Not too long ago I posted a video of myself playing my violin… I don’t know why I did it just to mess around I guess. I’ve always wanted to record myself playing and I forgot I had a built in camera on my Mac and I guess it just clicked one day… So after that a guy on flickr contacted me and asked if I’d come play in an orchestra. So I did. here’s a photo of us. Me on the left and Johnathan on the right:

So I played and they asked if I’d play this Saturday in their first Christmas Concert. Pretty awesome eh? I’ll try to get a video of us all playing and throw it up on youtube or something.

I took photos last Saturday in Waikiki of a couple Dan and Hiroko Frick. It was a TON of fun and I got to work with along side an amazing photographer Marina Miller. I got to ride a trolly covered in white and pink balloons through Waikiki and eat at Oahu’s fanciest restaurant Le Mar.

As I edit and work on the photos you can check their set here. You can also check my photostream here.

 

Hope you like them and if you have a flickr account don’t forget to favorite your favorites!

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Just messing around in my room… This song is by a string group called Bond - I absolutely love their music. I pause a couple of times to scroll down to the next page of music and I mess a little bit in one spot (I’m not going to say) otherwise this was a perfect performance. Let me know if you like

I just wanted to share what I thought:

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I get people asking me how I vignette photos easily in photoshop. Why would you want to vignette in the first place? Well, artist and painters have been doing it for hundreds of years to bring the eyes to certain parts/subjects of the paintings. This effect is also helpful in photography in bringing a person’s eyes to a certain part of the photograph. Most times this is a subtle effect but other times it isn’t meant to be. Just depends on the photo and your style. The following is going to be a quick and easy way to add vignettes to your photo. I’m not saying it’s the best or fastest or whatever. It’s just the way I do it.

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1. First open your picture. I picked possibly the worst example for this but here we go:

2. Create a new layer

3. Choose your Gradient tool. Make sure your colors are default black and white:

4. Make sure you’re set Transparent to Black:

5. Select Radial:

6. Click the center of the photo and drag all the way out:

7. That’s pretty much it. If you want to decrease the amount of your vignette you can lower it’s opacity. You can do that by selecting the layer you want to change, then reducing it’s opacity:

Hope that helps. It was my first tutorial ever… Hope this helps you make your very own vignettes.

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Oh yeah, I forgot Before and After images. Click to enlarge:

Before:

After: