Wood Poster

1. Woods; 24x36; 10.27.2010; 5:18 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; Sony DCS-H50; f/5.6; 1/100; Used match color tool in Photoshop, changed saturation, levels, and added highlights in Camera Raw, and I used the clone stamp tool and text in Photoshop.

I choose this image because I was trying to pick a picture that I would want to hang up in my home; I also thought it would go well with the Robert Frost quote. I took this picture two weeks ago while I was taking pictures for the photojournal blog. Before I took this picture, though, I had already picked out a different image for the poster and had started working on the enhancements of that image. So, I decided to take that image and use match color in Photoshop to copy the enhancements to the this picture of the woods. After doing this, I opened the image in Camera Raw and changed the saturation, levels, and added a highlight to the sky and the leaves. I then opened the image in Photoshop and used the clone stamp tool to get rid of a person who came running down the path just as I took the picture. Finally, I added text in Photoshop.

Week 9: Night & Light

1. Moving Light Capture
 

1. 2nd Street; 11.5.2010; 8:13 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/7.1; 10''

Sony DSC-H50; Tripod and timer used.

I took this picture on 2nd Street in Rexburg. To take the image, I used a tripod and timer. I also used a slow shutter speed to capture the motion. After taking the image, I opened it in Camera Raw and increased the blacks, vibrance, and clarity.

2. Light Painting

1.Blue and Red Hearts; 11.05.2010; 7:22 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/2.8; 10'';
Sony DSC-H50; Tripod and timer used
2. Flame; 11.05.2010; 7:38 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/2.8; 3'';
Sony DSC-H50; Tripod and timer used
3. Flashing Hearts; 11.05.2010; 7:24 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/2.8; 10'';
Sony DSC-H50; Tripod and timer used

All of these pictures were taken in the hallway of my apartment. I used a tripod and a timer for all of the images. In the first picture, I used a little night book light. To make the light look blue and then red, I only exposed a little bit of the light and covered most of it with my hand. During the shot, I constantly changed the amount of light that was exposed. For the flame shot, my husband lit a match and sprayed it with hairspray. He really wanted to play with fire. For the last heart image, I used a flashing bouncy ball to draw the heart shapes. After taking the pictures, I opened the images in Camera Raw and enhanced the blacks, clarity, and vibrance.

3. Camera Motion Painting

1. Falling Light; 10.04.2010; 8:22 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/8.0; 7'';
Sony DSC-H50; Edited in Camera Raw
2. Light Swirl; 10.4.2010; 8:12 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/8.0; 7'';
Sony DSC-H50; Edited in Camera Raw

These pictures were also taken in my apartment. To take these images, I used three awkward glass candle holders that my husband and I got for a wedding gift. I lit the candles inside of the holders and placed some candles next to the holders on a table. I then took the camera and set it to a slow shutter speed. As I took the pictures, I moved the camera back and forth in different patterns. I then took each image and opened them in Camera Raw. In Camera raw, I added highlights to the black areas of each picture. I decreased the exposure and increased the black in each highlight. I also added vibrance and clarity to the overall images in Camera Raw. 

Week 9: Cutouts

1. Partial Cutout

1. Goose; 9.24.2010; 12:17 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/5.6; 1/640;
Sony DSC-H7; Edited in Camera Raw

This image was taken at the duck pond earlier this semester. I opened the image in Camera Raw and added saturation, levels, and contrast. I then opened the image in Photoshop. In Photoshop, I copied the layer and used the rectangular marque to select the part of the image I wanted to remove. Then, I created a new layer and filled it with white and hid this layer with the eye icon. Next, I went to the image layer and selected the entire image I wanted to remove using the quick selection tool. I chose select-refine edges to smooth out the selection, add feathering, and add a shadow. To get the the grass selection to be a straight line, I added a mask on this layer. Finally, I copied the selection to a new layer and dragged it to the top of the layers. I also made sure that all of the layers were showing and not hiding.

2. Full Cutout

1. Grasshopper, 9.24.2010; 11:30 a.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/5.6; 1/1250;
Sony DSC-H7; Edited in Camera Raw

This image was also taken earlier in the semester in the campus gardens. I edited the clarity, vibrance, and contrast of the image in Camera Raw. I then opened the image in Photoshop. In Photoshop, I copied the layer and used the rectangular marque to select entire image. Then, I created a new layer and filled it with white. I used the eye icon to hide this layer. Next, I went to the image layer and selected the entire grasshopper with the quick selection tool. I chose select-refine edges to smooth out the selection, add feathering, and add a shadow. Finally, I copied the selection to a new layer and dragged it to the top. I also made sure to click on the eye icons to show all of the layers.

Week 8: Photo Journal

1. River; 10.25.2010; 5:14 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/3.5; 1/250;
Sony DSC-H50; Edited in Camera Raw

My husband and I went on a walk for FHE out by the nature pond. While we were there, I took some pictures of the river. For this image, I opened it in Camera Raw. I increased the clarity, contrast, and vibrance of the image. I then opened it in Photoshop and added a smart filter to the image. I masked out the filter on everything but the grass. Finally, I sized the image in Photoshop.

2. Toothbrushes; 10.26.2010; 8:07 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/2.6; 1;
Cannon Powershot A560; Edited in Camera Raw

I took this picture on Tuesday. The highlight of Tuesday was preparing for my health communication class presentation on dental hygiene at the Madison Public Library for story time. I had to prepare 70 toothbrush kits. So, I figured they deserved a picture. I opened the image in Camera Raw. I decreased the exposure and brightness and added contrast, clarity, and vibrance. Then, I opened the image in Photoshop and cropped and sized it.

3. Kitchen; 10.27.2010; 4:01 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/3.2; 1/10;

DSC-H50; Edited in Camera Raw

I spent a good part of Wednesday evening in the kitchen making dinner. So, I decided to get a unique picture of the kitchen. I opened the image in Camera Raw and enhanced the contrast, vibrance, and clarity. I then sized the image in Photoshop.

4. Skull; 10.28.2010; 7:11 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/3.2; 1/13;

Sony DSC-H50; Edited in Camera Raw

On Thursday, I was at school from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. I was either in classes or working at the library. At work, a lot of students were checking out the bones and skeleton reserve items. So, I decided to take a picture of them. I edited this picture in Camera Raw to decrease the brightness, add fill lights, and increase the vibrance and clarity. I then opened it in Photoshop to size

and crop the image.

5. Gumdrops; 10.29.2010; 10:22 a.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/3.2; 1/25;
Sony DSC-H50; Edited in Camera Raw

On Friday, my classes got canceled. So, I decided to work on my Photolusion early that morning. That is when I took this picture of the gumdrops. I edited this image in Camera Raw by increasing the exposure and adding clarity, vibrance, and fill lights. I then sized and cropped the image in Photoshop.

6. Pumpkin; 10.30.2010; 6:20 p.m.; Blackfoot, ID; f/2.6; 1/100;
Cannon Powershot A560; Edited in Camera Raw

On Saturday, my husband and I went to Blackfoot to visit our families. That night, we carved pumpkins with my parents. This was the final product. I opened the image in Camera Raw. I increased the contrast, fill lights, clarity, and vibrance. Then, I sized the image in Photoshop.

7. Barn; 10.31.2010; 9:40 a.m.; Firth, ID; f/4.0; 1/100;
Cannon Powershot A560; Edited in Camera Raw

This photo was taken on Sunday morning as my husband and I drove back to Rexburg from Blackfoot (Don't worry, we didn't skip church). I opened the image in Camera Raw and increased the contrast, clarity, and vibrance. I also added a highlight to the barn to enhance the red color and a highlight to the sky to make it more blue. I then opened the image in Photoshop to size it.

Week 8: Photo Journal Editing and Photolusion

1. Photo Journal Editing

I used an already made photo journal template to create my photo journal page. I didn't like the size of some of the original photo frames in the template. So, I made some bigger, and I made some smaller to better fit my photos. I also rotated some of the frames differently by selecting the mat layer of the frame and then hovering around the corner to get the rotating arrows. To add my pictures into the frame, I used a clipping mask. To do this, I first clicked on the layer with the photo frame I wanted to use. Then, I placed my larger, original images on top of that layer. Next, I dragged my image over the photo frame and sized it down. Finally, I right-clicked in the layers palette and chose Create Clipping Mask. I also changed the font to Kaufmann and then re sized it to better fit the area. To customize the template more, I changed the background color and font to brown and mistral in the third template.

 

2. Photolusion

1. Sky and Trees Background; 10.27.2010; 4:32 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/8.0; 

1/2000; Sony DSC-50; Tripod used,edited in Camera Raw and Photoshop

2. Kim; 10. 29. 2010; 9:50 a.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/3.2; 1/1600; 

Sony DSC-50; Tripod and timer used, edited in Camera Raw

3. Gumdrops; 10.29.2010; 10:13 a.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/3.2; 1/40; 

Sony DSC-50; Edited in Camera Raw

To create this photolusion, I first took the tree and sky background picture into Camera Raw to enhance the colors. I then opened it in Photoshop and used the fresco filter effect to make it look more textured and cartoonish. Next, I opened the image of myself in Camera Raw and enhanced the exposure, contrast, and vibrance. I then placed the picture on top of the tree and sky background and used a mask to get rid of the background in the photo of me. I then opened the gumdrop picture in Camera Raw and increased the contrast, clarity, and vibrance. Then, I opened the image in Photoshop and used the quick selection tool to grab specific gumdrops. I placed these gumdrops in different layers on top of the blended sky background and Kim photo. When I had a bunch of gumdrops that looked nice, I merged the layers together. I then copied and re sized the layer multiple times to create different sized gumdrops. I also rotated each copied layer and added a mask to the layers to get rid of gumdrops in areas where I didn't want them.

Week 7: Scanography

1. One Shot

1. Beauty Tools; 10.24.2010; 4:30 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; Epson Scanner;
Sized in Photoshop

For this picture, I placed these hair and makeup tools on the Epson Scanner in the Spori Lab. I placed a blanket behind the scanner and previewed the image. I then rearranged the items until I had them looking the way I wanted. Then, I played with the levels, image adjustment, and tone correction, on the scanner settings. Next, I hit scan and saved the image as a jpeg. Finally, I opened it in Photoshop to crop and size the image.

2. Collage

1. Dirt; 10.23.2010; 10:30 a.m.; Rexburg, ID; Epson Scanner;
Sized in Photoshop
2. Leaves; 10.23.2010; 10:45 a.m.; Rexburg, ID; Epson Scanner;
Sized in Photoshop
3. Twigs; 10.23.2010; 11:00 a.m.; Rexburg, ID; Epson Scanner;
Sized in Photoshop

I used the Espon Scanner in the Spori Lab to take the first three images. For the dirt, I placed saran wrap over the scanner then I put dirt on the wrap. I used a stick to write the word "earth" in the dirt. The other two images I took by placing the items directly on the scanner and covering them with my jacket. I played with the levels, image adjustment, and tone correction settings in the scanner software before scanning each picture. To make the scan collage, I opened the dirt image in Photoshop and copied the layer. I used the overlay mode on the dirt layer. Then, I placed the leaves on top of this layer and used the hard light setting. For the twigs, I used the quick selection tool to only select the twigs. Then, I placed just the twigs in a layer on top of the leaves and set the twig layer to the
darken mode.  

Week 7: Edge Effects

1. Flexible Vignette

1. Swing; 10; 15; 2010; 4:30 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/3.2; 1/640;

Sony DSC-H7; Edited in Camera Raw and Photoshop

For this photo, I first increased the contrast, vibrance, brightness, clarity, and sharpness in Camera Raw. Then, I opened the image in Photoshop. In Photoshop, I copied the layer, and then cropped the photo. Next, I hit shift-command-N to add a new blank layer. Then, I set the foreground and background colors to default and inserted the foreground color into the new layer. I used the rectangular marquee tool to draw a box, about an inch from the edge, inside the image. I then hit the delete tool to create an opaque border. Finally, I reduced the opacity on this layer to about 70 percent and increased the feathering to about 50 percent.

2. Double Fade Border

2. Barber Chair; 9.29.2010; 1:33 p.m.; Bannack, MT; f/3.2; 1/200;
Sony DSC-H7; Edited in Camera Raw and Photoshop

I first increased the contrast, fill lights, recovery, clarity, and vibrance of this photo in Camera Raw. I then opened the image in Photoshop and added the edge effect. For the edge effect, I copied the layer and cropped the picture to 9 by 7 inches. Then, I went to image-canvas size to add on an inch to the height and width and to select the extension color. The extension color was taken from the chair. Next, I used the rectangle tool, on shape layer, to draw a black, not white, rectangle about .25 inches in from the edge of the image. Then, I added a mask to the shape layer. In the mask, I drew another rectangle .25 inches in from the first rectangle. For this rectangle, however, I selected fill pixels. Next, I reduced the opacity of this layer to 60 percent. Finally, I used the motion blur filter on the shape layer twice. The first time, I added 45px to the distance, but didn't change the angle. The second time, I changed the angle to 90 and left the distance at 45px.

3. Flexible Brushed-on Effect

1. Horses; 9.29.2010; 9:55 a.m.; Dubois, ID; f/5.0; 1/640;
Sony DSC-H7; Edited in Camera Raw and Photoshop

I used Camera Raw to increase the vibrance, clarity, sharpness, and contrast of this photo. Then, I opened the image in Photoshop. In Photoshop, I copied the layer and hit shift-cmd-N to add a new layer. I hit D to set the colors at default. Then, I hit cmd-delete to fill the new layer with white. Next, I dragged the image layer above the white layer. On this layer, I hit the alt key to add a black layer mask. Finally, I loaded the think heavy brushes and used the brush tool to paint back the image. I rotated between brushes 3, 2, and 5 and played with the opacity to get this effect.

Week 6: Enhancements

1. Portrait Enhancements

1. Olivia; 10.15.2010; 1:55 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/3.2; 1/125;

Sony DSC-H50; Edits in Camera Raw and Photoshop

This picture was taken outside of the library. Olivia is Brother Olsen's, a school librarian, daughter. She had just eaten a snack when I asked if I could take her picture. So, she had food all over her mouth. To edit this picture, I opened it in Camera Raw. Then, I added recover, fill lights, contrast, clarity, and vibrance. I then opened the image in Photoshop and copied the layer. In Photoshop, I had to use the clone stamp to get rid of the food marks and a scar on Olivia's upper lip. Then, to make the clone stamping more even, I copied the layer and used the brush tool to take parts of Olivia's skin color and  smooth it over her face.

2. Replace Color

1. Laurence; 10.15.2010; 1:30 p.m.; Rexburg, Idaho; f/3.2; 1/800;
Sony DSC-H50; Edits in Camera Raw and Photoshop

Laurence is a nice, but shy guy. He wasn't up for taking a candid shot. He only really felt comfortable doing posed shots in front of a plain background. Unfortunately, the only plain wall around was a wall that matched the color of Laurence's shirt. So, I decided to use this picture for my color replacement photo. To edit this photo, I first opened it in Camera Raw. I increased the contrast, clarity, vibrance, and sharpness. Then, I opened the image in Photoshop. In Photoshop, I copied the layer. Then used the quick selection tool to select just the shirt. Then, I went to image-adjustment-replace color. I clicked on Laurence's shirt in the screen and I increased the fuzziness slider to 100. I then changed the color using the hue and saturation sliders in this palette.

3. Match Color

1. Caleb with Backpack; 10.15.2010; 1:47 p.m.; Rexburg, Idaho; f/3.5; 1/125;
Sony DSC-H50; Sized in Photoshop
2. Caleb's Smile; 10.15.2010; 1:44 p.m.; Rexburg, Idaho; f/2.8; 1/320;
Sony DSC-H50; Sized in Photoshop

These pictures were taken outside of the library. I really liked the second photo a lot more than the first because the lighting and color was better in this shot. I also liked Caleb's smile. Caleb, however, hates this picture and claims that it makes him look funny. So, I decided to replace the color on the first photo with the color from the second photo. To do this, I opened both photos in Photoshop. Then, I selected the first image and went to image-adjustments-match color. In this palette, I selected the second photo as the source photo, and I used the fade slider to slightly fade the effect. I also added luminance to the image with the luminance slider in this palette.

Week 6: Portraits

1. Caleb; 10.16.2010; 4:08 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/2.8; 1/640;
Sony DSC-H50; Photo edited in Camera Raw
2. Kathleen; 10.14.2010; 1:33 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/2.8; 1/80;
Sony DSC-H50; Photo edited in Camera Raw
3. Jessica; 10.14.2010; 2:15 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/3.5; 1/160;
Sony DSC-H50; Photo edited in Camera Raw
4. Merritts; 10.16.2010; 4:04 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/2.8; 1/200;
Sony DSC-H50; Photo edited in Camera Raw

The picture of my husband Caleb was taken outside of Craigos in front of a random bus. I edited this photo in Camera Raw by increasing the fill lights, changing the contrast, adding a little vibrance and clarity, and a slight vignette. Kathleen's picture was taken in the library. The lights in this building were really hard to work with. So, for this picture, I increased the exposure in Camera Raw. I also added sharpness, clarity, and luminance in Camera Raw. Jessica's picture was taken outside of the Clark building. The picture of the Merritts was taken outside of Craigos. For both of these photos, I added fill lights, contrast, clarity, vibrance, sharpness, and a slight vignette in Camera Raw.

Week 5: Camera Raw

1. Farm; 10.8.2010; 2:15 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/8.0; 1/400;
Sony H50; Tripod used

This picture was taken in the rain. So, I had a friend shield the lens of the camera while I took the shot. To edit this photo, I opened it in Camera Raw. In Camera Raw, I first created a highlight using the brush tool over parts of the sky. Then, I added a blue color to the highlighted area. I also increased the contrast, brightness, exposure, saturation, clarity, and sharpness of the highlighted parts. Next, I increased the fill lights, blacks, contrast, clarity, vibrance, and saturation in the basic palette to the whole image. I also wanted the ground to look more yellow instead of brown, so I played with the orange and yellow color sliders in HSL grayscale to bring out the yellow color. I also increased the temperature slider to the yellow side. Then, I changed the tone curve to medium contrast. Finally, I added detail to the sharpening palette and a slight vignette to the image with the fx palette.

Challenge

1. Road; 10.8.2010; 2:12 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/8.0; 1/500;
Sony H50; Tripod used

This image was also taken in the rain. After taking the shot, I opened the image in Camera Raw. First, I increased the recovery and the fill shadows. Then, I increased the clarity and vibrancy. Next, I opened the image as a smart object in Photoshop by clicking the text in the bottom middle of the window in Camera Raw. In Photoshop, I copied the layer and added more blue to the picture through the color balance palette. With the color balance palette, I selected midtones and moved the first slider toward the cyan side. Finally, I masked out this effect on everything but the sky.