Mais um trabalho da faculdade…

Esse foi feito em cima da hora, na correria!
Bom, o trabalho era fazer uma peça gráfica com o tema “superação” tendo como base “estudos, faculdade e profissão”.
Resolvi então fazer essa ilustração. Acho que deu bem para passar a ideia de “buscar suas vitórias” né?

by Chairim

Bom é isso aí… simples mas válido… Se quiser conhecer mais do meu trabalho, visite meu site: Chairim Arte e Design

So in my attempt to get my macro mojo back, I found myself diving off the deep end into a year’s worth of water reflection photos.  I recently purchased the Nik Color Efex set of filters and have been playing around with it throughout these images and wow, what a difference a filter can make!

This one started off as a very muted blue reflection with almost no detail to it.  I sculpted and polished.  I cloned and filtered.  I burned and dodged.  You name it…I pretty much did it on this last image of the evening.  Whereas all the other reflection photos came out full of color and contrast, this one went in another direction and what do you know…I liked it best. 

Ele não é Deus mas faz milagres…

Descripción:
Versión Portable de Adobe Photoshop CS4, como novedad tendrá que solo requiere descomprimir y ejecutar el archivo lanzador para iniciar el programa, además incluye un modulo de arranque que detecta el idioma del sistema operativo y dependiendo de cual fuese carga la interfase apropiada. Se le añadieron los archivos host de bloqueo para evitar la activación vía Internet el producto solucionando el problema de los números de serie en lista negra.
Luego de terminar de usar el producto y cerrarlo se limpia el registro de idiomas y seriales, para evitar conflictos, se recomienda usarlo en ordenadores que carecen del software instalable.

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O burburinho já está espalhado pelo mundo inteiro. Bastou a Adobe lançar um vídeo com alguns dos novos recursos do Photoshop CS5, que está em fase final de produção, para que o mundo da edição e tratamento ficasse enlouquecido. Eu, também, é claro!!! E a pergunta que não pára de soar em nossa cabeça é: será que teremos novidades para deixar mais simples a nossa tarefa de editar e tratar imagens. E ao que parece, o Photoshop CS5, de fato vem forte nesse sentido. Nas novidades apresentadas no vídeo abaixo, você poderá ver novos recursos de pintura e distorção de imagens, como a ferramenta Warp, que foi redesenhada e ficou muito mais eficiente. Mas por enquanto é só um aperitivo da nova versão, que deve ser lançada oficialmente em abril de 2010, com um pouco de sorte e surpresa um pouco antes, como aconteceu com o Photoshop CS4, que foi lançado em dezembro de 2007.

Olá galera, me desculpem com os dias sem post. Estive com alguns problemas, mas que já estão sendo resolvidos. Hoje vou postar um trabalho da faculdade sobre um artista chamado Pieter Paul Rubens, pintor barroco (flamenca) entre outras características.

O trabalho consiste em obras (as mais famosas) de fundo, o auto-retrato dele e própria criação e constituição da arte. Espero que gostem

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Ok so I lied. This post is going to contain HDR images. I just cant seem to get away from HDR.

So we got bored and we went to go drive around this HUGE town we live in. We stopped in the middle of the road so I could get out and get on top of the truck to shoot this. This describes Okmulgee pretty well; Nothingness.

Okmulgee, OK

Ok so Ill try and stray away from the HDR thing but it doesnt seem

very likely at this point; and im also learning new HDR stuff.

Enjoy!

Enjoy that too.

I have been recently working on a significant amount of photo retouching for a big project in the office. Due to the large amount of photos I’ve been editing I’ve felt it necessary to brush up on my Photoshop CS3 skills in attempts to find easier time saving techniques to streamline the photo editing process.

Being a designer and hence a visual person, I have become very loyal to the Visual QuickStart Guides and have recently added book 3 to my collection; MX 2004 Professional Flash. The teaching style in the book is a combination of text and application screen shots which display a step by step outline of the technique being taught. The series also caters to pc or mac platforms. In addition, there are also tutorials that allow you to practice with applied learning. Although, some of the tutorials I found a bit redundant as they follow similar steps.

The other night I dusted off a required text I used in school (multiple years ago), The Photoshop CS2 Visual QuickStart Guides from authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas. This book is very good for the intermediate designer and serves as an excellent reference tool to the features available to you in Photoshop. The book I own is based off of an older version yet it still applies to my new CS3. I highly recommend the teaching technique of these guides and am hoping to purchase a used copy of the new CS4 book available online here.

I’ve been working with new techniques to isolate, select and copy different areas of an image to edit them and have an example below for you to check out. The below image reminds me of those images you see in visual children’s books where you must spot the difference. So in true nature of my inner child I would like to challenge you to spot the 7 major changes I made in Photoshop CS3 to this image. Good luck!

Welcome back to another week of everything to do with landscape photography. As falls slips into winter most photographers take this time to focus on other things, such as family and other things that we shouldn’t have ignored but photography has a way of doing this to us. We know family is the most important thing but one excuse and another and before you know you are so wrapped up in getting out that we put everything else on the back burner. Anyways, it is important to find a balance between family and photography. I know I am guilty often of tunnel vision and think only of getting that shot or getting back home and getting online with all the photo forums that there is to explore. I must admit many of my hours spent at home are on the computer either post processing images, checking out other images, or conversing online with other photographers. Trying to take me away from this can be almost impossible and if I am not doing this I am obsessed with what I am missing. I guess it has got to the point I feel guilty if I am watching TV, I am thinking of how I could be spending this time more productively with photography. It has got to the point I now need to force myself to get away from the computer no matter what it is that I am doing. I need to realize that the computer will still be there when I get back. As many of you this is hard to do as the world of digital photography online moves so fast it is hard not to think what I might be missing out.

So this month I am doing everything in my power to get away a little from photography. This means like anything it is time to find a new hobby. So this is the time to try new things and one of those things for me is working out again. This was something I used to love before I found photography so maybe there is hope for me still.
I encourage others who might be going through some of the same concerns to do the same things. Anyways, if you have any suggestions how I can put photography into perspective I would love the suggestions before I lose my mind and not the least my family.

Now onto something photography related. One the most important concepts in photography is consistency and when we are discussing photography this means workflow. I am going to break down a series of workflow patterns in the next couple of blogs that I believe work for me. Repetition and consistency make up habits that lead to a predictable workflow that increase productivity in photography. The importance of a consistent workflow is vital to the success of your photography. When does the workflow start, where does it end, and how important is this to experiment. This are some of the things I am going to try to discuss.

Workflow transcends throughout photography and begins the moment you pick up a camera. Basics are important to photography, but continuing to follow a plan that works for you is how you are going to take your photography to the next level. A simple but effective and consistent plan involves pre visualizing the scene before it happens. Check the internet for the area you are shooting at. Are there better times then others, is it a sunrise or sunset shot, where is the sun going to rise and where will the best light be. I am not condoning you go out and copy other people’s images but look for how others might have photographed the area before. Take some of those ideas and improve upon that. For example, could there a better composition, better perspective, or even a better time to photograph the scene. A great place to start with this is a google search or even better go to the photo site Flickr and type the area that you are interested in. Once at this point you have three choices for an advanced search which includes relevant, recent, and interesting. I always choose interesting as this gets me straight to the great photos and also the images others seem to also like. From this point I have a good idea of what, how, and where I am going to go when I get to the scene. Obviously, this can change as light means everything when it comes to landscape photography. But this technique gives me a good head start so when I get there I have a good idea of what I am looking for. This is part of my workflow that never changes and is always done beforehand. The other half of this process includes arriving early enough at a scene to explore all options and really finding out what moves you about each scene.

The night before I always check my bags, charge my batteries, and clean my camera for those pesky dust bunnies. One thing that many people forget to do in this process is to clean your tripod legs and make sure they are lubricated so they move effortlessly. Many times then I would like to remember I get out where I need to be and the tripod legs will not work because I had taken them out to the beach previously and sand, dirt, or grime got in parts and locked everything up. So make sure to give it a good rinse so when the time comes you are not fussing around trying to get the legs to move. Another part of my workflow is to make sure I have erased all my memory cards from the previous shoot but make sure that you have it copied, backed up, and backed up again before you erase. If you wait to you get out the next time shooting you can double check to see you have the images backed up. So always check your memory cards are backed up and then erase and format your memory cards.

The last thing to do before going out to shoot is check the internet for weather, and times when the sun rises, and sets. I am always on the lookout for partly cloudy forecasts, and weather that indicates that a storm is moving out. These are ideal situations when it comes to favorable weather conditions. When it comes to sites to search for when it comes to weather they are many that do a good job but the one I go to when I need the most reliable forecast is NOAA which can be accessed here at noaa.com. In my past experiences not only has this provided the most complete forecast but more then often has given me the most up to date forecast.

All of these habits make up my preparation every time I go out and shoot. This is the beginning of my workflow and something I do every time. If you do this consistently the habits will be ingrained and will become second nature. Although the habits seem minimalistic they make up a more important workflow that leads to patterns that will go a long ways to improving your overall goal of photography.

As my brother calls it, this is a “Kage Bunshin” Project featuring my mom, sister and brother-in-law. Used Photoshop CS4 and Olympus E-420.

This past weekend my sister had a birthday party. I ended up getting some interesting shots.

My brother ended up getting my sister pretty good with that cake.

Here’s a shot of the attacker and victim.

The aftermath of the caking!

Olá, como vão? Não abandonei o blog não, é que ulimamente com fim do ano próximo a faculdade consome até a alma, rs…

Bom, essa ilustração foi um trabalho para o Designer Sandro Michelini, que usou a ilustração na elaboração de um convite para um teatro infantil realizado pela instituição SEPI, patriocinada pela Ypê.

Vou ver se consigo pegar depois o convite e posta-lo aqui. (a ilustração eu fiz sozinhaaaaa rs…)
Foi gratificante e uma experiência nova.

Espero que gostem.

Boa semana e té.

Espero que gostem.

Mundo de Elimeya by Chairim (trabalho para SEPI)

This weekend my father and I spent some father-daughter time putting together a new bird house post.  We bought a couple of pieces of PVC, some connectors, a 90 degree angled rebar, some glue, and a few nuts and bolts and went to town building a three tiered/six house bird pole, complete with six roosting pockets that I found at my favorite bird store.  They told me that Carolina Wrens and Black Capped Chicadees love to winter over in the roosting pockets and I’ve always had spotted luck at best getting those two birds to come to my feeders and be photographed so I dug in and took the plunge. 

We finished getting the pole in the ground on Saturday and I went and bought a new hanging bird bath and dug out an old feeder especially for small birds so it would be close to the new Avian hotel.  This morning I was sitting on the deck, sipping on some tea, when a Carolina Wren came down, perched next to the new birdbath and looking right at the roosting pockets started to squawk up a storm.  I have a feeling they’ll be filled up in no time! 

Then she swung over and had a look at the other feeders near the deck, just to make sure she wasn’t missing out on anything.

Fall is having its last hurrah this weekend.  We’ve had temperatures between 75-80 degrees all weekend long and it’s put me in the best possible mood.  Besides the beautiful weather and how it affects my attitude is the way it affects my photography – the lighting has been superb! 

Despite the still warmer temperatures the traffic at my feeders has really picked up in the last week.  Maybe the birds know something I can’t yet face – that the warm days of autumn are almost over and winter is getting ready to blow into town.  Oh well, if it must, it must.  At least I have the images from this weekend to keep me warm.

So I bored today with nothing to do; you ever have those days? yeah they suck. Well I decided to HDR some more photos to cure my boredom. Again done it Photomatix Pro and a little touch up in Photoshop CS4.

These are the before and after of each picture so that you can see what i started with and then the finished product.

Tell me what you think. Good, bad or ugly?

Há um recurso no Photoshop, desde o CS3, que poucos profissionais tem usado na edição de suas fotos. Trata-se do Vanishing Point (Ponto de Fuga). A dificuldade está em entender como ele funciona. Nesta vídeo-aula, de quase 10 minutos, mostro como podemos usar essa poderosa ferramenta para tornar tarefas complexas, bem simples. No início do vídeo há também a explicação de como usar o filtro Lens Correction, que também serve para corrigir imagens com distorção de perspectiva. Espero que gostem!!! O tutorial foi feito no Photoshop CS4 para Mac, em inglês, mas o recurso também existe no Photoshop para Windows.

Well most of you probably don’t know what HDR or High Dynamic Range even is so here are a few examples for you.

To make an HDR you take an underexposed, overexposed and “perfect” exposer picture and merge them all together into one. When you do that it picks out all of the best exposers and puts them into one; essentially giving you a “perfectly” exposed picture. I took it a little further then just getting the right exposer and made them less realistic.

I made all of these in a program called Photomatix Pro. After I put them through HDR and got what I wanted out of them i took them into photoshop and ran the unsharp mask filter to make the picture a little less blurry. Photoshop has HDR abilities but it does not give you as much control over the picture as Photomatix does.

I like the less realistic look from HDR as you can tell here. But it does come in handy for other things that you would never thought were sent through HDR.

Again all shot on a Nikon D80.

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Hello People!

Compartilhando mais um trabalho.

Conferindo meu twitter, vi um tweet de tutorial no Abduzeedo.com e gostei. Fiz algumas alterações e produzi o wallpaper acima, brincando com Phoshop CS4, utilizando Gaussian Blur, Gradient Overlay, Clouds, Pattern, Noise e Blend Modes, alcançando um efeito de luz bacana.

E você, o que achou?

Personalize o seu compartilhe!

Abraços e até o próximo post.

“Keep the fire burning!” 2010 is coming!

Apaixonada pelo meu novo photoshop…

Patience is a virtue.  I waited for over a year to get a copy of the most amazing photo enhancing software, Viveza, and it was worth every moment.  This is my first image with the new toy – I’m sure there will be many more to come as the controls and technology that this software uses is simply amazing.  It sits right in Photoshop or Lightroom like a plug-in and wow, is it the coolest thing ever. 

Why did I finally buy it?  Because the price dropped by $100 and the new version is due out in December -  buy it now and you get to upgrade to Viveza 2 for free (saving you ANOTHER $100.)