Bannack Ghost Town

Portraits

Action Blur 

ACTION FREEZE 

Reverse Shallow Depth 

Macro Texture 

Macro Abstract 

Macro Abstract 

HDR-  One photo 

HDR- Blend 

All picture were taken on the 22 Feb 2011 at Bannack Ghost town in Montana. All pictures were taken with a Cannon S90 unless other (*) those were taken with a Cannon 40D.  


Title: time, f/stop, IOS 


1. Cold- 12:00 p.m. f/14 1/250* 
2. Wagon and I- 12:15 p.m. f/5.6 1/320*
3. Photo Ghost - 1:20 p.m. f/2.2 1/500
4. Fighting Gravity-  3p.m. f/4.0 1/500
5. Occipital House 3:30 p.m. f/2 1/1600 
6. Frontal House- 3:30 p.m. f/2 1/1600 
7. Rubber Crate- 2 p.m. f/3.2 1/30
8. Wall Paper- 12:30 p.m. f/2.0 1/60  
9. Rubber Wall Paper- Edited Photo
10. America-  1:40 p.m. f/3.2 1/125
11. America HDR- Edited Photo
12. Shack it up Dark - 4p.m. f/8 1/400  (-2) 
13. Shack it up Light - 4p.m. f/2.5  1/400  (+2)
14. Shack it up Normal - 4p.m.  f/5 1/400  (0)
15. Shack it up HDR - Edited Photo


Process 
Portrates are the hardest for me to take, Its hard for me to get people in natural positions. I wanted to be able to have variety while still keeping it a portrate. The Ghost shot wasn't really my thing, I've done that and moved on. I would have had more fun trying to make ghost shots in light places, (editing with opacity). I think because I was cold I didn't have my creative brain on. I like all of my pictures but there wasn't one that I was amazed by. Shack it up, seemed a little blurry due to shake. I would have loved to re-do that picture. I guess the best picture was my America flag without being edited. I did some small touch ups on a few of the photo's but most are as is. 

Fine Art Template

Inner Peace I took last semester in Jerusalem, It was taken from the same place the picture Oh Jerusalem was taken from. I did exactly what the book told me to do on that picture. I really liked the turn out on this picture.

Ride- was a picture I took this weekend. I decided I wanted to put the picture inside the letters. After I did that I decided to make my other letters look like a shadow. You might think it looks stupid to be backwards but I promise it looks better than forwards.

Nights and Lights

MOVING LIGHT CAPTURE

Down the Road we Go.

LIGHT PAINTING 

The Radiation of Love 

CAMERA MOTION PAINTING 

Six I Win! 

My three pictures were, Down the Road we Go, The Radiation of Love and Six I win. 

Down the Road we Go

That was a good time. I was in cow boy boots, outside a grave yard, in the start of the night, while raining, running down the road with a light in my hand trying to simulate the yellow lines. I choose this picture because I loved the colors that emanated that evening. I had to leave the camera on 15 seconds to get far enough down the road to get a cool effect. 

The Radiation of Love

This involved Becca, a lazier pen, a key chain light and 30 seconds of fast drawing. I decided to use this picture due to the hearts detail and style. I could have used better ones that outlined the body but I really felt like the heart radiated love. 

Six I win

Six I win was me in a car outside of a house waiting for people. I used a street light with housing lights behind it. It took a few tries to start to be able to draw with the camera. 

Down the Road we Go- 19 Feb 2011,  8:30 p.m. Rexburg ID,    f/2.2   13"      

The Radiation of Love-  20 Feb 2011,  9:24 p.m. Sunset apt basement,  f/5.6,  30"

Six I win-  19 Feb 2011, 10:00 p.m. Brookside Apt Rexburg ID, f/4.5,    8"

Edit and Boarder Effect

Compliments

The Idea
So I got a little carried away. I have been impressed with Sister Esplin's willingness to recognize the students, so I decided to try and explain the power behind the bright idea award.

Preparation

I went to Idaho Falls and bought a bulb from Porters and jelly beans from Winco. Next I set up my photo shoot, I had my roommate hold a hidden flash light to illuminate the bulb and then I started the 5 hour process of editing in photoshop.

Editing

1) I blacked out the background

2) I individually wrote on each jelly bean

3) I sized and morphed the font to look realistic
4) I changed opacity on words to get them to blend

5) Created a glow by feathering, expanding and filling with light

6) We resized the bulb and brought in noise to make it look realistic

7) Put in final outline text

8) Created a black boarder

9) Made the green pin strip to match a jelly bean

Zoo of Love

This is a quilt my mom designed and quilted. I had to take some pictures of it for her so I decided I would use one.

I used a Flexible Brushed-on Effect, you can find it in the book No. 11.

I liked this one, I am aware that it looks incomplete because it doesn't have a boarder but I wanted it to look that way. I feel this is a really good effect for a blog.

Wait for It

This picture I took because of the light that bursted through the trees. I couldn't find a good boarder or effect that worked well with this picture so I just used No. 13 Burned Border effect. I even put a small pin strip the same color as the sun.

The reason why I left this boarder is because it is evident on the bottom and seems to fade into the sky.

The Color Red 
This photo has a painted effect place on it. It also has No.10 in the book called a Brushed-on Effect.

I like the composition of this peace of art. The boarder looks good, the pin strip draws you in and the different opacities helped give us a more painted brushed feel.






1. Complements- Feb 12 2011, 9:26 a.m. Rexburg ID, f/2 1/6 Cannon Powershot S90
2. Zoo of Love- Feb 10, 2011, 7p.m. Rexburg ID, f/4 1/60 Cannon Powershot S90
3. Wait for it- Feb 12, 2010 4:45p.m. Rexburg ID, f/4.5 1/400 Cannon Powershot S90
4. The Color Red- Feb 3, 2011 6p.m. Rexburg ID, f/2 1/20 Powershot S90

Scannography

 ONE SCANS











Cones

 Eyes of a Farmer

The Single Scan is my forte because I feel there is more art involved in doing it in one shot. I really enjoyed trying to create a scene out of food. I would like to create an entire photo out of food. I put on the cones because I thought it had an amazing look to it. Those were fun for me to make. With the food I was trying to get depths. The hardest part was making the stem go behind rather than in front and trying to get the noodles to look like it was full.

Multiple Scan 



All over the Place


















Everywhere At Once

 I originally thought that using my nephew to scan would be my one shot. He can't hold still, so I took different picture of his feet and hands. The three small images are just a small example of the pictures I took trying to get the best shot. After I took the shots I realized that I didn't have very good shots of some pictures, like the hand, so I flipped my images. 

The Challenge

Self- Feb 5 2:00a.m. Rexburg ID, f/3.5 1/10 Cannon S90

Was this worth 1 credit point? well I enjoyed doing it, however  this took me longer than all the other ones combined. 

The original picture 

I took this picture of myself. I brought in a light to give myself contrast and I used the mirror to view my LCD screen.  

PhotoShop 

I followed the tutorial in photoshop but at the end I felt that the gradient the man selected was unrealistic. It gave movement but to me it looked a little silly. I used the gradient tool on the dark pixels. After I got what I wanted there I used a different gradient tool on my eye. 

I know the image doesn't look like it's supposed to but I felt that there was still movement and warmth with this design.

Portrait Enhancement

Birthday Brooke-
Feb 4 8:00 p.m. Rexburg ID, f/5.6 1/60  Cannon 40D

Enhancements

This picture was a good picture for me to edit. I enhanced her eyes by smart sharpening them. I also gave her lips more color and cleaned up her complexion. My goal was to make changes so small that it was small to tell I went in there. 

   Prestonater-   
    Feb 4, 8:20 p.m. Rexburg ID f/5.6  1/60 Cannon 40D

Color Swap 

The color Swap was my favorite because I felt it was here that I was making the most realistic changes. Preston was on a rug so I extended the rug, I also enhanced his eyes and face and than I changed some of the strips on his shirt. 

Comfort Love- 
Feb 4, 8:15p.m. Rexburg ID f/5.6 1/60 Cannon 40D

























Color Swap
I loved the warmth you could see in the the picture of Preston. I wanted to try and get that same warmth in the picture with his mom. I did the color swap. It was hard for me to do. I did three or so pictures before I settled on this one. The color swap didn't work that well for me. It made the pictures look unrealistic. This was the least favorite thing to do.

Portraits

1. Prestonator- Feb 2, 7:05 p.m. Rexburg ID, f/4.5 1/50 Cannon 40D
2. Gavinator- Feb 3, 6:35 p.m. Rexburg ID, f/4 1/60 Cannon 40D
3. Almost Family- Feb 2, 1:30p.m Photo Lab (BYU-I) f/7.1 1/8 Cannon 40D
4. Cheesy Face-  Feb 3, 6:30 p.m. Rexburg ID, f/3.5 1/20 Cannon Powershot S90
5. Old Cow hand- Feb 2 7:00p.m. Rexburg ID, f/2 1/20 Cannon Powershot S90
6. Be Soft- Feb 4 8:30p.m. Rexburg ID, f/20 1/60 Powershot S90

Portraits were hard for me because I feel silly trying to pose people. I tried to take portraits without posing people and that didn't work either. My hardest part in taking these photos was trying to find a nice background. "Be Soft" had a horrible background; to the point I didn't feel like it was usable. I played around with removing be background and replacing it but nothing looked good. I settled with Back assuming that was the best I could come up with.