Found this on my old myspace account... thought I had lost it when my computers crashed a couple years ago... yay me!
Monday, March 29, 2010
Old photo...
Found this on my old myspace account... thought I had lost it when my computers crashed a couple years ago... yay me!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Become A Better Photographer
Hello All,
I found this interesting blog entry (?) that I wanted to share with everyone. I thought it might be helpful to some, but it might be common sense to others. Anyway, here it is:
The Link To It!
I found this interesting blog entry (?) that I wanted to share with everyone. I thought it might be helpful to some, but it might be common sense to others. Anyway, here it is:
The Link To It!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
omg... totally... 2 days old!
i'm sure no one cares as much as i do... lol... but hey... its a picture!
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Free Photo Stuff
This is kinda cool for anyone who's interested.
(ps- I don't know why it uploaded like that, but oh well it got all the vital info lol)
(ps- I don't know why it uploaded like that, but oh well it got all the vital info lol)
Friday, March 19, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
making a photo
I came across these photos on found and thought they were interesting examples of made photos even though they use toys. Sorry I don't have the artist name.
-Nicole
Friday, March 12, 2010
Happy Friday!
Hey there classmates! For all of you looking for something fun to do this weekend (besides taking photos, of course), I suggest you go see Alice in Wonderland. I saw this in 3-D last weekend and absolutely loved it!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Color Correcting in CS4
James our T.A. taught me and others a way of color correcting that helps in getting your photo to the perfect color balance so I thought I would type it up and share it with the whole class. Hope these instructions make sense, and if not comment and I will be sure to explain further!! Hope this helps in your color balancing techniques!!
Color Correcting-
-Make a copy of your original picture and create a new layer
-Go to edit, then fill, and make sure Use is 50% gray (shortcut to get here is F5)
-Make sure blending is normal and opacity is 100, than click ok
-Double click your background copy to get to layer styles
-Go to blend mode and pick difference then hit ok
-Go to the half moon icon (the circle that is half black and half white) and click threshold
-On the threshold slide icon to the left and then start moving back to the right until gray starts to appear. Hit shift and click to make your point on the gray area.
-Throw layers away
-Click the half moon icon again and go to threshold to move your icon again. To the left is your black point; to the right is your white point. Shift and click to make your points.
-Throw the layer away
-Go back to half moon icon and go to curves. There you have the three eyedroppers and you click your black, white and gray points. Do your black and white first, then the gray.
-Hit shift, and option to click on the points to cut them out of your picture.
* This works best if your photo is in RAW format. If your photo is already color balanced fairly well, this won’t change it very much. And sometimes this may only get you to a good starting position in order to add contrast or minor color corrections.
Good luck on the upcoming project!!!! :)
Color Correcting-
-Make a copy of your original picture and create a new layer
-Go to edit, then fill, and make sure Use is 50% gray (shortcut to get here is F5)
-Make sure blending is normal and opacity is 100, than click ok
-Double click your background copy to get to layer styles
-Go to blend mode and pick difference then hit ok
-Go to the half moon icon (the circle that is half black and half white) and click threshold
-On the threshold slide icon to the left and then start moving back to the right until gray starts to appear. Hit shift and click to make your point on the gray area.
-Throw layers away
-Click the half moon icon again and go to threshold to move your icon again. To the left is your black point; to the right is your white point. Shift and click to make your points.
-Throw the layer away
-Go back to half moon icon and go to curves. There you have the three eyedroppers and you click your black, white and gray points. Do your black and white first, then the gray.
-Hit shift, and option to click on the points to cut them out of your picture.
* This works best if your photo is in RAW format. If your photo is already color balanced fairly well, this won’t change it very much. And sometimes this may only get you to a good starting position in order to add contrast or minor color corrections.
Good luck on the upcoming project!!!! :)
Monday, March 8, 2010
Mystery Bird
This is basically aimed at Jon, the raptor biologist, but I am open to other opinions on what kind of hawk this is. I've narrowed it down to a hawk. Not a sparrow, not an eagle, not a duck.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Hubbard & Birchler
I've been looking at a lot of different artists work lately and just thought I would share with you these artists,whose work I thought was kind of interesting. I felt like it tied into the "making a picture" theme that we have for our current assignment.
Hubbard&Birchler
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Panoramic Photography
I have never tried to create a panoramic photo before, but during my trip to Laguna Beach over President's Day weekend I decided to give it a shot. I used my dinky little Nikon point and shoot camera and it actually turned out pretty well.
Also, I found it surprisingly easy to stitch them together using the Photomerge option in PS. This photo was a series of three different photos, I just made sure each photo overlapped a little in order for them to be stitched together. If anyone hasn't tried this yet, you should give it a shot! :)
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