Portraits (Enhancements)

1. Carson & Taylor; 5/18/10; 6:00 pm; Rexburg, ID; f6.3; 1/125; ISO 250; Canon 7d
You can't really tell on blogger (very much) but I thought the Match Color trick worked really well even with a completely different picture entirely. I had never used this tool before so I had to mess around with the sliders but I thought it warmed up the picture nicely.

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Clarke; 5/30/10; 2:00 pm; Birch Creek, ID; f7.1; 1/200; ISO 250; Canon 7d
For this picture of my brother I evened out his skin, enhanced his eyes (realistically), and whitened his teeth (just a tad). We were camping so his hair wasn't done but I still thought the picture looked nice. I also added a vignette and boosted the contrast in camera raw.

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Zach, Oscar, and Chalee
5/31/10, 2:00 pm, Gardens; f5.0; Shutter Speed 1/200; ISO 100; Canon 7d

For this picture I wanted to make their clothes match a little bit better. They were all wearing yellow but Oscar's shirt was a little too bright so I changed the color of yellow it was and Chalee's shirt under her jacket was clashing a little (as well as the writing on her jacket so I changed it to blue to match oscar's overalls. I thought the results turned out well.

Portraits

Group Shot

The Bennetts; 5/31/10; 1:50 pm; The Gardens; f5.6; Shutter Speed 1/125; ISO 100; Canon 7d

Ryker; 5/31/10; 3:00 pm; Rexburg; f8; 1/125; ISO 100; Canon 7d

Bre, 5/21/10; 1:25 pm; Bannack, MT; f5.6; Shutter Speed 1/250; ISO 100; Canon 7d
I didn't have to do hardly anything to this picture because Bre is already gorgeous. Boosted the contrast and enhanced her eyes.

Environmental Portraits

1. Clarke, 5/30/10, 1:21 pm; Birch Creek, ID; f13, Shutter Speed 1/160, ISO 100
My brother is the outdoors hunting fishing type of guy so I chose to photograph him in his "element" or "environment." We went camping to Birch Creek this weekend and went on a long four-wheeling ride. We got to the top of this mountain and it over looked the valley so I made him pause for a photo-op. I did a vintage effect to this picture as well.


Kabe; 5/1/10; 4:00 pm; Shelley, ID; f 5.6; Shutter 1/200; ISO 100; Canon 7d
I took my cousin Kabe's senior pictures. For some reason I like it when guys don't smile in pictures. I don't know why. I thought the color of his shirt and the lighting really brought out his eyes. I only added a little levels and contrast to this picture.

HDR

1. Old Cabinet. 5/21/10. Bannack, MT; Canon 7d, ISO 200
2. Old Necklace. 5/21/10. Bannack, MT. f5.6, 1/125, Canon 7d, ISO 200
I loved the colors of this cabinet and thought the colors complemented each other really well. I took it into HDR and boosted it. I thought it looked really cool.

I put the necklace I was wearing (which was my grandmothers necklace so it has a nice old vintage look). I put it on the window seal thought the lighting looked really cool. I took it into HDR and did some color matching and increased the dramatic light strengh.

Macro Abstract

1. Old Truck Texture. 5/21/10; 10:30 am pm; Abandoned trailer park dubois, ID; f8; 1/250; Canon 7d; ISO 500
2. Bottle: 5/21/10; 9:30 am; Old Warehouse, Dubois, ID; f5.6; 1/125; Canon 7d; ISO 2000

I love the texture of the old truck. The colors were awesome and the rust and scratch looking marks made it even better. I just did a simple blend with these two photos by using an overlay blending mode and using a mask to mask out a couple of spots on the picture.

Action Blur and Freeze

1. James Ghost. 5/21/10; 5:22 pm; Old Mansion, Bannack, MT; f5.6, 3 1/2 second exposure; Canon 7d; ISO 100
2. Big Jump: 5/21/10; 2:00 pm; Hotel, Bannack, MT; f5.6; 1/400; Canon 7d; ISO 160

For the picture of James, James stood in the dark closet with the door closed. About half way through the exposure he swung the door open fast and it shut again, which gives us this ghostlike appearance in the wall.

For the picture of Josh, he was jumping high from the top step of the hotel. Its important to have a fast shutter speed in order to stop the motion of the jump.

On both of these pictures I did some levels and colors adjustments and a vignette on the jumping picture.

Depth

1. Pole in focus. 5/21/10; 9:42 am; Old Warehous dubois, ID; f5.6; 1/125; Canon 7d; ISO 2000
2. Toliet in foucs: 5/21/10; 9:43 am; Old Warehouse, Dubois, ID; f5.6; 1/125; Canon 7d; ISO 2000

I loved the look of this old toliet with the completmentary colors of red and green. The lighting looked really cool. I just did minor color and level adjustments to both of these photos.

Portraits

1. Jamie. 5/21/10; 10:30 am; Abandoned trailer park dubois, ID; f8; 1/250; Canon 7d; ISO 200
2. Seth: 5/21/10; 1:21 pm, Bannack, MT; f5; 1/125; Canon 7d; ISO 1250
2. Laura: 5/21/10; 9:55 am; Old Warehouse, Dubois, ID; f6.3; 1/125; Canon 7d; ISO 100

I just happened to go over there where they were taking a picture of Jamie and I thought the background was amazing. I did a vintage photoshop effect for this photo (what my tutorial is on) and I thought it worked well for this photo.

I used window lighting for the picture of Seth. Because my ISO was high, it turned out a little grainy but I still liked the way it looked.

Laura is so cute and fun and I loved the color of this blue door. I did a little bit of color effects to bring out the blue and the color of her shirt.

Panoramic

The first picture was obviously taken into HDR as you can see by the stripe across it but I just wanted to try and see what it would look like. I thought it turned out pretty cool. The sky really pops and the colors are very vibrant. I had never done a panoramic image before this so I thought it was pretty amazing how smart Photoshop was.

I was driving along the road past WalMart and decided to just keep driving up towards St. Anthony. Along that same road I found this neat old shack with a really cool tree next to it. I took this over a fence (it was on someone's property) but I still thought it turned out nice.

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Each of these pictures had the same settings on my camera with a slight variance in time obviously.
1. Old Shack: 5/16/10; 7:20 pm; Rexburg ,ID; f8; 1/125; Canon 7d, ISO 100

Camera Raw

1. Oscar. Taken 5/14/10 at 6:00 pm. Rexburg, ID. f5.0, 1/125, iso 200 , Canon 7d

This is my cute nephew. I opened up this jpg in Camera Raw and made some adjustments to it. When I took this picture, I forgot to adjust my white balance to account for the shade and so the color was blue. I adjusted the temperature, exposure, added some contrast and vibrance to this shot. For some reason the changes look very subtle online but I thought that the changes gave the photo a nice look.

Flexible Edits

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1. Piper: 5/8/10; 5:00 pm; Shelley,ID; f5.6; 1/100; Canon 7d
2. McCall: 4/30/10; 5:00 pm; Idaho Falls, ID; f5.6; 1/125; Canon 7d

For the picture of Piper that I took this weekend I thought that it looked a little blown out so I used adjustment layers to fix it. I first used a level adjustment layer to darken the background a little and then used the brush tool to bring Piper back to normal color. She also has a little jaundice (only 3 days old) so I used a selective color adjustment layer to take some of the red and orange out of the picture.

For the picture of McCall, I just wanted to make it really vibrant. I did a watercolor smart filter and then erased the filter off of her face and most of her hair and shirt. I also did a levels adjustment layer on this picture except for I changed it from RGB channel to the red and green channel and adjusted the levels from there. That is what gives this picture a yellowish bluish tone.

Flora & Fauna

1. King of the Jungle: 5/8/10; 2:10 pm; Idaho Falls, ID zoo; f5.6; 1/250; Canon 7d
2. Emu: 5/8/10; 2:00 pm; Idaho Falls, ID zoo; f5.6; 1/250; Canon 7d
3. Flower: 5/8/10; 3:00 pm; Idaho Falls, ID zoo; f5.6; 1/200; Canon 7d

I was able to go to the zoo this weekend to get my pictures. It was a good excuse for my husband to take me on a date. However, we were only able to go in the afternoon when the sun was high so I had to make the best of the lighting situation.

I love lions, however this one was pretty lethargic. So I watched him awhile and I thought the way his neck was stretched out made him look powerful and strong.

I think Emu's are kind of goofy looking and I thought that this picture portrayed how I think of emu's. Weird looking. I waited until he looked at me to capture this picture and used a shallow depth of field to get the boca.

I thought the color of these flowers was beautiful. I got down low so I could get a nice perspective of the flowers. I wanted the flower in the front right to be the main focus so I tried to compose the picture so your eye would go there first. All of these pictures have a little levels added and the flower has a slight vignette around the edges.

Blended Images & Type

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1. Squirrel: 4/30/10; 4:30 pm; Idaho Falls, ID; f5.6; 1/200; Canon 7d
2. Clouds: 4/30/10; 4:15 pm; Idaho Falls, ID; f18; 1/800; Canon 7d
3. Wall: 4/30/10; 4:00 pm; Idaho Falls, ID; f6.3; 1/125; Canon 7d

This squirrel picture was a happy accident. I was doing a photoshoot and this little guy just happened to look right at me. He moved fast... but I was able to get this shot of him. I really liked the original picture but thought it would look neat with a couple of textured shots blended in. I did the overlay blending mode on both the sky and wall and then also did a layer mask to mask out parts that didn't look good.


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1. Bark: 4/30/10; 4:30 pm; Idaho Falls, ID; f5.6; 1/200; Canon 7d
2. Rocks: 4/30/10; 4:40 pm; Idaho Falls, ID; f5.6; 1/125; Canon 7d
3. Bricks: 4/30/10; 5:00 pm; Idaho Falls, ID; f5.6; 1/100; Canon 7d
4. Teeing Up: 5/1/10; 3:10 pm; Idaho Falls, ID; f5.6; 1/200; Canon 7d
5. Lining up the putt: 5/1/10; 3:30; Idaho Falls, ID: f5.6; 1/200; Canon 7d

I used quite a few pictures to finally get an effect that I liked. I used the overlay blending mode on the bark, a soft light blending mode on the rocks, and a hard light blending mode on the brick. I used layer masks on all of the layers except for the rocks in order to erase part of the picture I didn't want to show and reveal other layers I did want to show.
For the text I used an overlay blending mode and really like how it looks.