Photo Contest

1. Firework; 7/4/11; 10:08 pm; Idaho Falls, Idaho; f 4; 1/10; Nikon D3100

I ended up taking this image in Idaho Falls while staying with my brother-in-law’s family. Some of his other relatives were lighting fireworks, so I decided to use my tripod and get some images of the action. While I had one other nice image from them, this is the one that turned out the best. This was also one of the only pictures I had taken in the Idaho Falls area, and I wanted to submit one I had taken as close to Idaho Falls as possible. For creating the entry, I simply emailed a copy of the original file to the email address they gave us on their contest page.

The contest I chose was the Idaho Falls Magazine photo contest. It was the only one available that I could submit to at the last moment. All of the other contests either didn’t apply to me or it was too late. It also would have been too late to find another one and get Sister Esplin’s approval in time, so this was the one I chose.

http://www.idahofallsmagazine.com/gallery/contest.cfm

Entry Submitted: 13 Jul 2011, 9:08 AM.

Poster

1. Wheel; 5/25/11; 2:49 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 3.2; 1/15; Canon PowerShot SD970 IS

I chose this image because of its simplicity and how the subject stands out from the rest of the content. With the battery on my Nikon camera dying, I had to revert to my point and shoot and didn’t have a lot of choices for manual settings. So I ended up having to take the picture with automatic settings, without using a flash. I tried using the rule of thirds the best I could, but had difficulty getting it to work, so I ended up trying to get the center of the wheel as close to the rule of thirds as I could. When the image turned out it was a little too bland for a good print quality, so I enhanced it with levels and saturation and used an edge burn. I love the overall quality of the image and how it turned out.

Night & Light

1. Blurred Lights; 6.11.2011; 11:03 pm; Rexburg, ID – Main Street; f 7.1; 4.0;  Nikon D3100

2. Light Sketching; 6.11.2011; 11:47 pm; Rexburg, ID – College Avevue; f 20; 5.0;  Nikon D3100

3. Camera Motion; 6.11.2011; 10:47 pm; Rexburg, ID – Fat Cats; f 18; 2.0; Nikon D3100

4. Light Painting; 6.12.2011; 10:42 pm; Rexburg, ID – Apartment; f 16; 15.0; Nikon D3100

For my Night & Light assignment, I ended up going with myself and 3 other friends, and we went and took the first 3 images together. For the Blurred Lights image, I went to the intersection by Wal-Mart and took pictures of a couple of cars going opposite directions. I was glad with how the rule of thirds ended up being used pretty well in this image. For the light sketching, my friends each took a flashlight and drew lines with it to show their different personalities. For the Camera Motion image, I went to Fat Cats and took an image moving around the stars on the left side of the building. And for the Light Painting, I ended up doing a photo on the desk in my room with a wireless mouse and a pair of glasses. I really liked how the dust showed itself and how the shadow from the glasses really stands out.

Fine Art Template

1. Group Portrait; 6.4.2011; 1:06 pm; Egin Lake; f 4; 1/1000; Nikon D3100

2. Chain; 5.25.2011; 5:04 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 4.5; 1/160; Nikon D3100

For my fine art templates, I took two of my favorite images and created a template to place them in. For the two images, I liked the group portrait I took from week 7, and the chain image I took from week 6. I especially like the boca and both of these images, which helps them to stand out in a template like this. To complete the templates, I followed the instructions given in CI tutorial #36 and changed the background color to a dark grey for both.

Scanography

 

1. Colored pencils; 6.6.2011; 12:43 am; Apartment; 600DPI.

2. Pens, pencil, and ruler; 6.6.2011; 12:59 am; Apartment; 600 DPI

3. Art 130 book; 6.6.2011; 12:50 am; Apartment; 600 DPI

4. Collage. 600 DPI.

5. Money; 6.6.2011; 1:05 am; Apartment; 600 DPI

For my scanography assignment, I decided to go back to the memories of my Art 130 class from last fall and scan a bunch of the items I used. For the final product, I took the book and colored pencil scans and duplicated them into the file my ruler scan was stored in. I then used the polygonal lasso tool to crop out each individual item from the ruler and book scans and created new layers, putting them all in the same document. I then resized the document to 700 pixels wide, which re-sized all of the layers at the same time. Using layer visibility, I saved the original scans and the final product into their own files. I liked the overall background on the ruler image and wanted to get rid of as much of the blurriness as I could, so I decided to lay the book over the area of the ruler that was the most blurry, to give better quality and more appeal to the overall image. The final product resulted. For the single scan, I ended up doing a money image, this resulted in a whiter background than the others, making it more suitable for this category.

Edge Effects

1. Football Throw; 6.4.2011; 1:52 pm; Egin Lake; f 5.6; 1/1000;  Nikon D3100

2. Volleyball Net Setup; 6.4.2011; 1:38 pm; Egin Lake; f 5.6; 1/1000;  Nikon D3100

3. Group Portrait; 6.4.2011; 1:06 pm; Egin Lake; f 4; 1/1000; Nikon D3100

For my edge effects, I ended up taking portrait shots at a ward activity to Egin Lake. I used the sprayed edge effect on the first image, the flexible vignette on the second image, and the burned border on the third image, using the directions given in the book. My favorite image among them would be the last one, as it gave the most presentable look and the overall image quality was the best out of the three. I also love the color variety, which helps to balance out the image as a whole.

Bannack Best

1. Salon Image – Original; 5.25.2011; 12:43 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 4; 1/160;  Nikon D3100

2. Salon Image – Modified; Used levels adjustment layer to brighten image.

3. Instructor; 5.25.2011; 2:26 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 5; 1/1600; Nikon D3100

4. Chain; 5.25.2011; 5:04 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 4.5; 1/160; Nikon D3100

5. Belt; 5.25.2011; 2:50 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 5; 1/13; Canon PowerShot SD970 IS

6. Wheel; 5.25.2011; 2:49 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 3.2; 1/15; Canon PowerShot SD970 IS

For my Bannack Best, I took a really nice portrait shot that ended up being too dark, so I used the levels feature in Photoshop to brighten the image overall. For the image of our instructor, Sister Esplin asked me to take a few shots and said it would make for a really good angle, and this was the best one I got out of them. On the chain image, I went into a building with a bunch of tools in them and the battery on my HDR had died, so I did a simple point-and-shoot picture and came out with this nice composition. And lastly for the wheel image, it was the same general idea as the photo previously mentioned. I took a darker image beforehand and it didn’t quite look right, so I took it again and it came out with the following image.

High Dynamic Range

1. Three Picture HDR – Image 1; 5.25.2011; 1:50 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 5; 1/80;  Nikon D3100; -2 EV

2. Three Picture HDR – Image 2; 5.25.2011; 1:50 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 5; 1/25;  Nikon D3100;

3. Three Picture HDR – Image 3; 5.25.2011; 1:50 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 5; 1/4;  Nikon D3100; 2 EV

4. Three Picture HDR – Final

5. One Picture HDR – Cemetery; 5.25.2011; 5:43 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 9; 1/400;  Canon PowerShot SD970 IS

6. One Picture HDR – Final

For my HDR images, I ended up noticing some colors on one of the doors that would have looked interesting, so I look 3 different exposure shots and tried to get them as close to the same in Photoshop as I could. I then went into Dynamic Photo, and merged them together into one image. For the one image HDR, I went into Dynamic Photo and converted it to HDR format with a nice color enhancement to get the colors to contrast better. I feel like it really helped the plants to pop out and add more contrast overall to the image.

Landscape – QEA

1. Landscape – Sky; 5.25.2011; 4:18 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 9; 1/800;  Canon PowerShot SD970 IS

2. Landscape – Horizon; 5.25.2011; 4:18 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 9; 1/160;  Canon PowerShot SD970 IS

3. Landscape – Ground; 5.25.2011; 4:17 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 9; 1/100;  Canon PowerShot SD970 IS

For my Landscape shots, I was barely able to distinguish between them, but I finally got it to work with my point-and-shoot. With the sky image, it compensated and made the image darker. For the horizon image, it was at a medium light tone. With the ground image, the most distinguishing characteristic from the horizon image is that the grass and the items on it are brighter. This is to compensate for less light being exposed when the camera was pointed toward the ground.

Macro Abstract

1. Macro Shot – Image 1; 5.25.2011; 2:35 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 8; 1/250;  Nikon D3100

2. Texture Shot – Image 2; 5.25.2011; 1:09 pm; Bannack Ghost Town, Montana; f 8; 1/250;  Nikon D3100

3. Macro Abstract – Final

For my Macro Abstract shot, I ended up using the macro setting on my camera to get a specific area of the wood in focus. I then took a texture shot of the wood on one of the buildings. I then placed a copy of the texture layer into the macro image file in Photoshop and placed the texture image on top, with an opacity of around 30%. The resulting image followed.