7. I increase the sats and levels to give it a toned look then cut out the top of the picture. I put on a transparent background and it looked good in Photoshop, but then I put it in here and it had a white background... I don't know why.
1.White Flame
2.11/10/10 – about 12:30am
3.Rexburg
4.Sony DSC-H7
5.1.3 sec
6.F/2.7
7. I was having trouble cutting out an entire image so I took this picture of a flame and in camera raw I clarified it and then took all the color out so that the flame and sparks were all white. Then I selected it and put it on a black background so you can see it.
Note: I am not much for drawing so just as a note, this is supposed to be two people... I can see it if that matters...
1.Lightup
2.11/10/10 – about 11:30pm
3.Rexburg, Idaho
4.Sony DSC-H7
5.1.3 sec
6.F/2.7
Note: I was having trouble with the camera motion painting so I used a lighter and as I lit it (several times) I moved the camera to the side and this is my best shot. I know it's no design, but I like it. In this shot I increase the saturation to cover up the blurry lighter and cropped it. No other edits
2. November 5, 2010, Image taken on tree behind Walmart 3. Sony DSC-H50, F/5, 10/2500 sec
4. Dynamic Photo process, increased clarity in Camera Raw, Sized and one layer in Photoshop.
5. The process and such was pretty simple. I wanted to keep it as original as I possibly could. The first thing I did was use Dynamic Photo to bring out the details: In Dynamic Photo I checked Ps Ultra-Contrast using the default settings, then I used the B&W filter in the top right corner and gamma at .92 to make it a little darker than what was the default. Then I used Camera Raw: When enlarged the image was a little fuzzy because the resolution was only 96, so in Camera Raw I upped the clarity as much as I could then I upped the contrast to +14 and everything else was left to default. Lastly I brought it into Photoshop: This process was simple, I needed it to be 24x36 with the highest resolution possible, so in image size I unchecked resample image, typed in 36 inches for the width and I had a resolution of 96 (which was okay to me) the I checked the resample button again and unchecked constrain proportion (because the image was 36x27 and I needed 36x24) I then replaced the 27 with 24 and hit enter (knowing very well that this would distort the image. I liked what I saw so I saved it as a .jpg and took it to the printing shop.
Frida Kahlo once said, “I paint myself because… I am the subject that I know best.” I take pictures of bikes because they are what I know best. I love bikes and I love to try to be creative when possible. This is where my passion lies.
Camera phone: LG Electronics VX 9200; photo taken Monday 11/1/10 at around 1pm - So many things went wrong with this assignment for me. I couldn't think of something to do and then when I did I had a hard time capturing the picture right. My camera battery died right when I was taking the pictures and so I had to use my phone. There is no shutter speed or any information from them except the name on Photoshop.
I am not sure if I even did the assignment right. I know the concept, but this is all I could do.
I rode around on my bike all day Saturday and Sunday looking for natural ones, but couldn't find any. I really like these pictures though so I am going to keep and eye out from now one.
The above picture is the "A photo a Day" Assignment with all my pictures from the week. I will say that there were some days when I only took one picture and was thankful I did. :) They are not in order, but I will try to explain which is for which day. Going left to right: the first one is Thursday. The second is Wednesday. The third is Friday. The forth is Tuesday. The fifth is Sunday. The sixth is from Monday and the last one is from Saturday. If you click on the top picture it gives a little blurp about the fun things that happened and it explains the pictures on the page.
What I did was delete the gray in the template and then I created a clipping mask around each picture where I wanted them to be.
I tried to make my own template, but I was quickly frustrated and decided not to.
Flowers: I added a vibrance (screen) to the image and cropped it. Then I sized it down to about 2x2 inches so it will fit where I want it and I dragged it over to the collage.
To Do List: After opening this image I selected all the white space around the sticky pads. Then I hit delete and a prompter came up that gave me the option to fill – this takes the unselected contents and fills the selected portion with copies of what is there. Then I sized it down and dragged it over to the collage.
Rubberbands: I wanted the rubber bands to be in the background so I cropped them to be the same as the collage and dragged them over.
The tools were the same process as the flowers just without the layers added.
Once I had them all together I put the layers in the order I wanted them: rubber bands in the back then flowers and tools and the to do list on top. With the to do list selected I blended it using the Divide selection which gave me the look I desired. I then sized it and saved it and uploaded it to my blog.
