Here is part two of my favorite images from my wedding last year. I hope you enjoy viewing them.
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In this two part series post, I would like to share some of my favorite images from my wedding with Deborah Thien on August 22, 2011 in Dana Point. Some were shot by the professional photographer we hired to cover the event, others by friends and family. We ended up with close to 2000 photographs. I decided to purchase raw, unedited images from the professional photographer and did my own selecting, croping, adjustments, etc. Here is Part I:
On Sunday afternoon, Deb and I went to the El Dorado Park in Long Beach. I have not been there for many years, but it used to be one of my favorite hang-out places growing up. Deb was my model for the day for Assignment #3 in Photo 104C (those from the class must recognize the code). Just as the light started to fade away, we found a set of mini-train tracks on the west side of the park. They provided a perfect opportunity of “leading lines” theme for the assignment. Only one of the photos made the final cut (the last one in the series), but I found the situation very interesting and would like to share additional images. My model got more and more comfortable as time went by and her expressions show it, but the final selected image also has a more successful composition, better separation between subject and background, wider angle for more dramatic “leading lines” effect, and a slight tilt to add dynamic feeling to the overall impression. I manipulated the image slightly in Photoshop by increasing the brightness (the light was very low and I shot it wide open at 1/25 sec.), increasing contrast, and “burning in” the face.
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Deb and I got married last year on a beatiful summer day of August 20th, in San Clemente, California. Our collection of wedding photos is made out of images produced by a hired professional photographer, my wife’s best friend’s coverage using my camera, my neighbor’s videography work, and photos taken by me, our friends, and our family. This posting presents a series of images I made of our wedding rings. It illustrates how I developed one idea, from starting the raw image (Photo 1), through the cropped image (Photo 2), conversion to black and white image in Photoshop (Photo 3), and another digital manipulaton using selective conversion into black and white (Photo 4). If any of my friend in class are interested in knowing more details, or perhaps are professional photographers and would like to offer me a chance to build up my porfolio while assisting them with artistic interpretation of their wedding work, please don’t hesitate to contact me.In this post I would like to share more pictures from my recent visit to Europe. In Part I of this series I shared pictures from Poland. We also visited friends and family in England, Scotland, and the Neatherlands. Part II represents a mix of photos from all of the four countries from our recent travel to the Old Continent.
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My wife and I just recently visited some very interesting places in Europe, including my county of birth, Poland. I left Poland in 1987 when I was just a teenager and had not been back until this summer. Needless to say, it was a very exciting trip for us. It was filled with wonderful moments with family and friends, return visits to places I used to know as a child, and plenty of new adventures and excitements. Poland is very much the same today as I always remembered it and yet it is new in many ways. While my city of birth, Wloclawek, has seen little change, Warsaw is a much more dynamic and energetic place than I’ve ever experienced. Warsaw is an old European city, with all the characteristics of such a place, including old castles and cathedrals, street cafes, and lots of walking street traffic. In the past, Warsaw’s character was very subdued by the communist era depression, but today it seems to be newly re-emergent. I’ve always loved Warsaw as a kid and used to catch a train to go there for a day just to hang out and explore its historical landmarks and cultural events. Another place I’ve often visited on daytrips is Torun, the birth place of Copernicus. We made the time to do the same during our one-week long trip. Too bad we had so little time to spend in Poland.
Here I am sharing some of the photos from my recent trip to Poland. I hope you will enjoy viewing them. Please don’t hesistate to comment.
