Text and Clone (Class week 10 part 2)

This is Baby. While his age puts him far away from baby-hood, a traumatic experience as a kitten left him with severe PTSD and extreme skittishness.  He is terrified of almost everyone and views any movement towards him as a threat. In this image, while it looks like he is sleeping, he is actually pretending to be asleep. It seemed a fitting caption for him.

Top: Original.

I used the clone tool here to remove the top of the telephone pole and the power line running off right. I wasn't able to remove all of the pole so I ended up cropping the bottom of the photo a little. I'm glad I was able to remove what I did. The little bit of cropping worked ok, but any more would have taken too much away from the image.

Potential Photostory... (Class week 10)

These are the images I will most likely be using for my Photostory project. I'm not as happy as I thought I would be with some of them, so I may go out next week and take a similar set of images in a different location.

Fish Eyes and Oil Paintings (Class week 9 part 2)

Top:Original

This landscape shot has the fisheye filter applied to it. I used the filter to make the horizon look curved, exaggerating the curvature of the earth. This filter was fun to play with because it allowed me to alter the perspective of the shot without having to take it at a different focal length.

Top: Original

This picture was taken last winter while a friend was visiting from Singapore. I did a little extra editing with this picture. Before applying the filter I created a separate layer to apple it to. I made sure that the filter layer didn't cover my fried or the horse. I applied the oil painting filter to make the background look like a painting, while leaving the two subjects life-like. (You may have to enlarge the image to see this effect. Clicking on the image will show you full size.)

Forest Gnome (Class week 9 part 1)

This image is taken just south of Battery Park in Burlington. I used the dodge and burn tools in Phototshop to lighten the left side of the gnome and mushroom and darken the right side. I need a little more practice with blending the light, but I'm happy with the way it came out. 

This is the original image. 

I don't think I will be using these tools much. I can see how they can be used in portrait photography, but I don't do a whole lot of it. Still good to know how to use them though :)

Burning Skies and Flowers (Class week 8)

1/4000  f/5.6 ISO 800 35mm-85mm @ 80mm

This photo was taken from the observation tower at Burlington International Airport. This was one of the first pictures ever taken with my camera, before I really knew what I was doing. I completely failed at trying to catch the amazing sunset so I decided to make it look as, for lack of a better term, apocalyptic as possible. Unfortunately I messed up while saving this image and lost the original. I think I succeeded in my goal. I was able to pull out the red/orange of the sun in the rest of the sky while over-exposing the sun to the point that I think it looks like something exploding in the distance.

1/400 f/11 ISO 100 40mm

Original

When I saw these flowers I really wanted to capture how the yellow popped against the green behind them. By selecting the flowers and separating them from the background I was able to adjust the exposure and colors separately. Knowing how to select certain things and adjust them individually is going to make editing a much more pleasant experience. 

Select, Delete, Cmnd+V (Week 7)

This week we were tasked with using some basic, but fun, Photoshop tools to stitch two images together. This first one is an image I took of north beach with the sky replaced. I used a photo I took during Burlington's fireworks this year. 

Sticking with the 4th of July theme, I used another image of fireworks in this photo. The base is an image of my sister last Christmas. She took two large glass balls and, instead of putting them on the tree, wore them as earrings for the rest of the day. I deleted the balls and inserted a cropped down photo of a smaller firework.