Photo Illusion

This was a really fun assignment! We had to take one picture that wasn't edited and make it look like something was off. Then we could edit one in photoshop. It was fun to think of different ideas for what I could do. The one that I thought of last minute was the one that looked the best and the one I chose.
I thought it would be fun to play around with my little brother and sister and their egos. My little brother is always teasing my little sister about being short. So in my photo illusion, I had Lucas stand back and Miranda come forward and made it look like Lucas was so small, he could fit in Miranda's hand! I had him act like he was gonna take a big step off of her hand and I thought it looked great!

1- Giant leap
2- 11/15/09 5:00 pm
3- Rigby, Idaho
4- F- Stop 10 Shutter Speed 1/200
5- Cannon Rebel t1i

This one we thought up in our apartment as I was playing around with a different idea, but I thought this one turned out better, so it's going on the blog. It was really fun to make this look real. I know it still needs some work, but I thought it was fun!

1- Gimme the apple!
2- 11/15/09 10:00 pm
3- Rexburg, Idaho
4- F- Stop 3.5 Shutter Speed 1/30
5- Cannon Rebel t1i


1- Gimme the apple! background
2- 11/15/09 10:00 pm
3- Rexburg, Idaho
4- F- Stop 3.5 Shutter Speed 1/30
5- Cannon Rebel t1i


1- Gimme the apple! Dave cut out
2- 11/15/09 10:00 pm
3- Rexburg, Idaho
4- F- Stop 3.5 Shutter Speed 1/30
5- Cannon Rebel t1i

Panoramic

I had some problems with this assignment. If I had a camera and a tripod, I could have ended up with a great picture, so I think this is another assignment that I would like to further explore. Also, the newer versions of photoshop have a better Automate than CS2 which I realized on Saturday night, too late to make it to the school. However, I was able to piece together (with my amazing photoshopping skills ;o) ) about three or four of my pictures to make this panoramic. But this is something I would like to work on.


Adding some edits to make it interesting. I adjusted some colors, put a few filters on and masked to create this picture.

1- Snake River at Heise
2- 10/10/09 6:00 pm
3- Ririe, Idaho
4- F- Stop 4
5- Sony



1- Snake River at Heise
2- 10/10/09 6:00 pm
3- Ririe, Idaho
4- F- Stop 4
5- Sony

Photo Book Layout

This photo book template allows different photos to be placed in the same template with little work and no redesigning. This template is taken from Sister Esplin's examples. All I had to do was size and place my pictures and create a clipping mask. This allows the pictures to fit with the boarder around it and look like this page was designed specifically for my pictures. To place different pictures in the template, all you have to do is delete the first pictures, place them, create a clipping mask and you're done! This is a time saver!!
Template

Personalized with my pictures

A Week of Photos

This assignment gave me a great opportunity to pack a camera around every day. There are some things that can't wait until you have a camera to happen, and when you don't, it can be disappointing to miss the chance of a great picture. Because I had a camera all week, I got to take some great once-in-a-lifetime shots (geese) and some shots that I see every day, but hadn't taken a picture of yet (mailboxes). I hope you enjoy the shots I took as much as I enjoyed taking them. But I doubt you will. :)

1- Mailboxes
2- 10/27/09 3:15 pm
3- Rexburg, ID
4- F-Stop 18 Shutter Speed 85 sec
5- Cannon Rebel T1i

1- Dave in the fall
2- 10/29/09 5:45 pm
3- Idaho Falls, ID
4- F-Stop 4 Shutter Speed 320 sec
5- Cannon Rebel T1i

1- Geese
2- 10/31/09 5:30 pm
3- Idaho Falls, ID
4- F-Stop 5.6 Shutter Speed 640 sec
5- Cannon Rebel T1i

1- Tree On Fire
2- 10/29/09 7:20 pm
3- Idaho Falls, ID
4- F-Stop 4.6 Shutter Speed 1000 sec
5- Cannon Rebel T1i

1- Ducky
2- 10/31/09 5:20 pm
3- Idaho Falls, ID
4- F-Stop 5.6 Shutter Speed 250 sec
5- Cannon Rebel T1i

1- Night Temple Trees
2- 10/31/09 7:40 pm
3- Idaho Falls, ID
4- F-Stop 4.5 Shutter Speed .3 sec
5- Cannon Rebel T1i

1- Snow on the Fall
2- 10/30/09 11:15 am
3- Rexburg, ID
4- F-Stop 2.5 Shutter Speed 2000 sec
5- Cannon Rebel T1i