- I was uncertain on my intention going into this project. It was the stamp duplicate tool. I was simple playing around with the picture and was excited to come up with something good.

-At first I was unable to figure out how to use the tool. Was not adding new layers, so i was having very little luck. When I finally was able to duplicate the building. I was quite shocked with how well the building copied.

-The most succesful part of the photo, in my opinion, is how well the duplicte building came out.

-If i go back to edit the image again, now knowing burn, dodge and other image enhancements I would spruce the rest of the image up. Including shading the background building to make it more prominent.

Photo Story Phtotos

Work on final

Picture 1

Color Burn- grey, green and yellow.
Text
Image adjustment, Sharpen

#2
pot healing brush, Content Aware.
Color Burn Yellow
Smart brush, reverse black and white
Smart Brush, Sky Enhance

#3
Hue Adjustment
Spot healing brush content aware
Color Burn, Black
Color dodge, white

#4
Select Brush
Smart brush, black and white
Color Burn, Red
Contrast Ajust
Sharpness adjustment
#5
Filter Pencil outline
Light adjustment 
Hue adjustment

#6
Clone tool
Maurqee tool
Paint bucket
Burn, black
Dodge, white and yellow
Smartbrush, vivid sky

#7
Burn. black
Dodge, white
Red layer
Light adjust
Contrast adjust

#8
Dodge, white
Smart brush, lava
Blue skies
Burn, green

#9
Sharpness adjust
Dodge
Burn
Paint, black
Blue skies

#10
 Burn, Black
Dodge, white
Paint yellow
Smart brush, Blue skis

#11
Burn
Color Lighten
Paint

Final

Final Photo Story

Portraits

 My first two images where taken while me and three friends of mine when hiking in southern Utah about three weeks ago. I thought the idea of natural setups behind a portrait was the best way to go about it. I have never been a big fan of portraits with a simple white background. I tried to find images that had the ability to show how these two felt, while still having good texture in the backgrounds. The first one was of my buddy Ben. He was not a huge fan of me asking to take a portrait and he was actually mid-hitting the camera from my hand, however i think the picture worked out well. The other one of another buddy. I thought this picture showed how cold and miserable he was after a very long and cold day. I really liked the aspect of him sitting as well as being sideways. I thought black and whit was the best when to pull across the emotion of each photo, the color one's where almost dull by comparison.


The last one was taken a while ago with a tripod and different camera, however I always really liked this image as a portrait. It is of me and my friend ben(from above) just after i had shaved my head, he was disgusted by the site and i found myself cracking up over it.

Wk 12

Clone, Paint, Letter

 Hey everybody, just recently got back from a trip
across country. Had a great time taking pictures while I was there.

The first one I duplicated to add a second tower
to the top right. Really thought this tool was cool.
I never knew I could create a clone. It took me quite a while to figure out. When I finally got a good  one, I was so afraid to mess it up again. The reason behind the squiggle on the mans back. 

 This Second one I painted the house a bright shade of red. For some reason it wont upload in as bright of a shade, however I still think it looks cool. I had known how to you paint a little before this class, however never really trusted the bucked button. However it think it worked great. Took a bit of trying to get just the house painted.

New Camera needs practice

Here are the delayed landscape pictures I owe everyone. I know the first one is a cityscape, however I was in Boston when i got my new SLR camera and I had to play around with it a little. I had a good time driving around VT taking pictures as well tho, however lacking in good weather I was. The second picture I saw while driving down through Quechee. I thought it would make an amazing picture, I really liked how the fog made for a very eerie background. The second two where taken over the highway at my first sign of sun, I had to stop and try and get how the fog had settled in the mountain, while the sun was peaking through the mountains, the photo's did not show it very well, but with time with my new camera it will come. The last picture was the same, could not quite capture the sun poking through.

This project gave me a great deal of trouble. I am not certain if it is just because my computer is out dated or if I my photo editing ability needs a great deal of work. It however took me over 8 hours to figure out how to download the software, edit the images, save them, and then upload them. I think the software is very cool, however you definitely need to know your stuff to use it. My first picture is walking down the Boston common, I just liked the photo and wanted to edit it to Make it look better. The second is driving up the road in my town, I added the street light from my Boston picture to make it look a little different. Had not Idea that it would almost look really. Very cool, I am surely going to play around with the program a bit.

Landscapes

I really enjoy taking pictures of landscapes. What is cooler than to capture those images that you walk up on or see every day. The pictures I am sharing late are from my trip again last fall ( Good thing I took alot of pictures. Sorry they are old and late. I however broke my camera taking pictures outside. I will post new images on landscapes this coming week. I had a great time taking these pictures though. Generally I was on a break from hiking, so it was incredible to stop and enjoy the world around me. The first two were in Little Cottenwood canyon in Southern Utah. The third was taken in Lancoln Dome, Wyoming. The last three where taken in the Wind River Range in Wyoming.

Reply to weekly lesson

I thought the information to be learned this week was quite interesting. I read through the post done by the Navy first. My first Ah-ha moment came when the subject of balance came up. I knew that a picture needed to have some form of balance to it. However I was unaware of how many different way there where to give balance to a photograph. My other Ah-ha moment in this reading was the part about foreground and background. I have always though keep it simple when it comes to photography. It was nice to learn that keeping the background simple helps emphasize the subject of the photo, or even blurring it will allow to let the subject pop-out. As well as the reverse, if your emphasis is on the background, let the foreground be simple. I also really enjoyed looking at the pictures of of photography mad.com, learning from examples helps give preview to the information learned, especially with vibrant scenes that are easy to remember.

 For this assignment I tried to capture all three of the color schemes in my house.

(The picture to the left represents Analogous. Where the green and the yellow are next to each other on the color wheel and are suppose to accentuate each other.) 

     (The picture to the right is suppose to represent a Monochromatic Scheme, using different shades of tan to create a soothing picture.)

( The final picture is intended to represent a Complementary color scheme. Where the green and the red are on opposite sides of the color wheel.)

I really had fun playing around with this assignment. I played around with pictures of different things I enjoy seeing and doing. While also trying to capture something unique to add texture. The blue in the bottom is a plastic bag and the background is a vase in the restaurant I work at. Took about 200 pictures playing around and used the scattered format in Picasa, because I really like the way it looks like someone just dropped the pictures on a table. Very fun!

   I apologize to everyone for my late post. I used my camera on a ski trip a few weeks ago where it did not make it back, I am still waiting for my new one to come. Because of my camera issue, I decided to share a few pictures from my semester with NOLS. I took this semester in the Rocky Mountains last fall. I looked for pictures that matched the point of view structures, where i could remember playing around with the settings on the camera.




( The photo above was taken just on the eastern side of the continental divide. In the picture is Lizard head peak, as well as another student on the trip.)


( The picture to the left is of a cow jaw, something which is a common find in Bryce canyon of southern Utah.)

( The picture to the right is on the ridge of a canyon where we spent the night. Also in Bryce Canyon. The picture below is of the same spot with our tent on it. This was taken the next morning.)