iPhone photo of the day

iPhone photo of the day

IPhone photo of the day

iPhone photo of the day

iPhone photo of the day

Can Top: In Progress

iPhone photo of the day

iPhone photo of the day

This was on the Hipstamatic app again, Jonny S Lens with Ina's 1969 film, I like that its like a two part thing from the first photo that has the two apples.

iPhone photo of the day

This piece has had a bit done to it, the context of these shots was on a trip to Sydney in the early morning to take mum to hospital, she insisted on driving up since she can drive faster. The photos were taken using the Kaimal Mark II Lens with Kodat XGrizzled Film on the Hipstamatic app, then using Tilt Shift Generator for each shot, Diptic to piece them together, Photoshop Express to create the border effect and then Tilt Shift Generator again the create the focus point on the hand.

iPhone photo of the day

Okay I got a new photography app, it's called Hipstamatic. It's pretty epic, it comes with different camera emulators with several choices of film, this shot was taken using the John S lens and the Ina's 1969 film, I also used Tilt Shift Generator to edit the photo.

iPhone photo of the day

So this photo was taken in Deans backyard, again, but I used CP Pro to take the shot using a sepia filter, then I used Plastic Bullet to create the effect

iPhone photo of the day

Okay so this is similar to the four piece photo of Dean, I used Plastic Bullet to create the various effects and Diptic to piece them together in a different style to the one of Dean, I like this one because each piece is needed in order to see the image.

Adobe Photoshop CS5: Vibrance

Okay first off I love the shot, Dean took it on his Olympus camera when we went on our epic Sydney adventure and stopped in at the Chinese Gardens. I've uploaded an iPhone photo of the day of this shot. I have uploaded both the original shot and my edited shot. As noticeable, I have adjusted the vibrance of the colours, enhancing their saturation. Except due to the limited size and resolution that blogger has on my photo uploads, parts such as changing my eyes to a shade of green are not so noticeable.

Adobe Photoshop CS5: Posterize

Okay so this is a really nifty adjustment that I like, its hard to find a good use for it because it requires a certain amount of exposure in order to achieve its full potential. This shot was great for it because we were laying on the grass outside on a hot sunny day.

The photo was originally taken on my iPhone

Adobe Photoshop CS5: Threshold

I recently got Adobe Photoshop CS5 so I have been mucking around with a heap of the features, in

particular its range of adjustments.

In these photos I have experimented

with the threshold while adjusting hue and saturation to gain more control over the dark and light areas.

This photo was fun to work with, this was when I realized that by adjusting different colours hue and saturation instead of adjusting the master colours, I was able to produce dark areas in places I wanted, such as the hand outline.

This one was somewhat difficult due to a house in the background but I managed to remove it whilst still keeping the detail in the face and mouth. The dark spots around the eyes/nose area are the hardest to control yet I managed to keep it tame.

This one took ages, the original photo was taken using my laptop webcam which is the crappiest resolution ever. The photo was so poor quality that the main part of my t-shirt had to be discarded, getting my hair to not turn into a giant black blob was pretty hard which led me to using two threshold adjustment layers to balance a clear and evident face.

This one was pretty fun to muck around with, I practiced with adjusting the hue of the greens to keep the tree from turning into a massive black blob, an the yellows and reds in the face and hands.

The photos of Dean were taken on my iPhone

iPhone photo of the day

This was taken by Dean on our epic Sydney adventure, here we are at the Chinese Gardens. In really amazed by this shot, Dean makes an amazing photographer, I first used Tilt Shift Generator to create the focus point, Plastic Bullet to create the effect and Photo Wizard to adjust the exposure etc and add a dreamy effect. I'm pretty proud of this photo.

iPhone photo of the day

This was taken in Dean's backyard as we were laying on the grass under the warm blue sky, it was a perfect day, we ended up going for a walk along the beach. Right here he found a clover with chicken pox, was pretty funny. I used Plastic Bullet to create multiple effects and I couldn't decide which one to use so I decided to combine all of them somehow, thats when I found this app called Diptic which is perfect for creating multiple photo pictures.

iPhone photo of the day

I like the iPhone photo of the day posts, even though they get like no acknowledgement. Most of them seam to be of Dean, mainly because I am with him most of the time, this shot was taken at my Mum's birthday dinner at Harborview Thai Restaurant, I edited the photo with Tilt Shift Generator and then created the effect with Plastic Bullet.

iPhone photo of the day

Dean the thinker, thinks he can take photos of me and get away with it. Took the photo with Vint Red and edited with Tilt Shift Generator.

iPhone photo of the day

This was taken on my year 12 end of year trip to the zoo, and this is a tiger =] I used Plastic Bullet to create the shine effect and Tilt Shift Generator for focus and editing.

iPhone photo of the day

This was when we were in Newtown for a weekend and one of the days we took a train into Central and went on an epic walking adventure that led us to a ferry ride to the other side of Sydney where we had to walk across the harbor bridge to get to the opera house where this shot was taken, it was an amazing day, this is one of my favorite photos, its all like, mellow and care free sorta feel about it, I used Tilt Shift Generator to edit. P.S I apologize for the small photos, I attempted using BlogPress to upload photos but the size doesn't justify the photo.

- iBen =]x

iPhone photo of the day

Dean and I went down the coast to visit his dad and we went to Huskison on this mangrove bay thing, it was amazing, and there were millions of tiny crabs running around in armies, I didn't realize how afraid of crabs I was until Dean chased me with one. This is a great shot, he looks fine, and his glasses make him look badass, mr I eat crabs, the photo was edited with Tilt Shift Generator as usual.

- iBen =]x

iPhone photo of the day

This was taken a few weeks ago while I was walking in Newtown, I saw it as I was walking past and thought to myself how witty it was, I like how it was placed on a no stopping sign. Photo is edited using Tilt Shift Generator

- iBen =]x

iPhone photo of the day

Dean is amazing =D This is just him on his phone, can't even see his face but, still I like it. Used Tilt Shift Generator to edit, I love that app, by the way I use Pixelpipe to upload my photos and BlogPost to type up these descriptions.

iPhone photo of the day

This is Tarryn, she is amazing. If Tarryn was a colour I would imagine her to be purple, she makes amazing coloured cakes, pink pancakes and blue waffles.. And I mean waffles, you sick bastards. Right there we are at Warilla McDonalds, she just scored a free box of cookies and started stacking all the rubbish on top of each other, I like this shot because it sums up Tarryns playful nature, I used Tilt Shift Generator to edit the shot.

iPhone photo of the day

This is me lying on the grass in Dean's backyard, twas a great day for sun baking. Its pretty hard to take a photo of yourself so I took a couple, I used Tilt Shift Generator to edit the photo

iPhone photo of the day

This is Lauren, she is amazing, I love her, shes one of my closest and best friends. This was taken on the bus ride home from our trip to the zoo, I used Tilt Shift Generator to edit the shot.

iPhone photo of the day

This is Dean, I stole this photo from him and edited it myself, its a pretty awesome shot, hence why I used it, I used Tilt Shift Generator to create the focus and ripple effect.

iPhone photo of the day

This was taken at the Nien Tan Temple in Wollongong, it is said to be the largest Buddhist temple in the southern hemisphere. I went here with Dean because we have never been there before, to be honest it wasn't what I expected, it was amazing, but it was extremely materialized for my expectations of a Buddhist temple. But it was awesome, I used a new app I got called Tilt Shift Generator to edit the shot.

iPhone photo of the day

This was taken at school during a Religion lesson that I ditched to go lay on the grass. I liked the vibrant colours of the flowers among the fresh green grass, I used Photo Wizard to enhance the vibrant colours etc and create a vignetting effect.

iPhone photo of the day

This photo was taken using the Posterize lens in the iPhone app Lenses and then edited using Photo Wizard

iPhone photo of the day

This was taken at Shellharbor harbor, it is my friend Gavin's Body Of Work. I helped him with the setting out and photography so I took a couple shots for myself, I used Photo Wizard to edit this shot.

iPhone photo of the day

This is the same photo as the last post except I used PhotoWizard and Tilt Shift Generator Lite to edit the shot

iPhone photo of the day

This was taken while I was helping my friend with his body of work. We went to the harbor to photograph these white paper cups that he made, placing them on the water line and floating on shallow water. It is a very conceptual work, I haven't really talked to him about the work but my understanding of it is that it is based on age. I'll be making a post about his work soon, it's amazing to see a work come to life, it was inspiring and so I took my piece from this artwork and took some photos on my phone and my teachers camera. This photo was edited using PhotoWizard and Photoshop Express

Body Of Work - Anger

Body Of Work - Joy

Flying High

The cloud character I originally made for a silk screen design, I have played around with this character by placing him in different environment and allowing it to experience various emotions. In this environment he is happy because he is doing what clouds do best, roaming free with no limitations. He will be used in my train ticket collection expressing different emotions.

Point n' Laugh

This guy is for my train ticket collection, he is currently sitting in my art diary. I took a picture on my phone and colored it using PhotoWizard, still unsure if he is ready to be put onto a ticket yet.

IBEN Keychain

I like this technical collection that I have started, the keychain concept is to put use to old technology being outdated and scrapped. In reality, we require keys to access places such as our homes and work, we require keys for our car to get to places we need to go. In technical terms, the keyboard is the key to our cyber reality, we log into this virtual world and the keyboard is the essential utility that allows us to create documents, emails and connect with people around the world. They are portals to our real and virtual world.

Large hanging flower - hanging from bedpost

Large hanging flower - detail

Large hanging flower

iPhone photo of the day

Micro flower series - red 2

Micro flower series - red 1

I've been feeling very contemporary lately and I have been exploring new medium for me to work with. I have 'invested' in silk screening, I have my frame made up but I don't have any screen filler or squeegee so I have been held back from silk screening until I attain the necessary equipment. Since I cannot make any prints I have begun working with metal, sometime in the future I want to buy a welding machine, along with an air compressor but anyways, I can't weld so I'll have to self teach myself, same with silk screening, but it will be interesting. So I've been playing around with wires and aluminum to create shapes and patterns and I've found these flowers quite interesting, they never take the same shape, they're all different and unique, individual. This micro series I have going is part of my flower collection, the flower collection is my way of representing individuality being independent of shape, size and colour through a structural ironic metaphor of the natural beauty of a flower being re-created by man made synthetics, a flower made of metal, representing various individual identities made by one individual.

Rose with damaged petals - process

This is my first flower I made while working with metal and the first of my flower collection. The metal wire is fairly thick but fairly malleable which allowed manipulation of shape easily formed using just my hands. This is a progress shot so it is still incomplete, the name rose with damaged petals came from my most inspiring mentors, Lesane Parish Crooks, commonly known as Tupac. Not many people know much about him, they see the black rapper side of him, but when he was a teenager he wrote would write poetry, he was a poet before he was a musician. The Rose That Grew From Concrete, is a poem of his, it is this poem that has mostly inspired me to continue on in life. I can go on to talk about Tupac and how be is the rose that grew from concrete but I would be here for days, the point he got to was that anyone can defy the natural law of life and grow into something amazing even if they are being held back by a prisoning environment, but you see, people like to point the finger at it's damaged petals, don't blame the rose for it's damaged petals when it defied the law of nature when it grew from concrete.