Lasoski

Alright, this one is kind of cheesy and not really interesting photographically (at least not overly so). But it is part of the reason I decided to make the jump into actually doing this. Those 2 letters behind Lasoski on my nameplate at work are the result of 9 long years of blood, sweat & tears. Alright, so it isn't that dramatic, but still it is one of the hardest things I've ever worked at for such a long period of time. Some people are good at doing school and work at the same time. I was not one of those people. Grad school was not easy for me and I had to take it slower than most. But I finished. And I earned the required training experience. And I studied for the license test and passed. And so at the end of that chapter of my life, it gives me quite a bit of joy to be rewarded with those letters.


And with that, here is the challenger:



. : David B. Lasoski, P. E. Pre-processed: .

What are the differences?I'm looking at this, and there is almost an optical illusion where the bottom (processed) picture looks rotated. But I didn't. I think it is b/c of the darkened nameplate shaddow. Anyways, what I did do was adjust the levels, add some saturation, added some contrast and I think decreased the brightness, darkened and desaturated the yellow (it was just way too much). Then I made an oval selection, and transformed the perspective to run similarly to the nameplate. I inverted the selection, feathered the selection quite a bit, and then used the gaussian blur filter to make the nameplate really pop even more so than my depth of field on the camera had. I'm really happy with this post processing job, although it took a while b/c my computer was acting real slow anytime I messed with the oval selection tool. Not sure what that was about.

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. : David B. Lasoski, P. E. : . WPC 2011 week 2 --D. Lasoski



But the two letters is not all that this picture shows. It also shows that I have a healthy love of my job. We nicknamed our area the Quadragon and I even made a little seal for it.

A better view of all the things hanging up near my cube

Additionally, which you may have not noticed (most people don't in real life) you can see beneath my name plate, one of my greatest strengths is Connecticut. It used to say Connectedness, but I like having Connecticut as a strength better.

Not many people notice that. But I like to show that I have some humor. Working for the government can be good, but also very frustrating sometimes. You have to learn to laugh.

I, as a n00b photographer, thought the wpc entry was still kind of cool, b/c I never could have taken a picture like that with a point and shoot. There is no depth of field with those. I like that my nameplate is emphasized because of the shallower DOF. This picture makes me want to get a shorter (shallower?) prime lense and learn how to use it like my good friend, Mrs. Rev. I'm not sure if I'm going to get a 35mm or a 50mm, but I need something that has a larger aperture. I want a faster lens for low light shooting!

Labels: Cube, joy, P.E., pictures, post-processing, Strengths, USACE, WPC 2011, WPC entry