Beaten

I tried to be nice, I'm giving life to this machine. I'm building it from scratch. It does not want to come to life.

Window's is installed and no problem have arise. Still, try as I might, I cannot get iBoot to work. I'm not done yet, I'm going to try again when my sata disk drive arrives. Hopefully I'll have positive results to post.

I'm back

New Year, New Rig.

I know I've not posted much in awhile. I've left Hong Kong, and I'm finally back home in the states. I'm going back to school hopefully next month, providing I don't mess anything up.

Side Project 1

 I made a new blog as a way to get the creative thoughts out of my head. I'm new to photo manipulation, but seeing the large amount of "reject" pictures i've taken over the year, I decided to turn them into some stock images and make more things with it. I decided to go with tumblr being my blog of choice due to the nature of this project. It is to be single photos, for people to enjoy. There doesn't need to be a wall of text, and it makes it easier for people to share. (It also helps that the target audience are teenagers, and i'm going to assume that all the young whipper snappers are on tumblr)

Want to tell me how you feel about my new blog?

Want me to follow you're tumblr?

Leave me a comment below.

Until next time,

-Ivan

Before I head back to California next month.

I'm making a list of things I want to do before I head back to California.
1. Go take pictures of the tourist-y Hong Kong/Shen Zhen areas.
2. make plans for photoshoot with at least 1 model when I get back
3. Hang out with some old friends here before I leave them.
4. Beach
5. Hike a Nature Trail/Get sunburned to death.
6. Take pictures of where I live
7. Go shopping for cheap chinese goods
8. Walk the brightly lit streets at midnight
9. Get my hair dyed
10. Play the Guitar with a buddy



Anyone feel they have something to contribute to my list?
Wanna hang out with me when I get back to Cali?
Tell me about it in the comments!

Shaoguan

Here we go again.

These are a couple of random shots I took on my vacation to Shaoguan.

I've not had time to process/throw my siggy on them yet, and I probably won't have time to do that as I've so many projects I'm working on at the moment.

The first picture is a fountain at this temple, it is tradition to wash ones hands with the water, which is spring water from the mountain that leads to the temple, for luck. I did, but I think the luck was being about to get such a nice shot.

Then on the second day, after an hour hike up a mountain, we ended up at 'males rock' I shit you not, they call this 'males rock' go google it!

It was one hell of an afternoon that day.

Lastly we have a plain landscape of the guardrail, and the mountain side.

Photos of this trip included a sceneic waterfall, more mountains that look like 'other things'(sleeping beauty/etc) some woodlands, and more hiking photos.

I'll link to the album when I finish editing the shots.

The wink

This bird was winking at me for the longest time, I think he gets photographed alot, cause he was just standing there and posing for me.

The original can been seen here.

+watch me here if you want to see the rest of this series!

As always, critique/suggestions in comments is appreciated!

HDR practice

Part of the series for Sunsets around the world.

This one was taking at Tsing Yi, Hong Kong.

I'm going to continue to play with HDR in this series.

I'm not sure if I'm doing it right.

What I'm doing is actually just finding a composition with lots of lights and lots of shadows, setting the exopsures to -2, 0, +2 and letting it rip.

If anyone has any tips or tricks to doing HDR, feel free to share it in the comments. I would also appreciate any critique, here or on my deviantArt page.

Until next time

-Ivan