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Good Times (98&99/365)

April 9, 2008 comments

I'm feeling good.  Really.  I feel great.  Oh man, I hope I didn't just jinx myself.

I have learned SO much in the last few months that I can hardly take it all in.  First of all, the internets are even more amazing than I once thought.  I've always been a little weird about meeting people online.  Not love matches mind you, I've had that area covered for 6.5 years now.  I'm just talking about plain old meeting people.  By nature I don't trust people very easily so when it comes to the web, I just assume everyone is donning a fake persona and I'm not really talking to who I think I'm talking to.  However, in the last 2 months on flickr, I've met some truly amazing people.  I mean, straight up inspiring and all that.

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Graffiti and a New Photoshop Technique

March 21, 2008 comments

This is a shot taken from my subway platform.  There is a ton of graffiti lining the wall across the tracks but this one, for obvious reasons, sticks out.  It's all alone and rather big.  Apparently Pilot Spag is actually two graffiti artists and they're known for tagging over other people's work.  Clearly that wasn't the case here. My cousin Todd gave me this information.  I can't seem to find it on Google but my searches have been, admittedly, half assed.  Maybe you can find something more on "Pilot Spag". 

I found a fun photoshop technique last night which I used on this photo.  I'm not entirely sure I got the exact effect they described but I have to say, I love the look on this.  THe original now looks like a washed out, crappy photo I took on the fly.  With this effect, I was able to give it a lot more depth and feeling.  I look forward to trying it out on a few more of my "so so" shots. 

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