So while i wait to hear back from some companies (i hope some of you are reading this), I’ve been doing more action sports Photography. Well…. actually I’ve just been out photographing my friend’s skimboarding.
So lately, I’ve tried to combine something you see alot in snowboarding or skateboarding into skim photography. The Sequence shot! Now i know you know it doesn’t really work but I tried my best and here’s a few tips on what i did.
First, try and preserve the wave as best as possible. I know the focal wave will be in like 5 shots but try and keep atleast the action area of it. This makes the rider look like he’s sort of riding on a small rouge break or something.
Next. Use background references. The water is going to change (although not alot since the sequence takes the place of about 5 seconds) so you will need to have a static reference point when stitching together photos. I used a combination of the beach and the wall in the background.
Think in 2 parts. The hard part about these sequences is that there’s one entry sequence and another after the connection. So the best thing to do is worry about the entry as one sequence and the finish as another. That way the image will look as clean as possible.
Lastly, Blending Layers are your friend use alot of them to cover the seams. Water is a giant texture and it’s small enough to be seamless.
So while my Portfolio pages are being created. I want to leave you guys with my latest project. Fourmation was my senior project at “Drexel University”. The project was completed in 20 weeks by 5+1 members(we got a 6th member 10 weeks into the project). I played a predominant roll in coding the multiplayer aspect of the game using smartfox servers and AS3, but i’ll go into details on the Portfolio page.
The bigger, more important, object of this post is that Fourmation has been chosen as a finalist in the Adobe Design Acheivement Awards. We’re one of 3 teams out of a total of 3,000 teams world wide. I’ll let you know if we win.
So i finally scheduled myself some time to work on rebuilding this portfolio site. If you noticed from the opening image and the time of this post my “Work on Portfolio Block” is between the hours of 1Am and 8AM. If you noticed the website is very purple…. I’m going through a very L.A Lakers phase right now so bear with me.
So to keep this first post from being really bland and useless, I included some mock-ups that just didn’t make the cut.
Chau Nguyen's Coffee Bean
This one had high hopes but i just couldn’t think of the proper illustrations to tie it together. Also it would have been really hippie/green peace style in the end.
Chau's Underwater Sandshrew
I was actually about to work on this when i realized i couldn’t find the layout file. Monochrome is the new Rainbow.
