Spring Break Pictures!

Hello people!
    I bet you thought I might post some pictures over Spring Break  because I tend to take a lot of pictures whenever I have free time. Well, I kinda have free time but with AP studying and other work, I was not able to edit them. But now I can and here are some of them from a walk with my mother. Enjoy!

A Japanese-styled garden.

Don't worry. I have the owner's permission to take pictures of her garden. 

Besides, the sunset makes everything looks even more beautiful.

The Sunset

A shiatsu...I think. 

Multicultural Week- Near the end

Hello people!
       From my last post about Multicultural Week, I wrote about being in charge of the Youth Alive booth. Well yesterday was my day off, so I strolled around the horseshoe with five tickets in my hand with some friends of mine. They decided to visit the Green Club booth where the officers and members are selling sherbet ice cream for one ticket per cup. I find it amusing that they are using dish washing gloves to handle the food there because they are the only club to use them. Everyone else has been using disposable gloves, so they are definitely being green. Too bad I didn't buy one...

Camera Raw edits
Contrast, Highlight, Exposure, Shadow and Saturation have been adjusted to a slightly higher level. I also cropped the image to make the image more straight.

Original Pictures

F-stop 1/7.9
Aperture speed: 1/400sec
ISO-125

胖胖貓咪!(aka Fat Cat!)

Hello people!
           I am proud to show you guys this picture I drew on Adobe Illustrator over the past few weeks. I started on March 13, 2015 and finally finished today on April 16, 2015. The main reason it took me so long is because I do not have access to Adobe Illustrator at home, but only at school in my first period class. My inspiration of this picture is when I was walking with my mother around the neighborhood and suddenly a beautiful, orange tabby cat walked up to me and purred around my feet. It was so adorable and I melt down. After a while, the cat jumped onto a car covered by a tarp and it looked like a marshmallow with a cat's head and tail. The balloons in the picture are based by the balloons given by my church friend, Annie, on April 5 for my baptism.

I hope you enjoy the picture and I will see you next time!

Multicultural Week -So Far

Dear anyone who may or already knows about Multicultural week,

     Multicultural week is the week of the year to be immersed in different cultures and buy delicious ( a little pricey) food from the Bay Area. I remembered in Freshmen year I heard about buying food near the Horseshoe and watching amazing performances done by the student body. And to be honest, Multicultural Week is one of my favorite school-wide activities and the closing assembly for it is always the best.
   
      What makes this year different from last year is that I'm in charge of selling my club Youth Alive's pho (pronounced phuh like "f" and "the" combined) with my fellow officers. I must say from this perspective of being the seller, it is different from being the buyer. And it is hard to be the seller because usually consumers are more picky. But it's fun to serve others their food and interact with different people. When I'm not doing club stuff I then would buy food with my money, staying within twenty dollars for the whole week, and hang out with my friends as they attempt to finish what they have bought. Meanwhile I take wonderful pictures of my friends and just enjoy the lunch hour.

P.S. My club Youth Alive is offering free candy too with purchase. Buy some!
P.S.S If there are churros I will buy them like crazy. Where are the churros?
 

Shutter Speed and Everything After

From this Lens photo, we see the picture of the trucks, especially the one on the side of the road.

   This picture demonstrates a fast shutter speed because the trucks on the left side of the road are still moving pretty quickly but not as fast as the drivers would when they learned a truck fell down the road on the right. In addition, the picture showed no blurred images of the truck, which indicate the picture was taken with a fast shutter speed.

   The background of the picture emphasizes the trucks on the road, which are the subjects. The details of the background also leads to the the subject like the highway rail leading to the trucks on the road.

   Lines, an Element of Art topic, is clearly shown in this picture with straight lines made from the trucks, road, horizon and the road lane. It creates a dynamic view of geometric shapes and perspective.

   Movement is one of the Principle of Design topic because the picture has leading lines that lead to the center of the picture and the trucks.

P.S. My buddy Michael Shen and Samuel Sze helped me.

And this picture of Mason Farley and Michael Shen running shows movement to.

F-stop f/4.8

Aperture Speed 1/250 sec

ISO-450

Automobile Blackhawk Museum!

Hello everyone,
especially to my friends and students of Mission San Jose High School!

For those who are interested about the Automobile Blackhawk Museum and the MSJHS junior prom last Saturday, here are few of the pictures I have taken there. For personal reasons, I'm only including architecture-type pictures, including the cars. I hope you enjoy them!

In front of the fountains with Stanley's hand pointing to it.

The Blackhawk Automobile  musuem.

Inside the museum at the entrance during the night

The fountain with our shadows

Original Pictures
Actually I didn't really crop any of these images.

F-stop: f/3.9

Exposure Speed: 1/3 seconds

ISO speed: ISO-200

F-stop: f/4

                                Exposure time: 1/500 sec
                                ISO speed: ISO-125        


F-stop: f/3.9
Exposure time: 1/640 sec
ISO speed: 1SO-125

F-stop: f/3.9
Exposure time: 1/800 sec
ISO speed: 1SO-125

And for anyone who is wondering how did my prom go, I really like it. :D 

It is definitely a night to remember, and I have a pretty good memory too.

Mason and Emily (Mr. Farley's two adorable kids)

Hello people of the Internet!
        Yesterday at school, we have a surprise: Emily and Mason. They are Mr. Farley's adorable, energetic children who visit their father at school since their school-off day. So our assignment was to have fun and take pictures of Mason and Emily moving around. And to practice taking pictures of movement and using the right shutter speed. I really enjoy seeing them goof around and the whole class participating in the fun. Plus they're really good at doing cartwheels, bridge, and handstands. And Mason even beat Michael Shen at a sprint race, which was funny. I hope you enjoy the following pictures.

Emily and Mason

Mason Farley beating Michael Shen in a sprint race

M&M

Original Pictures with details

 F-stop f/4.5
Aperture Speed 1/125 sec
ISO-160

F-stop f/4.8

Aperture Speed 1/50 sec

ISO-180

F-stop f/4.8
Aperture Speed 1/250 sec
ISO-450