Photography on Rainy Days

I took this photo on a rainy day without an umbrella on a Canon DSLR. I know, I sound pretty stupid for bringing my camera outside when it is raining without an umbrella but I can’t seem to stop. I feel heavier when I bring an umbrella and way more noticeable. I find it hard to take sincere photos when everyone knows I have a camera on me. I have even started to shoot from the waist up but I digress. If you want to take photos in the rain, don’t be a cheap camera destroyer like me, get a waterproof case. You will be very happy with the results and your camera will be very safe.

But if you do decide on being a cheap camera destroyer, here are some tips:

1) Stand somewhere where the rain water isn’t dripping too much.

2) If you’re in an open space, keep the camera close to your body.

3) Know what your shot is going to look like before you take it. Pre-compose your shot so that when you do take out your camera, you can take a quick photo with it becoming soaking wet.

But seriously, keep your camera safe. Don’t be a reckless turtle like me.

- Esther Turay 

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Another Reason to go visit Roosevelt Island

Roosevelt Island is a severely underrated island in New York City. It has quaint restaurants, friendly people, a cool art gallery and an interesting set of sculptures in the East River called The Marriage of Real Estate and Money by Tom Otterness, cool name right? One of the statues represents when Real Estate doesn’t make money, another shows when they “live” together harmoniously, and the other one shows the economy when real estate is nonexistent. Though I really do not care about economic studies, these statues interest me because when the river is in high tide, the imbalanced statues look like they’re sinking but the balanced statues stays the same. It’s an unnoticed genius and it makes me wonder how he calculated the depth of the river to suit the idea he was trying show. I think Ms. Cogan’s Bridge project has forever forced me to see the math behind everything. Did he have to use algebra? Was his information accurate? Did he even care about accuracy? Wow. Baruch has definitely affected what I think of as entertaining. No life :’(

If anyone cares, I took this photo on my Canon D1100 on monochrome setting. It was lightly drizzling at some point but my camera’s a trooper. "

- Esther Turay

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Instagram

Instagram is an app created for smart phones is used to take or upload pictures and share them with the people that follow you. Instagram has a bunch of different filters from you to choose from for you to alter your photo. You can make your picture look really bright, dark, black and white or even vintage. Instagram has become increasingly popular in the past year or so. It’s a pretty entertaining app because you can take pictures of anything from the Christmas tree at Rockefeller to your iced latte from Starbucks. Instagram is filled with pictures from a variety of topics. It’s a great way to keep up with your friends and see what they’re up too. It’s basically a Facebook made up of pictures. You can also follow celebrities that you like which I love because you get to see what their interests are and it’s their own personal account so nothing has to be approved by their publicists and such. You can see the real person inside your idol and the way they express themselves. Don’t worry about creepers following you either, because you control who is allowed to follow you and view your photos with privacy settings. Overall Instagram is a great app to have.

- Eleftheria Kalaitzis, Entertainment

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Stupid people or Genius Phones?

Hello fellow Baruchians, it’s me again with another strange picture. I actually took this picture awhile back but it always makes me laugh when I look at it. It is a good memory and it reminds me that technology is amazing and is very dual in its artificial nature. Technology, such as smartphones, can be used to do stupid things yet they can also be used to do pretty ground-breaking things. Smartphones such as iPhones are groundbreaking pieces of technology themselves.Technology can also connect large groups of people or friends around the world yet it can also be a form of separation to those who don’t have it. Depending on the person, technology is a tool that can be used to help, to enlighten, to make easier, to hurt, to drag down etc.

Remember, it is not the technology that is evil but the person behind it. Nuclear energy isn't evil, some people just use it for evil things. Wow, I’m going off on a tangent.This is all very deep stuff for this picture.

If there is one thing you will derive from this it should be Technology is very important and that you should buy Esther Turay an iPhone 5. Thank you in advance!"

- Esther Turay, Entertainment - Photography

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Elle Vole

I took this image on Tuesday, October 2nd on Roosevelt Island (where I do happen to live). It was a rainy day--those are becoming more common lately. I welcome the rain because this summer was ridiculously hot. Seriously, I thought my face was going to melt off. 

This photo is of my niece jumping over a puddle. To me, it looks a bit as if she's levitating.  This image is supposed to make the audience feel...displaced. I hope the reader will be interested while looking at this picture. I hope the reader will feel a sort of blending of the "supernatural" and the natural world. If you see a cross-dressing pirate, that's ok too.

I shot this at the fastest shutter speed I could so that I would be able to capture the image. We failed multiple times but we were both too determined to give up. So she jumped...and I got splashed one too many times -_-

If I could add one more thing to this image it would be another person looking up, surprised. Besides that, I actually am a bit happy I took this photo even though my camera got wet. I suffer for you, readers of the awesome Blogging Baruch.

- Esther Turay 

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Say hello!

Welcome back to another year at Baruch! Or for many of you, your first year. With all of the sports and club activities starting these past few weeks, perhaps you haven't gotten the chance to say hello to the new faces in the building. From transfer students, to the class of 2016, new people are here and the hallways are bustling. Whether within your own class, or in the hallways, introduce yourself to someone you don't already know-maybe you'll be meeting a new best friend- you never know until you try. 

In photo(from left to right) Ajali Harrison, Sasha Didkovsky, and Jeremy Yong

-Asia Davis 

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