Day 234 - Todd Ingram

My oh my, I have not done this much photo-manipulation in a long while. As you might have guessed my 40D is now back in my hands, oh and I am going to see the Scott Pilgrim vs The World premiere at midnight tonight! What a day, I did, however, not use my off camera flash for this one. It just was not needed for this photo.

So, just in case you have not guessed it yet, Todd Ingram is the third evil ex-boyfriend in the Scott Pilgrim series. He is a vegan, which gives him super telepathic powers and his eyes glow white with rage with smoke raging out of them when his powers are activated. Oh he is also dating one of Scott's ex-girlfriends...which makes his character even more unique. I hope you enjoy this heavily photoshopped day 234. Until tomorrow!


Camera: Canon 40D | 17-85mm f/4 | 17mm @ f/4 | ISO 100 | 1/60 sec

Strobist Info: Canon 430EX II @ ETTL | mounted on camera | 3ft from subject

Day 234 - Todd Ingram, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

I also thought it would be fun to show you one of my "working layers." This is what I call the photo map, so I am able to get all of the curves and bumps just right when I am editing in photoshop.

Day 196 - Happy 4th of July

Not a whole lot of time to really get all of this as perfect as possible. I am a little blury, there are some crazy glows around the plants, and the roof is way to bright from the flash going off. Despite all that, I think the final result came out pretty descent and it is always fun to shoot fireworks each year. Hope everybody had a great and safe 4th of July!

Day 196 - Happy 4th of July, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Day 194 - Sin City

I have been on a Graphic Novel trip for the last few months. I have been wanting to replicate different themes that are used in different ones and today it's Sin city. I think it turned out okay, but it is the first of a few I plan on doing with a replication of a GN in mind. Well, off to play in the rain!

Day 194 - Sin City, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Day 192 - Yes?

I decided to go Pop Art Silhouette on todays photo. It is an idea I have had in my back pocket for a while since I went to an arts fair in Austin with Catherine. I am thinking of continuing on with this style for a few other photos, but not necessarily of myself.

So what do you think? Do you like this style or not? Let me know.

Day 192 - Yes?, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Day 173 - USA vs England

Well, today the United States started their 2010 World Cup by playing our rival across the "pond" England. It was a rough start, with England getting a 1 to 0 lead within the fourth minute of the game. I am not going to lie, that early goal was very disappointing to me and frustrated me quite a bit. Luckily we were able to equalize it before the half and hold England off the rest of the game.

Quite a few people have asked me how I feel with a draw and honestly I think its great for USA going into the next two games. England is a fantastic football club and we were able to hold them off for 86 minutes after their first goal. It will help with momentum going into our next game on Friday.

For this photo, it is actually a montage of two pictures I put together using Photoshop. I had originally wanted to use my face for this and make it look like it had been painted, but I wasn't able to get a shot of myself to use for that. So instead I snapped a quick shot of my hand giving a thumbs up and map the American flag with it to help give the impression of it being painted on. Enjoy!

Day 173 - USA vs England, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Day 140 - Fake Holga

I have been wanting my Holga prints for a while, but refuse to take them in to get printed until after I finish this next roll. Hopefully I can do that soon, but I always seems reluctant to do so because I am afraid to waste film.

So until then I decided to fake a look for this picture in photoshop and see how it came out. By the end of the week I will have my Holga film turned in for processing.

Day 140 - Fake Holga, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Day 132 - Design with Text

Before you say anything, there is a photo within this design. So it might be very subtle, but it is there, trust me.

Today's tutorial used:
www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/learn-how-to-create-grea...

I have also decided that it is weird not using an actual picture for my 365, so I might take an extra one tomorrow to make up for today. Using a manipulated photo just doesn't seem right.

Day 132 - Design with Text, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Day 131 - Mustang Baseball Poster

While this is not necessarily a photo that I took today, I did finish editing it today. I decided that I want to go back and work on my photo manipulation/photoshop skills. This is the first of the series I am going to try to do for the next week. Give me some feedback one what you think of the whole concept and what you like/don't like. The more feedback I get the more I will know what I did right or wrong.

Day 131 - Mustang Baseball Poster, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Day 104 - So Many Clones

Clone pictures, as many already probably know, are one of my favorite photoshop things to do. Whats even better is that it also seems to be my friends favorite thing to do when we are bored on any particular day and I have my tripod with me. So courtesy of Matt, TJ and Matt we have today's photo of them going bananas on the jungle gym just near Matts house. Enjoy!

Day 104 - So Many Clones, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

January in Review

Here it is, just a few days after my first month in Project 365 and I wanted to do a wrap up of all my thoughts.



My favorite image of the month is probably Ol Shoes taken on the 4th. It was such a simple idea and it worked so well that it became one of my most popular of the month. Based on flickr hits alone, the crowd favorite was Morning Ice taken on the 11th. Personally that is one that I do not care for very much. It was more of a spur of the moment photograph and if more time would have been given, I know it could have been better.

My least favorite of this month was taken on the 8th (Cold Friday). The composition of the shot was not very well done and I think I could have been more creative with the way this shot was done. Until next time!

Day 24 - Clones

A quick Photoshop picture today that was taken while over at TJs watching some NFL playoffs. It is three shots that I merged together to clone us as well as display the TV better. This is the first of many clone style pictures I plan on doing, so expect more as I find the time and locations to do them.

I have also been really lazy posting here at blogspot, but I assure you that I have been following through on flickr. Go by and check ou tthe days I might have missed here at the blog.

Day 24 - Clones, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

A Little Green Left

While in Austin, we went on a short hike to enjoy the beautiful weather. This hike followed a small stream for a good majority of the trail that we walked. Among the trail I came across a small plant that seemed to be growing almost by itself. It was funny to me because fall is almost in full swing and everything is starting to wither away, but all while this small plant was thriving in the rocks on the walking trail.

Original picture was taken at 17mm with f/4 and taken into Photoshop for some fun post processing.

A Little Green Left, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Downtown Photo Walk - HDR Attempt

I found HDR photography on Sunday and I really enjoyed the style. So yesterday I went on a architectural based photo walk in downtown Houston to see what kind of results I could get. Here are two of the better results:

Images from months past...

Well, a few things that I have almost forgotten about until now. Up first was for a movie poster project for one of my classes last semester. We were told to create three original movie posters and this was considered to be my "funny" poster of the bunch. I think it pretty much explains itself...



Following, is another poster design I presented to the Siggraph Conference, in their annual poster contest. This one has been in hiding mostly because I was waiting to hear back from the Siggraph judges. Sadly, I was not successful in making it to the finals of judging, there is always next year. The theme of this contest was "Network Your Senses." Since the Siggraph conference is all about technology, they encourage the theme to portray technology as much as possible. Overall my idea was to incorporate Binary Code in the shape of a face, to represent the senses. The Binary Code itself says "Wellcome to Siggraph 2009 in New Orleans! Network your senses."

Rocko's Modern Life...

Don't ask me why, but that song is stuck in my head. I have not seen an episode of that in years and it randomly just popped up while I was trying to break down my designers block. With summer school officially over as of 9:00PM tonight, hopefully I will have more time to actually enjoy part of my summer. Well, the part that does not involve me sitting in my freezing cold office 8 ours a day. I have a few things I would like to accomplish before this summer is complete:

Design and Publish Personal Design Website
Enter Multiple Design/Photography/Photoshop Contests on Worth1000.com
Find out more information about becoming an ACE (Adobe Certified Expert)

Doesn't seem like to long of a list...but I am sure it will grow as the summer, or even this week, goes on. About time to call it a night so I can get up bright and early for work!

Hello

Kind of bored today, so I thought I would go back and work on a little project I had going during the semester.


It is almost entirely 100% original from Photoshop tools alone, except for a picture or two that I used from my library. Creating this was just something fun I had wanted to do, but never really had the time. Living back in the Houston area, right next to JSC, has really brought my space nerd back out. I had originally planned on putting together a whole solar system of planets and even mess with the space that Earth is in. 

Onto other news, my camera is now out of commission and I have heard a few bad things about the Rebel series from Canon. I went browsing yesterday (oh by the way, why doesn't Fry's have Nikon's???) and narrowed it down to four choices. Well, really three, the Canon EOS 40D, Nikon D90, and the Nikon D5000. The Canon 50D was on the list, but do I really need 15.1MP? Seems like a waste of and extra $500 to me. All come strapped with a CMOS sensor, but what really has been attracting me is the speed of the 40D. It shoots 6.5 frames per second while the two Nikon's are barley hitting 4 fps. Other than the speed the Nikon's seem like better Cameras to me, so I didnt know which route I want to take. 

Well, time to get started on some real work...

Cheers!

About to head to bed for the night and thought I would post a picture of something themed around one of my current projects. Hopefully I will have a website with a real gallery by mid summer. Keep your fingers crossed!

Class Bordom

We learned some new stuff in my class today and while being bored I happened to come up with these two peices. 

"Everything but..."

"The Faucet"

What do you think?

Heads Up!

This is a picture  that was part of the project that I posted below. I beleive Kristy actually took the orignial picture of John throwing the frisbee. So Kristy, you pretty much have ownership rights to this picture. 

Starting Graduate School

Graduate school has been going well and since I wanted to follow a friend on here I created an account. Here is some work I have been doing for school the last few weeks:

I ended up calling this "The City of Two." It can really come out as many different things and there is no reason why this actually came out as it did. Sorry for the creepiness factor, but once I was done it made sense what I was doing.

Here is a close up of one of the eyes, this way people can get a better look.