Long Time No See

Hey world!

It's been a long time since I last posted, but in exchange I have some new work to post up! New pics coming up shortly!

FanimeCon 2010

Well, Fanime is now over, and it was a blast. Now I begin the arduous task of of processing all these pictures to be posted on the blog (I have over 500 to sort through, but not all are getting posted). I'd figure I would speed things up and just post them as fast as I can, just doing basic tweaks (such as White Balance correction and contrast adjustments) for those who just want the pictures now, and work on them in depth individually over the next few weeks.

More to come

Update 5/31/2010: Narrowed down the pictures from about 700 to 100. About 10% done doing the quick post processing in light room (it's great for getting things done quick!). A couple of the pictures are going to need some noise reduction (Lot's of Noise looks terrible on the D40's image sensor, in my opinion) which have to be done in photoshop.

Update 6/1/2010: First 8 pictures are up! More to come later tonight!

Update 6/2/2010: Almost 60 pictures are now up. I have about more to work on, but I got the boulder over the hill now.

Update 6/3/2010: The majority are now up! There are a few remaining ones I need to touch up, which require more precision tools to touch up on (such as removing obvious yet very fine strands of hair covering the face which can be distracting or removing massive amounts of noise).

Update 6/4/2010: All pictures are now up! Thank you for viewing!

For my first set of event photos, I'm posting the album from my first photo gig. I was given the task to take photos of the Educational Opportunity Program of San Jose State's Honors ceremony. The task included both candid shots and select photos of certain people. For my first gig I think I did pretty well, but there's room for improvement.

Cherished Possessions

Another Semester has came to a close. Here is my Final for Color Photography, a photo set I have called " Cherished Possessions." Simply, I took photos of people with their most cherished and beloved of possessions. The only requirement I asked was it had to be the most cherished, no matter how dirty, banged up, trashed, or dismembering the object was.

On a side note, I have more content that needs to be uploaded, which I now have the time for. Stay tuned.

Portraits of a small Business Owner

A while back I got an assignment to take portraits of people who are shared a similar uniformity. Some of my classmates went with smokers, some went with baseball players. I chose to go with the Local owners of small businesses. I chose this route because most people don't really think about the business owner as an individual. By taking these portraits, we get to look at each individual person for a longer amount of time, which makes these pictures that much more personal.

Color of Night

Here's a small set of pictures from my Color of Night Assignment. The goal here was night photography around my neighborhood. I had the camera set for the daylight setting, because it the many different light sources yield colors that our eyes automatically compensate for the correct color.

All of these pictures use time lapsed exposures, so you get to see that cool light trail from the cars passing by. The assignment was a challenge but in the end I had a lot of fun with it.

Saint Elmo's Fire

Last week the fog layered incredibly thick on my street. I walked outside after awaking from my slumber to the sight of a eerily and spooky environment caused by the diffusion of light by the fog.

I seized the opportunity and grabbed my camera. In my pajamas, I begin taking long exposures of about 20 seconds or more with a very aperture to create not only a long depth of field, but using the long exposure time to create vivid colors that are invisible to the naked eye.

With this photo, I had to take in account timing, because cars go up and down on my street. You can even see the headlights of an on coming car in this picture. Fortunately, the camera was done compiling the exposure just before the car was moments away.