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City shot…around 8pm
City shot…at night….around 10-10:30pm
Red Moon
Final score…1-0 us! time to P – A – R – T – A – Y
I’m cool. That’s what my mommy says.
Okay, I have 2 new galleries up. About 3 nights of work here. Originally I wanted to post like…10 galleries! but frig, it’s time consuming. I did these 2 but I need to take a break. I should do a gallery every once in a while instead of all at once…even doing 2 galleries was pretty painful.
Step 1: Set up the “studio”.
Step 2: Take pictures. Go wild, take as many angles and shots as you want.
Step 3: Select the ones you want to show.
Step 4: In Photoshop, adjust levels to lighten the background. I attempt to make it white, to blend in with pure white. Doing so, you lose color information, darkened colors, etc. It kind of sucks, losing the information…but I sacrifice it for a more intense image. The colors can become more vivid as well.
Step 5: With the Brush tool, go over the corners to make everything white. Also, use the clone tool to fix blemishes.
Step 6: Resize for the web and post.
Anyways, here are thumbnails to my 2 most recent galleries. They can, of course, also be found at Gallery.
Kotobukiya Bishoujo Statue: Black Widow
Kotobukiya Bishoujo Statue: Rogue
Menu РEntr̩e
Penne Pollo, sautéed chicken, mushrooms with tomatoes cream sauce
or
Spaghetti oven roasted tomatoes, caramelized fennel, chilies, bread crumbs, olive oil & garlic sauce (vegetarian)
Menu – Dessert
Italian Biscotti
or
Lemon Smifreddo
TOTAL COST – only $15
FOOD
Appetizer : The Gazpacho soup was great. Very refreshing. Out of the 3 appetizers, I wish I got that. I had the Caesar salad, double smoked bacon, garlic croutons which was…like any casear salad. The double smoked bacon was crazy salty…but if you have it with the salad, it’s alright.
Entrée : The Penne was cooked perfectly and very tasty. A great entrée.
Dessert : The Biscotti was alright. Like a standard cookie/biscotti. It left me a bit thirsty. I had the Lemon Smifreddo which was definitely the better dessert. It was very refreshing, a great palette cleanser.
Overall, I was very pleased with my food. I wish I got the Gazpacho over the Caesar salad. The Penne and Lemon Smifreddo were the correct choices though. I would definitely go back based on taste alone…however…
SERVICE
Terrible, terrible service.
1. They took our wine glasses away without asking if we wanted anything to drink. They gave us water but they didn’t even ask if we wanted Coke or anything.
2. They gave us hummus for our bread…but…bread went out to tables that sat after us, we had to ask for the bread which was sitting on the counter for over 5 minutes.
3. We had to ask for water refills, our water wasn’t refilled despite being empty for a long time.
4. Our desserts, much like our bread, were sitting on the counter as well for over 5 minutes.
5. Lots of waiting. Lots.
6. When the entrées were served, one of them didn’t come out with the other 6. The waiter says to everyone “this last dish will take another minute, please start”. The waiter says that to the table…shouldn’t it be the person who didn’t get their food? Weak.
OVERALL
…I would not return. There are a million places with good food and good service. It’s ridiculous to fall so short one on.
I was planning to release a whole mess of galleries in the next couple of days…but doing one of my galleries has involved a lot of lightening in Photoshop (Levels, Curves, Brightness/Contrast). It was then that I realized my photos aren’t quite getting the bright light I’d like…
I messed around with my lightbox and bristol board just now…I’m not sure if I want to re-take my shots. I don’t mind, photography is pretty fun….tho it’s time consuming and I have better things to do.
Anyways…hopefully by the end of the weekend, I should have a bunch of galleries up!
I’ve got a whole mess of toys…I’ve already got a whole mess of photos but if they’re too dark, I’ll need to reshoot…
/update on what’s been occupying my nights lately