Click the link to check it out. I'm ninth from the top.
http://gizmodo.com/5824833/15-photos-painted-by-hand
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Gizmodo Shooting Challenge: Coloring
Click the link to check it out. I'm ninth from the top.
http://gizmodo.com/5824833/15-photos-painted-by-hand
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Desert Oasis
So I thought I wasn't going to participate in this week's challenge due to my lack of Photoshop and photoshopping skills. I decided to try it by hand and I think it turned out well.
The Challenge:
Take an original photo, turn it black and white and color in the image using an original palette. The result should look retro, like an old daguerrotype (though obviously, feel free to get as creative as you'd like with the aesthetic).
Just note: I'm not asking for black and white photos with just one little part isolated in color—you know the photos I'm talking about. Paint the whole (or a significant portion of) the image. Don't give us a black and white apple tree with one red apple.
http://gizmodo.com/5823084/shooting-challenge-vintage-hand+coloring
My Comment:
So when I read this week's challenge, I thought I wouldn't be able to do it since I do not have Photoshop nor have any idea of how to use it. After pondering it a little more, I decided I would try it by hand. I took a shot of a building near my office and printed out my photo on resume-style paper. Then I used watercolors and painted in some colors and scanned the painted photo. It's not great, but it kind of looks "old timey." I think it looks like a desert oasis shot from an old movie.
The Challenge:
Take an original photo, turn it black and white and color in the image using an original palette. The result should look retro, like an old daguerrotype (though obviously, feel free to get as creative as you'd like with the aesthetic).
Just note: I'm not asking for black and white photos with just one little part isolated in color—you know the photos I'm talking about. Paint the whole (or a significant portion of) the image. Don't give us a black and white apple tree with one red apple.
http://gizmodo.com/5823084/shooting-challenge-vintage-hand+coloring
My Comment:
So when I read this week's challenge, I thought I wouldn't be able to do it since I do not have Photoshop nor have any idea of how to use it. After pondering it a little more, I decided I would try it by hand. I took a shot of a building near my office and printed out my photo on resume-style paper. Then I used watercolors and painted in some colors and scanned the painted photo. It's not great, but it kind of looks "old timey." I think it looks like a desert oasis shot from an old movie.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows: Part 2
2011
★★★★★
So I got to see this movie opening weekend! Yea! It was fantastic. A great movie that somehow got everything important from the book into it. A wonderful end to the series. It makes me a little sad that there won't be any more movies...
Thursday, July 21, 2011
The Town
2010
★✰✰✰✰
So I was disappointed in this movie. I was so slow throughout and Ben Affleck is so boring. I ended up fast forwarding most of the movie.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Gizmodo Shooting Challenge: Clouds
http://gizmodo.com/5822638/143-awesome-photos-of-clouds
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Catalina clouds
So I really didn't like this challenge. I had such a hard time finding interesting clouds to shoot. Oh well.
The Challenge:
Take a photo of a cloud. Simple! However, there are bonus points to anyone who sees something in the cloud and can convince me to see it, too.
In other words, the best entries should cause a mass hallucination, but spotting shapes isn't a prerequisite. Beautiful photos make fine entries, too.
Oh, and the photo doesn't need to *just* be of clouds, but they should be the prominent subject.
http://gizmodo.com/5820843/shooting-challenge-clouds
My Comment:
So I went out and bought a cheap-o polarizing filter this week on gizmodo's suggestion and this shot was taken when I was fiddling around with how to use the filter. It's amazing how a quarter-turn of the filter can change the photo. This is a shot of Catalina Island off the Southern California coast. I thought the photo worked as the island appears to be a cloud too. My wife thought it ended up looking like a monster: the island, its mouth; and the clouds, its eyes. I took a lot of photos of clouds this week and I went with this one as it was a little different from the "standard" cloud photo.
The Challenge:
Take a photo of a cloud. Simple! However, there are bonus points to anyone who sees something in the cloud and can convince me to see it, too.
In other words, the best entries should cause a mass hallucination, but spotting shapes isn't a prerequisite. Beautiful photos make fine entries, too.
Oh, and the photo doesn't need to *just* be of clouds, but they should be the prominent subject.
http://gizmodo.com/5820843/shooting-challenge-clouds
My Comment:
So I went out and bought a cheap-o polarizing filter this week on gizmodo's suggestion and this shot was taken when I was fiddling around with how to use the filter. It's amazing how a quarter-turn of the filter can change the photo. This is a shot of Catalina Island off the Southern California coast. I thought the photo worked as the island appears to be a cloud too. My wife thought it ended up looking like a monster: the island, its mouth; and the clouds, its eyes. I took a lot of photos of clouds this week and I went with this one as it was a little different from the "standard" cloud photo.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Angels & Demons
2000
★✰✰✰✰
So I enjoyed The DaVinci Code so I thought I would give this book a try. The movie was OK, not great, but OK. This book was terrible. I stopped reading after 50 pages thinking that it would start to get better but it never did. Oh well, on to the next book.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Fail
So I didn't do last week's challenge because it required photoshop (something I don't have or know how to use) but I haven't seen any posts with the submissions so maybe no one did it. This week's challenge was weird...
The Challenge:
Screw up when taking a photo so incredibly badly that you create something unique and worthy unto itself.
http://gizmodo.com/5818669/shooting-challenge-fail
My Comment:
This was a bizarre shooting challenge for me. After trying to screw up photo after photo, I decided I would try and take a shot of something so that it ends up looking different. I ended up doing as many things wrong as I could think of. I shot directly at the sun with an over exposure and out of focus. I thought the palm tree and sun "asterisk" ended up looking like as good as a fail as I could get.
The Challenge:
Screw up when taking a photo so incredibly badly that you create something unique and worthy unto itself.
http://gizmodo.com/5818669/shooting-challenge-fail
My Comment:
This was a bizarre shooting challenge for me. After trying to screw up photo after photo, I decided I would try and take a shot of something so that it ends up looking different. I ended up doing as many things wrong as I could think of. I shot directly at the sun with an over exposure and out of focus. I thought the palm tree and sun "asterisk" ended up looking like as good as a fail as I could get.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Ring Mosaic - June (faces & places)
So I finished month 4! I started out with a "faces" theme (essentially, some form of face was in the shot with the ring). I got tired of that and switched to "places" (shots taken at a specific location and not at my house). Not very many great photos this month but I am 1/3 of the way complete now.
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