Last night, I made another trip down to Disneyland Resort and watched Disney’s World of Color for the third time. Having seen the show a couple of times before already, I decided to take the time and take some pictures. With a fisheye lens in and and being extra cautious as to where the water’s landing to keep my equipment as dry as possible, I was able to snap the following pictures for your enjoyment.

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Over the weekend, I was busy working on creating a new demo reel to share the line of work I’ve done and skill set I have developed in media production.

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This past Saturday (June 26, 2010), the Valley Economic Alliance held heir 13th Annual Valley of the Stars Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony at the CBS Studio Center, honoring Bernards, the Valley Colleges and University Foundations, Nancy Cartwright, the Eisner Foundation, and the Alliance CEO, Bruce Ackerman, for their contributions to the Valley.

My role in all this is that the event presents videos for each award winners. All videos were produced by Randy Witt Productions and as the editor on staff for the company, I was a key component for the production of the videos being presented for the night. In addition, I took part in writing the scripts for each video, but can’t take full credit since it was a collaborative process between material given to us by each awardee and the various people working with Randy Witt Productions.

Anyways, for your enjoyment, I’ve included all the videos produced below.

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In today’s day and age of digital technology, everything seems to be fixable. In the world of photography, fixing an image tends to mean taking it into Photoshop and manipulating it to be “picture perfect.”

However, with new tools such as Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture, these fixes or tweaks are no longer dependent upon Photoshop. Click here to continue reading

“The Garden” playback in HTML5 with a Flash fallback

I’m sure that you’ve heard something about HTML5 by now whether it be through YouTube’s beta program or the whole “war” between Apple and Adobe (and the whole idea of the demise of Flash). There’s a whole lot to it, but the real thing that catches my eye is the new way video is being implemented since you no longer need the dependency on Flash technology (which I think is good, but why rely on a plugin of some sort to display any kind of web content).

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Another piece of work created in Photoshop (CS3 for those that are interested in versions) using various layer styles and brushes to create a grungy looking art piece.

The look of this image was inspired by the Apple iPod commercial which featured Eminem. Of course, the final look is quite drastically different, but the inspiration was there (at least for me).

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As part of my pursuit for a multimedia production degree at California State University, Northridge, one course I had to undertake was Adobe Flash, learning the basics to create animations and simple actionscript.

Above is my final project for the class, an animation about a gumball waiting for his chance to be let free from the gumball machine. It’s simple, but being the first animated work I produced, it’s something I enjoy. In the near future, I hope to produce a few more interesting shorts within Adobe Flash, but in the mean time, I have this one to share.

It’s not award winning or something amazing, but I hope it’s something you find enjoyable. Either way, thanks for reading and watching.

As part of my Flash Animation class, I share with you my simple tic tac toe game themed to match “The Gumball Life” animation I made.

It consists of simple actionscript 2.0 coding using startDrag and stopDrag functions. Nothing fancy, but it works to help produce a simple 2 player tic tac toe game.

On a side note, for anybody running on an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, this is a flash application so you can’t play may incredibly simple game. Sorry.

Playing again with HDR and Photomatix Pro, I was able to produce the image above. It was a single shot RAW taken with a Canon 40D with a Canon 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 lens. As mentioned already, processing was done in Photomatix Pro with additional tweaks such as cropping and exposure adjustments (to prevent the sky from getting over exposed) were done in Adobe Photoshop.

For those interested in a larger version, take a visit to my Flickr Page. For those looking for the original image for a comparison of HDR before and after, take a look below.

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This is a podcast produced by a friend of mine, Richard Chambers (website). I personally enjoyed it and felt that it’s worth sharing. It’s part of a five part series that I recommend you watch.

The CSUN Arts come alive with the story of Joevin Ha. This is one of many artists at CSUN, however his work, his skill, his struggles set Joevin Ha a cut above the rest.

Enjoy!