ZOMBIES!!!

Well, the question before us is this:

Who doesn't love zombies?

As such, I will post pictures I took, of zombies, at this year's Nuit Blanche in Toronto Ontario.

I'll repost my two faves. I love the first one because the way the two bodies frame the bottom of the picture. It makes it shows the people being attacked by the zombies, as well as the scary zombies as well. All in all, this was a pretty happy group of zombies though.

:) Roon-bop

Nuit Blanche

Every year in Toronto at this time is Nuit Blanche, which is a free all-night art festival, where galleries and museums open up and you can find art in the street from all over the world.

This year I went with my husband and a friend. We were out from 7 - midnight. We walked all over Zone A, because it was closest to our place.

We had a really great time going around. There were people everywhere! It was great. Below you'll find some pictures that I took. I would say the highlights of the festival were the zombies and the ROM.

I struggled with night photography. I still have much to learn. There were many times when I couldn't use my flash, which of course slowed the shutter speed, and I didn't have my tripod, because I didn't want to lug it around and I didn't want to slow us down setting it up and down constantly.

You will see two of my favourite zombie pictures below, but I will post a separate blog dedicated to the zombies.

:) Roon-bop

Some work from class

I thought I'd post a couple of the pictures I submitted in class for my assignment. This was assignment #3, extracting & melding images.

I'm really looking forward to next class. We're going to start learning about panoramas and HDRs. I think that's what they are call... High Definition something...

On another note, I am currently working on creating my very first business cards. Staples is having a sale! WOO HOO!

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Blue Jays Baseball

Well, my husband and I were given AMAZING tickets to see the Jays play. We were right in front of the Jay's dugout... really wicked!

We had a great time, and of course, I brought my camera. I did have some trouble. Many of the pictures came back blurry, because of light and shutter speed constrictions... I'll have to work on that and figure it out.

In any case, I fooled around in Photoshop with these. It was fun. I enjoy playing in PS, but I don't want my pictures to look gimmicky... I'd rather just take really great photographs that speak for themselves. Still fun though.

:) Roon-bop

Last Week's Class

So after much internal debate, I have decided to show what I learned in last week's Photoshop class. The reason for the debate is that we learned to remove wrinkles, and as such I will be posting a photo of my mother, that will in turn ask my dear readers to notice how many she has, and how amazing I am for making her look better.

Let me just preface by saying that I think my mother looks great for her age (wrinkles and all). I am a firm believer that people should embrace aging and try to do it as gracefully as possible and always naturally. People seem to forget that not everyone has the chance to grow old.

So, last week we used the healing brush, Gaussian blur & diffused glow. Original will be first followed by my work.

:) Roon-bop


Original

Gaussian Blur

Diffused Glow

Original

Healing Brush

A Fault of Digital Photography

One things I've been thinking about as a fault of digital photography is that because there is no film, photographers may perceive that they don't need to take as much time thinking about the photograph, because there is no limit to the number of pictures one can take. Perhaps, its just me, because I'm so used to point and shoot cameras, where you're taking pictures of your life events, but it seems to me perhaps we've just lost our patience in an age of instant gratification.

Back in the day when plates were used to take photographs, you only had a few tries to get it right. As such, you had to really concentrate to make sure the lighting was right, the picture is framed properly, the exposure is correct, etc. I've been thinking about it quite a bit. So my latest resolution is to scope out and think about my pictures more before I start shooting. This should hopefully make my photos better.

We'll see.

:) Roon-bop

PS Curves Tutorial

Hello,

Well, as you may or may not know, I missed the second half of my photoshop class last week. Because I was missing it, my teacher suggested that I watch some tutorials on You Tube to learn more about Curves. I found this tutorial and found it to be very useful. I had NO idea before I watched this. Me thinks I shall be using curves much more often & more effectively from now on.

:) Roon-bop