Passion thru the Eyes

RED KEBAYA

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:01:05 +0800

A girl poses in red kebaya. Edited using the sharpening techniques of Manny Librado combine with soft touch method. So to Mr. Manny Librodo, a big thanks.

Here it is:
Background copy
USM 18-40-0
USM 150-.3-0
Edit>Fade USM 100% in Darken Mode
USM 150-.3-0
Edit>Fade USM 50% in Lighten Mode
Flatten image

PROHIBITED AREA

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:48:30 +0800

A man takes opportunity for fishing at the prohibited lake during the weekday at Cyberjaya this morning Jan 4, 2008.

OCHIE

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:52:16 +0800

Talented model from Indonesia, got potential as photo model and experience in posing style.

WEDDING PIX AT SETIAWANGSA

Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:50:22 +0800

Did a short session of wedding ceremony on 1st January 2008. Attend as helper and gives the simple setup of studio lighting to mmu students (all from indonesia). They actually manage to get their own 1st wedding job. Well done. It's almost 3 week my D200 sits in dry box due to spending time for setting up e-commerce system. Need to take a break of complicated php scripting. Do it as favor with roti canai and teo o air limau as return.

LOW COST SETUP

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:21:26 +0800

The Setup System :
Product Table Stand with Flexiboard, 2 lights, Reflector both sided.

and the Result :

EXPERIMENT ORTON TECHNIQUE

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:32:03 +0800

original pix - already edited the color without applying the technique.

and the result after applying the orton steps with apply a bit of less saturation.

ORTON DIGITAL EFX TECHNIQUES

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:45:15 +0800

Here is the excellent video tutorial by Bob Campbell that describes the three layered Orton technique. Give it time to download....it takes a few minutes to load, but it is worth the wait.

Here is the step-by-step recipe for making Orton images in Photoshop:

Open any image you wish to try the technique on. Make a duplicate of the image (Image>Duplicate). Close the original image.

Lighten the image as follows: Image>Apply Image… then in the dialog box that comes up change the bending mode to “Screen” and the Opacity to 100%. This will give you an appropriately overexposed image.

Duplicate this overexposed image (Image>Duplicate).

Blur this second image (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur… and in the dialog box use a Radius setting of 15 to 50 pixels – the higher the pixel setting the blurrier the photo and the more ‘painterly’ the image… but you can go too far!). Experiment with different settings, for my tastes and for the size of my digital files (50-100 megabytes) a radius of about 25 pixels works perfect.

Now select the move tool from the Photoshop tool bar (or just press “v” on your keyboard for quicker access to the move tool). Hold down the “shift” key and use your mouse to drag and drop the blurry image onto the sharp one (don’t let go of the shift key until after you release the mouse button or the images won’t be in perfect alignment).

Bring up the layers palette in Photoshop (F7 is the keyboard shortcut). Under the word “Layers” in the layers palette will be a menu box of blending modes. Change the blending mode from “normal” to “multiply”.

Now “flatten’ the two layers by pressing “CTRL+E” or by clicking on the sideways triangle in the layers palette to select ‘flatten image’.

There, you now have an Orton image - if you like your new masterpiece save the file!

TODAY IS FRIDAY

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:26:13 +0800

The well-known mosque at Kuala Kangsar. Photo was captured a few year ago and re-edited back with applying several techniques eg. add in the Velvia looks of digital editing using Photoshop CS2.

INDUSTRIAL LIGHTS EFFECTS

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:19:17 +0800

While waiting for my car in service and repaired minor thing, just grab compact camera (always with me) to capture the disc brake system. Re-edited the color and tries to make it look as like industrial products light effect. Experiments with color edit and effect...thats all. The truth is, when i get bored do really need to have something to shoot. Takes me almost 2 hours waiting for the car ready.

RETOUCHING AND SOFT BLUR EFFECTS

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:46:30 +0800

Eyes contact of Jiehan while setting up the lighting strobe. The shoot then converted into style to create the mood of illustration with Photoshop CS2. It is takes only approximately 7 - 10 minutes to get this kind of effects.

Re-edited

Unedited version