Had a little family dental day today. Full set of pictures here at the nephew/niece blog. These of course were taken before my procedure, which ended up sidelining me for the rest of the night.
Smoke and mirrors at the dentist
With the series at 2-1 before the game yesterday, I thought the Lakers were going to stick a dagger into the heart of the Denver Nuggets by taking game 4 and ultimately, a commanding 3-1 series lead. The ritual is usually to watch the Lakers from home in the comfort of my own couch, but I stepped out of tradition yesterday and headed to the ESPN zone with Jed, who contributes occasionally to the bleacher report and formerly ran (or maybe still is running) the 3freethrows blog. He will forever surpass my knowledge in basketball talent, history, and skill, which is why it’s so great to watch a game with him (knowledge will always be imparted upon you… similar to how that Korean BBQ smell latches onto your skin and clothes the minute you walk into a Korean BBQ restaurant…it’s effortless). In any case, I haven’t seen Jed in a while, so it was good catching up. Too bad the night ended in the Lakers getting their butts whooped by the Nuggets.
Note: Now since the Lakers lost last night while I was watching at the ESPN zone, I have now decided that I will never watch another important Laker game there EVER! Call it superstition or whatever you want, but ESPN zone won’t see my face for the rest of the playoffs. Lakers in 6! Believe!
ESPN Zone
Game time recliner
And for those of you who haven’t been to Disneyland… a glimpse of the fireworks show from Disneyland (9:30pm every night).
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So the Korean duo of Judy and Rex finally tied the knot this weekend! It was an absolutely beautiful wedding in perfect sunny southern California weather! Everyone who went had a fantastic time, but it was especially great for me because I’ve gotten to know Judy and Rex so well. We had a great time at the UCSF table and even managed to keep the medicine talk to a minimum as well (fairly easy tonight given the Lakers were playing game 3 against Denver). Anyway, here are some shots from the wedding…
But first, some of the sillyness of Judy and Rex from our little photo session a month ago:
And now to some of the shots from the wedding:
Shot with the Canon G10 at ISO 1600 (after noise ninja)
“I want to kiss the girl…shalalalala don’t look now”
The happy couple
Wink and the nod from Tristan and the rest of the UCSF super crew
UCSF’ers (photo credit: Tristan Beaudette)
Always take a second to stop and smell the roses Mrs. Wu-Beaudette
Table 8 is great! (but table 15 had no people there..hence the picture)
The party people’s
Yes, ladies and gentleman, she went ahead and hyphenated her last name…*shakes head in disapproval
The wedding was so much fun, but after the wedding ended, the real adventure began! At about 11pm, Tristan (code name: Papa Smurf), Erica, Danielle and I decided to hunt down the infamous Kogi Taco Truck. We checked the twitter page and found that it was parked somewhere in the San Fernando Valley (Reseda and Devonshire), so we packed the cars and took a 30 minute journey to the valley.
Google maps is the best
We got there at about 11:40pm and found a long, long, long line for some tacos. It was cold, we were hungry, and it seemed like it was going to take an eternity! Since there was so much hype about this place though, we decided to wait it out (and by “we”, I mean Tristan and I…Erica and Danielle waited in the warm car). After about 2 hours in line and having to serve as bouncers for the truck (owner told us that we were the last ones they were going to serve), we got our tacos. They ran out of everything on the menu except for their most coveted item (tacos), so we just ordered a million of those! To be honest, I think it’s a little over-hyped and probably not worth waiting 3 hours in line for…but if you’ve got nothing to do and want some delicious tacos, google the Kogi taco truck and find where they’re parked…it’s definitely something very unique that you should at least try once in your life!
Recommendations:
Kogi truck in the wild
Kogi truck – Roja
Kogi Menu
So FML is a website that allows people to share their everyday unfortunate events and memories to others around the world. Generally, I don’t have time to check the site to keep up-to-date with people’s stories, but I was thinking about overnight call at the hospital today and my fondest memory of Medicine Sub-I was sitting at the computer with the other 4th years–organizing our rank lists and talking about where we were all possibly headed next year–and sharing FML stories that we had or had read on the website. It became kind of a way for us to break the tension on medicine and lighten things up a bit. Anyway, it made me think of this moment in San Francisco when my family visited this past weekend. It was unusually hot in SF (90′s) and my family all bought some ice cream as a nice little mid-day treat. Now this wasn’t necessarily my own FML moment, but I could tell exactly what was going on in Aaron’s mind (my nephew) when this happened.
Life sucks sometimes =(
This is the FUNNIEST commercial on TV right now:
So I’ve been getting a lot of emails about what programs I use and what kind of post-processing techniques are useful…especially with my graduation photos and travel photos (my apologies if I haven’t gotten back to you…moving has been hectic). To be honest, I kinda fly by the seat of my pants and visualize what things are supposed to look like when I shoot, and then apply effects afterwards to reflect what I saw with my eye at the time. I even sometimes overexpose or underexpose with the idea of creating post-processing effects to complement the image itself…so I’m always shooting with post-processing in mind. Now, sometimes people can go overboard…and over-processing isn’t always a good thing…a sin I’m guilty of committing when I try to salvage a bad shot. But for the times I do get it right, taking a photo that didn’t look half as good when it was unprocessed and making it look better? That’s not “fake” photography or any less legitimate in my opinion. Post-processing allows each photographer to add their own spin and perspective to their photographs. It kind of defines them. I don’t necessarily need post-processing, but my photographs wouldn’t be MINE without it!
So for those of you who asked, here’s a quick tutorial on how I got my graduation photos looking the way they did.
Here’s the shot straight out of camera (SOOC):
Focus on the saturation and the fill lighting to help fix the underexposure, as well as the toning to create a warmer feel
Post-Adobe Lightroom settings:
After that, I took the file into photoshop to adjust image size, add a vignette and do some sharpening…and this is what you get:
To be honest, you don’t even need to take it into photoshop. You can apply a vignette in lightroom under the vignettes modification, and you can also sharpen from lightroom too. For me, I used photoshop just because I already set it up to batch-process my photos… it’s easier for me to just send things into photoshop, click a button, then step away from the computer while it does the work and crops my batch of photos. Hope that helps! Be sure to email if you have any other questions and I’ll respond as soon as I can!
Fairmont in Ghiradelli square
Watching an inappropriate youtube clip at the hotel that, of course, was stopped mid-video: Italian goes to Malta
Movie night: Ratatouille
The scary scene
Some running along fisherman’s wharf
Peter being emo
Some Hawk Hill and GG Bridge Play
I give up…don’t take me to alcatraz
Ethan’s first splinter