20210328

¿Cómo saber a que me quiero dedicar? / How to know what I want to do in life?

Someone asked me that question. And reminds my young me.

I don't know what to study. 

and the classic answer you get when you start to ask this to people (specially those around you) is; Do what you like the most. (sometimes they call it "passion" whatever that means) looks like they just repeat what they heard without really know why they said that... like duh, of course. If I know where to go I will don't even botter to ask!

I relate when someone said "I don't know what to study" what should I do?. There's so many things I like.

The short answer is "You will never know". But bear with me. I will explain.

Let's imagine that life is like a travel agency. And you enter in the office and then you want to go to "someplace". And the Travel Agency Agent ask you... so, where do you want to go?. So there's a lot of destinations that sounds incredible.


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Voy a resumir en Español.


Dicen que la vida es como un viaje y que lo más importante es el destino. Saber a donde quieres llegar. Que el "universo" pondrá el camino, que uno solo hay que saber a dónde quiere llegar.

Que si, todo mundo quiere ser feliz, vivir tranquilo, tener salud, estar en paz. Si partimos de uno mismo y lo ampliamos aspiraríamos a tener Salud, que con salud ya lo hay todo. Desarrollo profesional (que con eso hay trabajo=dinero=aportación), espiritual, pareja, familia, comunidad, etc.). Esto aplica desde un plomero hasta el director de cualquier empresa.

Pero uno no sabe que hacer porque hay muchas cosas que nos interesan. Todos los destinos parecen interesantes.

Pero no sabemos si REALMENTE nos va a gustar un destino porque no hemos ido. Y el ejemplo del viaje suena bien, pero en la vida no puedo ir al futuro para saber si eso es algo que en realidad me gustaría hacer.

Un boleto al futuro podría ser PREGUNTAR a las personas que ya estén ahí en ese lugar. O que estén haciendo esas cosas que creo me podrían gustar.

Como cada quien ha tenido una experiencia única, preguntar mínimo a 3 personas de cada disciplina. 

Hacer notas de cada disciplina, encontrar puntos en común. Quizá los puntos en común revelen otra disciplina a la que podría estar interesado.

Decidir por lo que parezca más cercano. Posiblemente uno nunca va a estar seguro, y es normal sentirse así debido a la incertidumbre.

Tener bien en cuenta que la escuela NO me va a servir para aprender (eso es lo último que se hace en la escuela porque cuando sales, todo el conocimiento será obsoleto). Sino para establecer lazos. Conocer personas que en el futuro serán parte de tu "circulo social". Importantísimo para desarrollar una carrera profesional.

Tener bien en cuenta que la mayoría de las personas "de éxito" profesional, se lo deben a lo que llaman "su pasión" y en su basta mayoría es algo lejos de lo que estudiaron. O sea que al final las personas se dedican a otra cosa más que a lo que "deberían" por sus estudios. Lo que quiere decir que al final... uno puede cambiar de decisión y dedicarse a otra cosa. 

20210312

How you do a Proposal and what are the costs for a Video Production



How you do a Proposal and what are the costs for a Video Production


1. Pre-Production (all the time will take you to plan everything)


2. Production (Where you include the fee of all people and equipment, you can do it by day in case you need several days and easier to understand for clients... they don't need to know technicalities)


3. Post-Production. That depends of how many cuts you will do per minute. As a read "a milk producer farm" will be anything around 5 cuts to 25 cuts per minute (5:1-25:1, depends on the intended style) So let's say you will do 10 cuts per finished minute 10:1... and take you 5 minutes per cut..., well... 10cuts x 15min=150cuts, 150 x 5min = 750min., 750min/60= 12.5 hours will take you to edit. 


Just multiply this for your hourly rate (usually 45 for an editor, 75-100 as self-employed)


You're welcome.

20210303

How to create a GIF from Lightroom, Photoshop and export with 4:5 aspect ratio

Steps to create an animated GIF from several images from Lightroom, Photoshop and then export the animation in .mp4 (GIF) for Social Media in 4:5 aspect ratio.


Step 1

Edit photos as desire on Lightroom.

Step 2

Select the group of photos on Lightroom, right-click and Edit In... Adobe Photoshop. The files will be opened on Photoshop.


Step 3

Inside Photoshop go to File, Scripts, Load Files into Stack...
clic on Add Open Files then OK

Step 4

Select all the Layers
Edit, Auto-Align Layers (in the case you didn't use tripod). I use Auto

Step 5

Then with "C" crop tool, adjust the Aspect Ratio as 4:5 (8:10) and adjust as desire.

Step 6

Activate the Timeline (menu Window, Timeline). Click on Create Frame Animation.

Make sure here the video is 3 seconds or more.

Step 7

Click on File, Export, Render video...

Step 8

Render Video with this settings
Preset: Medium Quality
Size: Taking care the size on the right side is 1350
Frame Rate: 10 fps



And that's it!

Happy posting.

How to create a 4:5 Aspect Ratio in Lightroom (easy steps)

Easy steps to create a 4:5 aspect radio crop from Lightroom to Instagram feed.


So you start on Google to know what is the aspect ratio for Instagram right?... this is what you found.


And then using Lightroom might be confusing the aspect radios showed... not really. The thing is that those 4x5 / 8x10 versions are in landscape (horizontal).


So in Enter Custom... I tried to manually enter the oposite values 5x4 but but doesn't work.

Longue history short press "X" when you are in the Crop & Straighten tool (in So-omeone 

So, someone in Reddit wrote the answer I was looking for. 


All the information I was looking "out there" was that I just select in Lightroom 4x5 / 8x10 and that's it... and this is only true if your photo is already in portrait mode (vertical).


Hope this help.