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A month ago Jiahui and I did a photographic experiment involving double exposure. Since we quite enjoyed it on our first try, we decided to give it a second go. Last time we used our two different climates as our theme, but this time we chose to experiment with food. I recently went to the sugar shack and captured many succulent dishes. I used those pics and Jiahui shared some meals with a more Asian flair. Like last time, I will post my five experiments here and you can go see Jiahui’s results on her site.
Posted under alteration & photography
Oh boy! One month without posts! I have failed the blogospheres. As usual, I was busy, yadda yadda, but I should have some more time soon to work on my site. I restarted my redesign, but I also promised somebody I would make them a website as well. So, the gist of it is that I may or may not be on as often for the next little while. Hopefully, everything will stabilize soon and I will be able to keep up with a more regular schedule.
In other news, last week, Jiahui and I decided to try out a little project. She told me about using camera film twice to produce a double exposure. The goal would have been for us to take pictures, then send the roll of film to each other to use once more. The idea is that you have no idea what the other person took, so you might get some surprises with the output. Since she lives in Singapore, and I live in Montreal, we decided to try this experiment using our digital cameras and swap pictures over the Internet. We each took 10 pictures and marked 2 sets from 1-5. We sent the first set to each other, and then merged them with our other 5 pictures. We couldn’t change the order of the pictures and we used Photoshop to blend them together. We both produced at least a couple of good pictures. I will share my 5 pictures below, and you can see Jiahui’s pictures on her site here. Overall, it was a fun experiment and I hope to do it again in the near future.
If you don’t understand the title of this post, it was -30 degrees (celsius) here and +30 in Singapore, creating 60 degrees of difference. 
Posted under alteration & awesome & photography
Ever stand in between two mirrors and felt like you could see yourself repeated to infinity? As a programmer, I would call that recursion, but to the rest of the world, it could be considered as the Droste effect. This is when one image gets repeated inside another over and over again. You’ll see this in photographs/paintings in which the person is holding a picture of themselves holding the same picture. M.C. Escher was really good at doing this kind of stuff.
With today’s technology (I’m looking at you Photoshop), these kind of effects can be easily reproduced without too much work. Of course, it is nothing compared to what real artists can produce, but it is still pretty impressive. Using an old picture of myself, I managed to make a repeating image and it definitely gave me the itch to create more. I know that next time I will be out shooting pictures, I will try to think outside the box so that I can post manipulate it to infinity.
Posted under alteration & photography
I felt like it was time to play around with Photoshop some more. 
This was taken in Baden-Baden, Germany last year.
I was on top of some castle ruins, juggling some chestnuts I had found.
They were a good alternative to my juggling balls since they were quite compact.
Posted under alteration & photography & rant
I’ve been meaning to buy myself some really strong gel, so I went to the store and bought a couple of different tubes of gel. I was testing the gel and I gave myself some sort of crappy tri-hawk. (think fake mohawk x 3) Ever since seeing the clip for Prodigy’s “Breathe”, I’ve been etching to get myself hair like him (double mohawk). Of course, I never had the guts to shave the rest of my hair and dye each side a different colour, but I secretly wanted to do it. Now that I work, it will probably never happen. Anyways, I took a picture of myself, and even though you can’t see the fake trihawk, I like how this alteration turned out.
Posted under alteration & photography
Posted under alteration & photography
Modified image:
Original (with slight photoshop enhancements)
Thanks go out to Nathan for taking the pic.
I should fix the shirt properly one day…
Posted under alteration & photography
Here’s a couple of pictures I did the other day messing around with Photoshop and my camera.
I look so tired in this picture…
Booom! Just being silly.
I quite like this one.
My cousin Jacques.
I’ll post more pictures as I make them. I also have a picture of me which can be found at the bottom right corner of every page. I love Photoshop.