**My dear little Pria, you are going to love some of the photos in this post. 😉
I’ve decided to include more photography on my blog– maybe I’ve been reading too many photography and design books, who knows… but I have become almost equally obsessed with my Nikon D40 and digital post-processing as I am with making stuff. The fun thing about this internet thing of ours is that kind people everywhere make free photo DIYs and websites to make SWEET effects. More on that later after the puppies. I can’t hold their adorableness back any longer.
This puppy makes my heart melt every time. I have such a thing for white fluffy pups. **No poodles please, no offense to poodle lovers but the only place I love a poodle is on a skirt. 😉 This little guy in the photo was being beat up by a tiny Chihuahua pup. Seriously, why are those little punks so mean?
Puppy butt.
For some reason I find this photo so adorable. As I was looking at this little girl fight with her bed, some guy leaned over to me (he had been watching her for a while, obviously) and said, “She’s been doing this for a half hour.” I looked back at her 5 minutes later and she was zonked out, hardcore. Her body was on her bed, her head was on the ground. Haha. Bed: 1 Pup: 0
More white fuzzy feistiness.
I’ve had Labradors all my life– but for some reason, being in NY I have fallen hardcore for pugs and English Bulldogs. I love their fat, grouchy faces and I love how the bulldogs walk like they are fat sausages with legs.
So I was in Greenwich Village because one of my favorite bloggers, Joanna from A Cup of Jo, was having a “stoop sale.” Her blog was the first blog I EVER looked at and it made me fall in love with blogs. I now have tons of blogs I follow, but hers is still the most uplifting and adorable.
Joanna and her husband, Alex, at their “stoop sale.” (Whenever I say stoop, I think of Nickelodeon’s Hey Arnold and “Stoop Kid”… anyone else?”) Both of them were as sweet and adorable as I pictured them. I bought 2 things, 1 book for my dear friend Kitkit and the play Waiting for Godot for myself.
More NY ♥:
And now to the DIY stuff in this post… Miniature faking!
So you probably know that filmmakers use miniatures when they do not want to shoot enormous cityscapes, etc., but creative people are doing the reverse to make real photos and videos look miniature… and I love, love, love it! An example that I’ve taken:
It looks miniature, right? My mom and sister were here last weekend and we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and I snapped this. THEN,
1. I went to tiltshiftmaker.com
2. Uploaded the photo
3. Adjusted
and voila! There are tutorials on how to do it in Photoshop, but this is so easy. I am hooked.
Check out a sweet New York miniature video with the tilt-shift photography technique– I am no expert but I assume they sped up the video and just added the filters to the video to make everything seem tiny.
More photos and DIY to come! I promise to stop making such long, large posts and break it up a bit. 🙂
