Iwo Jima: Happy Thanksgiving

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How are you all doing?

Here are some photos of the NYC gay pride parade. While I sanitized these photos, if you are not a huge fan of very out and proud gay people, and some of their fancy attire they wear, I would stay clear :-) for some of the racier pics (as well as all of these pics again) you can go here, and here.

I hope you enjoy!

Sorry if you got this on multiple communities. I just wanted to be a comment whore today, I kinda need it... lol

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Because LJ is upset that I have not been posting to it, I am posting 4 photos that I have taken recently that I wish to share. Please comment!

the thing about these 4 Pictures is that I have decided to seriously undertake learning Photoshop, and using the features to start editing photos in the "lightroom." This means a switch to shooting in RAW format (for non geek speak, basically RAW is an unprocessed photo file, they can be between 10-14 Megs per shot. There is no processing or compression, and you can massively edit in Photoshop with this picture type. JPEG is processed and limits what you can change, hense why it is smaller)

Phoebe


With Phoebe, I went Black and white for the photo, and excentuated the contrast betweent he White and the rest of the photo. Then, I did a vignette effect, making it as though it is some sort of Senior class photo. Finally, I took the Camera flash reflection out of her eyes. I think her dark eyes is amazing, but it may also come off as souless... I don't know.

Calypso (Picture 1)


With Calypso, I just brought out the orange and yellows in her fur, and did my best to bring out the reflection. This is what I achieved.

Calypso (Picture 2)



This photo was very interesting. I changed the exposure of the picture: meaning that it was a lot more dull in the original because I got the exposure type wrong on my camera. Then, I again brought out orange and Yellow... but this time, I really brought out the green. Calypso's eyes are not that green, but I was able to really bring them out in this picture. I am hoping to improve these skills as I go along however.

Painting


This is a photo of my art that I have hanging on my wall (finally! I never hung the art in Ashburn, luckily, I got enough motivation to put this up.)  Anyhow, the light coming into the room was bright and washed out the walls behind the painting, so I desaurated all the color out of it this was the first time I really worked with a photo after adjusting lighting/color levels before hand. I enhanced orange and Yellow this time, as well as deepened the shadows, bringing the black out into more focus. I really enjoy this shot... even if you can see the poor apartment construction... lol

I love this place.

In this dessert: coconut ice Cream, A Hotdog Bun, Japanese Red Beans, A Jelly-bean like Fruit, nuts, Sticky rice, jack fruit, Lotus nuts, a long green fruit thing, Pineapple, and CORN.

This is some of the crazy food in Thailand. (and it was kinda ok, though I decided to have a Bannana Ice Cream Sunday, which was much better)

Corn is used a lot in Desserts here.

Is kinda creepy.





I have lost 8 pounds since this trip began. I have two weeks left.

So, I went to NYC this weekend, and got to get some good photos.

The first is of the Cloisters, a monestary in Upper Manhattan that has been converted into a museum. I put my best photos on there. I did not take my Tripod on this trip, so I had to improvise... but overall, I think I did pretty well.

The second was my host for the weekend, Jim. He is an incredible guy, and he was kind enough to allow me to take pictures of him ad naseum over the weekend, I wanted to share these pictures because I thought I actually did a good job for once with portrait pictures.

Please, Please, please feel free to comment! I would love to know more your thoughts on the pictures!

Aaron

OMG, SO CUTE>

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