I'm back!

I'm back.
I found out Macau is the Chinese Vegas,
same feel, same look, same casinos.

Next project

Well that was an exciting week. I still do not know to shoot as my
next challenge, for the time being I think I am just going to look for
things I need to practice more on (lighting, b/w photography, HDR).
I've some plans coming up so content might not be as "fresh" as I will
be showing some of my old work.
Do not fret, as I will be travelig around, and when I get back, I
shall hare with you all tales of my adventure!

Take this opportunity to tell me what you guys would like to see. If
you are feeling socialable tell me tell me of some of your travel
stories! Anything interesting ever happened when you were on vacation?
Meet any interesting people that have a fun anecdote attached? I look
forward to reading these comments when I get back!

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The sky is blue because God used the wrong hexidecimal code.

Saturday - Portraits

It's officially been 1 week of photo fun!

I would never have taken any of these shots if I didn't proactively go after a theme of the day.

I've noticed the most popular pictures this week was that asian theme pagoda, so as a special treat. I'm going to work on a series of shots that I will take in that park!

Okay, so let's discuss these pictures.

1) it was a really nice grainy wall, and I was kinda desperate for a "texture" picture.

I liked how the depth of field, and the sky peaking into superwhites made nice contrast to the dark shades of the wall there.

2) I actually took the time to set up this shot of the sidewalk, a nice contrast of textures there.

-Bonus-

3 Portraits from these two fine gentlemen(Models : Kwan Wing Tai, & Joachim "Eko" SJoberg) of the HKPA.

Special thanks for these really nice action shot of their awesome parkour skills, and helping me with my Portrait photography.

Friday - Shadows

I apologize for missing shadows yesterday,

I swear, finding shadows in Hong Kong is crazy hard.

It's ALWAYS(I cannot stress that enough) cloudy here, and rarely do I get to see direct light, it's always defussed. Today I actually had the proper lighting to take a picture of this old building behind the bar I use to work at. I appreciated how all the pipes and air conditioners cast this really nice shadow on the wall, it also made it look very "industrial", at least it did to me.

I'll make it up tomorrow, with 2 textures, and 2 portraits as interest on this I.O.U.

Textures will be easy, portraits will be hell for me to come up with, so don't think it's easy for me.

As always, tell me what you think in the comments!

Wednesday - Colors

Today's challenge was Colors. and I had a really hard time thinking of how to represent colors, until I looked down. This little flower had a really vivid shot of color I just wanted to show off. 

I know, this isn't my usual style of photography, but I thought it was worth it to investigate how this would turn out.

Tell me what you think of this style of photography in the comments!

Tuesday - Doorways

Today's challenage was Doorways.

I stood for an hour in a light drizzle, looking like like an idiot, waiting for people to get out of the way so I can take this shot. It seems people like to walk into the shot as soon as someone leaves the frame of my shot.

Also people talking on their cell phones, they seem to ONLY have reception in front of my camera, they go along walking, and just STOPS right in front of you to finish their conversation on the phone.

So, let me discuss this picture:

The challenage today was to shoot a doorway. There are many interesting doorways I could have chosen, like this one

I originally wanted to shoot this doorway, It had this really nice circular garden area behind it, but I couldn't shoot into it due to a young couple that's making out there, and refusing to move.

So, of the two, which one do you guys like more?

Tell me in the comments, or show me some shots of some cool doorways in your area in the comments.

Monday - Architecture

Today's challenage was Architecture

I took this in the other park around the villas that i'm currently staying at.

This time it was an old fountain that'd in the process of being drained for repair. There's this really nice gateway I wanted to show off the architecture to, but due to the weather, I couldn't get the shot. Maybe when the weather permits I'll throw it back on as a gift to my followers

If any of you have any cool buildings, nice shingles, or just some from of architecture you wish to show off, throw a link in the comments, or if you have any thoughts, or ideas you wish to share about this pic, leave critique in comments.

Find this project interesting, follow me, I'll be doing tons more.

As encouragement for you guys to follow me, I'm setting a small goal. I want to get to 100 followers, so when that happens I'll poll my followers for what subject they want to see me shoot for a week!




**Edit one : I DID happen to shoot it in raw, after a bit of post production... TADA!
tell me which one you like better.