Week 10: Fine Art Template

Here are three fine art templates I created using three pictures from this semester. I think this is a fun way to display a photo. I did notice that it only works with certain photos since it breaks the image in pieces. I think the last of my three works but not as well as the other two.

Week 9: Straight Photolusion

For this photo I decided I wanted to do I Rexburg Temple snow globe. So I found a little plastic fish bowl, sprayed it with fake snow and had my roommate hold it up with the temple in the background. I think it turned out ok. Since it was dark it didn't come out super clear. I used a tripod but with the shape of the plastic bowl things reflected and it distorted the temple a little. It was fun though, I think I might see if it works better in the day.















1. Temple Snow Globe: 11-17-09; 8:51 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/5; 1/60; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

Week 9: Photolusion Blend

I call this image "Living in a shoe". For this assignment I took five images, four I had and one new image. To create a new image by blending the together. I started by blending the sky into the grass background using a mask. Then I used the lasso tool to pull the shoe out and place it on top. I added a shadow and blended it into the background. I then took pieces of the house, put the behind the shoe and used a mask to blend that image in. Last I used the quick selection tool to pull out the people, used a mask to bend, and added a shadow. I also messed around with saturation and levels on some of the images. It was kind of fun and makes me think of kids stories about characters living in shoes.











































1. Sky: 5-19-09; 5:26 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/10; 1/160; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

2. Grass: 5-19-09; 5:27 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/8; 1/125; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

3. Shoe: 11-17-09; 3:55 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/4.5; 1/2 sec; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

4. Couple: 7-10-09; 3:08 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/6.3; 1/60; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

5. House: 5-16-09; 4:41 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/8; 1/125; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

Week 8: Panoramic

This is my panoramic. I found all these old cars out on the road that leads to Beaver Dick Park. The hard thing I found with panoramic images is getting the exposures the same. I found the images on the right were much darker then the left. So what I did was add layers with the screen on it to lighten the right side. Then I masked out the left until I found they matched up better.

Week 8: Panoramic Pics

Here are the images I used for the panoramic. I used 16 pictures but for some reason I couldn't get all of them to upload. I found it hard to get them all looking the same. I guess I learned this works best using all manual settings. Luckily photoshop is amazing!

Panoramic Images: 11-8-09; 4:47 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/6,.3; 1/320; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

Week 7: Photo a day template

This is the template I created for the photo a day spread. I used a texture picture I had taken for my background and increased the saturation and dropped the opacity. I then made the seven boxes I wanted my photos to be placed in. I added a stroke and drop shadow to all of the boxes. Text was added and the photos were placed in the rectangle shapes by using the clipping masks. Which is a very useful tool, I enjoyed learning how to do this! This trick is quite handy because it allows you to make a basic layout and then easily insert images and text in minutes.

Week 7: Photo a day

This assignment was fun. The hard thing was getting yourself to remember and get out to take a photo each day. I decided for this assignment to shoot things around Rexburg. Things we may pass by but not really notice unless we are paying attention. I still tried to keep them all giving the same feel of small town in Idaho.




















































1. Lines: 10-26-09; 5:43 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/11; 1/500; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

2. Chair: 10-27-09; 5:24 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/6.3; 1/320; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

3. Tire: 10-28-09; 5:06 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/4.5; 1/100; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

4. Bench: 10-29-09; 5:37 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/10; 1/400; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

5. Old Paint: 10-30-09; 4:23 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/5; 1/200; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

6. Marry-go-round: 10-31-09; 4:57 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/5.6; 1/80; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI

7. Rustic Metal: 11-1-09; 3:17 pm; Rexburg, Id; f/5.6; 1/80; Canon ESO Digital Rebel XTI