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.
Cory, good work! My all time favorites are the portraits you did. I especially liked the girl with the phone and the blondie with the hat! I like that you did not take away from their natural beauty in your editing you just enhanced it. The colors that came out really added the difference to the portraits as well as the specialized work you did on their eyes. I love them! Good Job!
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