30 Day Photography Challenge

Day 1 : Anything Goes
Day 2 : Self Portrait
Day 3 : Your Camera in the Photo
Day 4 : Alphabetogrophy
Day 5 : Number Photography
Day 6 : Mother Nature
Day 7 : Portrait of a Friend/Family/Pet
Day 8 : Broken
Day 9 : Out of Focus
Day 10 : Gluttony
Day 11 : Love
Day 12 : Reflection
Day 13 : Fool Perspective
Day 14 : On the Floor
Day 15 : Freestyle
Day 16 : A Picture of a Picture
Day 17 : Close Up
Day 18 : Backlighting
Day 19 : Time
Day 20 : Stranger
Day 21 : Sweet
Day 22 : Highlight of the Day
Day 23 : Movement
Day 24 : Shadows
Day 25 : Colour
Day 26 : There's something odd about the Picture
Day 27 : Your Favorite...?
Day 28 : Light
Day 29 : Surprise
Day 30 : Your Choice

30 Day Photography Challenge

Day 1: Self-portrait
Day 2: What you wore today
Day 3: Clouds
Day 4: Something green
Day 5: From a high angle
Day 6: From a low angle
Day 7: Fruit
Day 8: A bad habit
Day 9: Someone you love
Day 10: Childhood memory
Day 11: Something blue
Day 12: Sunset
Day 13: Yourself with 13 things
Day 14: Eyes
Day 15: Silhouette
Day 16: Long exposure
Day 17: Technology
Day 18: Your shoes
Day 19: Something orange
Day 20: Bokeh
Day 21: Faceless self-portrait
Day 22: Hands
Day 23: Sunflare
Day 24: Animal
Day 25: Something pink
Day 26: Close-up
Day 27: From a distance
Day 28: Flowers
Day 29: Black and white
Day 30: Self-portrait

30 Days of Me Challenge

Day 01- A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself
Day 02- The meaning behind your Blog name
Day 03- A picture of you and your friends
Day 04- A habit that you wish you didn’t have
Day 05- A picture of somewhere you’ve been to
Day 06- Favorite super hero and why
Day 07- A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you
Day 08- Short term goals for this month and why
Day 09- Something you’re proud of in the past few days
Day 10- Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad
Day 11- Another picture of you and your friends
Day 12- How you found out about Blogger and why you made one
Day 13- A letter to someone who has hurt you recently
Day 14- A picture of you and your family
Day 15- Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play
Day 16- Another picture of yourself
Day 17- Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why
Day 18- Plans/dreams/goals you have
Day 19- Nicknames you have; why do you have them
Day 20- Someone you see yourself marrying/being with in the future
Day 21- A picture of something that makes you happy
Day 22- What makes you different from everyone else
Day 23- Something you crave for a lot
Day 24- A letter to your parents
Day 25- What I would find in your bag
Day 26- What you think about your friends
Day 27- Why are you doing this 30 day challenge
Day 28- A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?
Day 29- In this past month, what have you learned
Day 30- Your favorite song.

The 30 day blog challenge.

 The 30 day blog challenge.

Day 01 — Your favorite song
Day 02 — Your favorite movie
Day 03 — Your favorite television program
Day 04 — Your favorite book
Day 05 — Your favorite quote
Day 06 — Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 — A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 — A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 — A photo you took
Day 10 — A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 — A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 — Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 — A fictional book
Day 14 — A non-fictional book
Day 15 — A fanfic
Day 16 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 — An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 — Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 — A talent of yours
Day 20 — A hobby of yours
Day 21 — A recipe
Day 22 — A website
Day 23 — A YouTube video
Day 24 — Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 — Your day, in great detail
Day 26 — Your week, in great detail
Day 27 — This month, in great detail
Day 28 — This year, in great detail
Day 29 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 — Whatever tickles your fancy

Playing with color

Playing with color
Here i am just playing with some gradient mapping and color selections. Some cool effects can be obtained with removing the color from an image all except one color.

It was used in Schindlers list to distinguish the little girl.

Updates

At the moment i am spending the majority of my time working on my new Portfolio website. I have adapted a lot of what i have learnt so far. Stay Tuned for the new update to the site.

Chase that circle

A simple use of the random function in Actionscript in Flash. As you roll your mouse over that circle, the circle randomly moves around the box. The tutorial was found here at lashf.com

Stunning Wallpapers

Seriously, there are some pretty awesome wallpapers in this lot. Check them out at Smashing Magazine.
Here's an example...

Beautiful Black and White Photography

There are some pretty amazing black and whites in this gallery at Smashing Magazine. The image below, powerful isnt it? Entitled Candy Cigarette by Sally Mann. You ask questions dont you?

Non-destructive dodge and burn using a Grey Layer

I created a Tutorial on a way to apply dodge and burn to a photo without making the changes permanent. The dodge and burn effects are applied on layers which can be edited without ruining the integrity of the base layer.

Intrigued by Black & White

At the moment i am intrigued by the Art of black and white photography. Things seem simple in black and white. This book is an interesting read on Creative Camera, Dark Room and Printing techniques for the Modern Photographer. The photoshop techniques inside were quite interesting to read. I will no doubt play with a few in my own works and see how they turn out.



I created this image for my own entertainment from this photo i took. You can see the difference it made.

Graphic Design Blog

Just an interesting read on where some designers get there ideas from......
Top 10 Graphic Designers reveal their secrets - Let’s get inspired!

Some pretty cool photos here... Take a look
20 Sensational pictures claiming NOT to be Photoshopped!!

Yeah yeah yeah

Making Text Follow a Path

Still learning the basics of Photoshop in this Tutorial i learnt to create text that can follow certain paths.

Sticky Tape

This is a good little tutorial (Photoshop Atoms) on making sticky tape to put on designs. Fairly easy and quite fun to make.

Pencils

Just playing around with a different technique. This was just simple duplicate layer and desaturate, then with a bit of deleting.

(Original)

Just checking in

Not much study of late but have been doing a bit of work to my website. Have added a new Photography Portfolio where i will showcase some of my best work. Theres always going to be new things popping up on the website or on my blog/s as i learn more and play around a bit.

Pen and colored Wash Photograph

Another interesting effect.

Combined Snapshot

This is a cool little technique that i enjoyed doing from the book "Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks for Adobe Photoshop CS3".
Playing around with a few filters could make for a really good looking photograph. As you can see on the left, i played with a blue filter which brightened up the sky.

A sketched look

What do you think? Does it look sketched???