Cinemagraphs

Cinemagraphs are really quite temperamental, but they are really fun to play with. I enjoyed doing these Cinemagraphs but if I was to do them again I would find a different subject or atleast make sure the camera on the tripod isn’t going to wiggle because of puppies bumping it and running around on the porch. I don’t know why it doesn’t continue playing all the time or why it seems to play really slow. I’ve never really shot videos before so this was a whole new concept but something I would definitely try again. I like the first one a lot more than the second because the puppy that is just watching the other puppy doesn’t move a whole lot.

Contest

Blue eyed cowboy; 2/15/2012 - 9:45pm; Tauphus Park Zoo Ice Rink, Idaho Falls, ID; f/5.6; 1/25 sec - NIKON D5100

This is one of my favorite pictures I have taken this semester. It was at my brother Lane’s hockey game and my brother Brett had happened to be all dressed up with his hat and so I had him act like he was watching the game and I had been playing with my camera which I found had a selective coloring setting and so the picture took in black and white. I played with it in Camera Raw brought up the contrast a little and brought up the clarity, I then opened it in photoshop and added the blue back into his eyes and smoothed his face.

I printed this picture along with my large print poster and entered it into the school art show but it wasn’t chosen to be in the show. My brother Brett really likes it though and my parents originally told him to just hang it in his room but he said it had to be hung in the living room where more people will see it. I don’t know where to find more information on the Student art show.

Poster

Scarlet 24x36 in; 1/26/2012 - 4:25PM; Rigby ID; f/7.1; 10/1250 sec - Nikon D5100

So for my final poster I didn’t do much editing. I adjusted the blacks, brightness a little bit, bumped up the clarity and vibrance. In Photoshop I cropped it to all the different sizes I needed. I also added a smart sharpen filter and then masked it all out except for on her face. I chose this picture of my niece because the composition and colors and clarity of the picture. I also chose it because it’s my only picture that made it onto the Dean’s pick blog. It’s definitely one my brother or my parents would hang as well.

Night & Light

Wall painting; 2/20/2012 – 4:23PM; f/22; 100/10 sec- Nikon D5100; This was my first light painting and I tried painting the light on the wall rather than towards the camera and I actually liked how it turned out. It would obviously work better with a smaller light but it worked okay with what I had.

Camera Motion; 2/20/2012 – 7:46PM; Rigby ID; f/22; 80/10 sec – Nikon D5100; This picture was where I set a flashlight across the room shinging towards the camera and then I moved the camera around to form the movement of the lights. I didn’t realize before I took this picture that there was a light from some speakers behind it so it’s neat how the camera could capture even the smallest bit of light.

Nightlight; 2/20/2012 – 7:44PM; Rigby ID; f/22; 130/10 sec – Nikon D5100 This was a nightlight that my Mom has plugged into the wall and I moved the camera around to form the movement but I really liked the rays that came up from the light.

Grandma’s Sewing Machine; 2/20/2012 – 4:58PM; Rigby ID; f/29; 2.5 sec – Nikon D5100; Flashlight; I loved doing this picture, The darkest place around that I knew of during the day was in my Grandma’s house where my brother now lives. So I went through some of her boxes and found some random sewing stuff which I set up. I then put my camera on a tripod and put it on self timer, pushed the button, turned off the light and got in position on the far left side of the camera to light the subject. I purposely didn’t leave the shutter on for very long because I love the dark shadow effects.

Jana; 2/20/2012 – 4:27PM; Rigby ID; f/22; 100/10 sec – Nikon D5100; This picture was achieved by writing in the air with the flashlight facing the camera. I’m not sure what the green light is from but I like the effect as a whole.

Borders and Finishing

Puppy Love; 2/7/12 – 4:57PM; Rigby ID; f/5.3; 10/1250 sec – Nikon D5100

Sprayed Edge Effect; I liked how this border turned out and how simple it was. It worked out by just following the tutorial.

Photographic Pup; 1/31/2012 – 3:22PM; Rigby ID; f/5.6; 10/300 sec – Nikon D5100

Brushed-on Effect; I really like the effect of this border, but it was much harder than I expected. I tried to follow the tutorial but for some reason the brush it said to use did not work correctly, it would use the right colors but it would paint them all weird like. So I a Natural Brush instead of a thick heavy brush.

Smiles; 1/26/2012 – 4:59 PM; Rigby ID; f/5.6; 1/25 sec – Nikon D5100; Indoor lamp

Double Fade Border, this border was really hard. I had to try it a couple of different times and I wish with this time that I had used a lighter pink for the big border but it didn’t work to try changing the color afterwards because it would try changing her shoe as well.

Wheels; 2/10/2012 – 2:23 PM; Bannack Ghost Town, MT; f/8; 1/250 sec – Nikon D5100

Wheels framed; Something I took a lot of pictures of on the trip to Bannack was wheels.. I love wheels because they have an automatic focal point and are so fascinating. Putting together this fine art template was really fun. I like how simply it all just came together and it was nice to figure out what I want my signiture on my pictures to look like. I had a hard time creating a clipping mask but after trying a couple of times it worked.

Bannack – Best

Bannack – HDR (High Dynamic Range)

HDR’s are amazing. It’s so neat how it puts the pictures together and how well the colors and everything just seem to pop. I was excited to learn as I took pictures that my camera had an automatic bracketing feature and it made it really easy and fun to watch the pictures transform. I didn’t have any problems using Photomatix, I think the hardest part was choosing which setting I liked the most.

Bannack – Macro Abstract

Locked Doors

Bar; 2/10/12 – 12:45 PM; Bannack Ghost Town, MT; f/5.6; 1/125 sec – Nikon D5100

Door; 2/10/12 – 12:12 PM; Bannack Ghost Town, MT; f/8; 1/250 sec – Nikon D5100

I realized when I got home from Bannack that I did have some good texture shots but not a lot of good macro shots, I had a bunch of doorknobs and even some cupboard shots but I really liked this lock and the texture from the bar helped to pull out the color which was neat.

 

BANNACK – Reverse Shallow Depth

3. REVERSE SHALLOW DEPTH – at least 2 photos of the same scene, but opposite shallow focus points.

I ended up with a whole lot of pole pictures. I had fun playing with my camera though to see how far over I could keep the focus on what I wanted to be in focus. I find it neat how changing the focus of a picture can give it a whole new look.

 

BANNACK – Action Blur & Freeze

Merry-Go-Round; 2/10/12 - 12:56 PM; Bannack Ghost Town, MT; f/16; 1/125 sec- Nikon D5100

 

Ghosts; 2/10/2012 - 12:23 PM; Bannack Ghost Town, MT; f/25; 30 sec - Nikon D5100

It took me awhile to figure out how to shoot a “Ghost” picture or blurred action and I finally did get it on pictures better than this one but in the process of figuring it out I was able to take this picture which I really like because there are 3 ghosts in it and just the way it turned out. Frozen action I tried to do an indoor one which was hard and wasn’t turning out as frozen as I would have liked but then when I took the ones of Jacob playing on the merry-go- round I didn’t have as much of a problem.