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Photography

Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 10:59 pm

I can’t say I’ve always been into photography or have a natural talent for it. I think I have a good design sense…but until recently, I don’t think I really got photography. I definitely had trouble sensing beauty within a still image. Also, I’ve been forever plagued with shaky hand…photography isn’t something that comes naturally to me.

I’ve got a number of nice models/toys at this point in my life…and I enjoy taking pictures of them but I’ve been struggling getting high quality photos and getting correct light sources.

Lately, I’ve been trying to take pictures every Saturday or Sunday around 1pm-4pm…that’s my only “window” for a good amount of light. It really sucked though, if it were cloudy…or if I were busy, I’d miss my window and have to take images another day.

This has hopefully changed as I just purchased a lightbox. I’m excited…here’s an image of it in action.

…not much. But hopefully with it, I’ll be able to produce to nice photos to add to my gallery. Some higher quality ones…this weekend is busy but maybe next weekend I’ll have some quality stuff to show.


 

Origami Roses

Sunday, May 9th, 2010 at 10:59 pm

One of my best…and possibly only (yeah, I’m terribad) gifts to my mother for Mother’s day was a bunch of origami roses attached to pipe cleaners.


Note: this is my attempt at a telephoto lens. Basically I just blurred the area around the focus.

It was a really girly gift…but my mom loved it so meh. I must have given it to her almost a decade ago (I learned origami roses in 2nd year uni). I wanted to take some pictures of it for this post but things didn’t work out well so all you get is this rose from my “origami rose” stock…

The origami rose was the most complicated origami thing I ever made…I remember having speed contests with the girl that taught it to me…I think I came in around 3 minutes, she was around 1 or something impossible >_< Anyways…Happy Mother’s Day!

Drawing Naruto/Bleach characters…

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 at 7:52 pm

I realized last night that I’ve never in my life drawn Naruto. Not once. Ever.

If I draw Naruto characters, it’s only either Sasuke, Itachi, Kakashi, Rock Lee or Sakura.
I’ve drawn Orochimaru, Gaara, Shikamaru, Neji, Chouji occasionally. I’ve drawn Rasengan….
but I’ve never drawn Naruto. Strange…

I’ve also never drawn a single Bleach character with the exception of Ichigo…

Just kind of odd that I would only draw the title character from a series, and never drawn the title character from another series…

/end random thought

Gallery Updated!

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 at 2:10 am

I updated my gallery section to include my digital art, sketches, and pencil work. It’s ridiculously sad and pathetic how LITTLE digital art I did for the last decade. I doodled and sketched a lot but looking at my digital art, I guess I only got the urge to do digital art maybe once a year -_-;

I know I was in school from like, 2001-2006….I guess that sort of explains that gap…but still…

Sites Updates Part 2

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 at 9:36 pm

1. PHP Session Variable
I (think) I fixed that PHP Session thing. I have no idea how. I messed with the function a bit but didn’t change anything fundamental…it still seems to be working okay for now. I don’t know why. :S

2. Gallery – Updated
I’ve been able implement the structure I intended…I need to fill it with content though.
Check it out:

I need/want to make more albums…I’ve got a few photos now, I’ve been taking lots of pictures…but I need to edit all of them, they don’t turn out too hot without my Photoshop editing.

Non-site update: I organized my photos today…about 2-3 years worth of digital photos.