Action Freeze/BlurAction Freeze #1
Classic Jumping Picture

Action Freeze #2
Action Blur/GHOST

The first two shots are classic Freeze shots. But the third is one that I had never done before. I really liked trying this out. It took a long time for me to figure out how to get the right shot with my camera. But I like this shot a lot. I darkened the picture with curves and levels and then I burnt the edges of the photo also.

PortraitsJamie Stairs

Jamie

For the first picture I dodged Jamie to make her lighter, played around with the levels and curves, and burnt the edges. The second picture I changed the levels and curves as well. Then I changed it to black and white and used the paint brush tool to make her in color.

Camera Raw 

 

With this photo I played around with the brightness first.  Then I darkened the blacks and changed the Vibrance and Saturation.  I really enjoyed trying the camera raw and can't wait to keep using it in the future.

Panoramic 

Multiple Chelseas

Close Panoramic





I absolutely loved doing these panoramic pictures!  It is amazing that the computer can put together pictures and pixels like puzzle pieces.  It was crazy!  Anyways, for the first picture I changed the levels and curves as well as brightness and contrast.  Then I used a solid color adjustment layer and blended brown around then edge, then burnt the edges also.  The second panoramic shot is of my roommate.  She ran and did all of these poses and I just took all of the different pictures into photomerge.  I had to blend in two of her because the pictures didn't match and weren't added into the photo.  Then I played with the curves, levels, and saturation.  The third Picture is just the same shot as the first one, but the photos were taken a little closer up.  I played with the curves and levels as well as the brightness and contrast.  On the bottom right hand photo, there was not enough photo so I took part of the ground from another photo and added it in another layer and blended it into the photo.  Then I colorized the photo and made it brown.  Then I also burnt the edges on this photo as well.  I know that I am in the photo, but I really did take these.  I took all of the photos, then I stopped at the spot where I was supposed to stand, then I handed the photo to someone and she took the shot of me.  So that is how I am in the shot.

Flexible Edits

Peter & Laura Black 

Original

Peter & Laura Black

Edited

Kelso

Original

Kelso

Edited

The first picture of the reception dance, I changed the brightness on an adjustment level and used the paintbrush to only make them bright.  Then I used another black and white adjustment layer and used the paintbrush tool to put the color back onto them to make them even more of a focus.  On the next photo of my cousin and I, I added two adjustment layers of solid color and played around with the opacity and paintbrush tools.  The paintbrush made it so that I could have the too colors blend together.  I love using the adjustment layers so you can make them disappear or come back whenever you like.  It is my new favorite thing!  It is a great thing to know before you learn how to use all of photoshop.

Flora & Fauna

Romney Fish :)

Romney Tree

Parrot
Logan Temple

The first photo of the fish, I just put a satin layer on it and used the paintbrush tool.  I think the paintbrush tool is my favorite tool because I use it in every single one of these photos I think.  In the second photo I didn't really edit it that much.  I liked how the tree looked.  The only thing I really did was play around with the brightness and contrast.  The photo of the parrot was fun.  I just took a picture of it at the benson but how I edited was I added a layer of green and another layer of black and white and played around with the paint brush to get the effect that I did.  The logan temple picture was also fun.  The sky was really grey while we were waiting for my cousin, who was getting married, on saturday when I took this photo.  I added a blue layer and used the paint brush to take it away to make the sky look blue but realistic also.  I also did the same with a layer of red to make the tulips a little brighter.  

Blend and Text!

I had a ton of fun playing around with this weeks assignment. Like I said in my last post, my brother went to prom this weekend so I had a ton of pictures from this saturday that I just took. So I decided to play around with them. I took the photos and blended them by making masks on the two profile pictures. Then I put a peachy pink color over top of the whole blended photo. The piano and flute are both instruments that I play so I decided to photograph and blend them together. I blended these three photos and with the piano music I did an overlay on top of the other two. I really like the outcome that I had in these photos. I can't wait to experiment more in the future!