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.