Electric Pig » Photoshop

Texture

Electric Pig — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:52:41 +0000

Stationeri

Electric Pig — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:44:55 +0000

[See post to watch QuickTime movie]

This is a little experiment me and Eri did while I was in Japan. The lights presumably strobe in real life too, but I never really pay attention or my brain compensates or something, but here it’s pretty noticeable, which I quite like. Eri did a pretty good job of staying still too!

Happy New Year

Electric Pig — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:13:00 +0000

Happy New Year! Here’s a few photos from my New Year’s Eve shenanigans, taken on my new OM-1. I did a little post processing on them, combining them with some bokeh shots I took while still in Tokyo. I’ve seen the look a few times on one of my contacts-on-flickr’s shots and wanted to try it out, although I’m not sure how she does it. I’m not all that keen on all the results, but I do think it works particularly nicely on the greenish one.

Winter 2008 Mix

Electric Pig — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:40:01 +0000

Well, I finally got round to doing a new mix. This one’s all new tunes, on the deeper end of the spectrum. There’s been some really nice tunes knocking about recently, and I think most of my favourite ones are included in this mix. I particularly like the D-Bridge and Instra:mental tunes here, and in particular, the weirdly titled Heather’s Hot Waffles. Here’s the tracklist:

1: Apathy: Survival vs D-Bridge: Exit Digital
2: Warped (Survival Remix): Saburuko: Horizons Music (Tease)
3: Cast A Cold Eye: D-Bridge: Exit Records
4: Sakura: Instra:mental: Darkestral Records
5: Herb Minus: Chris Inperspective: Nu Directions
6: Godsong: Cern: Deep Soul Music
7: Dreamworld (D-Bridge Remix): Physics: Blindside
8: All Around: Break: Symmetry
9: Moods: ST Files: Soul:r
10: Mourning Dawn: D-Bridge: Exit Records
11: Rogue: Instra:mental: Darkestral
12: Blowpipe: Data: Lucky Devil
13: Intervention: Instra:mental: Exit Records
14: Strange Owl Experiment: Noisia: Metalheadz
15: Haven: D-Bridge: Exit Records
16: Sleeper: Survival: Audio Tactics
17: Heather’s Hot Waffles: Chris Inperspective: Exit Records
18: Creatures of Habit: D-Bridge: Exit Records
19: U Could Dance: Calibre: Signature
20: Plastic Soul (D-Bridge Metal Soul Remix): Shy FX: Digital Soundboy
21: Freedom Club: D-Bridge: Exit Records
22: Enigma (Calibre Remix): Break: Quarantine Records
23: Drifting Away: Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch, Dekota Feat. Skitty: Osiris Music

You can get it here or on my mixes page, here.

New HDR Technique

Electric Pig — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:49:14 +0000

Trying out a new HDR (from single RAW), technique. Quite liking the results, they seem to be better when the subject has some kind of stone or rock in it. Not sure about the one of the little boy – not particularly keen on the HDR effect on people. In fact, I’m not sure how much I like this really strong HDR effect at all, but it is pretty interesting…

Stolen Moment

Electric Pig — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:57:49 +0000

This girl was having her picture taken in Harajuku when my Dad and I were having a wander. He snuck up and took the pick, I then did a bit of photoshop jiggery-pokery to it. Quite happy with how it turned out. It was really good having someone to go out and take photos with, helps to bounce ideas and whatnot off another person. I may have to bite the bullet and join one of these Tokyo photo groups to do the same thing…

Desktop Boredom

Electric Pig — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:22:52 +0000

No lessons at work today. At my current school, they have a system where the schedule changes every week. I think it’s due to this school being one of the biggest in the city and thereby having too many classes to fit them all into a regular schedule, so instead making a new one every week, according to the school events and whatnot seemed (to someone) to be a much better idea. Of course what this means in reality is that my schedule is never even considered until about lunchtime on Monday morning, with my first lessons generally taking place around Tuesday afternoon. Not that I am complaining – it makes for a very pleasant, relaxing start to the week, with ample opportunity to catch up on the few dusty corners of the internet I am yet to read and to (not) study, and, as today, to play about on Photoshop. Today, I made this desktop/picture/thing of Suzuki Emi. She is a model/actress who, despite (or perhaps, because of) being very pretty, is probably about one stuttering, synaptic fart away from total brain death.

Wire Work

Electric Pig — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:34:12 +0000

I have seen the roof of this house everyday, from the train on the way to work. I’ve been meaning to take some pictures of it for a while now, so I walked over there on Saturday with my camera to see wha the rest of the building was like. I was pretty surprised to find out that it has a restaurant or reception room or something on the ground floors and yet still houses the required slightly-mad-old-lady in the top floor. She came out and growled at me when I was packing up after taking the pictures, and made a pretty incongruous site standing outside this modern house in her crazy-old-lady shawl and hat. The photo turned out ok. I couldn’t move any further to the left and still get the whole house in as there was a massive removals operation going on in the house opposite. I have also taken the artistic liberty of removing a few of the mass of overhead cables that ruin most Japanese streets. Apparently they can’t bury them due to earthquakes and typhoons, although I’m pretty sure that cables are buried in California and Iran etc…and, as I am now finding out, it’s not as if the local council are afraid of digging up the street (officially from 9pm-6am outside my apartment every night from now until March). Click the picture to see the before and after versions.