to the bridge hoping to catch the sunrise. I wanted to catch the sun right as it was coming up, but as I was peacefully walking I realized it was relatively light out.
So picture this: a girl, with her hair in a librarian bun and wearing an orange construction vest, trying to run with a tripod, camera and camera bag. I am 100% sure that I looked as stupid as I felt.
By the time I got to where I was going to set up my tripod, I had missed the beautiful pink color that I wanted to see, but the sky was a beautiful orange mixed in with the light blue. So I took so many pictures, and I am going to brag right now for a full paragraph:
I was very pleased when I uploaded them on to the computer because I didn't have to edit them one bit. Yes, I will be conceited right now because I can be. All of the colors were perfect because I had the shutter speed and aperture set perfectly and they were just genuinely nice pictures. I don't know, I just kind of enjoy looking at them. Some of them were taken from cool angles, too, which really made the picture completely different.
On that note, I do want to explain why I don't like Instagram. Actually no, let me rephrase that.
I don't like how people who use Instagram think that all of a sudden they're photographers.
That's not to say that I think I'm one either, I know I have my stuff to work on, but really, just because your iPhone takes a picture and Instagram tints it doesn't make it a good picture. A lot of photographers can do what Instagram does with just their camera (and no, not the edit options on the little digital cameras, just using their knowledge of how to work their cameras).
However, I do like how Instagram is a photo-sharing social network because looking at other peoples photos is interesting. One of my friends actually has it so she can keep up with Harry Styles, her newest obsession (it's really hilarious), but every picture she shows me of him makes him look really stupid. Oh well.
"Everything has beauty,but not everyone sees it."
-Confucius
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