iPhone Pro Review for Street Photography
My current thoughts: For street photography the optimal cameras include RICOH GR III or iPhone Pro/11. Let me explain:
October 2019
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I am my Ego
A stronger ego is the best ego.
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iPhone Pro Initial Review
Currently playing with the new iPhone Pro and here are my thoughts:
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How to Get People to Like You
Many of us strive to be “likeable”or “liked”. Now, what does this really mean, and should it be something we should strive towards? And if so, how can we do it?
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Digital Hunter Gatherer
A concept I’ve not heard yet— a “digital hunter gatherer”. We already have this notion of a “digital nomad”— but why not the hunter gatherer lifestyle?
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Life Experiment: Intermittent Fasting, Walk around all day, Workout Three Times
An interesting life experiment today, which is the happiest day I’ve ever had:
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Congratulate Others on their Attempts, not their Results
The secret to creating great individuals, who achieve great things:
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Educate and Entertain: Marketing 101
An effective lesson from my buddy Horace (Ars Poetica, On the Art of Poetry) is this: In order to succeed, both entertain while educating the other.
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Happiness is Physiological
A thought: Perhaps when we are “unhappy” it isn’t a sign of our mental well-being, it is a sign of our physiological (physical) well-being. Therefore is our goal is to become “happier”, perhaps the goal should be to maximize our physiological strength, vigor, energy, and life! Now, how to do this? Some ideas: Vigorous massage:…
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We desire to capture raw emotion and life in our photos
A realization what we really want to achieve as photographers: To capture raw, unfiltered, genuine, and “real” emotions from other humans (and ourselves). For example: In street photography, we want to capture “authentic” moments, emotions, etc. This is why we generally like “unposed” photos; we believe we can capture more authentic emotions this way. In…
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The Calorie Myth
What is worse for you: Eating 2,000 calories a day of Twinkies everyday for a week? Eating 2,000 calories of fatty sirloin steak everyday for a week? Obviously eating 2,000 of calories a day of Twinkies will be worse. Why? Let me explain:
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What is Superior, What is Inferior?
Why are we so hungry to discover the ‘best’ approach?
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How to Become a Successful Photographer
Practical ideas:
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Potency
Making more potent art, drinking more potent coffee, making yourself more potent in life?
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Why RICOH GR III is the Best Camera
RICOH GR III as currently the best camera on the market, and the best camera made (thus far). Why? Let me explain:
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Minimalism in Photography
Why I prefer more minimalist aesthetics in photography:
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Extreme Minimalism
Extreme minimalism and extreme simplicity as the driver of innovation, growth, and strength?
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How to Motivate Yourself to Go Out and Make New Photos
Our bloodline of photographers is to constantly be making new photos — making new photos as we breathe, as our heart beats, or how our eyes see and perceive!
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Anti Balance in Life
A Balanced Life isn’t the Best Life
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PORTLAND 2019
Portland great for:
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MORE LIFE!
Perhaps what we are seeking from life is more life. To live more, to experience more, to create more, to consume more, to recycle more, to become more powerful, to synthesize more, and to become more!
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All Photos are Good Photos
A realization: When we try to trap ourselves within a certain genre of photography, we become prisoners. Better to unchain yourself from photographic concepts, and simply allow yourself to photograph anything AND everything!
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Disinform, Distract, Discourage
The three vices of modern media. This is why I don’t watch, follow, or read the news, social media, blogs, websites, magazines, etc.
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Blogging over Books
A thought while at Powell’s bookstore: There are SO MANY books out there. To make another book doesn’t seem to help much with the glut of information out there. Also, most published books can probably be published as blog posts (or could be 99% shorter). So what if instead of aspiring to make more books,…
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UPWARDS!
Upwards, to the heights and beyond / Staunch in your goals, embrace ideas from the whole world. Fly higher, disdain the plane. Train yourself to thrive with challenge — this is the secret to fun. Shun the basic and easy, and craft your own virtues for yourself. You’re beyond the hand you’ve been dealt. Appropriate…
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The Soul of the Photographer
The soul of the photographer: the essence of the photographer. How the photographer sees the world (their perspective), their aesthetic and ethical choices, their subject matter, and their personal philosophy.
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Composition is Proportion
A thought: Perhaps composition is all about ratios, proportions, relativity.
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Only Compete Against Yourself
Why does it matter if they’re natural or not? Just watched ICARUS documentary (loved it), and have been thinking a lot about drugs, steroids, performance enhancing drugs, etc— and have been thinking about notions of: “Natural” vs “unnatural” “Fairness” vs “unfairness” Playing “clean” vs playing “dirty” Effort vs Generics Privilege vs Unprivileged The question is:…
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Everyday Uninstall One App from Your Phone
A simple idea: To become more focused and productive, uninstall one app from your phone everyday.
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In Praise of Photographing Nature
Getting my Ansel Adams on:
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Travel Tips
Practical travel tips: All black merino wool clothing. If cold, wear two black merino tshirts on top of one another (thanks to my friend Takashi for the tip). Two black merino t shirts, two black exofficio boxers, two pairs of black Outlier.NYC socks, one pair of black merino leggings, one pair of black Uniqlo stretchy…
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The Future of Street Photography
The future of street photography is extremely bright! Consider: More and more people are moving into cities, and more and more people are shooting with their iPhones and smartphones. Which means street photography (will eventually) become the dominant form and genre of photography.
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The Ultimate Street Photography Tutorial
Everything you need to know to get started in street photography (and to eventually master it)!
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Intentional Ignorance
Via negativa wisdom and focus (Taleb/Nietzsche): Decide what to consciously become ignorant of in order to focus on what you deem as truly great and worthy of yourself.
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Motivation Follows Action
A thought: Perhaps we are thinking the whole motivated thing incorrectly. For example, let’s say I want to photograph and make photos. Instead of needing motivation to go out and shoot, perhaps the correct answer is to first go out and shoot, then discover the motivation while shooting. Or in exercise, you don’t need motivation…
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How to Become a More Courageous Photographer
Practical tips and ideas:
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Why does society want to tame us?
Would you rather be a tame (and obedient, domesticated) animal (sheep), or would you rather be an apex predator (lion, eagle)?
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In Praise of Banging around Your Camera
If your desire is to always be making new photos, don’t be afraid to punish, bang around, scratch, or damage your camera. Treat the dings, scratches, and war marks as a sign of pride! Beauty of use, patina, and “breaking it in”!
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Reverse Lifestyle Creep #moneynotes
An idea: as you get richer, lower your standard of living? For example: as I’ve become richer, I’m less dazzled by the hype of expensive stuff. I think I can gauge my own sincerity more truly now: I prefer “bang for the buck” value over how fancy something is.
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Physically Fit, Artistically Fit.
Theory: To become more artistically and mentally fit, first focus on becoming physically fit.
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Boundless.
Freedom is to have no boundaries, no limits— nothing which can constrain or hold us back.
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Why do we prefer Foreign?
Often when it comes to design, cars, luxury goods, watches, etc — why is it that we prefer the foreign (Italian, French, Japanese)— and not local or domestic? Is it perhaps a dissatisfaction with our own culture and locality — or is there some human desire towards the foreign?
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Art Which Augments your Feeling of Power
What makes good art? Artwork which augments your feeling of power, and uplifts and elevates your spirit!
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Blogging is Streaming
To blog is to stream your thoughts, your soul, your ideas, and your art. The goal isn’t to go viral, or make a perfect blog post; the goal is to never stop streaming you. This means: Don’t self censor yourself when blogging. Write about whatever is on your mind. Don’t stick to a certain subject…
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Street Photography Entrepreneurship Philosophy
This has been my personal street photography entrepreneurship philosophy which has helped me succeed:
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ERIC KIM Lightroom CC Presets (High Contrast) 2019
I made some new High Contrast Lightroom CC (Creative Cloud) presets: this time high-contrast to be applied to my RICOH GR III (high contrast JPEG photos) in order to add even more contrast. These should work quite well for JPEG monochrome images. I have yet test them on RAW images, but check them out and…
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Why is Abnormal and Irregular seen as Bad?
It seems as a society we are striving towards “regularity”, “homeostasis”, predictability, and normality. Are these virtues that we truly desire for ourselves; or are they beneath us?
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Physiological Happiness
When we want ‘happiness’ — what is it exactly that we want? My theory: The best happiness is physiological happiness. What is ‘physiological happiness’? Let me explain:
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Economics: Allocation of Resources
To be “economical” means to “wisely allocate your resources”. These resources include your time, life, energy, money, manpower, etc. Why is having the ability to wisely allocate your resources important? Because:
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Are Indefinite Gains Possible?
A thought: What are our limits?