52 weeks?

I think I have decided to start a 52 weeks project. Both to learn more of what I do, and to notice the fact that I have to challenge myself a little bit. I also think its a great way to keep up my hobby! And the only thing I have to do is to take one shot every week. It can't be that hard, can it?

My very first print!

This picture is now hanging in my mom's living room! I'm so happy, it came out so beautiful. This is actually a really early Christmas present for my mom, and she was really happy for it! What do you think?

2 days of photoshop for this?

I have tried like everything I could figure out to do, every tutorial that I have found, but nothing seems to work with this picture! This, that is so simple to do, is the most I could come up with, that actually came out like something not that horrible!

As you might understand, my photography inspiration is not at the top at the time. I just have so much to do, with school and everything! But, soon I will take some time out for photography too. I promise. But Photoshop has been a big part of my days in this time. I think its maybe because I cam work in Photoshop both on school, at home or everywhere else, as long as I bring my computer with me...

I'm really sorry for not uploading or updating anything lately...

Sunlight photo - Before and after

When I find a picture in my archive or take a photo that I'm not that happy with, I try to play in photoshop to maybe do it a little bit better. This is a example of that. Just take a look at this picture here:

 This is the original picture. When I took this into photoshop, I took auto tone and auto contrast on the whole picture, duplicated the background. and took auto color, then erased the sky, so the auto color just is on the water and mountain. Then I set the exposure and gamma correction to 0,30 on the sky, and I don't remember exactly on the rest. And all this easy work ended up with this:

What do you think of the final result? Not too much done, but it did a big difference in the photo!

Happy birthday to me

The 16 August was my birthday. Okay, its 15 minutes since now, but I want to write about it. I actually turned 16 years the 16 of August! A little cool, hehe. This picture is created by my frustration. I't might not look that way, but when I don't even found a single balloon in this house, to do what I had planned, I got frustrated.. Every piece in this picture, the flowers, my hairband, around my eyes, the butterflies, everything is actually from my scrapping things. None of it is photoshoped, simply because I suck at photoshop.

This day was actually good until the clock was about 23:45. Then my thoughts, feelings and everything just fall down again. I hate this periods.. I hate to think. Maybe I should use this time to try to get out anything of it in pictures?

Let me hide here for a while

Everyone tells me that "Sweden is right next to Norway, the language is almost the same, so I don't know why you not understand" yah, the language is sooooo similar. Its like saying cat and mean dog. Do you say I'm going to understand that? Somehow, I have been here for like three days, and I understand pretty much, but if something is hard to understand, English or Kurdish works out! (No, I don't speak Kurdish, but my boyfriend and his cousin that lives here does). With other words, its nice to be a little bit away from anything, like when I was out shooting earlier. The feeling of being all alone is so amazing, because every single moment there is people around me. If it not anyone I know, there is some of the people living here, that I have not met yet.

About the place  I was shooting, its really beautiful. This is one of the entrance to the house here, and the first time I walked trough it it was really scary. It was all dark outside and the trees is so lo that I got almost everything in my head.. But, when I saw it in daylight, I couldn't say anything but "This is beautiful!" 

Heyhey Sweden!

At the moment, I'm sitting on a bus to Sweden, and i'm crossing the country-line short time. Witch means I cannot use my own mobile-internet, if I don't want a hell of a bill to pay(Sorry for the language). So, I have to use a really bad network, that my spotify don't even like. So, music, bye bye!
But, as I have understand, I can use the internet pretty much on the evenings in Garmian's house. (The one we going to live with in Sweden. So, that means I can upload! *Super happyface x1000*

This picture is taken in Oslo the last time I was there, I have just never got to upload it. Today, I didn't had the time to capture anything, my boyfriend was already so slow that we almost missed the buss(even trough we was in Oslo 2 hours early!)

Okay, then I was in Sweden, witch means a bad network. So I think I should stick to Facebook and Photoshop.. lol

Edit: This was supposed to be posted one hour ago, but the network didn't allow me to..

Just for family, you know

The last week we had family visit from England. With other words I have been around in Norway just taking family pictures. Kinda boring, but the visit was fun. So I haven't had time to shoot anything but some photos of my new necklace I've got. When I was in Oslo we has some extra time, so that was what I spend my time doing. While everyone else was talking about how nice the city is. Sorry, I think I've seen it to many times to love it, lol.
So, just a little update on why I haven't been so active. By the way I'm going away for a week too, and don't know how much I can be online. But I'm going to bring both my camera and my computer!

One of the pictures of my necklace. Isn't it beautiful?

This picture actually means a lot to me. You will probably ask why, but that's because of how I have captured it. My favorite motive, flowers and my baby(the dog) is both in it, and this two things is what keeping me up these days. Yes, I have my boyfriend and things like this, but seriously, my dog and flowers is what keeps me going at the moment. 

I know the dog loves me, and to have him cuddling with me in the bed every single night, and to take walks up in the forest with him, is so relaxing and warm. I really love him, and although his not been mine very long, he has taken a really big part of my heart already.

Jacki really love to play with balls, and to run after them. And even thought he's little, he is surprisingly fast!  

I'm in love...

...with Digital Photography School! I have read, read, grabbed my camera and read a little more, for about 2 weeks now. So, really, I'm totally in love with Digital Photography School(or DPS as I'm prefer to call it). There are really so many great tips there, and you can learn so much small things that is so much worth, but that is hard to teach all by yourself!

When I'm already writing about this, I recommend you all to read  the "100 things I've learned about photography"-link, that you can find by clicking here.

Image borrowed from the writer of the list, Markus Reugels. Click here for the image source.

The writer of the list is German, and writes his blog in Germanic. But he has translated the list to English for publishing to DPS. Nice guy, right?

I freakin' miss you

I think I failed a lot with this shot, but the thoughts behind it were to tell a little story. I have read so much about it and seen so many examples on it lately that I just had to try it out myself. So, as I hope you understand, the basic meaning, that I miss my boyfriend too much. The necklace is supposed to mean something from him that I keep with me. Yah, you could interpret it in your way. And if you want to, tell me what you see or think of when you see this picture?

By the way, this book is something I drag with me almost everywhere! I'm not happy with that I soon have to buy a new one, because of everything I have written down in it, hehe

A little fairy; selfportrait

Picture I took a while ago, edited on the wings and a butterfly in Photoshop. What do you think?

The start of a photography blog!

For a little while, I have really missed to have a place to write a little about my photography and share things I found useful. So, I'll start this blog basically to be an inspiration to others, and to share things I don't feel I can share everywhere else.  So, just a very short information about me, behind the screen and camera; My name is Christina, i'm 16 years old and live in Norway. I love to photograph, take walks with my camera and be inspired both by things I see myself and things that others capture.

Purple sky and purple flowers.