1. Poster Title(s) and print sizes:  “Portrait of a Lady”

2. Date – Time – Location :  Bannack Ghost Town
3. Camera, Mode, F-stop, Shutter Speed:  Canon, Evaluative Metering Mode & Manual White Balance, F-Stop of 5.0 and Shutter Speed of 1/50.

4. All Edits:  I used the spot healing brush, clone stamp and blur tool under the eyes  to take wrinkles away and soften using the blur tool.  I tried to burn in red highlights to her hair, but it looked fake, so I stepped backward and undid it.

5. Why you chose this image(s), and explain your photographic and editing techniques.

I  chose this image because the woman was posing and having a good time.  I like how I had framed her in the picture on the right and included her Snowy-white wrap on the left.  She appears to be relaxed.

 

 

 

 

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High Dynamic Range

Best of Bannack

These photographs and portraits were taken on May 25th in Montana at Bannack Ghost Town. 

Before

I took this picture inside an old saloon with a shutter of 1/50 and aperture of 5.0.  I took several quick consecutive pictures and liked the way the model was positioned on the right hand side.  I added a new layer and changed hue/saturation levels to add red to her hair and the knotch in the background.

Action Freeze

The after shot has more vivid color because I changed Brightness and Contrast levels on a new layer.    By using a fast shutter of 1/500 I caught the guy in mid-air.  The sky is much brighter than the original picture due to changing color levels.

Action Freeze

 

Shallow Depth of Field

1.  This is my favorite after picture and I’m happy how I have added edits.  This took a lot of time for me to edit.  While bringing original color back I kept getting a weird orange tint on the piano and keys.  My effort at getting the keys to be blurry was used with an aperture of 2.7.   I like the how the lighting of the piano bench and window has good shadows by remaining black and white.  Since the piano is the focal point of the room I added color.

 

Sepia

This picture was at 3pm inside the Saloon next to natural light.  I kept my ISO at 100 and changed it to Sepia.

 

PERSONAL FAVORITES!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portraits

Camera Raw & Panoramics

Camera Raw

Motorcycles:  I don’t have a Camera Raw setting on my camera, however I was lucky enough to be loaned a temporary camera from a classmate.  I took the motorcyle picture by the Stadium on Friday May 13th.  The Aperture was f/10.0, shutter 1/800.  taken 5/13/2011 at 2:04, ISO = 400.

Skin Boards:

I took this picture at Egin Lake near the sand dunes late afternoon on the 13th of May.  The Aperture is f/7.1, with shutter of 1/320, the IS0= 125. Edited in camera raw by changing hue, brightness, contrast and saturation levels.

Panoramics

This panoramic picture is actually three separate photographs merged together.  I used photo merge under the the file menu on Adobe Photoshop.  I really like this feature on Photoshop and plan on using it further in the future.

Flora & Fauna

Photography Post

1. Inside the Benson Building Greenhouse May 6th,2011 about 1:30. I set my aperture  to 3/5, shutter to 1/250 and ISO of 160.  I love how the variations in color compliment each other with warm orange chutes, cool green leaves and pink petals.  I still want to practice cut outs and think this an nice image to practice with.

2. The afternoon on May 6th I visited the Benson Building where I found a couple of greenhouses.  My Digital Camera was a Sony DCS-H20.  With a Landscape setting, I adjusted my shutter to be 1/10 with an aperture of 4.0.  The ISO was set to 80. I also changed the Brightness levels instead of using a flash.

3.  This was taken May 6th at 1:20.  I used an aperture of 3/5 and shutter speed of 1/250.  ISO was programmed to 250.

4.  I took several shots of this bird because he had a fun personality.  I used f/3.5 as my aperture and the shutter was quick at 1/400.  I took this picture around 2 pm Friday the 6th of May on campus.

Editing Post

1.  Ladybug:  First I Unsharpened the mask under the Filter menu. I used black paint on the leaf and ladybug to make them my focal point.  I wanted the background blurry and the focal point to be bright without looking too saturated or fake.  So I made the Hue +6,  Saturation -1 and Lightness -11.  Initially I made a thin black edge with Gaussian Blur, but changed it to have a thicker radius at 107.9 pixels.

2.  I took the picture on  5/6/11 in a Green house on campus.  Settings were f/4.0, shutter at 1/250, ISO of 200 and Exposure Compensation was set to 0.  I thought I wanted to make the background dark and have the bird bright. However, I chose to increase Hues and Saturation but keep the background a medium shade.  I made the parrot take up more of the image and took the lower window out of the image.  Also, I used the crop tool to make a black border and after a couple tries understood how to make my text more spaced with the Kerning tool.

Editing Post

Blending Modes

I liked the difference in lighting and the lines of the pillars in the BYUI center.  I took this April 22 about 1:30pm.  My aperture was 7.1 and shutter set to 1/80.

Image taken April 27, 2011 at 12:30pm with shutter at 1/1250  and f-stop of 7.1.

I blended the patchy sky with the BYUI Center lighting by setting the Opacity to 70%.

Type Modes

Taken April 27, 2011at 12:40 with a Fast shutter speed of 1/800.  Aperture setting of 7.1. 

Taken April 27, 2011 at 12:45.  For this photo I set my shutter to 1/80 and f-stop of 7.1.

I used the second picture as my main image.  The word to the left was taken from the first image of the curvy, rock texture.  I want to improve on this Mode.

Photography Post

1. Image taken Thursday evening on April 28, 2011 about 6:15 in the Manwaring Center.  I chose to set my aperture at f/2.7 with 1/30 as my shutter speed.

2.  This vase is in the Crossroads.  I took the picture Thursday April 28, 2011 about 6:30pm.  I set my aperture to 2.7 and shutter to 1/10, with an Exposure Compensation to +2.

3.  This comfy couch was taken about 6pm on the BYU Idaho campus Thursday the 28th of April 2011.  My Aperture was programmed to 2.7 with a slow shutter of 1/30.  I like this setup with the table in the foreground, juice bottle and television in the background to add depth.

4.  This is as close to attending the concert as I could get this semester.  I took this near the Campus Library on April 28.  I dedicate this photo to unknown passerby who made the poster swing, helping me use a fast shutter speed of 1/250 and aperture of f/2.7.

Cutouts

 Full Cutout             

 

1.  Central California; March 2010; 1p.m.

Partial Cutout

2.  Sacramento State Fair; August 2010; 8p.m.