Cornell once again for today’s Top 200 Photo

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Once again, it’s the Pre-Dragon Day Runners previously featured here(link).

Another Photoshop creation in this Top 200 Photo

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I created this during my earlier Photoshop period. It’s called “How the Ad Industry Sees Us”. I really like it a lot and I think it still stands on its own as a statement.

This photo time capsule mostly contains photos from my trip to the Grand Canyon.  (One of my favorite trips anywhere)

Cornell again for this Top 200 Photo

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I previously featured the writing desks you can see at the very bottom of this photo. This is a wider view of the Andrew White reading room in Uris Library at Cornell. It has a somewhat magical and surreal feel to it. Part of it is from the fact that walkways are everywhere and part of it is the lighting. It’s a pretty awesome room to be in and looks like something out of a Hollywood set.

Time for today’s Top 200 Photos

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It’s one of my early images from when I thought you had to Photoshop images if you wanted people to stand up and take notice. (I spoke about this earlier in the Top 200 Photos series) I still think it was a creative idea. However, with what I am capable of now, I can see that it’s pretty sloppy photoshopping and I probably would have used some of the 3D tech in Photoshop (or combined it with Blender) to make it look more like a bunch of masks hanging there.

We return to the stone pier in Oahu, Hawaii for this Top 200 Photo

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As I mentioned before, I saw these two on a stone pier that jutted out into the Pacific. I mentioned that I was bored so I went for a walk to take some photos. Looking over the sets that the photo’s in reminds me that I actually went out with a challenge - take 10 photos of 10 people at one photo length. I chose 50mm so I actually had to get pretty close to my subjects. This resulted in my having to get over some of my fears of getting close to people to photograph them rather than zooming in.

And once again to Cornell for this Top 200 Photo

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When I was playing with the macro mode of my Fuijifilm Finepix S7000, I started to get into flower photography. This flower was on the other side of a small wall on the walkway that leads to Ho Plaza, near Olin Hall. Thanks to the position of the sun, the wall gave a nice black background for the shot.

Painting techniques in today’s Top 200 Photo

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It was quite a challenge to paint my house when we first moved in. Of Danielle, her father, mother, and I, neither of us had painted before. Her mother had done some painting under the direction of her uncle, but not on her own. So over the course of a weekend we slowly figured out different techniques to speed the process up while still getting good results. At the eleventh hour (unfortunately, figuratively and not literally), Danielle’s mom remember this technique for protecting the area being painted when painter’s tape couldn’t be used. I just took this photo to document the technique for the future. Thanks to google hits, this one ended up with 928 views as of the time of writing.

Once again to Cornell for this Top 200 Photo

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This annoying orange fencing is what I spoke about when I said that when Slope Day became an official event, it became annoying to navigate around campus. As I mentioned in my Libe Slope panorama, nearly all the upperclassmen have to pass through it to get to class and not everyone is able to party on Slope Day. I’ve been in classes that had quizzes, exams, or labs on Slope Day. It doesn’t matter that it’s Slope Day, it’s still the last day of class.

For this Quarter I continued listening to my music in order as I attempted to go through my entire catalog so that Amarok could auto-rate the songs I liked and I could switch to a dynamic, random playlist.  I actually finished going through all my music A-Z (and Japanese characters) - except for songs that didn’t have the Album Artist set.

Through a quirk of the way Amarok is programmed and the sorting I’ve selected, a bunch of artists who had the Album Artist blank did not appear along with the artist.  In other words, if a Kanye West track had an album artist of either Kanye or Various, it would appear under Kanye.  But if that field was blank, it appeared under “various artist” at the top.  It’s a strange quirk and as I go through this final category in Q4, I’m trying to remember to fix as many of those as possible.