Doodling with Words and Pictures
It's fun to superimpose text over pictures in the computer -- It is also very practical. A few years ago. I stopped having traditional calling cards made. I've been using my own photo material [occasionally, downloaded images from the internet] and just pasting/superimposing the proper text and cropping the resulting images into rectangles with a 2:3 length to width ratio, then having 4 images laid out and printed on to 4 x 6 photo paper.
I eventually cut the prinout into 4 calling cards [with the same exact dimensions --> 2" x 3"]. Fact is, If I lay out 4 separate calling card designs into that 4" x 6" template and have 10 of these 4" x 6" photo print outs done - I end up having a total of 40 calling cards with 10 pieces of each calling card design.
Why buy Hallmark cards at National Bookstore? With a computer, a decent graphic app [It doesn't have to be Adobe], an artistic eye and any sincere sentiment - Why not DIY ? At this time of the year, I'm already figuring out what personal Holiday messages I might want to impart to the "people I care about" and the accompanying image to match it with. You should try it - It doesn't have to be a perfect image or the perfect text - As long as you manage to put a personal "graphic touch" to it - you'll be surprised at the responseS that you'll get.
Sometimes I just put text over any JPEGs for the heck of it. Wether the text be whimsical nonsensical, erotic, ridiculous, gross it don't matter -- it's really just doodling with words and pictures, or "flexing my artistic muscles in two dimensions", if I may call it that. Delete some, keep some -- whatever -- It's all good.
Here are some of my random favorites :
Legend :
DIJ - downloaded internet JPEG
BG - photo I personally took
DIJ
DIJ
- old calling card design -
BG
- old calling card design -
BG
- old calling card design -
BG
That's Ines Lorenzo [now with the Ateneo Lady Eagles Football Team]
in red, going for the ball [It would have been better image if the ball was caught in frame - thing is, as a sports photojournalist, I NEVER alter
my sports images, I only enhance them] against a member of the Guam Team.
This is a night shot taken at the Philsports Football Field.
BG
I "dropped out" this UAAP Basketball image of Jeric Teng
going up against Basilio, an Adamson player.
This was during Teng's rookie year.
DIJ
BG
The image of the dismantled clarinet is an analogue print,
scanned and converted into a JPEG file.
The raw material used was color negative film.
DIJ
DIJ
BG
I took this photo sometime May of 2010,
at the U.P. in Los Banos.
BG
That's my nephew, Nace Gonzales [a 2008 photo], at present a
member of the Southridge High Football Team.
He is now on his Senior Year.
BG
Southridge vs Ateneo
[an October, 2008 photo]
BG
Arirang vs Army
[a 2008 photo]
BG
- an old calling card -
[a December, 2008 photo]
BG
That's Krissie Drillon, then a keeper for the
Ateneo Lady Eagles football Team.
One of my favorite on-the-spot portraits.
[I actually took only one shot of Krissie
when I caught the sunset backlighting her hair]
[a February, 2009 photo]
BG
- old calling card -
BG
- old layout -
BG
- old layout -
BG
- old layout -
- old calling card -
- old layout -
- old layout -
- old layout -
BG
[a Kodak Black & White Film portrait]
- Classic -
P.S.
My old mobile number, 0915-4414-787, seen on the old designs, has been replaced and my old "soccerrush.multiply.com" site is now obsolete.
- Bing Loyzaga look-alike [NOT Bing] -
- Mylene Dizon -
The two call cards above are the current ones I've been giving away, as of late.
Soon enough I'll share a few more
brosi gonzales
