Photo 365 Project: Day 13

Day 13 (1/27/11): Just Outside

I'll take a break from people pictures for today. Snapped this while I was waiting for my friend Mike to come pick me up. My neighbors house across the street from me. Used my 30mm lens so things were a little tight (mainly me not being able to get the entire tree in the shot). I could've gotten closer but I didn't want to look like some strange pervert pointing a DSLR at my neighbor's home so I stayed on my driveway to take this shot. I love the natural lighting and hope to experiment more with shots taken in broad daylight. Hmmmm, HDR anyone?

Photo 365 Project: Day 12

Day 12 (1/22/11): Photo Session

Day 3 (and the final day) of Vegas. Haha ever since I saw this hybrid couch/bed in our suite I knew that I wanted to do some sort of "classy" picture with it. It didn't turn out exactly the way I imagined it (I'm not exactly a fan of the way I was posed) but I still like it enough to use it as one of my pictures for the year! Of course a black & white finish was used to make it "classy" haha.

Thanks to Carlo for taking the picture and cousin Rachel for posing with me!

Photo 365 Project: Day 11

Day 11 (1/21/11): Elabator Picture!!!

Day 2 of Las Vegas. Another category where the wide angle fisheye shines - elevator pictures! Taken at the Planet Hollywood Westgate Towers. Usually my friend Cipriano does the elevator pictures but since my DSLR was with me he told me to take the shot as soon as the elevator doors closed. I was in a bit of a shock but acted fast - switched the mode to green box (a.k.a. auto mode) since I knew I wouldn't be able to meter the shot and just fired away until we hit our floor. Of course being me I put a vintage scheme over it!

Thanks to everyone for making the shot as awesome as it was!

Photo 365 Project: Day 10

Day 10 (1/20/11): 30mm Magic!

Day 1 of my trip to Las Vegas gave me a lot of great pictures to work with, but this one truly stuck out for me. Taken with my Sigma 30mm f/1.4. After reading on POTN I realized that a lot of people feel that they receive soft copies of this lens, and it made me hesitant to buy it. I eventually caved in thanks to Amazon's 10% coupon code and after getting this picture I don't care how "soft" my lens is, I'm an official believer of this lens. Very little post processing done because I didn't want to mess with a picture I adored so much, just a little sharpening here and there.

Thanks to Christine for making herself so preTTAY for this shot and Cipriano for serving as am awesome background to blur haha.

Photo 365 Project: Day 9

Day 9 (1/16/11): Whatever This Thing is Called.

I am beginning to skip more days haha. For this picture I was just taking random shots at my friend Richard's house when I started to take pictures of his piggy bank (yes that green thing is said piggy bank). The picture turned out pretty cool so I removed some of the little things around it and stacked the books nicely to get a clean shot, and this is what came out. I think my Aperture was too high since the edges are blurry, but I still like this shot and will keep it as one of my 365 photos.

Photo 365 Project: Day 8

Day 8 (1/13/11): Looking On...

I went to the CA Academy of Sciences on the 13th with my friend Diana (shown in the picture). I got a lot of shots that I really liked, but this one struck me for a couple of reasons. This shot was random as I was just testing to see how wide my fisheye lens was, but when I got home and processed it I added a vintage scheme, and upon taking a second look I really liked it. I think I just really like the vintage edit, it makes pictures have a much more deeper and mysterious feel to them than they really do haha.

Photo 365 Project: Day 7

Day 7 (1/12/11): My New Baby

Didn't get a chance to go out, but I did get this bad boy in the mail today. I'd do a review on it but I don't think I understand enough about photography to have a significant say on the quality of the lens. Still, I can't wait to get out and shoot with this!

Photo 365 Project: Day 6

Day 6 (1/11/11): Motion Blurred Mints

Trying my hand at motion blur photography. I really want to get a handle for this technique so that I can start taking pictures of people with it. I managed to get a nice blur but the "motion" in the blur isn't as apparent. Expect (maybe) to see a couple more motion blur shots in the next couple (or even more) days. I sharpened the Andes mints (as my focus needs work) but I left the background alone this time.

Photo 365 Project: Day 5

Day 5 (1/10/11): Merry Christmas?

Snapped the tree one last time before it's taken down. Yes we still had our Christmas tree up in January, so sue us :) Had to do a lot of sharpening, I guess my f stop was too low (high?).

Photo 365 Project: Day 4

Day 4 (1/9/11): Hyphy in the Dark Ronald (First attempt at HDR)

Went out to the Community Center parking lot to take this picture at night. Set up my tripod to a 10 second timer, took 3 pictures (-2, 0, and +2 exposure) and stacked them all together to get this. Fun, but now I want to take some HDR pictures in the daytime to get more of an HDR effect. Still, this was pretty cool and I look forward to more night time shooting :)

*And for those of you in the know, yes, I am wearing my BARF!

Photo 365 Project: Day 3

Day 3 (1/8/11): Serious Sarah

Skipped a day. Meh, it was bound to happen! Got this shot inside of a Starbucks while they were waiting for their drinks. Looked amazing on my 3 inch LCD on the camera, but once I uploaded it I noticed that her face was VERY blurry. Still, I loved the shot, so I edited it until I got it to something I liked. I sharpened around the blurs as best I could, blurred out the background as much as I could (to make her face look sharper) and added a "vintage" color scheme over the picture, since vintage pictures have a natural "blur" to them haha. This was the final product, enjoy!

Thanks to Sarah for patiently staring at something while I shoot haha.

Photo 365 Project: Day 2

Day 2 (1/6/11): Photo Bomb

I set up my new tripod to play around with, and I was focusing on my garbage can. Right before I pressed the shutter button my sister jumps right in front of the camera, giving me this shot. Luckily it was a good one. A little editing to brighten her face, and you have Day 2 of my Photo 365 Project!

Photo 365 Project: Day 1

Yes, I know I didn't start on 1/1/11, and realistically I probably will not have around 365 pictures by the end of 2011, but I'm going to try my best to upload as many as I can. Starting.... now!!!

Day 1 (1/5/11): The Finger

The picture is really grainy, but I still like the picture a lot for some reason. My white balance was set to something completely different (I think 'Shade', I forgot to change it since we set foot in the restaurant). As a result a lot of my pictures from that night were way off in color, so I had to edit a lot of them. In addition my shutter speeds were way too slow, or my hands were way too shaky. It was my first night out with my t2i and it should be very fun (or depressing) to look back on this in a year from now :)

Thanks to David for giving me a great expression and a really fun shot!