Out of werk early again.

For my "Take a Photo a Day for Fifty Days Challenge" I got out of werk early again & instead of driving in the worst time of rush hour I drove around Irvine to find a place to take my photo of the day. I went to a place that I've taken a photo before, several actually. Went to go to this place cause I want to get the sun set & this was the only parking garage I could go to that I knew I wouldn't have any trouble parking at in time to catch the sun set. I forgot that there was a building in the way of the view of the set but just decided to go with it anyways. Did another HDR, saturated the sun a bit in photoshop cause it was a little to over powered with color.

As well it was my friend Brandon's birthday, snapped some photo while we waited for dinner at BJ's. Happy Birthday Brandon!

New Port Beach Sun Set!

For my "Take a Photo a Day for Fifty Days Challenge" I headed down to New Port Beach after I got out of work since I got out a bit early. I thankfully found a decent place to shoot a bit before the sun started to go down so I didn't have to rush. It was quite cold out there. Originally I wanted to get an HDR just the sun & ocean but went under the pier, which made out to make a much better photo. I had to tweek the setting in Photomatrix quite a bit to get what I wanted. I wasn't 100% satisfied with the look of the photo so I did quite a bit of adjustments after in Photoshop with putting more contrast in the water & darkened the sky & clouds, had to do quite a bit of masking.

Santa Monica Promenade, "Biutiful", & Long Exposers.

For my "Take a Photo a Day for Fifty Days Challenge" for day 43 I went to go to the Santa Monica Promenade my girlfriend Catalina to see the movie 'Biutiful' at the indie theater. The movie is seriously so good & depressing. I suggest anyone & everyone to go see it. The cinematography was absolutely amazing, like Catalina said, each frame of the movie could be a amazing photo. Well after the movie I snapped a couple of photos & we enjoyed the empty Promenade. I thought it would be a good to take a photo of the empty Promenade cause it's a place that you typically see busy all the time.

For day 44 I had a little fun with long exposers. It's probably the most over done idea in photography but I think everyone has a right to have a little fun with it. I tried doing PacMan trying to eat three ghost, I took a lot of tries at it & this was probably the best of all of'em.

No Opportunities Taken...

For my "Take a Photo a Day for Fifty Days Challenge" I went riding in Hollywood at a high school with a couple of friends. I had a lot of good opportunities to take good photos due to the rain & the location I was at but didn't take'em. I suppose I was more into filming & riding. When there was rain coming in we took cover in the eating area which was entirely under the buildings which I found to be really cool. Snapped a couple photos while waiting out the rain but definitely not enough.

Lagging it on Uploads... & Beach House

Ha, so I've been lagging it with uploading my photos these past couple of days. But no worries I took a photo each day, just been busy with some stuff & haven't had time to post about them. Anyways, For my "Take a Photo a Day for Fifty Days Challenge" for day 38 I took a photo of what I could pretty much eat for the rest of my life RICE, EGGS, & BEACON! When you're Filipino you know about this meal when you wake up in the morning, ha.

For day 39 I was leaving work & spotted that the clouds were looking wicked with the moon shinning on them, I did an HDR with this photo.

For day 40 I was in Little Tokyo & after eating some awesome sushi I snapped a photo of this old Asian couple walking. I tried to get them as centered as possible. With post I added a vignette to add more concentration/focus to the couple & center of the photo.

For day 41 there was a storm with quite a kick of wind in it. I decided to head down to the Pike in Long Beach. As soon as I got out of the car to take the photo the wind was pushing me back really badly, ha. So it was a bit difficult to take this photo. I originally wanted to do a HDR but you tend to get a lot of artifacts with lights cause there way too over exposed. Makes the photos look like trash with the results of the HDR. I'm sure there is a way around it but I'm probably just too lazy to work past it, ha.


On another note I went to see my favorite band on Thursday night, BEACH HOUSE! Absolutely amazing show. Glad to got to see'em! I wanted to take my camera inside
but they didn't let any "professional photography" allowed in the venue, ha. Had to go with the crappy cellphone photo.

Random Hotel

For my "Take a Photo a Day for Fifty Days Challenge" I headed to a Hotel by my werk in Irvine. The appeal to go to this place was the pond they had built in the area. Thought it would make for some nice lighting. I have attempted a couple of times of doing an HDR at night but always came out a bit wrong. This time around it worked quite well & pretty happy with the results. The image kinda has a ghost like feel to it, well to me at least.

By the way Happy Valentines day to you all. It's funny that it takes a single day for a guy to treat his girlfriend so nicely with all these gifts yet he his has all those 364 other days in that year to have all the same opportunities to treat them so nicely. Well I guess you can say the same about birthdays & all those other days... I dunno.

Long day of Riding! & Unused Clips

For my "Take a Photo a Day for Fifty Days Challenge" I had a lot of riding time with my friends Dustin, Patrick & Alex so my photo of the day was bound to do something with bikes, ha. We were riding the famous SixZeroFive ditch in our neighborhood while the sun was setting & the sky was on fire! I snapped a couple of photos & decided to do another HDR, it always seems to work best when it's a sun rise. I liked the results when I was editing it in post, I took it to photoshop after photomatrix & fixed the colors a bit. It was a bit too much saturated so I brought it down, added some green, & took out the blues.

I filmed a bit too as well to work on my filming, went pretty well. I've been trying to figure out a couple different ways go about filming & it being smooth as possible. Guess it will be quite a bit of trial & error & much practice to dialing in filming with the DSLR model & being happy with it.

ALSO! I put together a Unused Clips edit that consist of footage that is getting old & not too great of filming quality. It was a good way too abuse my Vimeo Plus account too! :P