06 May

Creating content through my own lens

05:01

One of the things about 

creating your own content, including taking your own pictures and doing whatever you choose to do with those pictures, is that you can show what you're trying to show through the images in the way that you create your content. 

You can show what you're trying to show through the images in the way that you create your content. 

It can be hard to get someone else to see what you see when you're trying to direct them to create content for you, or create images or videos for you, or take the pictures for you. 

Your eye is going to see something different, the same way as your eye will see something different than what the actual cell phone or smartphone will see.

[example] I have a Samsung, and my Samsung will automatically make a little circle and say, "best shot." Well, the majority of the time, those best shots, although they may be perfect in clarity, they don't show what I want to show. For example, the other day I was taking a picture of a sausage McMuffin, and it gave me the best shot of the sausage McMuffin, but it didn't give me a full shot of the picture that included the wrapper and the complete wrapper and the sausage McMuffin. It just zoomed in on the sausage McMuffin. That's what the computer thought was the best shot. Well, that was not my eye.

So going back to my eye, I took some pictures of my mirrors. I was trying to show about the chemical balance had been fixed at the car wash. I took my left picture, took my right picture, and then I took the driver's side window that showed the window was wet at the time that I took the picture. And then later on, within a couple of minutes, it cleared up and it was a nice clear window. I did the first picture as a collage, and I added the picture of the two mirrors in the window, but I forgot that I had did a screenshot of the window that zoomed in on the dots a little bit better, or the streaking of the water being wet from the rubber of the window going up and down. So my first collage, I used the wrong third image.

Then I made a second collage, and I replaced the window image with the screenshot, which was fine. But after I got that one, and I was about to add my logo, I noticed that the passenger side mirror that says, "objects in mirror are closer than they appear," only part of that was showing in my second collage.

 Now at the time that I was creating the content, that wasn't something I was focused on. But when my eye saw that in the collage, I said, "oh wow, that looks nice." So I redid the collage and focused the picture so that it would show that writing in the collage. Then I added my logo and I added that picture to the recording that I had done.

Now mind you, that was not on my mind when I was creating the content. I saw it at that time. I thought it would look good. I made the correction. 

It's [this personal correction] not what can be done when somebody else is doing the content creation for you because they're going to see something different. 

Thus, I do recommend to service business owners, learn the basics, learn how to create your own content, and then when you want to do the mass content posting, yeah, let somebody else do it. 

But if you want something that makes you feel good when you look at it later, 

that makes you feel good at two in the morning, 

you're going to have to create some of your own content. 

Rico here, ... Later.

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