HDR shots from the SD Zoo

Here are a couple HDR shots of two Sumatran Orangutans exhibited at the San Diego Zoo. Their hair, texture and the nature surroundings made for a decent HDR shot. There are a lot of good photography subjects at the Zoo, so it was pretty easy to come home with a lot of shots.

Brochure Design - 24/7 Affordable In-home Care

This is a brochure I recently designed for my family's in-home care service for the elderly. I made an effort to convey comfort and elegance through the photos and color scheme.

Program Design - A Musical Tribute to Ray Orias

Here's the program I designed for the Musical Tribute to Ray Orias to be held June 20, 2009. I tried to keep with the theme of a somber but at the same time an uplifting occasion, with the black and white photos and the color photo within it, along with the stained / aged paper look and feel.

Ray Tribute T-Shirt Design (Vector Illustration)

This is a vector illustration I did of my great friend Ray Orias who passed away last year.

The design is for the shirt that several former bandmates of Ray will be wearing during a tribute performance this March 29, 2009, as well as other performances in the future.

These images show how I went about doing the vector illustration from the original photo. I first edited the levels of the photo to come up with three different tones of the image. From there, I created paths for each of the different tones that I felt best brought out his facial features.

I had to keep in mind that this design was for a screen print, and so, it was important I layered the colors properly and separated each of the paths to go along with the 4 colors to be printed.

This was how I went about doing this particular illustration portrait, but it can definitely be done other ways. And even though I'm sure it's obvious, I should point out that I got the theme from Shepard Fairey's Obama / Obey image.

The t-shirt will be available for sale in the near future (all proceeds will go towards the Ray Orias Memorial Fund).

NomiS Photoshoot

Here are some of the photos from my shoot with NomiS last week.

HDR

This past week I gave HDR photography a try and had a lot of fun with it. These are a few shots I took in Seaport Village, and around the San Elijo / San Marcos area.

San Diego... at night.

Just a night shot of Downtown San Diego from the harbor.

A Stranger's Wedding Proposal

So while I was out shooting photos of Balboa Park on a foggy night with my gf, a guy walks up to me and says, "hey, I don't mean to interrupt, but I'm about to propose to my gf (shows me the ring) and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking photos of us when I do it?"

Glad to help capture the moment, I told him where to take her and acted like I was taking photos of my gf right next to them, and once he got down on one knee and proposed, I was able to capture these shots. Congrats to Phil & Sara.

-Jason