Provo Utah - July 4, 2009 - fireworks - f 7.1 - Exposure time 3 - Sony DSC - H7
Provo Utah - July 4, 2009 - Overlooking city - f 3.5 - Exposure time 3 - Sony DSC - H7

I was able to add layers in photoshop with the overlooking city photo an add a radial blur to the picture. I then took a paintbrush while on the layer and painted out the middle of the picture. This made it so the whole picture was not one whole blur of a circle. With the fireworks picture, I was able to apply the grungy effect with the another photo. I opened another imaged and texted in the word FIREWORKS and moved that text to the image that I wanted.

Water Images

I was able to outline the water with the Polygonal Lasso tool in Photoshop and then soften the edges with slightly with the feather tool. I then used the motion blur tool to obtain a smoother water effect. Although I like the originals better than the edited ones, I believe the smooth water effect would look a lot better on waterfalls.

1) Rexburg Idaho - Gardens - June 11, 09 - f 2.8 - 1/800 - Sony DSC - H7
2) f 6.3 - 1/4000 - Sony DSC - H7

Panorama Views

This is just an extra one for fun




Rexburg Idaho - 8pm - June 18, 2009 -
1) f 4 - 1/500 - Sony DSC - H7
2) f 4 - 1/500
3) f 4 - 1/500
4) f 4 - 1/500

This is an overview of Rexburg in the evening. I figured since every photo that I have for my photo book is taken in Rexburg, than an overview would be appropriate enough. I was able to take a bunch of photos really close together at different times. I then placed them all in photoshop and merged them together. I was then able to crop the picture and make adjustments to it.

Seven Day Journal

All photos taken in Rexburg Idaho
1) Elephant - 6:30pm - f 3.2 - 1/50 - Sony DSC - H50
2) Temple - 7:40pm - f 2.8 - 1/50 - Sony DSC - H7
3) Red/Pink Flowers - 10am - f 5.6 - 1/500 - Sony DSC - H7
4) The Little Mermaid - f 3.2 - 1/25 - Sony DSC - H7
5) Mom Squirrel - 3:30pm - f 4.5 -1/250 - Sony DSC - H50
6) The Gardens - 10am - f 4 - 1/200 - Sony DSC - H7
7) Conductor - 8pm - f 3.5 - 1/25 -Sony DSC - H7

The assignment was to take a photo each day of the week. I was able to get lucky with a few of the photos I took. The night I took the picture of the temple, it was raining and storming. It gave the background an incredible hue of dark blue. The circus just happened to be around Monday night and give me some out-of-the-ordinary shots. The sun was in the perfect spot when I took the picture of the red flowers and the mama squirrel was an accommodating subject. The photo of the little mermaid is something I painted in February. I really wanted it to be in my photo book so I decided to take a picture of the painting.

Family Portraits

Nampa Idaho - April 2009 - 3pm - f 3.2 - 1/60 - Canon Powershot S2 IS

This is my mom and my niece Niki. I first added a filter in photoshop to make the picture look like it was painted in water colors. I then placed a border to outline the picture and added the bush on effect. This was possible by going through a series of adding image layers to place a white cover over the picture. I then added a layer mask in black and selected thick, heavy brushes. There were three different types of brushes at three different opacities to add a splotchy and transparent effect.


f 4.5 - 1/50 - Sony DSC - H7

Rexburg Idaho - 5:15pm - June 3, 2009 - f 3.8 - 1/400 -Sony-DSC H7

Cedar City Utah - 11am - f 2.7 - 1/60 - Cannon Powershot S2 IS

I was able to take the stamp tool in photo shot and go around the blemishes for Nate's skin. I did that a couple times with my skin also. I then took the magnetic tool and outlined the teeth for both of us. Once that was outlined, I opened the saturation tool and turned the saturation down. This makes the teeth whiter and pulling up the brightness bar makes the teeth brighter. The lips and eyes were saturated by using the sponge tool and pulling the opacity down to 30 percent. If the opacity was too high, it would make us both look like we were wearing lipstick. I was able to do the exact same thing with Ana and Tory above. Ana's dress was a light blue and I was able to change it to white through highlighting the dress with the magnetic lasso and then adding a layer (pokemon ball) and going to hue/saturation. There a person can change the color of the dress to whatever is wanted.

Night Lights

Rexburg ID - May 29, 2009 - 9:05pm - f 2.7 - 10 - Sony DSC - H50
I was able to twirl a small flashlight in front of the camera for ten seconds. The pink is my hand and the background is a patterned sofa. I like the effect because it makes it look either foggy, ghostly or smokey. The boarding on both these photos was done in photo shop by adding inches to the canvas, shape layers and dropping the opacity to make it less solid. I also blured the inner border by going through the filter and choosing "motion blur."


Rexburg - May 27, 2009 - 9pm -f 8 - 10 -Sony DSC-H50
This picture was done with a match and a fur blanket in the background

Bannack Ghost Town

Bannack - May 15, 2009 - 11am - f 2.8 - 1/30 - Sony DSC - H7

I was able to do a brush effect on the church chair pictures. I opened the image in photoshop, added a layer and then picked a background color from the picture. I then "option deleted," picked a paintbrush of any size (normally I pick a natural paintbrush) and just paint the picture back in the image. I chose different opacities and different paint brushes to give it variety.

Bannack - May 15, 09 - 4pm - f 2.7 - 1/400 - Sony DSC - H7


Bannock Ghost Town - May 15, 2009 - f 10 - 10 Canon EOS 50D

Each of these photos were really fun to put together. There are two outcomes with the guardian angel pictures. The one to the very right has lake water texture. I used the dodge and burn tool to adjust the colors on the walls. The truck has a cloud texture and HDR changes.

Friends

Grazing Beauty - May 2, 2009 - Harmony, Utah - 5:50pm - f 7; 1/55; Digimax A503


Hanging out - May 13, 2009 - Rexburg Idaho -4:30pm - f 5; 1/500; Sony-H50



1) May 13, 2009 - Rexburg Idaho - 4:35pm - f 5; 1/500; Sony DSC-H50
2) f 4.5; 1/400; Sony DSC-H50
3)f 5.6; 1/640; Sony DSC-H50

I was able to do adjustment layers to "Grazing Beauty" and "Hanging out" photos. With adjustment layers, it gives a person the ablility to decided to darken the background and lighten the subject of the picture. With adjustement layers a person can darken and lighten anything wanted in the picture by changing the opacity in photoshop and adding masks and layers and choosing blending modes.