Blue & white bouquet

Hello readers! I'm going to start a new little series with photo tips and information I think some of you might enjoy. I've spent this day in Gothenburg, doing some shopping and such, but this early evening I spent shooting some of the first example photos to my first part of photo tips. The result didn't get quite like I wanted it to be and most of my photos where taken with a too high ISO because I forgot to change the settings... Because of that I had do take all photos again and it was just very annoying. I guess I could take the bad photos and make some kind of "Fail Friday" post of that. Haha, I guess we'll see that in some days, or maybe not?

I'm currently writing and doing research to make my first part of photo tips, it's probably going to be about Preset white balance (PWB) and I hope you will find it informative. If you hadn't already noticed I sorted out the categories/tags so now they are more well done and you can see all my tags to the left. I also made it possible for you to be able to get an email every time I make a new post. Have a nice day! :)

A couple of flowers

Hi everybody! I hope you enjoyed yesterdays post, I really tried to do my best and give you relevant information. Somehow I feel like I'm going to regret doing that post because months later I'm going to figure out just how bad it was... Maybe? I don't know really but if you would like to see more posts that isn't just filled with photos but also more about photographing, editing and things like that: tell me! Like the post, comment, send emails and all that. By doing that I know what content is the best so that I can post more of it!

A lot of people wanted book review back so I'm bringing it back. I'm currently reading and the review is going to be posted as soon as I manage to finish the book. Some of the most liked posts are the ones with sweets so I'm going to make some more of dose too, hopefully soon. I feel like this week is going to be me preparing a lot of posts so sorry if it's boring this week :)

Best free photo editors

Hi there! The photo editors I'm going to show you are my favourites and I use them all the time. The ones to your computer works good with Linux (Ubuntu) since that's what my own computer is. I've tried all things out for myself and if it says it also work on Windows I've tried it there too, as for Mac/iOS I haven't tried it out for myself. If it says it will work on Mac/iOS I wrote it out after doing a bit of research but never tried myself because I don't have any Apple devices. I hope you find this helpful!

Pixlr

Form: App (Android/iOS), software (Windows/Mac), web apps (you can access all webb apps in Chrome, in Mozilla you can't use Pixlr Touch up)
Website: https://pixlr.com/
Positive:
+ Pixlr is simple to use but you can still do a lot of things with it.
+ I love the idea that you can use it online, on your phone or on your computer.
+ None of the different versions have given me any problems, everything works fine. Most of the time I use the web app Pixlr Express. If I have time I also like to go through the web app Pixlr Touch up.
+ You don't have to sign up to use the web app unless you would like to.
Negative:
-  In Express you have the ability to make a collage if you want but every time I use this feature I find that the quality of my pictures don't end up very good. If I save the highest possible quality I still don't find that my photos look that good after being saved.
-  I don't like that it's software isn't compatible with Ubuntu but maybe it'll come in the future.
-  In order to use the app/web app you need to be online.

PicMonkey

Form: Web app (all browsers)
Website: http://www.picmonkey.com/
Positive:
+ It's super good to make collages with.
+ You can easily choose seize, shape, colours and so much more.
+ It's not needed to sign up and you can do a lot of things.
+ You can use this to edit, touch up or make some kind of banner with your own photos.
+ If you just want to play around you could also just start with one of the photos they provide.
Negative:
-  Not everything is free.
-  If you would like to be able to use all features they have you have to be a Royale member. They give you a first free month but after that you will have to pay in order to continue your Royale membership.
- Because it's a web app you will need to be online in order to be able to edit and save.

Gimp

Form: Software (works with everything)
Website: http://www.gimp.org/
Positive:
+ You can do whatever you would like to do.
+ It's more advanced than the previous two and I feel like it's all of Pixlr's different web apps combined in one.
+ It doesn't matter if you have Windows/Mac/Ubuntu or anything other because of the information I could find online everyone can use it.
+ You can download packs with brushes and things like that that adds on to your software.
+ Because it's a software you can also edit when you are offline as well.
Negative:
-  I wouldn't recommend to complete beginners if they just want to edit a photo fast. It can take some time to get used to the program and the best way to get to know it is by just simply playing around with all different settings you find but that can take some time.

BeautyPlus - Magical Camera

Form: App (Android/iOS)
Website: None
Rating: 4,3 stars in Google Play
Positive:
+ It's very easy to handle.
+ You have a lot of different things you can do to your photo like different filters, lighten skin, remove pimples etc.
+ Good results and it doesn't take very long.
Negative:
- This app is for selfies/portraits and I don't think it would work very well on something else, except for filters maybe.
- You need to be online to use the app.

Parc pics - 4

Hello everyone! It's time for the last part of park pics. I can't really say that I saved the best to the end because in my opinion all photos where good and I wouldn't post anything I find terrible ugly or bad. Tomorrow is going to be special just as I said in the last post - if you read that you know that but maybe you got bored and didn't finish reading it? If that's the case I will just tell you again today! :) People requested that I write a longer text, a bit like a rant I guess, on different topics. I'm going to try and do that tomorrow and if you like it and would like me to write anything about a certain topic feel free to leave that as a comment or email or anything! :)

Midsummer + starting new things

Good evening everyone! Since I bloged last time it's been a whole week. It's because I've been super sick. I had trouble finishing and posting the last post I made but I thought that I would feel better the very next day and that blogging wouldn't be a problem. Oh, how wrong was I there? Probably 8 on a 1-10 scale. I didn't sleep anything that night and not the nights after that either. My stomach felt like it turned upside down and I was in pain, I was tired and I after some days I was feeling very dehydrated too. Worst part is that it lasted a really long time. I didn't start to feel better until maybe Wednesday when I took some pills. Whatever I ate (because I think that's what caused it but I'm not very sure) I hope I'll never eat again. This was the worst I've felt since... I don't even know when I felt this bad last time?

I'm feeling good now, back to my old me. The pills made the difference and I almost regret not taking them earlier. But moving on from that topic. Today was midsummer, it's a Swedish holiday and it basically is to celebrate summer and it's every year close to the summer solstice. You wear flower crowns, eat strawberry cake and if you want you can dance around the maypole. It's fun :)

I didn't really think about blogging about midsummer so all photos I managed to get was some on the cake so I'll post that today. Tomorrow will be the last part of park pics and something different will be happening on Sunday! A lot of people ask me things like: "Could you make a post about your opinion on this?" and "Please blog about what you think about that!". When I a wile ago asked on how to improve my blog a few people wrote what I can sum up as more text. I'm going to try and do that and maybe even starting book review again because so many people asked for it. Book reviwe is the most commonly thing asked for, so I'm thinking about starting that again during the summer! :)

Park pics - 3

Hello everybody! As I've mentioned it's starting to get pretty warm around here, it's been about 20°C this whole week and I must say I'm a little tired of it already. The air feels so heavy, my skin burns in the sun (just like a vampire, I know) and all lakes are still to cold for me to bathe in. Still, I know I'll get used to it and at the end of summer I will be complaining about how freezing 15°C is, haha :) But really, the worst part of summer is having to change foundation shade because you are getting a bit more tanned. At the same time, your legs look like they are painted with white colour and your feet are too tanned to match your legs. Ah, the struggles of summertime :p

Park pics - 2

Hi there! Today's the first day of my summer break and I started this day of by getting up at noon... Maybe not the best start but I feel really refreshed and ready to do some blogging. I though I was being really productive and things like that but then I realised it's almost 6PM :) A lot of people have asked me to do some kind of "monthly favourites" so I'm preparing for doing that first post in the end of this month. You can feel that it's summer now, it's warm and sunny. There's also a lot of disgusting insects, but I guess that's part of summer too.

The photos from Slottskogen was fun to take but I really like the photos of the deer. Months ago I managed to capture a deer in my garden, the photos where shoot from my bedroom window, super zoomed-in and blurry. I must admit that I laughed a bit at myself, remembering the photos I shoot then. At that time I was very pleased with those bad photos and I felt skilled that managed to get "good" photos of a deer, haha :)

Park pics - 1

Hello everyone! Today was the day before my last day of school and my class went to a park in Gothenburg, the park is called Slottskogen. We all spent the whole day there, it was really sunny and very hot. I was sweating the whole time and no one was allowed to take any pictures of me because I probably looked terrible! So, no photos of me, but I shoot a whole bunch of photos. It's going to be four parts and I'm going to post throughout the week.

My day was good, even if I didn't like the heat. I'm very glad that it didn't rain or anything like that. My legs and feet are tired after wandering around in the park between 8:50-14:25 and I'm sleepy. Probably going to bed soon after posting this, haha! :) The photos turned out good, in my opinion at least. I hope you enjoy them!

Fresh strawberry pastry

Hello readers! I'm so bad at weekend blogging, I'm sorry! Not much have happened, I've mostly just been home and read some good books, had many good cups of tea, spent hours on instagram and yesterday I was of to the stable to do some horse back riding. I'm really going to try and make a post this Wednesday but if it doesn't come up it's because it's my last day of school and it was probably late when I got back home. These days are going to be a bit busy but I'm going to do my best to keep up with blogging this week because after that it's summer.

In today's post the photos are from the cute strawberry pastry my mum did. As you can tell the pastry is topped with strawberries and whipped cream. Under the topping is a sliced Swiss roll filled with chocolate and whipped cream. The taste is very fresh, not that heavy sweet taste you sometimes can get. I really like it! :)

Strawberries&sunset!

Hello readers! Today has been a nice day, it's been sunny, fairly warm and not to much wind. Since I'm still sick and the post I made yesterday might not have been the most fun to read I decided to post today as well. Today's sunset was really pretty and I watched it wile eating the first strawberries this year. I really love strawberries but I'm also very picky with them, I usually only eat Swedish strawberries that's brought fresh. In fact - I'm generally a really picky eater whatever food it is. :) Anyway, I hope you enjoy this little mid-week post and come back tomorrow!

Evening blogging

Hi everybody! I ate some bad food yesterday and today I'm feeling sick. It feels like I'm just getting sick all the time, and it's very annoying. Summer holiday is coming up and I don't want to spend it being sick every other week or so. I tried going outside and shoot some photos in the garden but the weather is also very bad. The wind was just messing up my shoots and then it started hailing so I just took some pictures of the cats because I'm so tired of everything. Hopefully I'm feeling better tomorrow and I can maybe make a post then :)

Mother's day - 2

Hi guys! It's 1st June today but it doesn't feel like summer at all. It might look like summer when the sun is shining but it hailed and rained this entire day. Also, the temperature haven't got above 15°C. I want it to start getting a little warmer and maybe a bit less rain. Anyway, today's post is going to be the second part of the mother's day post. Enjoy :)