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(MUSIC).
Where it originally started was being in
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the water and seeing that this is a
moment, this is a perspective not
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everybody sees, and you know, just that
excitement of being one.
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I'm going to be out there surfing and
having my phone available to capture that.
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It's an exciting feeling, you know, of the
unknown of like wow, this could be really good.
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(MUSIC).
Your typical surf photography, water
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photography you know, a lot of it's like
the moment of somebody in like a big
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barrel or, whatever it might be, it is a
big moment that they're capturing.
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And I remember one day I was just out
there thinking, man that would be a great picture.
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At the time there wasn't anything until
Life Proof Case, a waterproof case, you
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know, for your iPhone.
And, right now I have a leash, and now I
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have it wrapped around my wrist, and so I
tuck my phone into my sleeve and then I
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pull it out, take a photo, tuck it back
in, catch a couple of waves you know and
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just kind of incorporate that in what I'm
already doing.
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You know I kind of want to be like the fly
on the wall in water if that makes sense.
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I want to be out there and it would be
neat to get out of the water and someone
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go, whoa, you were taking photos?
It's like, that's kind of what I want to do.
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I don't want to totally be noticeable, and
I want to capture real moments.
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(MUSIC).
In particular, there was a pelican that
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flew by and landed, and just even him
taking off from the water and the wings
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opening up, it's like, wow, that, that was
a moment where I captured that moment and
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I could show that so it's pretty neat.
(MUSIC).
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I would say I saw it being more than just
being camera honestly when Instagram came
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out, because I would take photo's all the
time, but I had no where to send them no
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where to post and I saw that as a medium
where I could post these photos that I am
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always taking, rather then being stuck on
a camera roll.
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So after being in the water and taking
photos, I just kind of look for things
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that kind of catch my eye, you know, and
that's, can be anything.
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Once I've selected the image that I like,
what I tend to do is bring it into Snapseed.
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I like Snapseed because I like that I can
do the basic global overview of my photo.
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I'll then go into selective adjust which,
it's the big features that I like about
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Snapseed because, for example I took a
photo of a surfer and in the background
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the landscape totally lost it's detail,
and I wanted to bring those back into the photo.
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So I was able to select the mountain, bump
up the brightness on that.
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And I can do all that within the selective
adjust, rather it being destructive of the
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whole photo, it was just that one area.
Once I've saved out whatever I'm, I've
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been processing through Snapseed, I'll
then bring it over Blender, which allowed
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me to do different layers and masking.
And then what I also like to do is
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something that I found out on Instagram.
there's a user, his name is Merrick Davis.
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And, what his thing is is he's created
these things what he calls Mextures.
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And essentially they are are overlays that
you can add to your photos.
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So, I have two photos that are lined up.
One being the one that I saved out from
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Snapseed and then adding a Mexture
overlay.
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I can then adjust this however I would
like.
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Once I'm in blend modes, this is where it
brings the texture, it brings out some of
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the textures, it brings out the colors in
the overlay that I use.
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But this is where I can, in a sense,
experiment with the looks I'm going for.
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(MUSIC).
So as I'm masking through and looking for
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a specific look I am making decisions on
the fly.
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And I know one thing about myself I, I can
be on my phone for hours, and I try not to.
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So one thing I really like to do is I like
to keep it under 5 minutes.
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The decisions that I'm making are strictly
based off just kind of, one, I try to stay
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consistent with the look that I have.
With that, I will experiment with other apps.
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For example I use Shape Cut.
It's just a basic app.
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Go in, cuts out a shape of whatever it
might be that I might have.
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And so, once I cut that out, I'll then be
back in Blender.
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And I'll then finalize the photo to where
I think, okay this is complete now.
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(MUSIC).
So sometimes, I'll run into photos that I
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accidentally put my finger in front of the
lens or whatever.
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And I did that today, and I took a photo
and my finger was actually in front of the
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camera, and it had this reddish, yellow,
orangish tone to it that I then brought in
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to Blender and I was able to use that.
There was a palm tree in the foreground
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that really stood out, but the background
was totally blown out and I was able to
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give it like this rich color that the
photo didn't originally have, but I was
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able to bring that in.
I try to use the photos that I don't think
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are usable and make something out of
nothing.
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(MUSIC).
It is a personal thing to me because I am
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sharing my life.
I'm sharing my passions.
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I'm sharing not just a photo that I threw
a random filter on there.
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It is a process and I think that means
more because I'm going to put effort into
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it and that's going to go out.
It's encouraging to put that stuff out
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there, it's encouraging to get responses
from people and it's encouraging to be
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able to show sides of myself that, it's a
part of me.
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Having that passion of surfing and having
an opportunity to capture that, I think
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it's pretty amazing that we have that
opportunity to do that.
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