Two Days (VIDEO)

And it's here! As some of you esteemed guests have probably guessed, the project I've been working on was actually a video. I spent the last few days experimenting with the video features on my camera and decided that I could probably throw a video together in a pinch. 

Of course, the footage took place over two consecutive days of going out (albeit raining, they were supposed to be "shooting days"), and the post processing took another two days to sort things out. As it turns out, you really need to know what you're doing behind the scenes to get the most out of your image.

If this video is any type of successful, I hope to be able to create more videos in the future with a bit more fineness and ideally, some type of story.

I'm proud to say that I got permission from the artist of the track I used in the video, so I'll give special thanks to Evgeny Grinko for his fantastic "Other Child Room" in the album, Winter Sunshine EP.

Without further ado, feel free to watch the short I made by clicking the image below (I decided not to embed it because Vimeo doesn't allow HD playback on other websites without paying a monthly fee).

Two Days (TEASER)

Heatwave Hiatus (Part 3)

Apparently, this post didn't go up when I intended it to go up-- looks like I'm going back to full manual control again. Anyways, here's the final part of the set I made. I was pretty happy with pretty much all of the pictures in this set, save the fact that I missed the focus point a few times here and there. Along with that, these will be the last pictures that I put with from the Sony NEX-6. From now on, we're going back to my trusty old Nikon D90.

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Heatwave Hiatus (Part 2)

This set was mainly taken around several "Chinese" communities around where I live or in the city. As I was putting them up in Lightroom, I also found a bunch of photos from a few months ago that I really liked, but forgot to post on the website. So I decided that, rather than let the photos die a silent death in the digital decay of individualism and society, I would post them all up in a single post right after I'm done with this series.

Another thing that I thought I should address is why I always take so long to put up my photos after I've taken them. The main reasons is, I really dislike (hate's a strong word) looking back at my images after I've taken them (other than to check the image to see if I need any adjustments). It's just a quirk that I have where it makes me feel as if I'm exhaustively stepping back into my own day-- I'd rather give it a few hours/days before I take a look at them again.

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Heatwave Hiatus (Part 1)

Aside from getting brutally stabbed by a group of slow cheetahs, the main reason that I haven't been posting images is due to the fact that it's been getting too hot to wander around outside, and because it's realistically unreasonable to ask me to connect my camera to the computer. I'm only human after all. Along with that, I recently tried out a new camera under the guise of replacing it with my current camera. Sadly, it turned out that the camera (Sony NEX 6 w/ Sigma 35mm f/2.8) wasn't quite for me, and I returned it recently.

Disregarding these unfortunate issues, I'm back with more images to throw at you! Now just as a small disclaimer, most of the images below were taken with the camera that I was previously considering, so be wary of impressively better image quality.

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One of the first images that I took with the new camera.  I really liked the well-defined distinctions.