Whenever friends come into town for a visit, we try take them to our favorite places in the area. A few of the locations that we visited this time were Daniel Smith, Richmond Beach and the Redhook Brewery. Below are a few photos from our trip to the beach with our dear cousins Krista and Daniel Fogt. For some reason, I felt like really tweaking with the photos, applying heavy vignettes, ramping up the detail, messing with the color saturation and the vibrancy. I like the results, which I think ended up somewhere between cross processing and lomography.
Living in the Pacific Northwest means that whenever the sun decides to peek out for a day or two, we are all drawn like ants to honey into the warm rays. My wife and I are no exception. On our way back from running a few errands, Asha insisted in stopping for some ice cream and a walk through the park. I obliged and happily shot a few photos during our excursion. Below are my selects.
Although it has been nearly a YEAR since my posting with images from a day hike at Cougar Mountain, the video below was “shot” the very same trip (on my mkII). The reason I have been procrastinating is that I have not had any video editing software until yesterday. Although I own the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Suite, there are no apps for editing video with is in the package. So currently I am running a thirty day trail of Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. Yes, the music is cheesy. Yes, the shots are shaky. Yes, the transitions are lacking. Yes, this is my first video edit. But who cares! You have to start someplace, and it seems that this is my starting line.
As part of our two year running tradition (with many years to come), Asha and I took the time to have some fun taking photos for our holiday card. Thanks to my trusty tripod and MkII, we were able to capture a few fun and partially random moments (the cones on our heads was totally Asha’s idea!). Our location was in Bothell, down by the amphitheater back in mid October. Also, take a peek at the whit and wisdom of my good friend Horace Glump at his website, featuring photos from yours truly at the Glumpabilia Store which can also be found in the right sidebar.
If you were to check out the metadata imbeded in these images, you would see that they are in fact not very old. Nonetheless, I shot these and didn’t touch them for a while. Today I was bitten by the creativity bug, so I sat down and poked and prodded these images until the itch stopped. Here’s a little info about each image, with a before and after.
The first is of my sister(She is starting grad school this fall! They grow up so fast *tear*.) on the University of Idaho campus after her graduation ceremony. She insisted on having a picture shot in front of this building, so I complied. Although cute, I wanted to jazz it up a bit. Yes, yes, yes I can hear you moaning “HDR imaging is so last year!”. That’s ok, because this image isn’t meant for you! Technically this is a fake HDR as I am only using one shot, not multiple image. The method I chose can be found on Deke McClelland’s podcast, dekePod. I had forgotten how much fun it is to work in the LAB color space instead of RGB. Makes me want to go back and dust off my channel mixing skills!
This second image is a portrait I did of my friend Tracey. For reasons that I will not go into for my own personal safety and that of my family, Tracey has recently “exited” the country. Tracey (and my sisters legs sticking out of the trunk of his car) actually made the cut for my final portfolio when I graduated from AIS. That was quite a while ago, so we both thought it was time for a new unsettling image. This image was originally one of three in a series, but without the binary code running across it. I liked it, but it needed something more. While I was working in the yard it suddenly occurred to me what the image needed to complete it. Below is the final product.
