Graduation Pictures

Scanography

One Scan

Smaller is Just Better

I took this photo of these miniature hygiene products that I bought for my expedition to Denver a few weeks ago. They were just sitting around my apartment so I figured I'd throw them on my scanner and take a shot at it. I left the lid off and turned all of the lights off in my room. I like how it turned out.

It really shows all of the branding that happens in the marketplace.

The next thing that I just had laying around a poor college student's apartment was a bunch of money. So I decided to gather it up and throw it on the scanner. I grabbed a clock and decided to make a collage of time and money. I took the images into Photoshop and did some border work with a grunge brush. I did an overlay blend with the two images and add a solid color adjustment layer to give it some more green. I added a torn edges filter to the image. Here it is:

Scanography Collage

Photolusion

I was walking home from the Spori and noticed this LOADING sign painted on the sidewalk. It reminded me that we are constantly waiting for loading in life. Even the parking space is required to load. So I put my laptop there and made it look like it was loading. I don't even know if it makes sense but it did in my head. I just added the signature to the photo.

The second photo was the brain child of my brother. We both agreed that it is all about the vampires right now. So I grabbed a mirror and took one shot of me in front of the mirror and then I took one shot with out me. I then took the image of the empty mirror and just selected the pepsi cup and put it on the mirror. I made a GIF with animation but for some reason it doesn't play on this blog.

Loading; 21 June; 3pm; Rexburg; Blackberry 9630

Vampire; 20 June; 1am; Rexburg; f7.1; 0.4sec; CanonT1i; 50mm lens

Fine Art Template

I took the first picture right when the sun was going down behind my mom's house in Shelley. I liked the light that came through the trees and the lens captured some nice depth of field. I brought the photo into Photoshop and added it to my Fine Art Template. I created a clipping mask and added my signature and text.

I took the second shot in Banack Montana. I really liked the red brick hotel. I added some levels, sats, and vibrance to the shot. Then I added it to my Fine Art Template.

Meade; 21May;12pm;Banack; f10; 1/50; CanonT1i; 50mm lens

Apricots;4May;6pm; Shelley; f1.8; 1/320; CanonT1i; 50mm lens

Edge Effects

I went on a photo shoot for my moms birthday using a Canon 16-35mm wide angle lens. It is an amazing lens if I could just spend the $1500 for it. For the party picture I used a brush stroke filter and then flattened the image. I then used a mask and a thick brush to give it the brushed on effect. I added a border by adding canvas to all sides and then a caption. For the portrait I tried deleting the image and then using the history brush with a grunge brush to paint it back on. I added a solid color adjustment layer for the colored background and added a caption. For the ballon I followed the sprayed on edges tutorial and added a caption.

Birthday; 7May; 530pm; Shelley; f2.8; 1/50; CanonT1i; 16mm wide angle lens

Lisa; 7 May;5pm; Shelley; f2.8; 1/500; CanonT1i; 16mm wide angle lens

Balloon; 7May; 5pm; Shelley; f5.6; 1/500; CanonT1i; 16mm wide angle lens

Night and Light

I had a lot of fun with these photos. For the first one I set up the tripod and dialed the shutter speed to 15 seconds on shutter speed priority. I had my brother snap a portable flash every time I moved to a new spot. For the blue trumpet photo I used a blue flashlight on my brother's flashlight to light up the trumpet. I used a tripod in a completely black room with shutter speed priority to 20 seconds. I slowly lit up the trumpet with the light and then moved the light around for the ambient light. My favorite was the orange flower picture. I love the way the light looks like ribbons. For this photo I set a fake flower in a vase and used an orange light to light it up. I then moved the light around to look like the ribbons. I set the camera to shutter speed priority at 15 seconds.

By The Fire; 14June; 10pm; f22; 16.0sec; Tripod; Canon T1i; 50mm lens

Orange Flower;14June;10:30pm; f22; 16.0sec; Tripod; CanonT1i; 50mm lens

Blue;14June;1030pm; f22;20.0sec; Tripod; CanonT1i; 50mm lens

Project 365 Edits

Project 365 Blank Template

Project 365 with Photos

The assignment was to take a photo a day for 7 consecutive days. The inspiration comes from a Project 365 website. The class provided a few templates to choose from to create the photo book. I decided to go with this one but I ended up tweaking it a little bit. I used some different colors and added the big numbers to make it kinda look like a calendar. I cropped all of my photos to the same size so that they looked uniform. I inserted the photos and used guides to line them all up. It would be very easy to insert new photos for a future project. This was a really fun project.

Project 365

The assignment was to take one photo per day for 7 consecutive days. I tried to capture a variety of photos using different angles, light, etc. I attended the Denver Expedition during the project so my days were a little messed up. But I did the best I could with our schedule to capture the photos.

Downtown; 3June; 2pm; Denver; 0/1 sec; Blackberry9630

Glass; 4June; 10pm; Denver; f1.8; 1/100; Canon T1i; 50mm lens

Denver; 4June; 8am; Denver; 0/1sec; Blackberry9630

NiteLites; 4June; 9pm; Denver; f18; 2.0sec; CanonT1i; 50mm lens

Haunted; 5June; 8:30pm; St.Anthony; 0/1 sec; Blackberry9630

ToTheWheel; 7June; 7pm; Rexburg; f1.8; 1/1000; CanonT1i; 50mm lens

OffDaChain; 7June; 7:15pm; Rexburg; f1.8; 1/400; CanonT1i; 50mm

Portrait Enhancements

For the shot of my grandparents I tried out the tutorial on clone stamp tool to enhance skin tone. I also added some levels, sats, vibrance, and a photo filter. For the second photo I followed the match color tutorial. I used another photo that I really liked to match the color. I also added levels, sats, vibrance, and a lens correction vignette. For the last photo I tried out the replace color tutorial to turn the white background to violet. I then enhanced the photo with sats, levels, vibrance, and added a lens correction vignette. I took all of these photos with either a fixed 50mm lens or a 16mm wide angle lens and a Canon T1i.

The Grands; 7May; 4pm; Shelley; f2.8; 1/50; Canon T1i; 16mm

Soy; 23May; 6pm; Shelley; f2; 1/125; Canon T1i; 50mm

Lisa; 23May; 7pm; Shelley; f3.5; 1/60; Canon T1i; 50mm

Portraits

I had fun taking pictures of family for this assignment. I used two different lenses on these photos. I tried out a Canon 16mm wide angle lens. It was amazing--although I don't think I quite figured out its capabilities. I also used a fixed 50mm. I did very basic edits on these shots: levels, sats, vignette, and a photo filter. I will show more edits on the next post.

Big Hug; 9May; 12pm; IF; f1.8; 1/60; Canon T1i; 50mm

Drummin'; 7May; 5pm; Shelley; f3.2; 1/500; Canon T1i; 16mm

Barrow; 23May; 6pm; Shelley; f1.8; 1/50; Canon T1i; 50mm

Essam; 23May; 5pm; Shelley; f2.5; 1/400; Canon T1i; 50mm

Extra Portraits from Bannack/Dubois

I had so much fun experimenting with portraits. It was my favorite thing to do on our photo shoot. Once I had these images into Photoshop I converted them to Smart Objects and started playing around with some stuff. On these shots I adjusted the levels, saturation, vibrance, exposure, and added a warming photo filter. When the vibrance and saturation effected skin tone I used a mask out over their skin to keep things natural.

Josh(Joaquin); 21 May; 11:30pm; Dubois; f1.8; 1/640; Canon T1i; 50mm lens

Laura; 21 May; 11:30pm; Dubois; f1.8; 1/42500; Canon T1i; 50mm lens

Andrea; 21 May; 1:30pm; Bannack; f1.8; 1/2000; Canon T1i; 50mm lens

Group; 21 May; 11:30pm; Dubois; f1.8; 1/3200; Canon T1i; 50mm lens

Amber; 21 May; 3:30pm; Bannack; f1.8; 1/4000; Canon T1i; 50mm lens

Extras from Bannack/Dubois

I took these macro shots at the warehouse in Dubois. I adjusted some levels, saturation, and added a warming photo filter.

Red/Blue;21 May; 11:30pm; Dubois; f1.8; 1/160; Canon T1i; 50mm lens

Switch;21 May; 11:30pm; Dubois; f1.8; 1/60; Canon T1i; 50mm lens

Reverse Shallow Depth

For the gear shots I was experimenting with the different focus/blur assignment. I used my spot metering to target in on the spot that I wanted to be in focus. I was on Auto Focus on my lens and the camera did a great job at blurring out whatever I wasn't focused on because of my F stop.

Gear 1; 21 May; 1pm; Bannack; f1.8; 1/125; Canon T1i; 50mm lens

Gear 2; 21 May; 1pm; Bannack; f1.8 1/160; Canon T1i; 50mm lens

For the building and sage brush shots, I used AV priority to blur out foreground and background on these shots. This was taken at the Mill.

Mill; 21 May; 3:30pm; Bannack; f1.8; 1/6000; Canon T1i; 50mm lens

Sage; 21 May; 3:30pm; Bannack; f1.8; 1/4000; Canon T1i; 50mm lens