Wonderland

I am starting to do more panoramic shots now, for experiment, and for learning purposes. Above is a stitch of roughly 7 images, all shot hand-held. Once you have pictures covering all areas in your scene, just use any stitching tool, such as Photoshop, to either let it automatically stitch for you, or do it [...]

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Winter Flower

Doing HDR handheld has its benefits, but the definite downside is camera shake and movement. This one looks fine at this size, but you’ll see a very clear blur as the result of camera movement that the subjects shot in all three exposures don’t have the exact match location on the images, and this is [...]

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Fruit, Stream, Bridge

I realized that many people actually prefer HDR art. From my observation, almost all of my most faved artwork on DeviantArt are HDR work. Whilst it’s a good thing knowing that people appreciate my art, it also brings me back to the question: is HDR overused? Depending on how the artist goes about creating their [...]

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A Part of Nature

Kubota garden in Seattle. Having the opportunity to explore more of Seattle, I found Kubota garden, a little Japanese-American style garden that, as we found out, is huge. I have been to several Japanese gardens, but this one trumps them all in size. Granted, the season (winter) isn’t really the flower blooming time, but the [...]

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Water

The initial inspiration of the “uniformity” series, I captured this image on a day out to the pool. It was a very sunny day, so the water appears extra reflective and fresh.

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