Mt. Diablo Landscapes

I captured all of these images at Lime Ridge Open Space. I walked around for about 45 minutes and ended up with some really great captures. ALL images include only minor editing to enhance contrast and increase the detail, the goal of this project was to accurately represent the space without any editing that alters the natural image. I am fairly happy with these photos, yet, I am looking to re-shoot these photos at a future date. I went at about 5:15 pm, and in the future in order to obtain more dramatic lighting, I will choose a later time and most likely a different location such as Mt. Diablo. My favorite photo in this set is the fourth one, with the vulture flying over the path; I really like the sky, and also how the trail leads the eye to the bird. I also like the sixth and final picture and how the eye is forced to follow the con trail and also the hiking path to meet in the middle of the image. I am very happy with the dramatic greens and blues which appear in these images.

HDR Practice

This is a composite of three images, of the quad at CPHS. Using a Nikon D600, I shot the images, and created the overlay in HDR Efex Pro 2.

City Life

I captured these images in Berkeley, which similar to my "Sense of Place in Berkeley" project I used for my final. Yet, the goal of this class project was to capture images of City Life in the local Bay Area.

In this photo, I just used minor editing in Lightroom including converting to black and white and cropping to a 5x7. This homeless man was leaning against the wall and people watching in Berkeley.

I also only did minor editing in this photo of a man looking at Nike's in a store in Berkeley.

I did minor editing in this photo and also used the brush tool in Lightroom to burn and dodge certain areas in this picture of the Amoeba Music store in Berkeley.

This is my favorite shot from this city life project, I only used minor editing in Lightroom, and I am very happy with the outcome.

I used minor editing to crop and to covert to a black and white to show this picture. This is a fence in the foreground with a lady talking to a parking meter-monitor in the background.

These are two doors to a large house, which was a duplex, in North Oakland. I used minor editing in Lightroom to create this final shot.

Surreal Cars

This project, I captured surrealism in cars. By using Photoshop, and Lightroom I edited the pictures to create some surreal images.

In this photo, I used an overlay in Photoshop to create the photo above.

I did the same thing in this photo as I did in the previous. I think this photo is very American and could even be used as an advertisement for Chevrolet in the USA!

In Photoshop I used a clipping mask, a layer mask, and many layers to overlay two images and make it look as if there was a city street in the place of the grille on the 1969 SS Chevy Camaro.