Special Effects

To make things interesting, I finally delved into the editing realm of photography. Due to my lack of photo-editing program and the lack of knowledge of it, I have never seriously made any adjustments to my photos. But I have this photoshop copycat program called Paint.net, and I played around with it a bit. It's actually a lot of fun! It turned my ordinary looking pictures into something really cool looking. :)

Oil Painting effect

Ink Sketch effect

Portrait-softening effect

and the plain old Sepia effect.

Lights

I love pretty looking lights. Lighting is such an important factor in a photo. I think I should go to Chapters/Indigo one day, grab a bunch of photography-related books, and just sit in a corner and read. I could spend the whole day there looking at photography, interior design, and cook books. This day will come.

Passage to a New Year

Happy New Year everyone! I hope your Christmas and New Year days were well spent and that you have gotten the things you wanted. I have not had much time for photos lately, hence the lack of posts and also the lack of breakthrough. I am still trying to find new perspectives--so I hope you can be patient with me as I am trying to be patient with my progress. On a lighter note, I just want to have fun with it because taking pictures is something I love doing. I feel that a photographer's feelings and thoughts could be depicted through the lens. I am hoping that with my pictures, I have somewhat achieved that.

All the best wishes in the new year.

Reminiscence

I still don't have anything new to put up yet, so instead, I thought of putting up some old photos that I took last summer (2007) when I went back to China. I wish I had more opportunities to travel to different places - discovering new things is such a breath of fresh air. Be prepared for an overflow of photos!

China - A Trip to Xi-An

Hong Kong

Macau

Transient

Thank you for all those that commented and gave me suggestions. I will hopefully soon put them onto the experiment table. As you can probably tell, I love roaming around the streets of Toronto - my pictures are partially inspired by Sam Javanrouh's daily dose of imagery. It feels great to discover the obscure and hidden places all around the city or even just looking at a familiar place in a new light. I hope my pictures are able to convey that feeling. I only have five pictures for this post, but next time, I promise there will be more and with new themes!

My test shot with a subject. :)