Environmental Portrait

So for my portraiture class I got paired up with William. Our first class assignment was to take an Environmental Portrait of each other. This was a little difficult for me because William didn't play any sports so we had to think of something. He used to take karate lessons when he was a kid so he put on his gear, and I told him to hold a sword as a prop lol. Apparently his mother is japanese so the house was very oriental. We took a few snaps inside but I then took the set to the front of the house where the big bamboo trees were which gave it an asian karate kid theme hehe. All in all, it turned out pretty good. Now it's time for my turn either tonight or sometime this weekend to take a picture of me.... what to do....

Nike Zoom Kobe V Bruce Lee

Me and Bui lined up this morning in LA at the Beverly Hills Center Mall to get a pair of the new Nike Zoom Kobe V Bruce Lee's. They only sold them at 3 stores in the US so they're somewhat rare. This is probably my first pair of shoes that are more for a collection that to wear. I then had a mini photo shoot with them. I really need to finish up my studio instead of editing all of it in photoshop. lol

Tomorrow is Superbowl! I'm hoping Peyton Manning will win it for the Colts!!! woot! woot!

Poster projects

So Andy had me design him a poster for the door of his room. Being a Jersey shore fan, he wanted it to have a fist pump theme that said "Enter fist pump here." I used my roll of Epson single weight Matte paper and programed my epson stylus pro 4880 to cut it at 17"x22"
hehe its so cool!


It turned out pretty good, so I decided to make a poster for myself. Tiffany had posted a picture up on facebook of a poster she wanted to buy of a corgi, so I decided to make my own version of it with Ryder's bath picture. =)

Totally Rad Photoshop Actions

Wahoo I just bought 2 of the 3 Photoshop action packages from TR. Can't wait to shoot & edit now! =)

however, this kinda puts all my photoshop classes to waste.....
I hope I don't get too lazy in the future and rely too much on it...

In the mean time, it is pretty fun to play with hehe.

this is actually one of the demo effects for the tr2 package.

one of the effects called rusty cage.


For this picture, I tested out the dirty picture actions along with some ez burn & contrast.