Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Perfect Composition : FAKER!!!

Working with animals is pretty hard even if they are your pets! Its hard to get them to sit still and stay in one place while you focus and take those pictures (unless their cats)


Achieving a composition like this one would take an extremely LONG time to possition all the dogs or even be able to get the dogs to stand still while all in frame at once. Luckily there are cheats...







You'll need a Tripod for this one. And it simply involves waiting for the right moment and when each dog walks into the spot you want it, then snap the picture.. Edit it and cut out the doggies so they all appear to be in the frame at once. 

It isn't a very hard process, but some people forget this technique when trying to achieve that perfect composition. 

(those tiny dogs in the corner just would not sit still, so I left the camera on video mode and placed those dogs there myself) 



This photo is done the same way as the one above
the patterns in the couch make is easier to do a sloppy job! yay

If you're having trouble composing a perfect shot with moving subjects and you happen to have a 
tripod or a table to set your camera on, just remember this technique. 

Cause like 70% of the things on the internet are doctored anyways right? 

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

ANIME EXPO 2012





Anime expo 2012 was a blast!

ummm But you could go to any site to read about the events and stuff... I'll cut straight to the pics... At the end I'll go over some of the editing and nerdy technical aspects...


Click to enlarge any of these pics....
I AM MAD SCIENTIST!!! It's so cool!!!

"Please shut it off" - Rocco 

if you don't remember this, think of an old arcade game where you dig


EVANGELION SECTION: 


okay back to the rest:



spent all his money on the costume?


Okay so here's how I edited a lot of my images:

Duplicate the layers, then invert and convert the top layer to black&white


Change the top layers blending mode to Overlay


Change the opacity (of the top layer) to well whatever looks good to you, and also
do a Gaussian blur to the top layer, whatever looks good to you - experiment lameo!


Merge the two layers and do an Unsharp mask to touch it up.

so here's a compassion:
Overlay - Gausian blur - Unsharp Mask 


See the difference? 

And finally, this is optional cause sometimes its looks good.

The top image is before and the bottom image is after I bumped up the contrast... 
judge for yourself.