Night and Light

Light Painting- f/3.5, 3.2, my house, 10pm, 11/09/10,canon rebel


Moving the camera- f/2.2, 3.2, 9pm, 11/09/10, my house, canon rebel




Moving light- f/1.8, 3.2, 11/09/10, 9:30pm, my house canon rebel

To draw the star, I used my iphone light and a slow shutter speed. The red light is from moving my camera really fast while having it aimed at the little red light on my space heater. The green light is from moving the green light on a baby monitor in circles in front of the camera.

Cutouts

Partial cut out- f/8, 1/20, 10/1/10, BYUI Gardens, 6pm Canon rebel

Cutout- f/2.2, 1/125, 11/06/10, My house, 3:30pm, Canon Rebel

The cutout was hard to do and I did not have luck with any tool other than the lasso tool. I think my jar was harder to cut out because it already had so many shadows on the image. In the partial cut out, I removed all the pine trees.

Large Prints

Katie 9/30/10, 5pm, Rexburg, f/4.5, 1/320, canon rebel.
The edits include raising the blacks, fill light, sats, adding pixels to the top and bottom and a skin blur on her face. I chose this picture, because I really liked the way her red hat contrasted with the green background. She is also making a cute face. This pic was taken right around her 6 month mark so it's a good one to print.

Conference Center: 10/23/10 2pm, Temple Square f/5.6, 1/1250, canon rebel. I used an adjustment brush to bring the sky back in, also pumped up the sats and vibrance, used a brush effect, raised blacks, brought down yellows, and used fill light. I took this standing at the reflection pool in SLC. I liked the reflection a lot and the colors. The editing took a while trying to get the colors saturated and bright enough.

A Photo a Day

Saturday: f/1.8, 1/400, church trunk or treat in Rexburg, 6:25pm, canon rebel


Tuesday: f/7.1, 1/8000, danbury girls house in rexburg, 11/2/10, 11:36am, canon rebel

Sunday: f/2.2, 1/125, my kitchen, 10/31/10, 3:00pm, canon rebel

Monday- f/4.5, 1/40, 5:15pm, my house, 11/01/10, canon rebel

Wednesday: f/5.0, 1/8, 10/27/10, Spori Building, 2:00pm, Canon rebel


Thursday: f/2.2, 1/8000, campus construction, 1:30pm, 10/28/10, canon rebel

Friday: f/2.2, 1/60, my kitchen, 7:45pm, 10/29/10, canon rebel



Original Template from Brainhoney


MY take on the template:


I had fun with the template. I love digital scrap booking, and this reminded me of it. I used a pre-made template and arranged it to how I liked it from there, mostly because I started having a hard time with the transform on the images. When trying to transform them smaller or bigger the image would sometimes freak out and do a 180 flip or just move to the complete opposite side of the screen into the gray area. It was frustrating but I finished it!

Photolusion

Picture 1:

The Scriptures: f/1.8, 1/125, 11/1/10, 7:00pm, My house in Rexburg, Canon rebel

Picture 2:

The Church: f/7.1, 1/8000, 11/1/10, 11:25pm, Rexburg Church, Canon Rebel

My photolusion:


I made a few photolusions before deciding on this one. I decided on this one mostly because it was more subtle than the other images I created.

Edge Effects

Conference Center-brushed on effect f/5.6, 1/125, SLC conference center and reflection pool, 10/23/10, 12:30pm, canon rebel

Church- f/7.1, 1/1000, SLC church on Temple square, 10/23/10, 12:10pm, Canon rebel, burned border


Spray effect- Temple Square- f/7.1, 1/250, 10/23.10, 11:55 pm,SLC Temple Square, Canon Rebel

Can you guess where I went this weekend? Temple square! I used this trip to get some new pictures, which I did successfully. My favorite here is the conference center pic, where you can see the reflection in the reflection pool. I upped the sats and vibrance on that pic which gave it a really painted, artsy, color.

Scanography

Hands and Feet


Collage Pics:




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This is Halloween


Both of these scans were done at 300 ppi with the scanner I have at home. The first scan, I used my daughter Katie and put her on top of the scanner. She is with me all the time , even when I am doing homework, so many of my ideas include her. It was hard trying to hold her still, and you can see she moved her hand during the scan.
The second scan I did because I am so excited for Halloween, I decided to make a Halloween collage with stuff I had around the house. I have a really cool idea for a scan, but I have to wait till I have the supplies.

Photography Post- portraits

T'Ana-f/3, 1/400, BYUI Gardens, 10/7/10, 6:45pm, canon rebel

A Soldier's Visit- f/1.8, 1/125, BYUI Gardens, 10/11/10, 5:55pm, canon rebel

Environment Pic: This picture was taken while they were on the couch watching a movie- Cuddle Time- f/1.8, 1/8, 10/15/10, 1:32pm, canon rebel


Dune Love- f/2.0, 1/60, sand dunes, 09/30/10, 6:55pm, canon rebel

These pictures I have taken over the past 2-3 weeks. I really love portrait photography and trying to capture personalities. Dune Love was taken as an engagement picture, the others were just taken for fun.

Edits

Blemish edits:

Kaiti and Clayton: f/3.5, 1/400, Rexburg Nature park, 6:36pm, 9/30/10
In this picture I went through and corrected blemishes and uneven color in their skin.


Replace Color:

Cutie Baby: f/1.8, 1/125, my living room in Rexburg, 10/10/10, 3:17pm

I used the replace color edit to change the color of Katie's shirt.


Match Color:

Before:

Katie's Family- f/2.8, 1/500, Rexburg Nature Park, 5:30pm, 10/15/10

Match to:

Aiden- f/2.8, 1/500, Rexburg Nature Park, 5:30pm, 10/15/10

Result:


I used the picture of the baby boy to match color to the one of the family. I did this because I need to use the baby's head from his picture and put it into the family picture. Matching the color helped to make sure the final edit looks more realistic.

Camera Raw

Before:


After:

Apples: f/7.1, 1/25, BYUI Gardens, 5:02pm, 10/08/10, Canon Rebel

In camera raw I adjusted the vibrance, saturation, clarity, blacks, noise reduction and I also added a black lens vignette. I took this picture in the gardens after it rained, I really like how it came out.

Panoramic

I really had a hard time with the Pano pic. So I am trying again to make sure I have a decent one for my photo book! Here it is:


Temple: f/22, 1/60, 6:30pm, 10/14/10, Rexburg, Canon Rebel
This pano is 4 pictures merged together, but since I have already graded for my other one, I am not going to load the other 4 pics for time's sake.







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Temple: f/7.1, 1/125, Rexburg, 6:34pm, 10/10/10, Canon Rebel
I took three images standing by the ricks. I merged them in photoshop and then used an adjustment layer to bring some light back to the grass. I did not brighten the Temple up because I liked how there was some natural light highlighting pieces of it.

Bannack Macro

Wallpaper- Bannack House, f/5.6, 1/60, 3:30, 9/27/10, Canon Rebel


Macro Leaf- Bannack, 4:26, 9/27/10, F/2.5, 1/4000, Canon Rebel


Blend- I used a mask to blend the two above images together. Then I masked out the leaf but left some of the wallpaper pattern on the leaf.

Bannack Reverse Shallow Depth

Handle- f/4, 1/25, 3:12, 9/27/10, Bannack Hotel, Canon Rebel, increased sats and vibrance


Railing- f/4, 1/40, 9/27/10, Bannack Hotel, 3:12pm, Canon Rebel, increased sats and vibrance

I like how my reverse shallow depth pictures turned out. I was able to get the yellow coloring on the wall and a good brown color from the railing. I also like how the light from the window highlights some of the stairs.