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Carmen
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy Valentines Day!
Hello
It's Valentines Day, once again. So it's time to do some shots for V'day!
This picture was merged with 2 photos. One was the flower itself, then the lightpainting.
It's Valentines Day, once again. So it's time to do some shots for V'day!
This picture was merged with 2 photos. One was the flower itself, then the lightpainting.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Happy Chinese New Year!!
Hello everyone
It's soon going to be Chinese New Year, and I would like to wish everyone, a Happy Chinese New Year!
This year it is the Year of the Rabbit. So maybe if I have time, I might just do a rabbit light paint.
So once again, I wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year!!
大家好
今年係兔年.我現在就......祝大家 : 恭喜發財, 身體健康, 龍馬精神, 心想事成!!
如果我遲D有時間,我會做個兔子Light Paint.
我走了....甘,我再一次祝大家 : 恭喜發財, 身體健康, 龍馬精神, 心想事成!!
P.S. 寫中文blog,真係有D唔慣..
It's soon going to be Chinese New Year, and I would like to wish everyone, a Happy Chinese New Year!
This year it is the Year of the Rabbit. So maybe if I have time, I might just do a rabbit light paint.
So once again, I wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year!!
大家好
今年係兔年.我現在就......祝大家 : 恭喜發財, 身體健康, 龍馬精神, 心想事成!!
如果我遲D有時間,我會做個兔子Light Paint.
我走了....甘,我再一次祝大家 : 恭喜發財, 身體健康, 龍馬精神, 心想事成!!
P.S. 寫中文blog,真係有D唔慣..
*UPDATE 1*
Here are some shots of my CNY celebration at a church. Sorry, no lightpainting this time.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
It's been a long time.... once again.
Hi everyone
It's been a long time since I've written a blog. So I'll use this chance (since the internet is not AS scary) to write a blog of what I've done since my last post.
So basically, since then, I've started a new 365 project, which I have various themes according to the month. So far, I have partial black & whites, special lighting/long exposure and the sky/clouds. Up to now, I have sort of found that the special lighting and the sky is most interesting. At one point, I was going to give up on the first month. It was so bad. I'm now considering to do partial black and whites again for another month. Just not now, because I haven't really prepared my ideas for that theme yet.
So any ideas on what ideas I should do next? I was thinking of a macro theme. OK, let me try and put a voting poll later. I absolutely don't know how to do so yet.
Anyhows, I think I'm getting tired, and I will upload photos tomorrow (definately)
Carmen
It's been a long time since I've written a blog. So I'll use this chance (since the internet is not AS scary) to write a blog of what I've done since my last post.
So basically, since then, I've started a new 365 project, which I have various themes according to the month. So far, I have partial black & whites, special lighting/long exposure and the sky/clouds. Up to now, I have sort of found that the special lighting and the sky is most interesting. At one point, I was going to give up on the first month. It was so bad. I'm now considering to do partial black and whites again for another month. Just not now, because I haven't really prepared my ideas for that theme yet.
So any ideas on what ideas I should do next? I was thinking of a macro theme. OK, let me try and put a voting poll later. I absolutely don't know how to do so yet.
Anyhows, I think I'm getting tired, and I will upload photos tomorrow (definately)
Carmen
*UPDATE 1
Monday, August 23, 2010
[Studio work] (Food Photography) {More Panoramas}
Hello
It's been a while since I've blogged. Yea, I admit. I'm just lazy sometimes.
But don't worry, since then, I've found some more new ideas on how I can improve my photo skills. I've tried doing some more food photography, studio-like work and some more sunset panoramas.
Actually, I've been more into food photography and panoramas, than the studio work. It's mainly because I haven't really put much work into setting up the correct lighting, and finding out the use of light indoors. But at the moment I'm working myself into making a light tent which would move my studio work weakness away.
Anyway, I will be posting the photos tomorrow.
*UPDATE 1*-- Photos. Sorry for the late postings. To repay this, I will post up my new photos including my planned uploads.
It's been a while since I've blogged. Yea, I admit. I'm just lazy sometimes.
But don't worry, since then, I've found some more new ideas on how I can improve my photo skills. I've tried doing some more food photography, studio-like work and some more sunset panoramas.
Actually, I've been more into food photography and panoramas, than the studio work. It's mainly because I haven't really put much work into setting up the correct lighting, and finding out the use of light indoors. But at the moment I'm working myself into making a light tent which would move my studio work weakness away.
Anyway, I will be posting the photos tomorrow.
*UPDATE 1*-- Photos. Sorry for the late postings. To repay this, I will post up my new photos including my planned uploads.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Work, Work, Work, then....... PLAY!!
Hello all
Sorry for not posting frequently. It's just that I'm so busy with work, and yea, it's getting on my nerves. But never-the-less, I've still got the 365 project up and running (57 days to go from now!~) So basically, I've been working. So yea, I haven't been... posting... really.
But don't worry, I've still taken some pretty good pictures, and of course some disgusting pictures, that even I don't know why they tuned out so bad!~ That's pretty sad. *Cries*. But yea, within the month of July, I have found some (not much, but some) new techniques. I've still kept up my partial black and whites, but after reading some more of my magazines, I've found that I can do more with PhotoShop CS4 (Yea, apparently). So far, I've taken a few more studio-like pictures. I've done some overlays (not spectacular as what I thought it was), motion pictures (at a friends' birthday party [iceskating!~ no, I didn't fall. It was just a near-miss]) and some panoramics!
Ahh, panoramics. They are so cool! At first, I thought panoramics was easy to do (well, that's because I never did it properly), but it isn't as easy as what it looks like. At first, I thought I could just take a whole picture, full frame, and then just trim off what I don't want. But no, that didn't turn out good, and it was actually much smaller than what a proper panoramic is supposed to be. By previous versions of panoramic was like a 1000x2000 (estimate pixel size), but now, it's much bigger. It's now about 2000x3000 (estimate pixel size [I can't be bothered to look it up]). So basically, this time I used PhotoShop (yep, I'm making good use of my software), and I merged the 3 pictures together. That's the easiest way I could do it (from reference off a magazine). But yea, there are plenty of other ways such as stitching (yea, like stitching a blanket together). But if you don't do it good, you could end up with lines running down the picture.
Sorry for not posting frequently. It's just that I'm so busy with work, and yea, it's getting on my nerves. But never-the-less, I've still got the 365 project up and running (57 days to go from now!~) So basically, I've been working. So yea, I haven't been... posting... really.
But don't worry, I've still taken some pretty good pictures, and of course some disgusting pictures, that even I don't know why they tuned out so bad!~ That's pretty sad. *Cries*. But yea, within the month of July, I have found some (not much, but some) new techniques. I've still kept up my partial black and whites, but after reading some more of my magazines, I've found that I can do more with PhotoShop CS4 (Yea, apparently). So far, I've taken a few more studio-like pictures. I've done some overlays (not spectacular as what I thought it was), motion pictures (at a friends' birthday party [iceskating!~ no, I didn't fall. It was just a near-miss]) and some panoramics!
Ahh, panoramics. They are so cool! At first, I thought panoramics was easy to do (well, that's because I never did it properly), but it isn't as easy as what it looks like. At first, I thought I could just take a whole picture, full frame, and then just trim off what I don't want. But no, that didn't turn out good, and it was actually much smaller than what a proper panoramic is supposed to be. By previous versions of panoramic was like a 1000x2000 (estimate pixel size), but now, it's much bigger. It's now about 2000x3000 (estimate pixel size [I can't be bothered to look it up]). So basically, this time I used PhotoShop (yep, I'm making good use of my software), and I merged the 3 pictures together. That's the easiest way I could do it (from reference off a magazine). But yea, there are plenty of other ways such as stitching (yea, like stitching a blanket together). But if you don't do it good, you could end up with lines running down the picture.
Anyways, got to go, and I'm going to upload pictures later. I have actually used up 80% of the data allowance!
*Update 1*
Panoramics
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Lomography~~
Hello
What is lomography? From my perspective, lomography is this type of camera which takes some awkward types of photography. There are fisheye photos, panoramic photos, etc. and they are all discoloured and a bit on the fuzzy end of photography.
So basically, I got myself into discolouring my photos and trying to make the "lomo" effect on my normal pictures. They turned out good, and they were looking towards the effect. The only complicated part was when you had to select the part you want to outline the focus point. Hence, this is not as simple as the partial black and whites!!
Here you go... some pictures. Enjoy ;)
What is lomography? From my perspective, lomography is this type of camera which takes some awkward types of photography. There are fisheye photos, panoramic photos, etc. and they are all discoloured and a bit on the fuzzy end of photography.
So basically, I got myself into discolouring my photos and trying to make the "lomo" effect on my normal pictures. They turned out good, and they were looking towards the effect. The only complicated part was when you had to select the part you want to outline the focus point. Hence, this is not as simple as the partial black and whites!!
Here you go... some pictures. Enjoy ;)
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