San Jose Sharks Panorama

Always love Photoshop's photostitching abilities... First time I broke out the little camera in a while, San Jose Sharks home opening game last week.

New camera

Got a new camera, basically the new version of my old point and shoot as it had taken over 8,000 photos and had seen better days...

My new camera is the Sony Cyber-shot TX-20

Alright quality for a point and shoot - works for everyday needs. What I'm really looking forward to is trying it out underwater (it is waterproof)!

Photoshop homework

We were to replicate a tabloid with our own photos and some grabbed from the internet...

I had started a silly project on my own, which I then used in my homework assignment as well....

for fun --

for homework --

Postcard and Stamp Photoshop Assignment

We had an assignment for Photoshop II class to take photos and design a "Wish you were here" postcard (and matching postage stamp) about where we live. The idea was to portray it any way you want... I went in this direction:

Merry Christmas

Here's this year's Christmas card from the boys, enjoy!
 (Don't worry this was done in Photoshop.  No WAY would I ever be able to put hats on them!)

Giants Fever, Photoshopping the birdies

They are enjoying the post-season as much as I am!

Photoshop waterdrops tutorial

Found a pretty cool tutorial on how to make waterdrops and a foggy window look.

Props to the tutorial I followed: abduzeedo.com Foggy Window Effect

Here's my result!  The background is a photo I took in Australia looking down on the city in the Sydney tower Restaurant.

Break from Maya

Needed a small break from working on my Maya project...

Remembering how to use photoshop :)

Top Photos from Australia

Ok so I scoured for my favorite of alllllllllll the photos.  Narrowed it down to these.  Sorry too many to post all in the blog, so here is a slide show that you can also click to get to the album.

One (ok a few) more Panorama(s)

I couldn't believe I got this one together.  I didn't take the photos very well to stitch them in Photoshop, but I managed to somehow!  I reconstructed a lot of sky and water since I didn't have source image for it.  Even though it was raining in Sydney this day, it was probably the most beautiful and memorable for this moment!

This one is at Darling Harbour:

This is another in Darling Harbour, of the Maritime Museum.

Australia Panoramas!

Ok so it's been a while since my last post, but for good reason.  Had the most amazing vacation to Australia!  Got to kayak with sea turtles, cuddle a koala, snorkel the Great Barrier Reef, climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge, oh yeah, and take thousands of photos while I'm at it.

Here's the start of my photo editing, just put together the panorama shots using photoshop CS5.  Been very jetlagged while editing so I hope there aren't any screw-ups.  Enjoy!


These are from the Blue Mountains about an hour's drive outside of Sydney.  Very Grand Canyon-like but with some waterfalls.

These are in Sydney:

These are views from our hotel on Hamilton Island.
High tide:

Low tide:

View later with some clouds:

View from hiking to the top of the island:

Mini Travel Bags

A mini sewing project; took about 45 minutes to make these really quick when I had a bit of free time between other things.  It got me away from the screen for a bit!

I'm pretty sure these qualify as adorable...

The larger one is padded with quilter's batting so I can use it for my little point and shoot camera and accessories (my camera is tiiiiiiny).  The smaller pouch is for whatever!

In case anyone was wondering what kind of camera I use, it looks like this (image grabbed off the web):

It is the Sony Cybershot DSC-T77.  I'm pretty stoked I was able to pull off my digital photography class with this pocket-sized bad boy while a lot of people had big expensive DSLRs.  Obviously I can't always get the image quality I want but I think I've gotten some really cool stuff out of it.  Eventually I'll get my dream camera and gear ;)

Photography Black and White Assignment

My final photos for a black and white photography project...

and the winner is...

This image was seemingly the favorite out of my 10 photos for the perspectives project!

Another Photog project.

This one was supposed to be "Perspectives"... from the point of view of an animal or something of the like...

Here are a few of my favorites, hope my teacher agrees in critique!


Ants!

A bug or something?...

A cat on the fence...

A couple other edits

A couple of my other photos I took somewhat recently in my local travels...


A day at the beach...

A day at the farm?

Homework is fun!

Couldn't wait to get back from being out of town to work on my homework!  Yes I've turned into a big nerd who enjoys doing my homework... but who wouldn't in my classes??  Here's the latest due when we get back from spring break.  It's a "corpse" collage... the assignment is to put together a crazy mix of body parts and go wild with the hue/saturation.

Another class's homework due soon is to put a mural on a building.  You take some photo and make it look like it's painted on the building...  I had a bit too much fun and included Master Chief hiding out in the shadows...Halo anyone? : )

Side photography projects

A quick snap turned into a beautiful old-car photo.  Was hoping the owner wasn't nearby as I was getting this picture by an apartment car-port.

Did some fun photoshop work playing with black and white settings and masking off the color portion.  I couldn't decide whether I liked the full tinted black and white, or the one where I leave in the red portions of the car.

What do you think?

Chasing Bugs

I braved the outside world again today for the sake of photography.  After 20 minutes of getting chased around by bees... let me tell you, these types are supposedly "friendly" but after this I beg to differ... anywho check it out.

This guy was busy "nom-nom"ing his way by sticking his head completely inside every flower he hit...

I thought this was a dead spider since it is white... until it moved... eek.

And it's basically a miracle I caught this cute little bumble at all because he was bumbling waaaay too fast for my little camera's shutter speed.

 

This week's "Winners"

Ok so these are this week's photography class winners (meaning the top 3 the teacher chose out of my 10 submitted homework photos).  The theme was still life... enjoy: