See the World How I Do

These two images are both images that I have used on this blog in the past, but now I added them as part of an official fine art template. Here they are:

Water; 9/20/09; 7:15 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/5.6; 1/40; Olympus E-520; auto

Sewing Machine; 10/07/09; 1p.m.; Bannack Ghost Town; f/4.1; 1/40; Olympus E-520

The template was made by using a cool trick found in the Custom Images textbook. You use rectangles made as a shape layer and then hover an image over the layer until a link command appears. Click on the link command, and Photoshop will automatically add the image into the shape layer. .You can apply as many images as you please. I though this was a pretty neat tutorial.

A month ago I did a photo-a-day project and never ended up posting it. I lucked out and spent that week in Austin, Texas so I was able to get some great shots. Austin is such a cool city, so full of life and beauty. You will notice that there is no Monday shots, I only took pictures Tuesday-Sunday

Tuesday: I love candy, and I love how pretty candy is when it is lined up in shops so I took this image with a shallow depth of field to show the art in candy stocking.

Candy; Salt Lake City, UT; 10/27/09; 10 am; 1/30; f/4.4

Wednesday: Wednesday afternoon I took the 4 block or so walk to see the capitol building. I wanted to capture that it was the “lone-star state” as wel as get the capital building in the shot and this is what I came up with.

Lone-star State; Austin, TX; 10/28/09; 2:30 pm; 1/200; f/8

Thursday: Just another evening walking around downtown. The sunset was casting such beautiful light that I made Amberlee stop so I could do a portrait shot of her, she was a good sport.

Amberlee; Austin, TX; 10/29/09; 7:30 pm; 1/80; f/5.6

Friday:On Friday I went to see the bats fly out at sunset from under this bridge, the Congress Avenue Bridge. There are around 1.5 million bats that come out all at the same time. It was one of the most remarkable things I have ever seen.

Congress Avenue Bridge; Austin, TX; 10/30/09; 8 pm; 1/200; f/8

Saturday: On Saturday I got to visit the University of Texas. It is a pretty awesome campus. This was the bulletin board on the edge of campus.

Bulletin Board; Austin, TX; 10/31/09; 4 pm; 1/160; f/7.1

Sunday: My last day in Austin. I took this shot from the hotel window. We were on the 20th floor. Austin is a really beautiful city.

Skyline; Austin, TX; 11/01/09; 9 am; 1/125; f/4.5

These images were pretty fun to combine to make Brad into a lamp. I just put the layers on top of each other and then cut out the head and arms individually to place them and rotate them just right to fit perfectly with the lamp.

Lamp:11.15.09; 9 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/ 3.8; 1/10; Olympus E-520; tripod

Muscle Brad:11.15.09; 9 p.m.; Rexburg, ID; f/3.8; 1/8; Olympus E-520; tripod

Also, here is this one just for fun. My husband and I created this last year some time. It is a combination of 3 images, one overlooking the Salt Lake Valley, one of a guitar, and one of me.  I have lost the original images but here is the final product. We made it sepia so that the values of the images blended better together. The guitar illusion was created by changing the opacity.

View from the Hill: 11.8.09; Rexburg, ID; 4:20 p.m.; f/8; 1/250; Tripod

These images were all taken from the top of the hill up by the Rexburg Temple. I wanted to have a photograph of what my eyes could see looking out on Rexburg. I did not have to make any edits to the shots other than some minor cropping on the panoramic image. I used the photomerge tool in photoshop to create this effect.

Family in leaves: 10.25.09 / 6:15p.m. /Rexburg, ID / f 4.9 / 1/40 / Olympus E-520

Couple chair:10.25.09 / 6:15p.m. /Rexburg, ID / f 5.2 / 1/30 / Olympus E-520

Couple tracks:10.25.09 / 6 p.m. /Rexburg, ID / f 5.6 / 1/500 / Olympus E-520

Family blue door:10.25.09 / 6:50p.m. /Rexburg, ID / f 4.3 /1/50 / Olympus E-520

Family ladder far:10.25.09 / 5:40 p.m. /Rexburg, ID / f 3.5 / 1/100 / Olympus E-520

Family ladder close:10.25.09 / 5:40 p.m. /Rexburg, ID / f 5.6 / 1/50 / Olympus E-520

I took these photos of some friends of mine. They were really great to work with. They were natural and it was a lot of fun. I added a warming filter to “couple chair” and “couple tracks” but other than some contrast changes, the pictures are mostly un-edited. I think they turned out pretty good for my first portrait shots.