As my grandparents came down for a short stayover, my parents will be bringing the family to a highland resort that is merely an hour’s drive away from the city center today *screams in joy*. I’m a little excited and yet a little nervous because for some reason, my university has arranged that I shall register for my courses on today as well. So far, my plan is to get a cup of coffee, plop my butt in Coffee Bean and make use of their Wifi, heh.
In case you are curious, the photo above in not a composite but an actual photo taken during my previous trip to the highland’s theme park. The ride is called turbo drop (formerly called Solero Space Shot but renamed and had its sponsorship dropped after a fatal accident) and it’s the tallest structure in the theme park. Modifications in photoshop only involves five simple steps:
- Using quickmask, isolate the sky and pumped the saturation
- Desatured the rest of the photo
- Cropped the photo
- Removed that annoying bug in the photo
- Rendered clouds (using Filter > Render > Clouds) on a dummy layer and blended it with the rest of the photo using overlay. Opacity adjusted to 50%.
Here’s a before and after comparison:
Three days in cloud nine - Before & After
I took a photo today in my garden. The sun was strong (but the weather was hellish later in the afternoon) – so strong that I don’t even need an advanced flash kit to shoot photos at 1/500 of a second. Pure awesomeness! I grabbed the garden hose and started spraying while snapping away happily. Here’s one of my favourites:
Jumping fountain? Nope. It's just water from the garden hose.
I simply placed my thumb over the opening of the hose and aimed my camera at the top of the parabolic curve. It does require a few rounds of trial and error. I had the shutter speed set too high at first (thus underexposing the photo) and for a few unlucky tries, aimed at other stuff, like the white wall behind. This photo has it’s own Flickr page too!
There will most probably be no updates until I’m back ;) hang in there, folks!
Beautiful configuration!! Thanks for listing the steps! I always just mod my photos in Lightroom… they have great effects and adjusting there. I’m the same way as you, I can go back and revisit a place and find something new that I’ve never seen before, or capture an angle that I never looked from before.
I will miss you for the next three days, hope you have an enjoyable and safe trip with your family ^_^
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@Destiny: You’re welcome! I hope the steps are understandable… I didn’t have time to write a tutorial so all I could do is to list the steps, heh. It’s nice that you have Adobe Lightroom! I’m yet to get one and I’m currently stuck with Photoshop CS3.
I didn’t have a choice of our holiday destination but I don’t mind going back too. Each trip brings me different insights and experience ;)
How wonderful, to be able to register your courses online. Remember my time, I need to rush back just to register my subjects, what a waste of time. (and money!)
Have fun in Genting!
ps: You are above legal age to into the casino, right? Haha!
@bongkersz: The online registration isn’t as dreamy as you think – the system was riddled with bugs when I tried to register and I kept getting an error message. Haha! I prefer the good old ways of paperwork (but that’s environmentally-unfriendly). The irony!
Good luck for your course registration!
p/s: Nope, I’m only 19! Two more years to go. Do I sound that old in my writings :razz: haha!
enjoy ur holiday! ;)
i wanna go there too!! hehe.
Beautiful picture…and I think where you have taken it from :P I have been to that specific area as well, last year.
Enjoy yourself!
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i stayed at Genting hotel once for free…haha…first time i’m in a hotel room without air conditioners…LOL
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my gosh. it looks so much nicer after postprocessing.
argh dont have those skills yet, maybe someday it would come to me =D
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@med: Thanks!
@abdusfauzi: If you live in KL, it’s just an hour’s drive away, heh!
@Wendy: The photo is taken near the Dinasourland entrance at Magic Mountain (I don’t think they still call it Magic Mountain anymore). Did you enjoy your trip to Genting Highland last year?
@|1f34|-|1r3: Oooh is it some promotion? I know the hotels up there are very generous with promotions when it’s the low season for tourist arrivals, haha. The hotels there do not need any air conditioning, all thanks to the cool, crisp mountain breeze. I wonder what damages can global warming do to this highland resort. Hmmm.
@sue: Thanks! If you need help with photoshop, feel free to send me a mail :D I’ll be more than happy to help you out! Your photos are already so nice, they don’t need much post processing don’t they? And I’m not that good either – it took me an hour to figure out how to do an animted gif with my Photoshop the other day. 30 minutes was wasted on finding the ‘Animation’ window. LOL!
That was a nice photo taken. :)
Honestly speaking, I’m not fond of registering for courses online. I did that during my polytechnic days and it was bad. The server was overloaded and everything. It simply doesn’t have that sense of security for me. I prefer enrolling via the traditional paperwork. :P
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@Dayna: Sorry to hear about your really bad experience. Our server wasn’t down but it was riddled with bugs and errors (it kept screaming that I was overloading, and I was only registering recommended courses :roll: lol!). A little frustration and I spent 30 hair-pulling minutes responding to emails with the correspondent in the admin office.
I would love traditional paperwork, considering how inefficient and insane the online experience is… but given that I’m a member of an environmental club I can only ditch the paperwork dream :P