Yay! New Entry!!!

With the new connection with associated content, I'm also updating this beloved blog.  Even though last entry was 10 months ago, I still come here to enjoy photos I've done.  Recently I've found the copy of a vietnam memorial I've done circa 2005.  Riding a train to DC during winter was definitely the best decision ever.  Anyways, hope everyone enjoyed the July 4th break, and if anyone likes reading my take on top 5 list of smartphones it can be viewed here, comments appreciated.

Is anybody even reading this?

So I don't really have anything new I have to talk about really, and it's not really doing my pictures justice when I can only post picture when I have something to write about so in the near future I'm going to start posting pictures only entries.  Well, enjoy!

Lightroom is a godsend

So I finally have Lightroom 2.5 setup.  Without starting Photoshop it has the ability to adjust my color and exposure so I can get into photoshop and start my touch ups.  Only been a day since I installed it, and it's much easier to sort through my backup pictures.  Here're some more stuff I've done today.

 

Good day for all of us!

So, I stayed up 6am after a 13 hour day and kinda picked up on how to use layers and let me tell ya, it's very awesome to be able to finally do what I had intended on portraits. I'm very glad of the turn out.  There's not much to say since my camera is still in the shop but the plan is for a new Canon XSi to show up by christmas, wish me luck!

Oh no! It's broken!

Sorry I've been MIA for a week, trying to find some new subject for work.  Today I brought some good news and some bad news.  Good news is I happened to have brought my camera to the Greensboro fair this year so I got some great photos done.  Unfortunately, bad news is my camera broke and gave me a shutter error after about 100 burst shots.  The shutter now snaps physically but with an even hollower sound, which is exactly why I wanted a canon in the first place, I've always talked about how I enjoy hearing the tightness of the canon shutter sounds when a picture is taken, now I've confirmed my fear.  So off to repair the D40 goes, hope I can find the warranty info tomorrow, for the life of me I don't remember if dad had decided to get the 2yr or the 4yr warranty.

Anyways, I'll keep posting my work and wait for my equipment to come back at 100%, until then, contact me if you are interested in ordering prints.

 

 

To what direction should I go into?

So anyways, took a day off from blogging to gather my thought, and I've hit a road block.  This blog was meant to be for my work in photography and also filmography, but since I've been struggling not to right anything personal on here.  Maybe I should have another blog specifically designed for that.  But anyways here are today's choice of works.

 

  

All in all they're a bit too bright, first picture I've used a 4 second shutter and the subject tilt his head from right to left.   Second shot was with the same 4 second shot with a zoom.  Enjoy

Testing Waters

I saw a lot of pictures lately where they have photoshopped all the color out of the picture except for one object, great technique and there are several ways you can do it I'm sure.  I figured this out myself when I was messing around with the Hue/Saturation option in photoshop.

There are some restrictions to this specific technique of course.  First, the subject must not blend in too well with the rest of the picture, the higher similarity the color, the more spill you will have that you're gonna need to fix.

If by chance u want a green shirt to show up (like the picture above) when the subject is stand around a yard, you can still make it by using the sponge tool, it'd require some elbow grease and you'd need some precision tool, a higher quality mouse, or possibly a drawing tablet.


I haven't figured this out yet but I'm sure there are ways you can isolate the object in target and all you should have to do is desaturate the rest of the picture.  Feel free to comment if you have something to say. : )

 

Btw, you can click on the pictures for a full size.  Maybe I should start watermarking them... : O