Through The Looking Glass

In one corner: Mexican Pepsi! In the other corner: Mexican Coke! Two challengers enter, one challenger leaves. FIGHT!

Background provided by my Windows screen saver.

The return of the Sad Cartoon. This time he’s been outlined in black so he stands out a bit better. He’s not a very good player, so obviously he’s sad about it.

I was originally just going for a close up perspective of the controller and him, but then I noticed how the shadow behind him made him look a lot taller and powerful. I shouldn’t encourage the little guy, though.

I wanted to capture a photo of one of my other hobbies: my guitar. I don’t play as often these days, but it is always a constant fixture in my living room.

I took the opportunity before I mowed my overgrown yard to snap a few pictures of it surrounded by nature. I’ve always liked the perspective of looking down the neck of a guitar, and the few sprinkles from an oncoming rainstorm added just the perfect touch to the lush green surrounding it..

Alternate take: http://www.flickr.com/photos/haggismac/5005700322/in/photostream/

For tonight’s photo I decided to go back to one of my first subjects on the night I got my camera and I was just snapping random objects in my house. It’s a candle holder that is in the shape of a "Sun" with a glass face that I inherited from an ex-girlfriend.

I pointed the lamp below the frame to light up the "flares" on the sun and used the "Flashlight" app on my Android phone on the candle holder to illuminate the face in this weird alien blueish glow. Post processing in Photoshop to increase the shadows and highlight more of the light behind the face.

My first attempt at playing with post-processing on my photos other than the normal tone correction. I increased the shadows and highlights to show more of a contrast between the light behind the mug and the long shadow it cast, and pulled the color temperature to a more yellow-ish hue.