CANON MARATHON

On the Saturday last week, 18th October, I participated in the Canon Marathon Photo Competition. My goal when taking part in this competition is gaining more experience about still life photography, making friends with other photographers and finding the inspiration for the new semester. That was the long day (from 6:30 am until 10 pm) but a lot of fun. Me and my cousin has travel through the city to take pics for three different topics: Speed and Motion,Water, Happy Moment. These pics below was my choice to compete with other opponents.

Happy Moment:

This photo was taken in the small alley in district III, the young couple just gave birth and I want to capture their happy moment with their baby.




Speed and Motion:

This picture was captured in district V, at the Chinese Medicine Producing Store. I took the picture through the plants leaves. The wind vibrated the leaves compete with the man's moving hand making medicine.




Water:

Water is one of the most important element to create the living of other creature on the earth. The position of this pic was actually a big trash on the side of the Pasteur street. I was kind stuck of ideas so I took this one with the meaning is war (against the topic) but there were ice cubes around the tank anyways.

Tee Design: SUN&MOON

The idea is about the solar eclipse when the sun covers the moon as the strong visual that we could see by our own eyes the relationship between the sun and the moon. But the timing is set a bit further in the future, when the earth is full of people and we have to move to the moon for living. Therefore the moon’s surface is covered by human facilities and their building.
After trying different color for my design, I decided to pick the tone that I have the strongest feeling for.

UNFORTUNATE JUXTAPOSITION

According to the poynteronline.org/content/content_view.asp, juxtaposition is the act of placing or positioning items in the image area of a photograph side by side or next to one another to illustrate some comparison. Unfortunate juxtaposition is the mistaking in placing images so the final meaning are awkwardly.





This picture above is an example of the unfortunate juxtaposition I took in Tao Dan Park. The skull sign represents for the death and dangerous is put nicely next to the drink selling machine. So in my opinion, the final meaning we got from this sign is that drinking soft drink is killing you.


Even though this picture is not a juxtaposition images as the definition but I still want to put it in because it also the two subjects matter were unfortunately put next each other. It might represent for what the developing country like Viet Nam Has to face to, the hole between the rich and poor are getting deeper and deeper. This picture is captured nearby Sky Garden, Phu My Hung. Just right next to the new luxury building is the house boat of the poor family still living by the river bank.



This is the other one I took in my own opinion. What the sign advertised compare to the real situation of the construction ( still blank ).



http://flickr.com/photos/33917790@N00/191195001/
chicken store vs beef store.

http://pzrservices.typepad.com/advertisingisgoodforyou/images/2007/11/17/sick_birdsjpg.jpg
From CMM news, eating turkey and get bird flu.

myself and the F1 car

F1 & me ... me @ F1





Working through the illustrator for practicing.

the street Janitors

THE STREET JANITORS

There is a photography competition in the xonnhiepanh.com. You guys could visit through this website at the "xon xao xom ".

The topic is the photo essay of what are going on around us. I am going to post three different topics for this competition. Everyday we see the janitors on the street are cleaning our city. I am curious about their tough work and I want to go deep in to have the general look and feeling about one normal morning of the janitors. I want to create the mood that I have got through when I shot these images.

++ 4 am the empty alley

++ 4:15 am the janitors' tired face


++ shadow

++ the couple scarf


++ 5 am


++6 am time for meeting up


++ the other janitors fall asleep on the pavement after the long night cleaning the street.


++ a minute for a smoke and relaxing


++ thinking about future

++ a fresh start after a street sleep



++ things are trash with someone but useful with someone else


++ "do not threw rubbish away here."


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LIGHT in Photography

This is a tutorial to help you guys being creative with some simple set up with your DSLR camera.


1.. Set the aperture to the largest ( f2.8 for my camera)
2.. Set the shutter shutter speed down to 5 seconds and more ( the best case is using with the tripod which I am trying to buy one ).
3.. Set the ISO to 800 or 1000.
4.. Preparing some extra light source such as the torch or the LED light ( I am using my own twinkled optical mouse in this case )
5.. Start going crazy with different shape or text in the air, do not for get your dark background.

HAVE Fun !!!!!!!!!!!

DIeU TRinh EMbroidered Paintings BrochurE.

This is the brochure I design for the Dieu Trinh Embroidered Paintings. The idea is using her own works to create the background and using the advance of Photoshop to evaluate the relationship between the paintings and her brand name Dieu Trinh ( which she wants to get the most attention from the viewer). I arranged her paintings frequently from small group to big group top down. I want to get the colorful background so the viewer eyes could not pay much attention to any of them the main clear tittle : Dieu Trinh. The wood material of the decoration part also bring the peaceful, old time and a bit of sadness deal to her main topic is about the opposite side of the Vietnamese society. I also play around with the balance when I leave the withe gap between these groups. It will balance the design with the left part which looked a bit tough.


I am actually applying the Golden Racial 1:1.618 for the wood decoration and the height of the paintings arranged in the middle.

+++ This is the four steps to create the wooden decoration:
1.. Create the new documents and then add noise in the filter, adjust the amount to 51%, gaussian.
2.. Blur, Amount up to 10, Spin, best quality.
3.. Add noise again but the amount is less than 10% this time.
4.. If you want to play with the pattern, you could also apply the Distort Wave or Distort ZigZag through the choosing area by Elliptical Marquee Tool.
5.. The Type affects is also really simple by using the Type Mask Tool and then delete it from the layer.


+++ The two posters down is also a part of this Project. So I am going to use her real embroidered painting at the background and then put a nice piece of decorative wood with all the detail on it. I will post it up once it finishes.