a before and after of today's image:

just took out the bench and my boots and added the texture really! oh and of course the crop!

today was day 364. I'm completely ready for tomorrow. I know where I'm going, I know what it will look like, I know what I'm doing. I'm just nervous. Nervous that it wont turn out the way I envision it. Nervous that I wont have a structure everyday anymore. Nervous that people will forget about me.

Outtakes from Jan 5th

Happy New Year everyone!
I've been in a really good mood ever since the year turned 2011, I'm ready to make this year so much better than last! The item collaboration on flickr has started 5 days ago, I now am just 5 days away from completing my 365 project! How exciting! I've got some ideas up my sleeve for day 365!
Here's some outtake from Day 360:

Merry Christmas!

so i got a new lens, its a 50mm f/1.8, and it works beautifully!

i also got a gorilapod!

so im going to post some photos i took warming up to the new lens, and the troubles i went through when shooting with it the first time!

this is the first shot i took of myself with f/1.8

and this is when i finally got it right!

FOCUS TIP: the main problem was focusing perfectly, i learned a trick about focusing though yesterday, if you take your camera to the spot where your standing and focus off your tripod and then put your camera back with your tripod and stand in that same spot again, then you have a perfect focus because it only matters about the distance you are away from the photo!


i used this tip today and the shots were nice and clear:

merry christmas everyone! i hope you had a great day with your families :)

Miscellaneous Outtakes

Twin Series!

so I've started a new twin series, basically its just cloning, but i like to make my clones interact with each other as if they each have a set of different emotions!
here are the befores and afters of my shots, there are two befores and one after!

 not much to say about this one, just uped the saturation so the stars would stick out more, and meshed the two photos together by using the history brush tool.

the mountains looked really clear and beautiful this day, all i did was up the contrast and blue tones and mesh the two photo together using the history brush tool.

 

and i was also asked to take part in "merry christmas!" collaboration, and i was the "!" obviously!

Brrrrrrr

such a cold photo shoot!

 this is a before and after of my shot from the day ^^. opposite from my photo titled "Fragile Doll". here are some outtakes

Stress

so lately ive been having so many issues. ive been trying to make friends because my roommate is leaving in december, i'll now be required to take care of my step dad around the house, my real dad and i have issues of communicating and everyone blames it on me, holidays are coming up and i don't have presents for anyone but richard, and on top of that i still have my school work to do. ive been just so stressed lately and i have a feeling that this break is just going to add onto that, but im still excited for it, it starts December 17th and goes until about the 10th of January (i think, it may be the 17th who knows). im just ready to be out of college, get married, and start a family already!!