Frigid Moon

The last couple of nights have been very cold, which is probably what caused the moon to exhibit an optical phenomenon known as the Corona. 

Here's the definition from Wikipedia:

In meteorology, a corona is produced by the diffraction of light from either the Sun or the Moon by individual small water droplets (and sometimes tiny ice crystals) of a cloud or on a foggy glass surface. The corona consists of small number of concentric colored rings around the celestial object and a central bright aureole. The angular size of the corona depends on the diameters of the cloud droplets - small droplets produce large coronae.

 For the same reason, the corona is clearest when the size of the droplets is most uniform. Coronae differ from halos in that the latter are formed by refraction (rather than diffraction) from comparatively large rather than small ice crystals. Reddish colors always occupy the outer part of a corona's ring. (This is an atmospheric Airy disc.)

This photo is a composite of three separate exposures to display a wider dynamic range as the Corona surrounding the moon was a little too bright to capture enough highlight detail in a single shot.

Panorama

This is a panoramic composite of almost all of the firework photos I shot this Chinese new year on the roof. It was a little crazy but I took each firework individually from each photo and pasted them into their proper positions in this panorama. It was a lot of work and it took about 2 hours to complete but I thought it was a cool idea to show everything in a single photo.

Gatsby

I haven't had much chance to continue adding to the series like I promised. There's just very little time to work with so here's one I made recently :)

Words Unspoken Part II

Another photo from the previous shoot. The poses were actually inspired by a Nike ad involving some of the Spanish football players. I have no idea what the ad was called though. I haven't had much to do recently. Been staying home and I seem to be the only one who hasn't gotten sick.

Clones

Here is a composite photo of many Bernards from a recent shoot. This is meant to be part of a series so there will be more to come (hopefully). I have been delaying this post for ages because I need more time to continue the series (which I still do). 

The light setup was simple. A single flash bounced on the left side of the camera for the portrait shots. Post processing took a few hours because of... you guessed it. Isolating the subject from the background and adding them to another one. It doesn't matter to me because you're not going to achieve quality if you're not willing to go that extra mile. 

Cityscape Disaster : Transformers

Okay so I went a little crazy and decided to add another photo to the Cityscape Disaster series. The older series was about natural disasters and this one is just... highly unlikely. It was heaps of work but hey, I would be lying if I said it wasn't fun to make. I learned a lot since I did the previous series but this took me a whopping 3 hours to finish. Most of the editing time was taken up by the little details added for realism.

Admittedly, it does not look consistent to the style of the previous series because I decided to retain more natural colors on this one. And sticking to the movie, I decided not to break tradition and added the excessive trademark lens flares. The background photo was taken at the Lintas highway.

Note: I haven't mentioned it but this semester's exams are over! It has been since Friday :D Interestingly, the Tsunami photo which is the first from the series, was also made right after my exam last year.

Here are the links to the previous posts from the Cityscape Disaster series.
Cityscape Disaster : Tsunami
Cityscape Disaster : Tornado
Cityscape Disaster : Meteor Strike

Mountain Dew Ad

 

This was an idea I came up with quite a while back. It's finally complete :D

Somewhere Between the Mind and Universe

 Happy Easter everyone! :D

Shot these at the same location as the previous post. I wanted to post these sooner but I completely forgot. I have been studying for my exam this coming Monday and Tuesday.

Which reminds me, I have to go study now.

Cityscape Disaster : Meteor Strike

I couldn't resist. I just had to make a third one. This one was the toughest to create because of the meteor. It took about 2 hours to complete this. There's a second meteor behind the cloud by the way.
To be really honest, as I took all these pictures around town I wasn't really sure what exactly I was going to do with them, I just knew that I wanted to composite something.
I haven't been doing much this week. I miss having photo shoots. I miss playing futsal.

oh and Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there :D
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Cityscape Disaster : Tornado

I decided that I kind of owe it to my blog to create a second disaster scenario ;) This one was pretty hard to figure out because I turned up with nothing after scouring the internet on how to create a realistic tornado scene.

Of course the photo isn't perfect (I still have a lot more to learn)

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Cityscape Disaster : Tsunami

Exams are over!! :)

I had the idea for this photo for quite a while now and it's been ages since I last created something like this.

I always find it fun to composite images because of the endless surrealistic scenes that I can create.

It took me a little over an hour to complete the photo. There are a few other processes that I have deliberately left out because they were too time consuming.

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