Waiting for Rain

I made up my mind that I wanted to take pictures in the rain and while we were waiting, we took pictures along the Bike trail. There are a couple of really neat wooden bridges and I had Rachel model on them. I only had to crop and adjust the lighting in this photo.

Right as we got to the bark river, it started pouring and the pictures turned out nicely. I played with the overlay technique on this picture. I had a photo of a blue sky and perfect reflection of the clouds in the lake so I copied and pasted the reflection and overlayed it on this picture. I pasted it again, rotated it and made it a mirror image of the bottom half. I like the way the reflection in the river is not gray as would be expected during a storm.
I took the picture of Rachel dancing in the rain and overlayed a picture of a purple thistle from earlier in the day. I really like how the flower frames her and enhances the colors. I clone-stamped out a car and road signs from the background.

Self Portraits

Family is really important to me and since I will be graduating in a week, I think this photo works really well for a self portrait. My cousin, Angie, is 15 days younger than me and people would often mistake us for twins when we were younger. I took this picture of her and our cousin's daughter at Angie's graduation. I adjusted the color balance, applied a Blur to the background, enhanced their eyes and clone stamped a truck out of the background.

I took this picture at my cousin's graduation last weekend. The timeing was just about perfect and I managed to catch most people and their caps in the air. I am using this for a self portrait because I am nearing Graduation myself and this has largely been my frame of mind since spring break. I cropped the photo, adjusted the colors and contrast and clone stamped out the school name.

This photo was taken on the Outdoor stage and because of the natural shade in the courtyard, I think the lighting came out very nicely. In photoshop, I made my eyes pop and made color adjustments. I also applied a Guassian Blur to the background.

Falling

“Falling” - Iration

We met at a concert
You were wearing converse
I'm not good at playing it cool
You said I was funny
I spent all my money...

What A Shame

"What a Shame" Shinedown

There's a hard life for every silver spoon,
A touch of gray for every shade of blue.
That's the way that I see life,
If there was nothing wrong then there'd be nothing right.

Portraits- Back Light (Silhouette)

To take the silhouettes, I turned the exposure down on my camera so that most of the detail was lost in the model. I took pictures of her posing and jumping but this one is definitly a combination of them both. She was either about to jump or just coming back down. The arch in her back and the poof in her skirt make her look like a ballerina. I worked on this photo a lot in photoshop because, originally, the picture was tilted with the horizon line running between the corners. I tilted the whole picture until the horizon line was straight, and then cropped a rectangle into it. The corners where then white so I used the Clone Stamp to bring the images out to the edges. I then applied a Gaussian Blur Overlay with an Opacity around 20%.

Portraits- Posing

This photo was taken in a two-foot wide alley downtown. The bricks bring in a lot of texture and I had Hannah prop herself up between the two walls. I adjusted the colors to make them warmer and cloned stamped out some signs in the background.

Yellow Wallpaper

In order to represent the "Yellow Wallpaper" I found a spot where the paint was peeling. I had my model hold onto the peeling paint like she was ripping it off the wall like the woman in the "Yellow Wallpaper" ripped down her wallpaper. The woman in the story also felt like she and the women in the wallpaper were trapped behind bars so I took the picture behind a railing. In photoshop, I cropped the picture and applied a Gaussian Blur Overlay and lowered the opacity.