Sunday, April 22, 2007

Assignment 2A

This is my assignment 2A for the Electric Imaging & Design.
I illustrate myself as a train. I have to carry many woods at a time so I start firing!
I little messy with the woods and the skin.

Water Beauty

I used the Nikon Coolpix 570o to shot the water stream. Last time, I only shot a single dropping water, so now this time I took a shot of a water stream.

PLEASE! Click on the image (to enlarge the picture) and you will fully understand why I took the tittle "Water Beauty" for this post!

Friday, April 13, 2007

Dropping water

I used to play around with my Nikon COOLPIX 5700 and this time I play with "WATER".
I found that water can create/become/turn to many beautiful shapes.

I tried several times before but no picture is qualified (shaking images, blurry), therefore this time I put the the camera on a tripod.

These pictures are not easy to take while I have only 2 hands, one hold the camera and one hold the light tube).

A few pictures below will express the proves for the beauty of water!



Figure 1. This is the best "shot" that I had ever took!
The main focus is the water drop above the water, which has created a pretty nice shape of a "p..".
This is 100% natural - no added photoshop effects.





Figure 2. For better illustration, zoomed focus area is provided.





Figure 3. My second favorite picture!
The quality of light and clear focus point of figure 3 is > than figure 1.
The only reason that makes it my second favorite is because it contains unsurprising shape ^-^ !





Figure 4. For better illustration, zoomed focus area is provided.
But how could I make such a nice light reflection on the dropping water?
Answer: using an one meter-white-light tube as the main light source + flash light from the camera, 50 degree and 1 meter away from the dropping area.





Figure 5. In this picture, the drop above the water is focused and make it the most natural (circle) dropping water ever!
Because the dropping water is focused + blurry background results in viewers tend to look at the dropping water other than the dropping wave.
The light sources makes real shadows for the dropping water at the back.





Figure 6. This time the camera focused on the dropping wave, thus provides a very beautiful dropping wave.
There is only one light source: flash light from the camera. As the result, the picture is looked darker and do not have a long light reflection on the water, except the flash light which showed the dot light at the bottom of the dropping wave.




Figure 7. The best wave-out from all the pictures that I took.
Two light sources as above but the light tube is 2 meter away.


Experts, please give me some comment on this!
Share your thoughts!
I hope you all will like it!
^-^

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Practice with Fonts

The exercise aims to improve the way we choose appropriate fonts for each circumstance.


Figure 1. Font: Chiller. Horror theme!
To make it more realistic, I used brush to make "the bleed" on the grass.





Figure 2. Font: PlayBill. Wanted type!
You welcome to use this! Remember to put your own portrait! ^-^


Figure 3. Font: terminator Real NFI 1.0
I used the images from the referenced address to design these two pieces.


http://www.illuschoen.net/termy/termy_files/image002.jpg

http://www.tokyohobby.net/store/images/m1887_shop.jpg

Sunday, April 1, 2007

CMA_Academy

I came to Nha Van Hoa Thanh Nien for the Graduation Showcase 2007. Chatsworth Medi@rt Academy perform this event from he 2nd to 4th March 2007.

"In this event, 14 students from CMA School of Communication & Design exhibited their commercial advertising works, which featured the corporate identity of the products and services of their choice, the advertsing design and their applications such as editorial, packaging, outdoor advertising and etc."
(http://www.cma-academy.com/Graduationshowcase/graduationshow.html#studentexhibits)
www.cma-academy.com



These are pictures that I took. You can come and check out at their students'works (quite nice) at http://www.cma-academy.com/Graduationshowcase/graduationshow.html#studentexhibits