Bannack Action Shots

Ghost; 5-25-11, 12:06pm; Bannack Schoolhouse; f/3.4; 1.8sec; Nikon CoolPix P500; Tripod

Action Freeze; 5-25-2011, 1:08pm; Bannack, MT; f/4.0; 1/640; Nikon CoolPix P500

For my action blur shot, I went into the schoolhouse. We had alot of light coming in through the windows, so I used a shutter speed long enough to give Sara a chance to move, but not long enough to let in too much light. I also used a large aperture to not allow keep the opening of my lens small. For the action freeze shot, I set my camera to continuous shooting with a fast shutter speed so I could make sure to catch the my model jumping in the moment.

Bannack Portraits

Peering Through The Door; 5-25-11, 12:27pm; Bannack Schoolhouse; f/5.o; 1/80; Nikon CoolPix P500; Tripod

Bullseye; 5-25-11. 1:19pm; Bannack Main Street; f/5.7; 1/200; Nikon CoolPix P500

For my portrait shot, I had Sarah (Thanks Sarah for Modeling all afternoon for me!) step into the door of the school house. There was alot of light coming through the door. I stood back quite a ways and zoomed in to take advantage of the dark interior of the building so the picture wouldn't be blown out. For the Bullseye shot, I zoomed in from a distance to create the good background blur. The rest of the shot took care of itself. I wasn't trying to line her eye up like that, but I got lucky.

Weekly Edits - Camera Raw

Spring Blossom; 5-8-2011, 4:32pm; Rexburg Temple Grounds; f/4.7; 1/640; Nikon CoolPix P500

Camera Raw Editing - I opened the image in Bridge. I then used that to open the image in Camera Raw. I upped the brightness and decreased the clarity of the whole image. I then used an adjustment brush to boost the saturation and vibrance of the flowers in the foreground as a well as to bring back the clarity of the same flowers. I clicked Save Image and then saved it in a separate folder where I keep my edited photos.

Music Writing; 4-25-11, 11:42pm; Rexburg, ID; f/4.8; 1/60; Nikon CoolPix P500; Fill Flash

Camera Raw Editing - I opened the image in Bridge. I then used that to open the image in Camera Raw. I decreased the vibrance all the way to make the image black and white and upped the brightness about by about half. I then used an adjustment brush to highlight the ukelele. I boosted the saturation of the ukelele all the way up and added a bit of a lite orange color to it as well to make it pop a bit more. I clicked Save Image and then saved it in a separate folder where I keep my edited photos.

Panoramic

Taylor Quad Pano; 6/21/11. 4:30pm; Nikon Coolpix P500; 7 original shots

Pano Originals; 5-15-11, 3:42pm; Rexburg, ID; f/3.4; 1/650; Nikon CoolPix P500

For this panoramic shot, I thought it would be cool to get a view point of the whole field outside of my apartment complex. I stood to at the edge of the field and took the four original images, pivoting the camera slightly each time to create the right amount of overlap. I used Photoshops automated panoramic feature to put the four images together. I then used content aware fill to fill out the edges. The content aware fill did a good job, but replicated some of the tree in the top left corner, so I used the clone stamp tool to fill in the clouds. I upped the exposure on the shot and boosted the saturation to pull more color out of the grass and sky.

Non-Destructive Editing

For this picture, I added a black and White adjustment layer to the original image. I then used to black paint brush to remove the mask from over the coins. I also bumped up the saturation a few points to get a little more of the copper color out of the coins.

Spare Change; 4-28-11, 2:41pm; Rexburg, ID; f/5.6; 1/50; Nikon CoolPix P500; Tripod

For this picture, I converted the image into a smart object. I applied a Gaucian Blur to the whole image and then dropped the opacity of the blur to about 70%. I then painted black of the blur to expose the full front flower. I adjusted the opacity again to create a mid level blur on the black flower and the green stem

Red Flower; 5-8-11, 4:37pm; Rexburg Temple Grounds; f/5.6; 1/50; Nikon CoolPix P500

Flora & Fauna

Colorful Bouquet; 5-8-2011, 4:34pm; Rexburg Temple Grounds; f/5.5; 1/500; Nikon Coolpix P500

Rain Drops; 5-8-2011, 4:43pm; Rexburg Temple Grounds; f/5.0; 1/100; Nikon Coolpix P500

Swimming Fowl; 4-28-11, 2:41pm; Porter Park, Rexburg, ID; f/5.7; 1/1500; Nikon Coolpix P500

This weeks assignment was to take Flora and Fauna shots. For both of my shoots, I was working with poor lighting outside. Both days were really over cast, so I had to do some post shot editing to bring some more light into the shots. For both of the flower shots I used Camera Raw to bump up the saturation and brightness. I then used adjustment brushes to darken the background so the focus on the flowers. For the bird shot, I used Camera Raw again. I brought adjusted the levels to add some blue to the water, and then brightened the bird itself.

Blending Modes and Type Effects

Baseball; 4-28-11, 1:44p.m.; Porter Park, Rexburg, ID; f/5.6; 1/1250
Leafs; 4-28-11, 1:53p.m.; Porter Park, Rexburg, ID; f/5.6; 1/1000

Blended Image

Type Effect

Summer Lovin; 4-28-11, 1:40p.m.; Porter Park, Rexburg, Idaho; f/8.0; 1/100

I love baseball. Since baseball recently started, I took the chance to go out and take some fun shots with my new glove. I took shots from a few different angles and tried some different settings on my camera to see what I could capture. For my blended image, I used a simple overlay technique. I placed the leaves on a layer on top of the glove and used the overlay function. I then removed the mask by painting in blck around the ball to keep that part of the image clear.

For Summer lovin, I used a simple title overlay technique to add the type. I created two separate type boxes, one for each word. I dropped the opacity on both words. I added a layer mask the type boxes. I then used a spray can type brush and removed just a little bit of the layer to create a slightly distressed effect on the wording

Play Ball!