Backgammon

This photo is a macro shot of my backgammon board, with some post processing in Photoshop in order to make the colors more bold. 

Red Face

This is a portrait I took of a girl in front of a black background. Afterward I cranked up the gamma value to distort the color of her face. I then used the spot healing tool to eliminate the bright highlights in order to achieve a very "flat" look.

Gecko

This photo was taken in the cactus garden on Stanford campus. I took the photo using a sepia filter while in macro mode. The end result is a nicely balanced image with a gecko stealthily camouflaging itself on the right and a moderate bokeh effect on the left. 

Alien Tree

This is a photo of a dead tree located at the Stanford Foothills. In photoshop I decided to heavily manipulate the colors so that the end result looks like an eerie desolate wasteland.

Glimmering Pool

This is a photo I took of a fountain on the Stanford campus. By making the rest of the photo black and white, the rainbow effect in the pool really stands out. In the original color photo, this would have been overlooked by most observers.

More Flowers

I decided to take a macro shot of some flowers on the Stanford campus. In the background there is a nice bokeh effect noticeable mostly on the street lamps. Afterwards, I made most of the image black and white in photoshop in order to really bring out the flowers in the foreground.

Black Flower

For this photo, I lit the scene using just a red LED light in an otherwise dark room. As a result, the other wise white flowers and green leaves turn red and black respectively, giving an eerie other-worldly feel to the image. No post-processing effects were included.