Saturday, December 31, 2011
Happy new years everyone! Right now I’m in New York City with my parents, and somehow we were able to sneak through security and get into the middle of Times Square to see the ball drop at midnight! We weren’t expecting to get in, so it was a nice little surprise. I’ll post more photos [...]
Monday, December 26, 2011
Hahaha this is so true it’s not even funny. It’s an image my good friend sent me. Reminds me of the time we were about to use a $30,000 camera to get “snapshot-looking” photos at one of the shoots I was assisting. [via ThaZing]
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Note: This post is for Macbook Pros without the new Retina display. When I post-process my photos I normally use an external monitor instead of the display on my Macbook Pro. I’ve always heard from people that laptop displays aren’t good at accurately reproducing colors since they are optimized for portability. The explanation made sense, [...]
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Over Thanksgiving break I was pretty much alone at my dorm, so I was experimenting with some post-processing recipes for my photos. I really wanted to figure out how to get a really nice film-like look. I literally spent days on Photoshop, messing around with curves, layer blending options, hue/saturation, RGB values, channel mixer, etc and [...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Cool video I found on the internet, summarizing the news that happened in the year of 2011. Fantastic integration of audio and visuals, well done.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The other day I finally got to do a shoot with my roommate, Grant. He plays soccer for Stanford’s varsity soccer team and he’s the freshman star who gets a ton of playtime. We’ve been saying that we’ll do a shoot since the beginning of the quarter, but we couldn’t find time until… the weekend [...]