Macro

During last weekend, I also tried to take some Macro photos with my Tamron 90mm lens that I borrow my cousin. At the first time, it was hard to control this lens because it focus is to bad!. Anyway, please have a look on my macro photos.

My sister

I'm so happy now because my sister has just come back to Vietnam from Australia last weekend. Therefore I did take her out to take photos. These following photos are not Photoshoped, they are all original ^^

Uncle Ho and Typography

"Duong Kach Menh" is one of the most famous book of Ho Chi Minh who is usually called Uncle Ho, this book is now 80 years old. As I said in the title "Uncle Ho and Typography". why there is typography here? It is because of the title of the book "Duong Kach Menh" there is a spelling error here. "Kach" should be written as "Cach" even though the pronunciation is the same. Actually, people usually talk about the content of the book and they ignore the title. They don't try to understand why Uncle Ho write "Kach" instead of "Cach"? or they just explain that this is just Uncle Ho's writing style.

But I strongly believe that there is a relationship between the title and the content of the book. First of all, what does "Cach Menh" means? it means revolution. Moreover, in the first page of this book, Uncle Ho also explained that Cach Menh is that: the old and the bad one should be replaced by the new and the good one. That's why i believe that when he wrote the title, he played with the title by changing "Cach Menh" to "Kach Menh" which represent to the revolution and the replacement. 

Painter of Light

This is the picture of my Aikido Sensei, Ngo Khac Hoang, it is quite out focus and look like it was Photoshoped. However, this picture has not been touched by any software and it was taken with f6.3 and 25 second of exposure time!, Moreover, when it was taken, all the lights were turned off and the photographer only used a small flash lamp to "paint" on the model to create the light and shadow. How amazing is his technique!

This photographer is famous with the name "painter of light", his real name is Charlie Lim who is a Singaporean. For more information please visit his website: charlielim.com

Flash' Exercise (Typography)

This entry should be belonged to week8, sorry for my lately. During last weekend, i was crazy and angry with Flash, i cannot tell you how much i was crazy with Flash, i cannot export my 5MB typography fla file to mov file to post into this blog. My flash get stuck everytimes i try to export my work in to movie even though i have tried to choose the other compression types. Moreover, I already try to reinstall my ADOBE CS3 but it does not help. And then i try to upload my swf into blogspot via another host( by using HTML code) but I CAN'T, Merde! 

As you can see, even though the bar is full but Flash get stuck there, and of course i left it a whole night but there is nothing change. Why i cannot export just a 5MB fla file into Movie? Why i always have troubles with Flash ? Does anyone has same trouble like me?

Actually this work is showed in class last saturday, for those who was not in class this day you can click into the following link to see my work.

http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ss3175486rmit/images/detail/#262/allyeg4.swf

Playing with typography

I created this Bag for Iceberry, which is an imagination ice cream shop, I used pure Typography and color harmonies to design this bag. It is not bad in my opinion ^__^. ( I'm fascinated with typography now ^__^ )
Note: I designed this bag based on the idea oh my friend, who is studying PR now.

Photomontage Assignment (In Process)

I'm now working on the second assignment, the Photomontage. This work is based on the images of the ancient Japanese Samurai and it has been not finished yet and i am still looking around my house for the new elements that i could use to "plug" into my back ^__^.

Vinyl Record, Tape, Compact Disk and MP3

I decided to use pure typography to combine Vinyl record, Tape, Compact Disk and MP3 into only one poster. The circle in the left is formed by the definition of Vinyl Record, the circle in the right is formed by a short definition of Compact Disk. Moreover, the line that is connect these two circles together represent the digitalization from analog to digital signal. Furthermore, together these elements create the form of the magnetic tape. 

Before coming to this poster, i tried many different pictures to create a posters but they did not work well. So i turned back to the beginning and tried to use another way and i chose typography. Actually, i haven't used typography in my works in the previous semesters because i believe that a picture worth than thousand words. However, this semester, when i did the research on David Carson and his works, i was surprised by his works by the powerful ways he used his typography that's why now i am doing the research on typography and i hope that one day i can use the power of typography in my designs. 

Carhartt (repost)

After receiving the comment of Thierry in class i decide to redo the carhartt exercise again. I looked back the Gestalt theory, principles and element of design and i hope that this time my performance is better than the previous one.

Nokia Ads

The Secret Sex Life of Plants (rePost)

After receiving the comment of my lecturer, Thierry, I tried to work again on the Gestalt Exercise to make it better. Actually, The Gestalt Theory is quite hard for me to understand and digest therefore i have to keep working and doing the research on this Theory.

Carhartt

This exercise cost me a lot of time, at the beginning, i tried to recreate the brand name "carhartt" with many different ways and many different mixtures but they did not work. Finally, I take the idea from the Shirt (you can see above) of carhartt to create this works.

The secret Sex Life of Plants

This is my Gestalt Exercise, I try to illustrate the flowers by using the basic shapes and by applying the Gestalt Theory into it to make it more interesting. However, in my opinion, it is not as close as the Theories of Gestalt. If you have any idea to help me make it better, please give me your comments. Thank you very much.

Gestalt Theory

This week i studied the Gestalt Theory which is very important and necessary for designers. After that i when to the internet to look for some the others Art Works that based on Gestalt. I finally find out some very interesting Art Works of Jesse Bransford on his/her blogspot. These art works were drawed by pen and ink directly on paper.Moreover, by looking at these works i can understand more about the Gestalt Theory. Jesse Bransford just used and combined the basic shapes together and How amazing Brandsford made these Art Works?. I really really love them.

Jesse Bransford, Gestalt No. 24 (Apocalypse: Abraxas Annihilation), 1999, 40x65", Pen and ink on paper


Jesse Bransford, Gestalt No. 11 (Drowning By Numbers), 1998, 60x80", Pen and ink on paper.


Jesse Bransford, Gestalt No. 17 (History Lesson), 1998, Dimensions variable, Latex, marker and graphite on wall.

To see more Jesse Brandsford works, please visit Brandsford's blog: http://jesse-bransford.blogspot.com/search/label/Gestalt%20Drawings

The Sun and The Moon

In this entry, i will show you my design on The Sun and The Moon. This is an exercise from week2, our lecturer, Thierry asked us to design and to stylize the Sun and the Moon with our own style. Actually, this exercise is quite difficult for me because i have to draw by hand first (this is an extremely hard step because i can not tell my hands to do what i want !) and then trace my design again on computer by using Adobe Illustrator

When i designed my Sun and Moon and took the idea from the Sun of the ancient Aztecs. Actually, i did do the research about the Sun and The Moon of many different culture such as Japan, Egypt, China, ..v...v.. but i am really impressed by the Sun Stone of the Aztecs ( you can see the picture below).
I was socked when i did the research on the Sun Stone of the Aztecs, it was not only a amazing decoration but it was used as a calendar and an astronomical measuring system!


To see more information about the Sun Stone of the Aztecs, i strongly recommend you to go to this webstite : http://www.gizapyramid.com/CliveRoss4.htm

and Now go back to my design, i even though i simplified the Sun Stone of the Aztecs and combined it with the Moon, but i still keep the most important parts of the Sun Stone: earrings, 8 spears around the sun,... ( you should read the link the put above to understand how the Sun Stone "worked"). Moreover, when i design this work i also though about the shield of the Aztecs Warriors that they used in their wars

What is design?

This is my first entry in Semester 3, now i am studying Electronic Imaging & Design that has another "illegal name" is DIM 2,5. In this semester, i also have to keep working on the blog with 24 entries in this semester and this is not an easy stuff for me because my entries should relate to the lesson that i studied in class. Now let's move to my first entry in this semester.

What is design? this is the question that my lecturer, Thierry, give us in class and ask us to illustrate the definition of design. That's a cool exercise, let's me show you my work.

First of all, i give you the definition of design ( this definition was given by Thierry): Graphic Design is the business of making or choosing marks and arranging them on a surface to convey an idea.

The key words in this definition are: business, making, choosing, arranging, a surface and convey an idea. And this is my illustration for this definition ^_^ ( i hope that you can figure out what i was trying to do)

New art works

In this entry, I will show you my newest designs that I have just finished today.

My girl friend is now doing the marketing plan for Canon IXUS 80IS she asked me to design a cover of any magazine in which Canon IXUS 80 IS is promoted as a hot product to attract more customers. Actually, this is the first time I try to design the cover of a magazine so at the beginning I have so much difficulties and i did not know how and where should I start to design. In my opinion, the use of color and the compositon in this design are not so good but I am satisfied with my work.

The second work is the ads that I design for my team in BE2 class. The product is QGirl New York, a cosmetic line products of ICP Company. This ads was designed to promote QGirl New York on the magazines. I decided to use the very simple design but attractive so I only added the logo and the slogan of the product.

Sunny 16 Rule

In photography, how to get o right exposure is very important and it is not an easy work to do. To day, with the help of new technology and the arrival of DSLR, photographers have much more ease to get the right exposure. However, even the newest DSLR of Nikon, Canon, Sony etc.. can just give photographer the acceptable exposure to their photos. In this entry I will show you how to use Sunny 16 rule as a guide to exposure without a light meter.

Set your aperture to f/16 and set your shutter speed accord to your ISO film speed.
For example: for ISO film 100 you should set your shutter speed to 1/100 or 1/125. Actually, the shutter speed will not exactly equal to film speed but try to set it as close as possible to the film speed

There are the elaborated forms of Sunny 16 rule to use in different lighting conditions :

(source: http://www.camerareview.com/templates/sunny16.cfm)

Sadness....

In the previous entry, I posted the newest pictures of Mai and now, in this entry, I will upload the pictures that were also taken yesterday but with a totally different style : Sadness... Moreover, I also tried to experiment a new style in editing picture called Infrared Film Effect. In these pictures, I do not only want to capture the pictures but I also want to catch the feeling, the emotion of Mai before she goes to Australia: .....

The Last Shots for Mai model

Saturday, 30-August-2008. This day is a very special day since I took the last pictures for Mai model before she immigrate to Australia.
Since last semester when I have started to take pictures. Mai is the model who is very famous on Yahoo 360 with nickname : tokngan that impressed me much because of her profession. Moreover, she always gives me advice to make my pictures better. However,next Saturday, 6-Sept-2008, she will immigrate to Australia therefore these following pictures could be the last shots that I took for Mai.

Place: Trung Son- Phu My Hung
Date: 30-August-2008
Photographer: Khuong Tran


If you want to see the previous pictures of Mai, you can visit my 360 Yahoo Blog:

360.yahoo.com/tn_khuong