Use a Machine Gun to Shoot Silhouettes

This photo was taken in my Lianzhou, China journey.

Silhouettes give people a mysterious feel.
Wanna reveal their mask?

Take a photograph of silhouettes like that is not an easy task.
What?

Please count how many legs in the photo?
What happens if one or more legs overlapped? If a silhouette's legs overlap, they will melt into one piece.

Now, do you see the trick?
I needed to take a photo in which all the 10 legs are seperated.

It is a issue of timing.
A machine gun (high speed shooting) is a great help.

I continuously shot 50 photos to get one that all legs are clearly seperated.

Photography requires your patience and tricks!

Travel with a Lomo

Those photos were taken in my trip to Daocheng in China.
It was a very nice place because no vehicles can reach there.
Everything is unpolluted.

Why the colors of the photos are so weired?
Coz the film was developed in a E-to-C process.


It was the starting point of my trip.

When there are a strong tunneling effect on the photo?
It is one of the charactistics of a lomography camera.
The one I was using is LC-A.


We were 4659m from the sea level as you can see from the sign.
Freezing cold and icy.


Everywhere was full of reglious atmosphere.
A very colorful place.

Does lomography give you a different world?

Hint:
If you want to have a blue tone in your lomo, Agfa CT-100 is a good choice.
But it is very difficult to find a roll now.

Turn Spring into Autumn for Pandas

The cute panda photograph was taken in my trip to Daocheng China 3 years ago.
I found an Autumn background looks nicer than a green one, so I changed it to orange.

This is the original photo.

The panda is still very cute.

Here are the magic to change the season:

1) Load the original photo into Adobe Photoshop

2) Go to the layer window

3) Click on the "Create new fill or adjustment layer" icon under the background layer

4) Select "Hue/Saturation..."


5) Move the hue slidebar until leaves become orange, but the panda turned red too


6) Go back to the adjustment layer

7) Click on the layer mask thumbnail (next to the Hue/Saturation adjustment icon)


8) Press "D" to set foreground to black and background to white

9) Press "B" to select the brush tool

10) Use +/- to enlarge or reduce brush size

11) On top of the Photoshop window, adjust the flow value to about 8% to 15%

12) Paint the panda and branch with the brush

13) The panda's color is changing back to natural now


14) Continue until the whole panda and branches' colors are right

You are a Season Wizard now!