Shutterfly Summary

      Shutterfly is a great website for creating photo books, cards & stationery, prints, calendars, and personalized gifts. Their promise is for their customers to have free unlimited secure photo storage, 100% happiness guaranteed, and they will never delete customers' pictures. Shutterfly is pretty credible-Ellen Degeneres, Martha Stewart, and Drew Barrymore even like and use it.

      For photo books, there are three ways you can make your book-the simple path, the custom path, or the "make my book" service. The simple path offers your pictures to be arranged in your book already, in the custom path, you can customize your book however you'd like, and the "make my book" service provides designers to make the book for you, and they will even curate your photos. Shutterfly offers cards and stationary for several occasions such as Christmas, various holidays, anything baby related, birthday, wedding, and celebrations. They also offer various prints, large prints, college posters, and home decor for anywhere and anyone. Lastly, you can get calendars filled with your pictures, and you can have your pictures fro personalized gifts such as mugs, phone cases, flasks, pillows, blankets, kids games, etc. All you have to do is add your photos, create what you want, and order it.

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10 Easy Steps to Advanced Photography Skills

1. Think About the Brain

    Cameras don't work like an eye, meaning when you look at something, you put it into your memory along with the scene around you and what you felt when you saw it. Cameras, on the other hand, just capture a picture. That's it-nothing more to it. Cameras don't capture true emotion even though you may have taken a picture of the most beautiful thing you have ever seen. For example, almost everyone who has taken a picture to capture an amazing moment and has shown a friend has said "you just had to be there," which proves the point that cameras and eyes don't function the same.

2. Engage in the New Global Salon

    In the 1860's, there was a competition in Paris, called the Salon of Paris, where people showed their art and were judged. This competition went on for 10 years. In today's time, there is no competition quite like that, but there is a competition similar to it on a website called Flickr. It is also a way for people to show off their art. There is a section called "Explore Algorithm," and it showcases the best photos that are uploaded everyday. And the great part is that anyone can upload their own pictures.

3. Get Rid of Your Toy Camera

    By "toy camera," they mean those small skinny cameras that can fit in your back pocket. If you do have one of those and want to improve your photography skills, you should switch it for a DSLR. A DSLR is one of those professional cameras, like the ones you see at a concert. But you don't have to buy the huge ones that come with about 20 different lenses. DSLR's are great for picturing landscapes because of their wide lenses.

4. Carry a Tripod for Those Beautiful Sunsets and Sunrises

    When you buy a DSLR, it is best to get a tripod, unless you want your picture to come out shaky. Having a tripod would allow you to take better landscape pictures because it keeps noise low as the shutter stays open for longer, and it would keep the shutter open for 5 or more seconds while you take sunrise and sunset shots. Lastly, owning a tripod will prove that you are taking photography seriously.

5. Admire Impressionism
    During the Impressionist movement, critics from the Salon of Paris found Impressionism to be very sloppy and said it shouldn't even be put up against masters' works of art. Just like paintings, photographs do not have to be realistic. Surreal artwork makes people think of specific memories and scenes, which kicks into their emotions. If one wants to evoke these memories and emotions through photography, they shouldn't just stick with realism.

6. Practice With HDR
    HDR means high dynamic range, and it is the range of the photograph. Most times, when people experiment with HDR, they come to find that the photos can come out to be too overdone. Whenever we look at photos, we look around at everything. We let certain light come in at certain parts, and less light at others. That's what the HDR is there for-to adjust the light to see everything better.

7. Take Your Camera Everywhere
    Just like the titles says, take your camera everywhere! Photo inspirations can come anywhere at any time. So whenever you go out, you should keep your camera in the trunk of your car so you can pull it out when you want to take a picture of whatever your heart desires.

8. Understand the Fantasy/Reality Membrane
    When we were younger, we would be able to play in our own fantasy world, and could switch from that to reality. Nowadays, we aren't really allowed to mess around like that, but when we do, it's mostly during movies, and it's fun. But when speaking of photography, it has to be serious. To take amazing pictures, you have to do it seriously and take it seriously.

9. Learn to Draw
    Learning to draw might sound a little weird when talking about photography, but it actually makes sense. When you draw, you have to pay attention to thins such as light composition, balance, texture, proportion, etc. These things could help you look closely when you are taking pictures and to look deeper into these details.

10. Make Mistakes
    This might also sound odd, but making mistakes always helps. When you make mistakes, you get back p and try again and again. Making mistakes is a normal part of life, and could toughen up your skin, and whenever showing off your art skills, you get critiques, and learn from your mistakes so you can get better.

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20 Best Photos Of Fall Break-KAABOO Del Mar

Almost Gatsby

This was the finished product at the end of KAABOO on Sunday. The artist worked on it the whole weekend, day and night. I really like how it turned out-it reminds me of the cover of The Great Gatsby.

Blue Eyes

Just like the painting above, this artist worked on this painting the whole weekend, and this was the finished product. I like that the face is realistic and there is geometric shapes around it. You can actually see the artist getting his finishing touches in on the bottom.

Beautiful Disaster

At first glance, this painting looks really pretty. But when you look at it up close, you can see that it is kind of a dark painting. I really liked it, and it was one of the first paintings I saw that weekend.

Super Massive Rainbow Hole

I like that this painting shows dimension with all of the colours. The shape is very interesting as well. This is also one of the first paintings I saw that weekend.

GROUPLOVE

On Friday, I was really looking forward to see GROUPLOVE. I have liked them for such a long time, and the first time I saw them was in 2012, I believe. Since I know more of their songs now, I was jamming out so hard to them. It was one of the best concerts that day.

Fall Out Boy & Fuel Girls

Fall Out Boy is my absolute favourite band in the whole entire universe.Anyone who knows me knows that. This was on Friday as well, and since I love them so much, my mom and I stayed at this stage from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. The fuel made the show cooler with all of their fire tricks.

Fuel Girls

The fire circle  that she is holding was used to make wings for the lead singer, Patrick, while he was in front. The girl would be behind him. I really liked when the lights were dimmed and you can see the fire clearly.

Pete

Pete, the bass player and my favourite of the whole band, stopped to talk to the crowd twice. This was the first time he stopped, and it was right before their song, "Fourth of July." The other time he stopped to talk, he called out my mom and I and said that He liked the Fall Out Boy headband and outfits we were wearing, and it was the greatest moment of my life, hands down.

Pete & Fuel Girl

Here is Pete playing while one of the Fuel Girls was walking around the stage. With every song came a different background on the screen that would correspond to the song they were playing. You can't really see, but the drummer, Andy, is in the background on the left.

Joe, Patrick, & Andy

The lead guitarist, Joe, left his spot from right stage to come over to left stage and play. The whole band is wearing their "Bloom" merchandise, except for Andy, of course, who never wears a shirt when he plays. "Bloom" is a short film they were working on, and the "Bloom" tour consisted of  the following 5 festivals: Belfast, Leeds, Glasgow, Reading, and Del Mar.

Pete Singing/Shouting

This was most likely when "I Don't Care" was playing. At one point in the song, Pete, as well as the crowd, sing/shout what needs to be repeated from Patrick.

Bowie

I don' remember what song it was, but they wanted to dedicate it to David Bowie. They really love many genres of music, and there are many bands/singers that have inspired them to play music and to keep playing for as long as they can,

Andy & Sparks

I again don't remember what song this was for, but it was still for David Bowie. In the midst of the sparks, you can see Andy standing up on his chair singing out.

Pete & Patrick

At every concert, whenever "American Beauty/American Psycho" comes on, they throw a bunch of huge balloons out into the crowd for everyone to hit around. I love when this happens because when you look out into the crowd, it looks so beautiful.

Bloom

This was towards the end of the show, and towards the part where Pete goes into the crowd and gets held up to touch as many fans' hands as he can. I like that you can see the "Bloom" flowers behind them.

Pete & My Hand

When Pete came into the crowd, I was pushed so hard that I almost couldn't breathe. But I honestly could not care less because I was in the presence of my favourite person in the world, and I could potentially touch his hand. I was really squished, but I managed to get a lot of pictures with one hand, and reach out with my other. Out of all of the Fall Out Bout concerts I've been to, this is the one that I touch his hand at. 5th time's a charm?

Luke Thomas Spiller

This is the lead singer from the UK band, The Struts. I discovered them on 91X I think last year. When I first heard them, I fell in love, and this is the first time I've seen them, and I hope it's not the last. It was absolutely amazing.

Luke pt. 2

Every concert, Luke does an outfit change, and even thought their set was 40 minutes, that didn't stop him from changing into his signature flowing attire. Many people say that he reminds them of a young Freddie Mercury, and I can confidently say that this is very true.

The Struts

This set was such a blast. This picture was taken right before the bow they do at every show. There weren't many people that I wanted to see that Saturday, so for me, this was the best show that day. Sorry Aerosmith.

ALO

Sunday. Oh, Sunday. From all of the jumping and singing and screaming of the previous two days, I was very tired on Sunday. The headliner of the main stage was Jack Johnson, who is my mom's favourite singer on the planet. Like Friday, we stayed here at the main stage from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. ALO is the very first band that played that day on the main stage, and they are very close friends of Jack, as a matter of fact.

The Avett Brothers

This band, founded by Scott and Seth Avett, was the band that played right before Jack. They are a mix of country and rock. I personally wouldn't buy an album from them, but they were pretty cool. The two brothers went out into the crowd to play and sing, which was great. The band was very energetic and fun to watch.

Jack Johnson & Zach Gil

This was probably the 6th time we've seen Jack Johnson in concert, and he never fails to amaze me. Next to him is his piano and accordion player, Zach Gil, who is so talented. At other stages, Donavon Frankenreiter and G. Love and Special Sauce were playing, and since they are also very good friends of Jack, they came on stage at some point and played with him. Surfer, Rob Machado, also came on stage and played. It was a very good time, and I will of course be going back to every KAABOO that comes.