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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 7d2. 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.
I really like the photo of the hand with the golf ball. It is simple yet expressive. Adding the vignette adds so much! I love how the text photo with all of them blended turned out. Simply amazing! I am not a golfer but you did a really nice job arranging the photos and blending them. I can't wait to see what else you come up with in this class! Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteAn interesting blend on the Squirrel. I can't really see the effects of the concrete though..did it darken it? Or maybe it's the clouds I can't see. But I guess you're not really supposed to be able to tell what images were blended anyway right? So in that way you succeeded :) For the golf one though, it's a little bit hard for me to see the wrist, maybe that's a little picky, but at first it kind of looked like a floating fist. Maybe a suggestion would be to make that more prominent?
ReplyDeleteI think that the best kind of blending is the blending that isn't entirely obvious. I really feel that both blending methods and pictures are well blended and add a very interesting and absorbing photograph.
ReplyDeletelove all of your texture shots, and the subtle blending on the squirrel. You did a great job of combining a lot of images without it feeling to crazy.
ReplyDeleteThe pictures you used are great on their own, and the blends are really cool.
ReplyDeleteThe golf poster is very well made and i love how you added the hand with the ball the close up make it feel more focused and very professional looking. You can almost feel the suspense.
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