Fun pictures

Its amazing how certain software can enhance one’s creativity, while others add to the fun factor. Some seem to cross the line and cover the two characteristics… take face recognition software partnered with preset templates of fun situations, and what can normally come off as uninspiring pictures can be looked at with a new vein of interest. Case in point, here’s a picture of me in one of my serious modes – though in this case, I come across as possibly too dour to share such a photo in, say Facebook or Friendster (my opinion, of course). But… add the template I chose and viola… suddenly, a boring picture looks – well, less boring, to say the least don’t you think? Granted, that the template is in monotones – now the picture will be give a second glance, and people may wonder… when did this happen?

The template is care of Photofunia – with the same site address, just add a ‘.com’ at the end of it, and you’re on your way to having fun, Though at times, the template combined with the face may look awkward, and this is where the added creativity comes in… combining the right picture with the right template. Some people have the natural eye for this – others need to do lots of trial and error. I humbly agree to being a little of both, and as you can see… some of my experiments bore fruit. This of course, considers the fact that I’m pulling from a library of existing pictures and not creating pictures that are tailor fit for these templates. Take for example this next picture of what seems to be a shopping mall’s walkway with all those fashion posters… well if you look closely to those posters, that’s a picture of Barbie with the Subic Yacht club’s harbor view at the background. I tried thinking what would look natural with the template, and this picture seemed to fit the bill – as was my dour expression in the black and white television, which comes across as a person being interviewed or being grilled (or doing the grilling).

Here’s another picture that I thought was going to be an easy mix – unfortunately, whenever I tried using this picture of Bryce holding a gun; just a replica, mind you… but the picture does not show this – I was having difficulty with it coming across as fun with just any template. For some reason, it just looked wrong.

I was having problems with the ‘gun’ being too serious… unless there was a template of an action movie. So if the gun was coming across as too strong, how would I soften it? Well, how about the cat? its a good contrast to the picture, and Bryce’s leaning a bit on the right was perfect… as if he was avoiding the cat’s paw… and some might even interpret the picture as him being ready to shoot the cat – I hope not. After all, as this template shows – he is not real here, but a computer wallpaper… and the cat is just on top of the monitor. So yeah… the cat softened the overall look of the picture.

Another template that is print advertizing inspired is this picture of Jogie that I took, holding a rubber shoe – it just seemed to fit the theme. A little background on the picture, we saw the shoe and wanted to let Ben (my brother-in-law) know about it, as it looked like a perfect match to a certain colored denim he had. Since Ben was not with us, we decided to take the shoe’s picture, so he could see it. Hence Jogie holding the shoe to the camera – who’d a thought it would come across as a viable shoe ad? I didn’t, at least, until I saw this template and tried combining both.

Then there’s Bernice as a subject in a photo gallery – simple and cute… no other need for describing it in any other manner… and yes, thanks again to fun software like Photofunia without which, fun pictures like these would just be left to the imagination. I’ve others… and I’ll share them at another post – right now, I’ve other things to do. So until next time… enjoy these pictures, and by all means, try out Photofunia when you get the time – and pictures to play with.

~ by Butch Syyap on February 13, 2009.