I learned how to embed images and when to use each of the types of images like PNG, JPEG TIFF etc. so we can use them in the proper way to each of the purposes.
Writing a little bit about the image I inserted is a really good idea because helps to tell the whole story about the album the of the Rock band Radiohead.
I had the problem of that an image had a bit of pixelation but I solve it on Photoshop.
Next I will search other blogs to see how they manage their pictures.
Writing this article was a bit more difficult than the first one because it was longer and deeper but the difference was that with this one I know a little bit more of what I am talking about because I reaserched and also this article was complemented with the photos of the Photo Story module.
It was important to practice how to write an article in a proper way and how to tell it in an interesting way.
The problem I encounter was the length because as writing is a not that easy thing to do for me 800 words were a lot! but finally I found the way to keep telling the story.
I will keep getting into new and interesting fashion blogs to learn how other people write their articles in a fashion way.
“To own a vintage piece is like being part of its never-ending story. It is a … Style of Life”. That was a quote I found in Retro Boutique, a vintage store located in Hyde Park corner in Leeds.
Carolina González Franco
Vintage clothing is defined as garments constructed from the 1920s to 1980s, otherwise retro is a term that refers to clothing imitating a particular style of a previous era.
Why vintage items are so fascinating? Why do people value them?
I was talking with Catherine, my flat mate who loves going to vintage fairs and look all of these vintage items such as clothes, purses, rings, pins, bracelets, furniture everything related with vintage.
She told me some reasons why an old item it’s much more interesting than a new one that you can buy in clothes chains, “I really love vintage items, there is a story behind them, they are not all the same, sometimes are better made than new ones” she said.
Own style
Identity as a part of a human nature has been attacked by fashion in a massive way, when people watch celebrities on the TV, some of them go and copy exactly the look of someone just because its famous and they might think something like: “so if she is famous the way she dresses its right”.
If I would start talking about right or wrong I would never end but the thing is that with mass productions sometimes you don’t take a chance to be more unique or inventive, which I consider is a really important thing.
Creativity while getting dressed
As Albert Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” But what I really think is you need both to get a great result applying that to a lot of things we can even imagine, is when you take that knowledge and imagination and you explore that even more important thing, the creativity.
Living in a world where a lot of things had became fast and ready, when businessman try to save some money and made things with lower price but lower quality and there is a lot of consumerism, people goes for cheap and bad made things, every time is difficult to find nice things made by care and with high quality materials opposite to some vintage, antique and handmade ones.
Get into retro
I was talking with my professor Pam about my self- directed project, which actually is about retro-vintage fabrics and she suggest me to visit the Bird´s Yard boutique, located near to the Corn exchange in a very popular area where you can find a lot of different vintage and retro stores.
It is a very interesting 3-floor-building where you can find a lot of kinds of articles like clothes, shoes, and accessories and so on.
Knowing the milliner
While I was taking my photos for the Photo story module I met Melissa Dawson, who studied HNC millinery in Leeds College of Art and Design.
She works on the first floor in the Sighs and Whispers Boutique as milliner and dressmaker.
Her hats are just amazing, she make vintage inspired hats and vintage inspired children’s clothes and reproductions of vintage children’s clothes.
Some inspiration
Her 3 little children inspired her to do this task, “I love them to look like proper little girls, no sequence, no sparkly silly things just good old fashion floral print all the way!” she said, which I notice on her designs, there was those really pretty floral print dresses for little girls which were made of cotton fabrics and details like buttons in cherry shape and others.
Vintage inspired
One that took my attention was a dress with cute skulls, the fabric was just lovely and the combination of flowers and skulls was very unique.
The hats were so beautiful, the one I like the most was a beautiful 40s inspired hat with a big turquoise flower and brown and white feathers which I used in my fashion photo shoot project.
“I love the women look elegant and glamorous” she said, and when I looked at her hats I really saw those characteristics reflected on them.
The fashion photo shoot
After I saw that hat matched so good with the jumpsuit I chose for the vintage inspired photo shoot.
I asked my friend Mari Salmela, to be my model and she agreed immediately, she was so excited about the shooting because she has never being in one before although she is really pretty.
The styling process was great and we had a lot of fun doing it, she looked like a real lady from the 40s, so elegant, classy and pretty; totally a vintage girl.
So let’s get influenced by vintage clothes a little bit more, because vintage inspired style is so unique and wonderful!
* What topics are you most interested in as a journalist?
I am interested in topics such as fashion magazines, fashion blogs, local fashion designers and music.
* Which blogs, news sites and forums cover these topics best? Try to come up with five or six examples. Google them if you can’t think of any off the top of your head.
tavi-thenewgirlintown.blogspot.com
highsnobiety.com
whatkatiewore.com
http://www.stylescrapbook.com/
* Do you have any hobbies or interests
I like listening to music, reading fashion magazines, singing and playing guitar, watching fashion Tv, taking photos.
* Which blogs, news sites and forums cover these topics best. Again five or six examples will do.
When the task was complete, you gave feedback to the group.
http://www.leblogdebetty.com/en/
This task was very useful because is important to identify my interests and the blogs as a personal and as a journalist that I am interested in to know which kind of blogs influence my work.
Sometimes is a bit difficult to identify the blogs that are about my interests but finally I found them.
It would much easier to create the blog knowing what kind of blogs I like and also with the magazine.
Next I will keep writing and finding interesting things to post in my blog.
I learned the way to license a work which can be a photo, video or anything related that you upload on the net.
This licenses are important because they let material be copied, distributed and edited all within the boundaries of copyright law and can be found on the Creative Commons page: www.creativecommons.org
This is a very useful information which I can apply in the future while licensing any media that belongs to me under the terms of the license that benefits me.
Creative Commons give to its users a way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work.
Doing this, material can be copied, distributed and edited all within the boundaries of copyright law.
All Creative Commons licenses have features in common that protect the users to have their material.
There are 6 types of licences that are:
Let other distribute remix and change the material as long as they credit the original creator.
Its similar to the first one with the diference that this one gives any material derivated from yours the same licence and allows it to be comercial.
Allows comercial and not comercial distribution as long as passed the whole content with no changes and credit the autor.
Is for no-commercial material and allows to remix and change. They dont have to license the derivate works.
Allows to change non commercial material as long as they credit the autor.
Allows to download the material without changing or use it comercially and credit the autor.
The 3 licences are related to photographic media, which is mentionated on the Legal Code on the WORK section.
<a rel=”license” href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/”><img alt=”Creative Commons License” style=”border-width:0″ src=”http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88×31.png” /></a><br /><span xmlns:dct=”http://purl.org/dc/terms/” href=”http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage” property=”dct:title” rel=”dct:type”>Fashion shot</span> by <a xmlns:cc=”http://creativecommons.org/ns#” href=”https://carogfranco.wordpress.com/” property=”cc:attributionName” rel=”cc:attributionURL”>Carolina Gonzalez</a> is licensed under a <a rel=”license” href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/”>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License</a>.
I learned how to optimise an image by using Photoshop, embed an image into a post and making an slideshow.
This is important because when you are writing a post and want to add some images you need to know how to use quality images by choosing the size and modifying other aspects of the image in this program.
I also learned when to use each of the types of images like PNG, JPEG TIFF etc. so we can use them in the proper way to each of the purposes.
I had the problem of that an image had a bit of pixelation but I solve it on Photoshop.
Next I will search other blogs to see how they manage their pictures.
The happy couple is getting married as they announced officially the past 7th November 2010.
Prince William gave to his girlfriend Kate Middleton the engagement ring that belonged to his mother Princess Diana.
The ring is a oval blue 18-carat sapphire and diamond, which was given while they were on holiday in Kenya a month before.
According to Mail Online In front of the world’s press, he said: ‘It is very special to me. It was my way to make sure my mother did not miss out on today and the excitement that we are going to spend the rest of our lives together.’
Radiohead, the rock band dropped their new album The King of Limbs on Saturday February 19.
They announced from their official website thekingoflimbs.com.
The album wil be available in two versions one as a download and one as a newspaper album which is going to be available on may 9.
The newspaper album will contain the CD, two vinyl records and artwork sheets.
This album is the newest since their last album which was called “In rainbows” in the year of 2007.
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