Icemancast

Pen Tool Illustrator

icemancast — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:16:13 +0000

Did this for a buddy who was trying out the pen tool in illustrator for the first time.

If you have any questions about web design, photoshop or illustrator please comment and I will see about doing a screencast about it.

Tech Street Boys

icemancast — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:15:48 +0000

A Bat Out of Hell

icemancast — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:06:28 +0000

Most of the work I usually do is corporate in nature and requires a solution that sometimes is not self gratifying. I have been following several blogs and one of them gave me some good information on how to reorganize a schedule and create time for everything that you are wanting to do and accomplish. I tried that this past week and allotted time to learn something new. This past Friday I wanted to create a piece that was just for me and no one else. Something like an artistic release (or any other release if your mind is going there… LOL!). Anyways below is an image that I created in photoshop and titled “A Bat Out of Hell” (View Large Image)

More flickr uploads

icemancast — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:28:13 +0000

Some more sketches in my stash that I scanned and uploaded. Been working on a new design and idea for my blog. Working on a way and combining all the social media outlets I use here on this blog. Stay tuned…

My Sketches from the 80’s

icemancast — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:44:49 +0000

Found some old sketches when I was a kiddo. Will be posting them throughout the next few months on my flickr.

See Set

Funny Ads and Signs – New

icemancast — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:17:47 +0000

Hello guys, I have been waiting to post some of these because of course as always I want everything to be perfect. I wanted by this time to have my new blog design but work has been keeping me pretty busy. I will hopefully be getting it out before the fall. I am going to be posting most of the pictures that I take to flickr and re-uploading old ones there too. There will be feed here for it on the new design. Until then enjoy or send some of your own for me to post.

View Set

My rapping days in the past.

icemancast — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:42:05 +0000

As promised from about a year ago here are a couple songs from back in my rapping days. I know I have some more and will be digging for them to post them here.

Icemancast Rapping Days

Now I know my ABC’s

icemancast — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:52:35 +0000

I came across a post at booooooom.com where Rhett Dashwood created a collage of the alphabet from google map aerial views.

Cool post and led me to find others out there.

Google Maps Alphabet (In original post there is google maps links to each letter)
Google Maps Typography (original post)

Junk Mail Alphabet

The Alphabet Photogallery

… next won’t you sing with me.

Disc Golf a fun time for the summer

icemancast — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:07:29 +0000

I started playing disc golf about 1 month ago with some buddies of mine in Corpus Christi. After playing a few games I was hooked. Here is a post from Hans and I playing here in McClain Park in San Antonio, Texas with some video and his review of the park.

McClain Park Disc Golf Review

Inexpensive collapsable camera light box

icemancast — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:24:56 +0000

I began this journey first looking at several tutorials on how to get excellent product shots. Of course you can go purchase a light box and expensive lighting and be done but where is the fun in that. Below are several tutorials I found for creating your own light box on a budget. The only thing that troubled me was that we really don’t have much room to have a box sitting around. So I came up with a way to create a collapsible camera light box.

The tutorials I found:

Macro Photo Studio

Light Box Tent

Inexpensive Light Tent

How I approached the collapsible light box

Materials needed:

(2) tri-fold display boards, I used 28in x 40in with a white inside
(1) poster board that will curve inside the box
(1) foam core, I used a 32in x 40in
Velcro straps (you can do other ideas here)
(1) while translucent shower curtain or white sheet
Also used a small velcro tab for inside curved poster board
(2) home depot can lights
(2) bright bulbs

Tools needed:

Duck tape
Glue
Scissors
Xacto knife or blade to cut foam core
Ruler
Pencil or pen to mark areas

Step 1

Use duck tape to tape the ends of the poster boards together so that the newly formed box is still able to fold.

Step 2

I measured the size of the box over the foam core and cut it. Now it was exact but that is okay it’s main purpose mainly for support. I then attached four velcro pieces to each side of the foam core, and glued a middle foam core piece to support the folding parts of the box once it will be attached.

Step 3

I cut a foot square out of the middle of the display board on two sides of the box. I made sure to cut the sides of the display boards that do not bend. I then cut a piece of the shower curtain to tape over the square hole.

Step 4

I ducked tape the other velcro sides to the outside of the actual box. I cut the poster board to fit the width of the box. When you place the poster board inside the box make sure it has a nice curve with no creases so you can have a seamless shot. You can use clear tape to tape the bottom of the poster board but I used white velcro tabs to go underneath the poster board. You don’t need to do anything to the back of the poster board as it will naturally curve and sit on the back.

Now I just used a regular light from home depot with the brightest bulb I could find. Place each light to each of the cut squares.

Now after you have the box up it is easy to disassemble by just removing the inside poster board, the back foam board and fold the sides in.

I still have to mess around with the white balance settings and will probably run fstop on the next shots a little hotter. You have to compensate for the yellow overglow from the lights. Below are the shots after editing. The last two I posted the before and after and took a little extra time washing out the few background.

So there you have it. This was a fun project to work on and I am going to start shooting shots for my new blog design (which I know is behind schedule now). Leave a comment or idea if you would or did something different with your light box.