Sami Serola (inactive)'s photos with the keyword: selfie

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : "Car brand emblem"

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #469: Water

Thanks to Chris (Clickity Click) I decided to play around at Google Arts & Culture . Besides nice articles on arts, and ways to experience famous works of arts on computer, there are also fun tools for mobile phones. Like this selfie transform into Munch style. Have a look and have fun!

Coffee break at home office Probably I should hoard coffee instead of toilet paper, if the current COVID-19 situation is getting even worse... On the other hand it is good that I chose a photo project that I can continue even homebound, as long as I do not run out of coffee. And when working from home, one also have an opportunity to discover new computer tricks. For example I never thought I would need Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection myself, but now I even need to use it at some point, if I wish to get all work related software updates done, and access some university servers. But the recommendation is to avoid using VPN during office hours, and use it only when really needed, to avoid slowing down the network for others unnecessarily . I also learned how to upload images from PC to Instagram . So far I have uploaded images from my cameras to my mobile phone, and then uploaded images from phone to Instagram. But now that I know how to upload images directly from PC to Instagram, I do not need to take any extra steps if and when I for example wish to use GIMP for editing images. The instruction and web page mentioned above is mainly for Mac users, and for Chrome and Safari users. Moreover, there it is mentioned a little complicated way to navigate via top menu. Easier way is via mouse control's right click menu, and choose 'Inspect', to get the "Developer mode" opened. Very likely there is similar feature also on Firefox and on other browsers as well. Next you just "toggle" from computer layout to mobile phone layout. Finally choose some ( any Galaxy S5) phone model from top menu, refresh page to get mobile phone tool buttons appear, and continue as you have used to do on your mobile phone. And just for fun I used laptop's very poor quality net camera to take this selfie and coffee image. I also used a clip-on fisheye lens on the camera to take this wide angle shot. Then on GIMP I used ' Lens Distortion ' to "stretch away" the black corners.

... or a serious facelift.

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge: Anything else to see? All blurred ♩ ♪ ♫ Friday Morning by rusty jaw. I was planning to do some fancy out-of-focus image experimenting, but then my eyes caught the scene on the steamy bathroom mirror. I quickly fetched my camera phone to took this, and edited it with Nick Collection > Analog Efex > Classic Camera 4. When trying to figure out a good title and soundtrack for the image, I remembered Thursday Afternoon musical composition and "video painting" by Brian Eno . Somewhat funny coincidence then was to discover that the photographer Christine Alicino acting on the video has also very interesting "all blurred" Fine Art collection on her website. For further inspiration make sure you check out also Jonathan Jolly's YouTube video painting featuring Brian Eno's musical composition. P.S. And Brian Eno chose the title for his video painting because it was Thursday afternoon when shooting of the video was done ;-)

I had to get along with very poor quality 5MP selfie camera, under quite poor light conditions. But I thought the output looks wonderfully Dada because of all the flaws. Inspired by Finnish photographer Magnus Scharmanoff: www.scharmanoff.com/hero01.html

www.thefreedictionary.com/basket+case From idea to implementation I once fooled around like this when playing with our grandchildren. There came the idea. Then lately I have often started to take a test shot with phone camera first, like this: Then I go forward with a better camera, and try to pay more attention on details.

Mr Nobody in spring mood.

...and I'm photoholic! =D

Digging some archives after awhile... Picture taken in 2011.

I was using my smart phone as a remote display and control, to take some shots with my camera, and looks like I accidentally took one "selfie".

...while completing the mission. Some of the presets I tested today were: - approximately -1 EV to get dark overall ambiance - built in ND filter, ISO 80 and f8 used to get as long exposures as possible. - moving camera to great motion blur and softness

Reaching out for the pocket camera ;-) And the supposedly obligatory hand related song for Poly (?) =D Found from the vaults. Picture taken in 2012.

Taken in 2013.