Monday, June 20, 2011

Poster Project

Camera: Canon Powershot SX110 IS, F/3.5 , 1/15
  Bannack Ghost Town-May 25th 2011

This second portrait is my favorite of the whole shoot so far. The shot it self was nothing to special, when i was light metering, i over exposed it a little, but not past the point of saving. I really liked the shot, because of the fun pose brittany was doing, it was very "high fashion. I took the photo into camera raw and change the exposure, raised the blacks and shadows and improved the clarity. Once i got the photo to where i wanted it, i took it into photoshop. I started by copying the image, next i spent like 30 mins air brushing her arm and face. Her skin was fine, but the lighting on her face and arm was very harsh in spots, so i used the air brushing to fix those lighting mistakes. I then made a selection of her eyes and copied them to a new layer. I then look through some of my other pictures that i took of her, and found a photo where the color in her eyes was really rich. I then took that photo and selected her eye and hid the rest of the photo. Once i had both eyes selected i went to adjustments and match color and selected the photo with the rich eye color and color matched it. It turned out very nature, i turned down the opacity and blended my ruff selection edges around the eye, to make sure it look great. then i copied the layer again and selected soft light, then i did the same thing again. Finally i took the burn tool at 52% exposure, and burned around the edges of the photo to give it a vignette. The last thing that i did was add my name on the bottom left of the photo, it was just really simple, feutra medium and condensed medium.



Monday, June 13, 2011

Lights & Motion


June 12, 2011 BYU-I campus, F/ 5.0, shutter: 4.0 
Nikon D3000


June 12, 2011 BYU-I campus, F/ 5.0, shutter: 15.0 
Nikon D3000
June 12, 2011 BYU-I campus, F/ 8.0, shutter: 10.0 
Nikon D3000
June 12, 2011 My apparment, F/ 8.0, shutter: 30.0 
Nikon D3000

Lights & Motion-
The first shot is a car driving by, i had my camera standing still and let the car blur the lights. I had my camera set on 4 secs. i think it turned out really cool.
This next shot i moved the camera.  I was walking in the taylor parking lot, and i opened the shutter for ten seconds, and i just move the camera around, pointing it at different light sources. it turn out sweet!
the last one, i had one light and opened the shutter for tens seconds. I waved my arms around like a crazy person, then switched the color half way through. Then i shined the light above me for a few seconds, and that what gave me the ghost affect.

The last photo is my light painting. First of all it was super hard to do, and i couldnt find a light that really worked well. i left the shutter open for 30 seconds, and spent about 5 seconds shining the light on her face. then i turned off the light and just let it sit for the rest of the time.
 

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Scanography & Edge Effects

Scanography






Edge Effects


Scanograpy: On the first photo graphs of my shoes, i opened up the scanner program and changes the settings and scanned my shoes a 1200 pixels per in. once i had all the pictures i wanted to use, i place them into photoshop. I blened the photos together and used soft light filer on one shoe and the divide filter on the pastic bage. i played with the opacity and blened the images togther to get the final project. For my single shot scan, i used a maple leaf and some news paper to make up my scene. Then i scaned it at 1200 bbi and move the image to photoshop. I added a soft light filter and a black and white filter. Then using a mask and black paint i reveled the color of the leaf.

Edges Effects: On the first photo, made a new layer and filled it with white, then i put a mask over the photo and filled it with black. this show the blank white layer and hid the photo. Then i selected a paint brush with more texture than normal, then using different opaccities i reveled the image, leaving the edges ruff. Then i added text to complete the photo.

The second photo, i croped to 6 in by 7.5 in. then i added 2in to the cavas size, then i added .5 in to the bottom of the cavas. then i filled the canvas with black, and added a title to the photo.



Monday, May 30, 2011

Bannack Ghost Town


May 25, 2011 -Time: 5:40pm- Camera: Nikon D3000
F 9/0 Shutter speed: 1/320



May 25, 2011 -Time: 5:34pm- Camera: Nikon D3000
F/ 9.0Shutter speed: 1/200


May 25, 2011 -Time: 5:30pm- Camera: Nikon D3000
F/10.0 Shutter speed: 1/250
May 25, 2011 -Time: 12:10am- Camera: Nikon D3000
F/2.8 Shutter speed: 1/1000




May 25, 2011 -Time: 5:45pm- Camera: Nikon D3000
F /3.5 Shutter speed: 1/80


May 25, 2011 -Time: 4:20pm- Camera: Nikon D3000
F /3.8 Shutter speed: 1/50



May 25, 2011 -Time: 4:10pm- Camera: Nikon D3000
F/5.6 Shutter speed: 1/30



May 25, 2011 -Time: 12:00am- Camera: Nikon D3000
F 9/0 Shutter speed: 1/320


May 25, 2011 -Time: 12:00am- Camera: Nikon D3000
F 9/0 Shutter speed: 1/320



May 25, 2011 -Time: 5:50pm- Camera: Nikon D3000
F/16.0 Shutter speed: 4.0

Bannack Best
May 25, 2011 -Time: 5:52pm- Camera: Nikon D3000
F 16.0 Shutter speed: 4.0

May 25, 2011 -Time: 5:40pm- Camera: Nikon D3000
F/ 3.5 Shutter speed: 1/15

May 25, 2011 -Time: 5:40pm- Camera: Nikon D3000
F/ 5.6 Shutter speed: 1/1250

May 25, 2011 -Time: 3:30pm- Camera: Canon PowerShot SX110 IS
F/4.3 Shutter speed: 1/250


May 25, 2011 -Time: 5:59pm- Camera: Nikon D3000
F/5.6 Shutter speed: 1/60







This weeks blogpost is one of the most intresting post that i will do during this semester of digtal imageing. This week we got to traval to Bannack Ghost town. Its a small gold mining town in montain, that was shut down in the mid 1970s. to say the least its an amazing location to take pictures.We were asked to take a few different shots this week

-3 landscapes: The first shot i took was one of the river that runs along the town. The orginal shot was pretty good, but the top of the sky was washed out. I copied the layer then turn up the saturation and changed the hue a little. then i took the eye dropper and took a color from the river and started to paint the sky. I work with different colors and oppacities to get the affect i wanted, then went in with a yellow color and made the high lights more golden.
the second shot was of an old barrel near the river, the  3rd is a panoramic of the river side. just a few simple edits, truned up the saturations, and the change the hue.

-1 macro abstrat: We were asked to take a marco shot and a texture shot and blend them together to make a united peice of art. I took a cool shot of this of a table leg where the paint was peeling off. Then i took a picture of a tree stomp , focusing on the rings. i took the shot of the tree and blended it on the wood of that was showing on the table leg. its just simple detail,  but i think it just addeds a little more texture to the table.

-2 Portraits: These two portraits are some of my favorites, out of the hundreds i took at Bannack. The first portrait, i chose for the interesting angle which it was taken from. In Photoshop, i copied the image, then made a selection of just her eyes and copied them to their own layers. I then added a High Pass filter on the eyes, and change the layer to soft light. This brought out the natural colors and reflections in her eyes. I then changed the copied layer of the whole picture to overlay and masked out the affect around her face.

For the second photo i copied the image, then used the same eye trick, as on the first portrait. I did some air brushing to smooth the skin and remove some blemishes. Then i added a adjustment layer to increase the saturation and hue of the photo.

2 Revers Depth Of field- On these shots i saw this rope handle on a barrel and thought it looked cool, so i took one shot making sure the rope was in focus, then the same shot, making sure the back ground was in focus.

2 Blur motion, freeze motion: The first one i took a shot of my friend and one of the children that came with us on the trip, while they were spinning on the merry go round. i made sure to have lots of light, so that my fast shutter speed could freeze the action. The second picture was taken in the dark hall way of the hotel. We had a low shutter speed of 4 seconds, so that we could create a ghostly look. My friend would stay for 2 seconds in the shot, then she would move out of the shot for the last two seconds.

Bannack Best:

1-The first shot like the other was made possible with a slow shutter speed. I then took it into camera raw and change the exposure and temperature to get the look i wanted. Im not sure if i like it 100% yet, so i think i will change it when i get more time.

2-This second portrait is my favorite of the whole shoot so far. The shot it self was nothing to special, when i was light metering, i over exposed it a little, but not past the point of saving. I really liked the shot, because of the fun pose brittany was doing, it was very "high fashion".. lol. I took the photo into camera raw and change the exposure, raised the blacks and shadows and improved the clarity. Once i got the photo to where i wanted it, i took it into photoshop. I started by copying the image, next i spent like 30 mins air brushing her arm and face. Her skin was fine, but the lighting on her face and arm was very harsh in spots, so i used the air brushing to fix those lighting mistakes. I then made a selection of her eyes and copied them to a new layer. I then look through some of my other pictures that i took of her, and found a photo where the color in her eyes was really rich. I then took that photo and selected her eye and hid the rest of the photo. Once i had both eyes selected i went to adjustments and match color and selected the photo with the rich eye color and color matched it. It turned out very nature, i turned down the opacity and blended my ruff selection edges around the eye, to make sure it look great. then i copied the layer again and selected soft light, then i did the same thing again. Finally i took the burn tool at 52% exposure, and burned around the edges of the photo to give it a vignette. 

3- This photo of jessica was take while we were walking back to the bus to go home. I had my camera out and was just snapping random pictures. I got this great candid shot of her while she was talking and laughing with her friend behind her. I love the shot because it shows her personality.

4- This shot of sister Esplin, was taken with my little point and shot. We were all standing and listening to the tour guide talk to us about Bannack. I was taking pictures of random people in our group and got this great shot of our teacher. She was smiling at something that the guide had said. later on she noticed i was taking pictures of her, and we had a good laugh about it.

5-The last one i chose as my best is one of brittany again, She just happened to be very photogenic. I like it because of the great color and intensity in her eyes and the nice side light on her face.

I did have time to edit all my favorites, so when i do get them done i will post them.




Monday, May 23, 2011

Portraits and Enhancements

Group Activity: Date: May 20, 2011 Time: 7:30pm 
Camera: Nikon D3000 F/ 5.6 , 1/60

Group Enviromental: Date: May 20, 2011 Time: 7:25pm 
Camera: Nikon D3000 F/ 3.5 , 1/250



Group Posed: Date: May 20, 2011 Time: 7:20pm 
Camera: Nikon D3000 F/ 5.6 , 1/200


Individual Full body: Date: May 18, 2011 Time: 3:00pm 
Camera: Nikon D3000 F/ 5.6 , 1/125


Individual Head & Shoulders: Date: May 18, 2011 Time: 2:50pm 
Camera: Nikon D3000 F/ 5.3 , 1/30


Side composition: Date: May 20, 2011 Time: 7:15pm 
Camera: Nikon D3000 F/ 5.6 , 1/100
ENHANCEMENTS
Edit air brush, eyes, teeth: Date: May 18, 2011 Time: 3:15pm 
Camera: Nikon D3000 F/ 5.6 , 1/125


ORIGNAL

MATCH COLOR
Color sample
 Orignal
Color replacement





Portraits: This weeks assignment has been really fun, one of my favorites so far. When i got the assignment i had no idea what i was going to do. i kind of forgot about the assignment for a few days and just happened to bring out my camera one day when we were playing volleyball with some of my friends and their families. The light was great that day, i took a lot of the shots close to sun set, so i got great filtered light on my group posed, group activity, side composition and group environmental.
On my other individual shots i got my wonderful friend anne, to come and pose for me as i took pictures. I chose to go to down town Rexburg because of the brick alley ways and other great back ground textures. I found a partly shaded alleyway, that gave great side light and made for some really interesting lighting opportunities.

On my edit photos i just did some simple edits to make the pictures better. On the first photo i air brushed her face a little, mostly on her chin, to get ride of some of the redness that was there. Then i used the spot healing tool to get ride of some of the blemishes on her face. i then , using the magnetic lasso tool, selected her eyes, copied the layer, put a high pass filter and then added soft light to make her eyes stand out more. i then copied that layer twice to enhance the affect.
For the color replacement i just went into adjustment then to color replacement and selected the back ground wall, and changed the hue to more of a orange color then increased the saturation. Then i decreased the opacity of the layer to make it more natural looking.