Rainier Overlooking Lake Union

Just a shot I took the other day.

Which Do You Prefer?

The night scape in my last post inspired me to return to Gasworks, and take some updated photographs of the city since that last photograph I showed you. This time, I decided make some larger panoramics by stitching together a series of slow exposure shots.

After I put the panos together, I spent some time "developing" the image. I tackled a traditional black and white photograph first. Then I decided to try a couple stylized versions. I'm pretty happy with the final three results. So much in fact, I couldn't decide which one to post. Therefore, today you get to choose which one you like best. Let me know what you like and why!

Seattlescape

One of the things I like to do from time to time is revisit photographs I've taken a while back, and re-edit them... Here's the latest one I've done -- A photo of Seattle that I took back in May 2009. B and I were flying to Palm Springs.

(click to see a larger image)

Update: Added another one- The night lights of Seattle, Dec. 2006.

Recently I've really be interested in graphic design... so I decided to leverage this new found interest by trying my hand at creating a couple simple projects in Photoshop,  Although these aren't specifically photography project, it still allows me to learn some new PS skills, and stretch myself in a direction that I've never really gone before. Therefore, I still think this falls under one of my Year's Resolutions.

The first project I did was creating a wallpaper calendar for my second monitor. I was inspired by a calendar I had seen online, so I decided to see if I could create something in the same vein, but make it my own. The final product looks very simple and clean, which is what I wanted, but it still took me a lot of time... I realized I'm can be a bit of perfectionist sometimes, and this project definitely brought it out in me. (If you by chance would like a wallpaper, let me know. I can send you a copy of the final version. I can even change the color to your liking.)

Here's the inspiration (from this site):

 My first draft:

My final version:

The second project was taken from a Photoshop tutorial for beginning users...  The tutorial provided step by step instructions on how to create the end product. Unlike the calendar, where I used a lot of trial and error, this time I followed the instructions provided. This was useful in that I could learn the techniques they were trying to demonstrate.

So here's their product:

And mine:

Overall, both projects were fun to do, and taught me some new Photoshop skills.