Wasn't it Suppose to Rain Today?

For my "Take a Photo a Day for Fifty Days Challenge" I attend the 'Sausage Fest' at the Vault Skatepark. It was quite a fun day, lots a good friends coming together to ride some bikes & watch people ride. It was suppose to rain this day but which ended in the very opposite weather, a blue sunny sky... On the way to my car I noticed the clouds coming over the hills & I was standing on some rail road tracks & thought of it to be a good shot. In the post I did a bit of tweeking in the CR2 settings in photoshop to make the colors saturated & leveled between every section of the photo, since some of it was exposed more then other parts. I had to go beyond the CR2 settings to achieve the look I was trying to get so I went into photoshop & did a bit of masking & adding contrast in the clouds. Changed the colors a bit too with the overall look of the picture to make it more of an aged photo (I guess?).

Close to the end & Failed Plan.

For my "Take a Photo a Day for Fifty Days Challenge" for day 47 I took a photo of what my back yard ends up to be when you go threw the gate. When I moved here about a half year ago I was pretty siked on having a gate to a park & would think I would spend a lot of time there but I never do, ha. Well I've been there a few times, but definitely not enough.

For day 48 I had quite a mission planned out after I got out of work late on Friday to go to a building under construction. The building is still in it's base structure form right not & that was exactly what I wanted. What made it better was there was a parking structure right next to it, which would made it easy to snap a high photo of the under construction building. So I headed there after work & came to find out there was no way into the parking structure since it was being used by the construction workers unless if I jumped some pretty high fences but would probably end up with security catching me. I'll probably make another attempt at snapping a photo there, maybe for the last day for this project. So I ended up taking a photo on the way home that I've always had in mind to take a photo of but wanted to take it while it was raining, which it was :D

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.