Fine Art Template

Community of Christ temple:
10/15/04 3:30pm (other information unknown)

Yellowstone Bison: 9/27/09 6:21pm f/10, 1/200, ISO 800

So I'm a little confused as to why this is called a fine art template but none the less it is a good skill to have. I think I like my community of Christ Temple picture then the bison. that shot was taken with my 4 megapixel Kodak camera like 5 years ago. The Bison shot was taken this semester when I went to yellowstone.

Flying on a String

About a year ago or so, I saw an ad for a video tutorial series called extreme photoshop. It was like putting wings on elephants and just crazy stuff that you see in Photoshop magazines. Well this was my attempt to put wings on a squire. I didn't really like the back ground the squire was on so I wanted to use a different shot. I found this shot in my collection of pictures and thought it would be sweet if I had him land on a spider web line. So I tried.

10/16/09 4:47pm f/14, 1/320, ISO 200
This shot was taken in Idaho Falls. There is a round about with this statue/fountain with 2 eagles and a bob cat or some sort of cat towards the bottom.

10/16/09 5:59pm f/7.1, 1/80 ISO 200
I took this close to the Idaho Falls Temple. There is a park that goes along the falls in front of the temple and as I was walking around I saw spider webs all around and thought to take this shot.

5/21/09 11:11am f/3.7, 1/350 ISO 340
This is a squire. Not too big of a deal but I thought it was a pretty great shot of a little rodent.

Photolusion straight

Forgot the upper half
11/15 6:21 f/3.5, -1, 1/13 ISO 800

This shot was really fun to take. This is my nephew and his friend that came over to play after church and they were being a little too noisy during nap time for my baby so I took them out to the play ground to play. My nephew's friend laid down while sliding down the slide and he stopped and when I looked up at my nephew it looked like he was cut in half so I had them reenact the sliding down to make it look like his bottom half slide without his upper half. This was really fun to take. We had to do it a couple of times because he would keep sitting up or some part of his jacket could be seen in the picture.

My merged Panoramas

Boom there are my things of beauty. So you saw all the parts for the REXBURG STRAW MAZE.COM The other shot was pretty fun to take because the is a 360 degree shot. If you look at the far left and the far right you can see where they over lap a little bit. I played around with the saturation and the levels just a tad but nothing too major. I tried to make this into an HDR because I really liked out the clouds looked but it was really hard to try and get the 3 shots to line up, so I gave up. but I think this turned out pretty well.

Panorama shots

I took all these shots on manual setting. They were taken on November 6th at 5:15 pm
the setting were f/8, 1/125, ISO 200
There are 13 pictures all together.
I was told a while ago that if you use all manual setting on panoramas they turn out better. It's best to set the white balance on them as well because then Photoshop doesn't have to guess and try to match it all. It usually does a good job but I have had some parts of my panoramas that have turned out totally wack.

2 page spread

I thought this spread worked well for this week. I changed the colors a little bit and learned a little bit more about photoshop. Great week.

7 shots this week

Fast Sunday (envy): 4:15pm, f/6.3, 1/13 ISO 800

Suturday (lil' LoveBug): 5:51pm, f/6.3, 1/60 ISO 800

Friday (blur Jack): 7:00pm, F/5, 3 sec. ISO 800

Thursday(Deathrow): 11:41am, f/5, 1/50 ISO 250

Wednesday (fists of Fury): 8:25pm f/3.5 1/20 ISO 800

Tuesday (Cherry) 11:36am, f/8, 1/125 ISO 200

Monday (Door) : 7:53am, f/3.5, 1/13 ISO 800

I think the hardest part of this weeks assignment was to take the pictures, everyday. If I had a little point and shoot then I think it would have been easier. Plus mid week my Tamron 18-270 came in the mail.. Have you ever noticed how similar the UPS man is to Santa Clause? Anyway it was fun having Halloween this week.

Edited Portraits

Ashley Shaum: 3/7/09 5:09pm, f/9, 1/100 ISO 200

Stacy Toone: 3/7/09 3:48pm f/6.3, 1/60 ISO 200

These were both taken last march for another portrait assignment. I followed the video tutorial for Stacy's picture. I think that looks really cool. I was playing around with some of the actions and I think this was a simple sepia action but then I calmed the sepia down. brought back the yellow coat to make it really jump and then blurred the whole picture. I masked out her face and neck so there is no blur there.

Portriats

Historian in Library: 3/7/09 10:38am f/6.3, 1/60 ISO 800

Ashley Shaum (Old Craigos):3/7/09 5:05pm, f/10, 1/250 ISO 200

High school guy (Skate park):10/24/09 4:38pm f/8, 1/125 ISO 200

Nature park boy: 10.24/09 4:28pm f/8, 1/125 ISO 200

Scripture Study (Frisby Golf):10/24/09 4:41pm f/7.1, 1/80 ISO 200
These are my portraits I took with some slight photoshop like cropping and levels and saturation adjustment. I think I really like to take pictures of people in natural moments but it's hard to get there permission to do so and also still keep the authentic feel around them. I really tried to keep them relaxed as I talked to them. It's some hard stuff. Ashley and the Library guy modeled for me last march for another class. That was awesome.

Night and Light

Pumpkin Face: 10/19 1:06am, f/11, 30 sec. ISO 200


Baby face: 10/19 1:21am, f/5, 57sec. ISO 200

Purplish: 10/18 8:12 pm, f/5.6, 8 sec. ISO 200

Reds: 10/18 8:11pm, f/5.6, 15 sec. ISO 200

This week my creative juices were not flowin' as usual. But I think for the lack of it I still produced something interesting too look at. The Pumpkin shots were really fun because all the light you see was painted on with my IPOD touch. I used blue, green and red light to paint in a pitch black room. I had some other shots that were just with white light but none of them came out that great. I also threw on some boarders. I felt that the Pumpkin Face would be great if there was just a subtle vignette around with a tanish orangish boarder. As for Baby face, I did a brush on effect that I really think came out great. My night shots were of a dying fire. As I exposed I moved the camera around to get cool effects. The Purplish shot was a total fluke. I dont' know how I got that color but all that is real color. I increased the saturation a little but I don't really know what it is. These were fun shots to take with the lack of genuine inspiration.

October 7th, 2009 Bannack Trip More edited

In The Jail: (HDR) 5:11pm; f/25, 4", ISO 800

Table: (In a house) 5:51pm; f/5, 1/50, ISO 800

Panorama of the Town:
(from the hill) 4:57pm; f/10, 1/250, ISO 800

Panorama in the Town:
(from the street) 12:04pm; f/20, 1/640, ISO 800

Hotel: (From the Street) 12:12pm, f/9, 1/160, ISO 800

These shots were a lot more fun for me to take and edit especially the panoramas. I have attempted to take panoramas before but not like this. I also made a slight HDR effect on the Panorama in the Town. I also did a ghost shot of me and but the HDR on that one as well. The window light on the table was amazing so I thought to put in this shot. I used a macro lens to take the shot of the hotel. Taking the pictures is only half the battle.

October 7th, 2009 Bannack Trip

Row: (At the Mill) 3:04pm; f/4, 1/15, ISO 800

Old yellow Paint: (Sorting house) 2:41pm; f/4.5, 1/60, ISO 800


Mason Sign: (Mason Temple) 1:44 pm; f/4, 1/200, ISO 800


Young Abe: (Mason Temple) 1:52pm; f/4, 1/30, ISO 800


Brand 3: (Next to the Saloon) 12:25; f/5, 1/60, ISO 800

All these shots had very little editing done to them I really wanted to try to work on my camera skills as we were in Bannack. I worked on composition and Macro in most of these. My personal favorite out of these would have to be the Mason sign. was using a 17-40mm lens when I took that shot. The light wasn't that great from the window plus many people were standing around the windows dimming the room even more. I had a great time shooting these.