I know that a lot of people take macro floral shots, but I captured these and quite liked them.
White/Pink flower; 12/28/09; 10 a.m.; South Jordan, Utah; f/2.8; 1/5; Canon Powershot SD 1100; no edits.
Roses; 12/25/09; 12 p.m.; South Jordan, Utah; f/2.8; 0.3; Canon Powershot SD 1100; no edits.
4 x 6
8 x 10
Twisted Stairs; 10-7-09; Bannack, Montana; 11:35 a.m.; f/2.8; 1/35; Sony DSC-H7.
I decided to use one of my photos from Bannack. I created the template just as in Sister Esplin’s book, but I changed the color scheme to match my photo better. I did have to slightly edit the photos so that they 4 x 6 would turn out to be the correct size, but other than that this was pretty simple. This was an easy way to learn how to use a template and I think it will be very useful in the future.
This one didn’t turn out as well as I wanted it to. I wanted these pictures to look like my cousin’s face in the clouds. It looks a little fake to me, but I hope it looks realistic enough though. I used a tutorial that showed how to make a photo look like a sketch. I wanted to only use the highlights of my cousins face to look like it was barely there.
One of my roommates always wears these flower clips in her hair. We have a vase of fake flowers on our kitchen table and while I was sitting there I noticed that from the angle that I was at, it looked like one of the flowers in the vase was in her hair. I told her not to move, went and got my camera, and captured the shot.
The second photo I thought I would throw in just for fun. I took this on my Europe trip last year. This was toward the end of our trip when we started getting sick of taking normal travel pictures.
The above photos merged extremely well. It was pretty fast to create once I had the actual photos.It was fun to see how Photoshop actually merged the photos together and knew where to match lines up. I didn’t have to edit this picture at all. The only thing that I did was increase the saturation +10.
This week was pretty fun. I took these four photos right before sunset on a back road in Rexburg. These ones are the best and merged the best out of all of the photos that I took. The sky happened to be just perfect at this time.
For my photobook spread I used a photo taken earlier this semester of the sunset. The photo wasn’t large enough so I actually copied the layer, made the canvas larger, and moved it over. I then clone stamped and masked out the blemishes that were showing. I just created square boxes and put clipping masks on the photos into the boxes.
I began this project taking many photos each day and choosing the best from each day. Unfortunately, I went home to Utah this weekend and while there my SD Card accidentally was re-formatted and hence, I lost all the photos that I took this week. So for the past three days I have been taking photos like crazy trying to get a number of shots in different places, at different times of the day, and with different subjects and compositions. So here they are.
I wanted to get some environmental portraiture photos this week. I am lucky enough to work in the English Department and asked one of the teachers if I could come and take photos of him teaching. I had to edit the coloring a bit with these photos because it was in the Smith Building and the lighting is very yellow. Here is what I came up with.
I noticed that I had to have a very fast shutter speed to be able to catch the movements because I asked him to please act as though I wasn’t there. I had a lot of fun with these.
I tried the Corey Barker luminosity trick and it turned out pretty weird. I think it was the image I was using. I couldn’t seem to get an image in just the right lighting for this to work. I posted it below anyway, but…yeah you can see for yourself.
The next picture, when I completed the color match process, turned a bit more washed out than I thought. I didn’t realize the matched image was so bright.
The final photo I placed on this post doesn’t have to do with this assignment this week. I just was playing around with the adjustments and colors and things and thought this one turned out neat. This is a photo of my 95 year old great grandma who still sweeps her own porch and cleans her own house.
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