Monday July 27, 2009 - Photoshopping Practice

Before(top) & After(bottom)

I haven't been blogging in a while. Last Wednesday My dance crew (2crew4you) needed me to come to practice with them for this performance we were going to have coming up. I had to skip, with permission, that Wednesday just to go. Today We interns learned a few more effects we could and should use in our photos in Photoshop. The pictures above are a before and after of the Filipino festival i went to yesterday. I added contrast, Hue and saturation and last but not least adjusted the levels. All the things i just mentioned was just added effects you can use on photos. all these photos are from the Pista sa nayon, The Filipino festival. Below will be some photos I took at the festival, enjoy.

All the pictures above are photos I did NOT edit in photoshop.

Tuesday July 21st 2009 - Editing Alki Photos

Half of our interns today that went to Alki yesterday , had to edit our photos and upload them on to our blog . Really simple and easy right? I think i cropped almost all of my photos. My new goal is to take pictures without so much unneeded Stuff in the back ground.

Monday July 20th 2009 - Alki Adventure

"The image below is a carrot cake
made in Alki bakery"



This Monday we got another adventure , but this time we went to Alki . we all split up into our different groups. Each group had different instructors. Meg led one group, which i was in. and Leslie and Richard led the other group . Megs group went to Alki beach. while Leslie's group went to Linkin Park. Hai offered taking us to Alki with his car . and of course we couldn't refuse. so we got into his car and headed to Alki. i took many different pictures at the park we had parked at. I did not notice there are many different type of colors. For example warm, cold, and neutral. I also tried playing with self timer. and zooming . i learned many things. for example playing with the exposure and everything. the exposure really affects the pictures a lot. we had an assignment and we had to take many different pictures in a different point of view. enjoy the pictures i have taken. (; More coming later.

"The image above is a chocolate

cake from the Alki bakery."

July 17th 2009 - Playground Opening

Delridge community center's playground's ribbon was cut today and all bank of America volunteers and neighbors that volunteered finally put the playground together today . All the vivid colors were beautiful . There were nice colors like Purple and yellow. it was really hot so it was hard to take photos.

July 15th 2009 - Playground & Park

At Delridge Community Center, There was bank of America volunteers, neighborhood volunteers and many others. why? because they are now making the new play ground just for Delridge Community center. As we came in we noticed the big pile of wood. later on we found out they're making a playground. this Friday they are going to cut the ribbon. All summer interns are supposed to be there at 1:30 Pm and take photos on how it is going. After we had that fun taking pictures of the volunteers and who has the whole thing running, the interns got to go to this park . We took many photos of nature, plants and wildlife. I did not get any photos of wild life. but i did get some plants and a spider Web, without the spider on it. everyone was tired and exhausted from the long walk. we noticed that there weren't that much birds or anything we could have taken. "the picture above is a spider web i found while people were trying to avoid the web. it is caught from a top angle. If you click on the image the detail of the web will show better."

"The picture below is a pile of something i found while walking across this small bridge. I set down the camera, and then turned on macro and worked the magic."

I learned about ISO, and the day light functions. we had much fun but it was really hot !

July 14th 2009 - Street Fair Images

On a nice sunny day we had to sit inside and upload our photos. pretty fun huh? Then after all we had to do was Photoshop them. Seems pretty easy right? Well it isn't because i am a really picky person and i have to have my pictures perfect or really close to perfect before i can post them up.

"The picture below is a Dog from the festival"

"The picture below is one of my peers, Hai"

"Picture below are Glass roses . There were more glass items sold ."

July 13th 2009 - North West Photographic Center

Today was a pretty fun and had a nice experience. we went to the North west photographic center. It was on capital hill. i saw many pictures I ha vent seen before. pictures were taken in a point of view i never saw. I loved the colors i saw in most of the photography. I loved this guy named Alex 's Style he loves random colors in his photography. something that stands out to me will also attract other peoples attention . I think i found my style.

July 10th 2009 - West Seattle Street fest.

Today we went to West Seattle Street Fest we took many pictures . i had fun working with a new person i never even worked with . we walked up and down the street fair like it was nothing. i saw many stands i liked to take photographs of. but not any that was really interesting and i could write a story about. so i walked further and further down the street and i found a stand where he dried paint and then carved shapes into it. we saw many shapes as in the space needle and pike place market. I couldn't take the camera home so no pictures today.

July 9th 2009 - Submitting First Blog

well, i haven't been blogging lately so i am going to start catching up from now on. today on July 9th i didn't do much we brainstormed and we finally submitted our first blog into west Seattle blog. sadly it did not make it in. we spent 1 hour working on a draft then sent it to many of our peers' emails. After that we all submitted our favorite pictures from the beginning to Leslie. So we can get out pictures in the blog. today we did not take any pictures so more pictures coming later (:

July 7th 2009 - Photography

Today at work , We photographed a dog (luke). that was leslie's dog. it was pretty fun and challenging because of all the people around the dog . I learned we have to be nice but pushy in order to get the pictures you really want. I got around 2 picutres i liked out of the thirty something pictures i took of luke. later we had to learn about Photoshop elements. This was a huge downgrade to me. there was no pen tool, effects or properties at all that i was really used to at home. I usually spend 1-2 hours at least at home to play around with photoshop and create new pictures. Today was a pretty productive day.

"The picture below was edited by photoshop elements."

7-6-09 Photography

First day of photography, was pretty easy. i learned many things. my partner i had , his name was nick. and i learned that he has way more creativity than i personally do. The way he thought about taking his pictures were interesting. i took more far away pictures than he did. the way he took pictures were from different angles. which made the pictures more fun to look at. We took turns taking different picures . I noticed Nick has A way more Different style in photography than i do .

Mine:

"The photo above has a bunch of grass together just Close up"

Nick's:

"The picture above is nick taking a picture of a car emblem (Up Close)"