Blog 8-Favorite 5 Photos (optional)

Here are some of my favorite HDR photos. Hope you like them!

Blog 8-HDR

Ladies First. I shot at 1/100 1/200 and 1/400 at f/5 for this HDR. Brought out the dynamic lighting, vivid colors, and cropped it just a hair on the left.

Sunny Cabin. 1/320 1/640 1/1250 at f/14. I painted the light in myself using the brush tool in Dynamic photo because when the computer did it, the clouds looked way crazy. This way I was able to achieve the balance of surreal while keeping it within bounds.

Blog 8-Macro Abstract

Macro Edited. I used burn color as the blending mode as I used the macro door frame as the background. I put the wall photo on top and kept them both at 100% opacity so there'd be a nice hard mix of light and colors.

I loved the texture and lighting of this wall. In the edit I flipped the photo 180 degrees because I felt it went better when lined up with the door frame on the left side of the image. I shot at 1/60 at f/2.8

Macro Door frame. Shot at 1/60 f/2.8. I really liked the texture of the door and how the paint was chipping. I composed it using the rule of thirds.

Blog 8-Reverse Shallow Depth of Field

I didn't do a reverse depth of field so here are 2 different shallow depth of field shots.

The Rail. It's an HDR photo. The normal exposure was 1/40 at f/2.8. No tripod. I edited the HDR in camera raw and brought up the clarity, vibrance, and put a small vignette on it.

Stand in the Light. 1/125 at f/2.8. I loved the lighting that Jake was standing in so I quickly composed a photo while he was standing still. I edited in camera raw using the greyscale to balance the whites and blacks.

Blog 8-Action Blur and Freeze

Hotel Meade. 1/125 at f/8. I froze the snow falling from the sky. All day I was trying to think of something that wouldn't be cheesy to freeze but actually make a photography while freezing something and this is what I came up with.

Jacob in Spirit. 4" at f/2.8. I was in the church and asked jake to stand there for 3" and then for the last second to run out of frame. I tried a few different compositions but I liked this the best.

Blog 8-Portraits

Jacob. 1/60 at f/2.8. Inside with side window lighting. The room had a really warm feel from the old, brown wallpaper so I wanted to take his picture because the lighting looked beautiful for skin tones. I also wanted to go for an environmental portrait so I kept his camera in the photo.

Church Portrait. 1/3" at f/2.8 on tripod. I was in the church trying out an HDR portrait but didn't like how it turned out. But I still liked the single photo. I like the composition of the rule of thirds and the shallow depth of field. Once again, I felt there was some subtle, soft, side lighting that when well with the photo.

blog 7 edits

i went to the lab and it was closed. Aweeesome. Well, that means no edited photo but here are some random pictures of light for the past couple of years.

Blog 6-Scanography

One Scan

Help Wanted. I put cling wrap over the whole face of the scanner and bunched it up in random chaos. I wanted to imitate the feel of water. Then I splashed water drops on the cling wrap so there'd be subtle water drops everywhere. I wrote the note with sharpie, hoping it would maybe smear or give the appearance of being wet once i put it on the wet surface. I dunked my head in water and took the scan. It was pretty fun if I do say so myself.

Collage Scan

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil. I took 3 separate scans, though it took about 6 tries per scan to get the right feel I wanted. I wanted to play with the shadows that the scanner produces. So once I had all 3 scans I wanted, I went into photoshop and followed the instructions in the book under #27 for Layer Mask. I put all 3 images on top of each other, made a mask for them all, then used the black/white brush to hide/reveal what I wanted till it felt right.


Before/Individual Photos

Blog 6-Edit Borders

Self Portrait. I took this picture in the BYU-I Center bathroom. I loved the symmetry in the mirrors. I edited a burned border into the picture by following the instructions exactly as Sis. Esplin laid out in the book for us under #13. I chose not to add a stroke to my border because I felt like it took away from the photograph.

The Road. I used a flexible vignette to achieve this border. I followed the instructions just as it was laid out in the book and tried a few different colors but I didn't like any of them so I chose to keep it simple and not do anything flashy and just have it be a black vignette.

Water Drops. I chose to do a sprayed edge effect for this photo because I wanted the feel of the photo to match the creative border I was putting on it. I followed the instructions of the book and chose for my sprayed strokes length to be 1 (out of about 20) and the radius to be 25 (out of 25). That way it almost looks like rain drops.



Before

Blog 5-Challenge

Luminous Taylor. 1/160 f/8.0 4:45pm Portrait Studio on campus. 3 External Flashes.
I decided in the studio I wanted to try and experiment with the lighting. I faced the side lighting directly behind taylor and turned up the power of the flash from the normal 1/16th power to about 1/4th. I wanted to imitate a lens flare in the studio. Later I realized, I should've taken off the soft box to get a harsh light if that's the look I was going for, but none the less I liked how the photo turned out. Though I don't really care for the luminosity effect with the photo.