A Photo A Day Template

I didn't have time finish my custom template so I used one of Sister Esplin's for now. I really like how this one is laid out but I'm going to make sure that my horizontal pictures are long enough to show the detail of my images.

Weekly Photos

1. Buds. Tuesday June 1st, 2:20 pm. Gardens, BYU-I; f5.6, shutter speed1/200, Canon 7d, ISO 100
2. Old Car. Wednesday June 2nd 6:30 pm. West of Rexburg a long ways on a random road. f5, shutter speed 1/200, Canon 7d, ISO 100
3. Blossoms. Thursday June 3rd 2:00 pm. Rexburg, ID. f11, shutter speed 1/250, Canon 7d, ISO 400
4. Flag. Friday June 4th 9 pm. Shelley, ID. f5, shutter speed1/60, Canon 7d, ISO 3200
5. WindMill. Saturday June 5th, 8:25 pm. Shelley, ID. f13, shutter speed 1/80, Canon 7d, ISO 400
6. Tractor. Sunday June 6th, 12:45 pm. Shelley, ID. f13, shutter speed 1/200, Canon 7d, ISO 200
7. Adam. Monday June 7th. Rexburg, ID. f6.3, shutter speed 1/125, Canon 7d, ISO 400

This was a challenging assignment because while some days were easy to find something cool to shoot, others were a challenge. I didn't mean to do two flower pictures but I thought both of them turned out well and I just love all of the blossoms on the trees.
For the first shot I did a vintage type effect to give it that coloring effect. For the car picture I bootsted the colors, contrast, etc to give it more vibrance.
The blossom picture, I just added some sats, levels. For the flag picture I used the exposure tool in camera raw to make the glowing effect around the edges of the flag. For the windmill I just used a small f stop to get that kind of silhouette look but you can still see details on the windmill. I really loved the old tractor but I didn't want to do a lot of editing so I just did levels and boosted the sats. For the picture of my husband I only did levels and then just touched up his skin a little.

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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Match Color Picture Used


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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.