Photo Composite – Photoshop
Doing photo composites in Photoshop can be a lot of fun! The image below has taken me about 15 hours to complete – plus the time to take each of these photos used in the composite. It’s a lot of time for one photo, and I’m grateful I had the time to do it, but it really pushed my Photoshop skills to a new level in attempting to complete the composite. The easy part was getting all of the photos together into one and to get a basic idea of what it could look like. The hard part was thinking of all the little details to add to the realism of the final product. The things that...
Read MorePSW Guru Contest Entries
I’m going to Vegas, baby! This September I am going be back at Photoshop World and I’m participating in the Guru Awards Contest. Below are the images I would like to submit! Please tell me what you think of them! Guru Category entries and rules can be found here: http://photoshopworld.com/guru-awards-rules/ Photo Retouching Before After Photo...
Read MoreThe Fall of The House of Usher – Edgar Allen Poe
The Fall of The House of Usher was one of Edgar Allen Poe’s famous short stories. A story in which a brother buried his sister alive in the basement of their home. The sister scratches her way out of the coffin in which she was buried and seeks to find her brother out of anger! This is a new book cover concept based on the events of the story. It’s a little creepy and unlike anything I have ever done before. But I like that it was challenge of my skills and a way to broaden my focus of things I can do in Photoshop! What do you...
Read MorePictorial – Inside the Las Vegas Venetian
The original of this photo was taken inside the Las Vegas Venetian! I love this place – they have done such an amazing job with the architecture that you actually feel as if you are actually touring Venice. The idea behind this creative work was to use the history brush and make a photograph look more like a painting. This was done a lot in the early stages of photography as the art of a photograph was rejected by society. Photographers started to take their photos and then alter them so that they looked more like paintings than a photograph. Applying creative Photoshop filters through...
Read MoreNight Photography
These really don’t have much a place on my website, but they were fun to take and I think they turned out. The ones of the smoke stacks are pretty much right out of the camera. I only adjust the exposure and saturation of the photo. These next two photos are of my car. They are 30 second exposures outside. I was working with my film camera but decided I would get a couple of these! I am pleased with how well they have turned out. The one of exterior of the car need a lot of color correction to get it to look like I wanted it to. Then I kind of turned it into an Ad by adding some text to...
Read MoreMore 2010 Corolla!
Here are some more photos of my 2010 Corolla! If you have not caught on yet… I love cars and I love taking pictures of them. Apart from portrait photography, Automotive photography would be my next greatest passion! I wish I had a dealership of cars I could take out and photograph (and DRIVE of course) for fun! I did change the color of my car because the Charcoal Grey blended in with background too much and I wanted the car to stand out. The last two photos were inspired by the work of David Hockney and his interesting work of taking several photos to make one. It can be time consuming...
Read MoreMagazine Covers
I put these together a while back and thought I should put them online. Both of these were done while I was in college and the GQ cover was actually used for an assignment in my Technical Writing class. I thought it was the easiest assignment ever but I had a lot of fun doing this – it’s the comments I get on them that really make it worth doing these. The images of me and graphics were handled in Photoshop while all the text was supported in InDesign. Now if I were famous – then they would be legit! Let me know what you think of these!
Read MoreFarm Truck – Before and After Light Painting
Here is another light painting I did with Caryn Esplin and Kris Fryer. They are so much fun to go out with and shoot with. We have had a such a great time and this night we got a ton of images to work with! We couldn’t figure it out… we got more shots, in less time, and we made it back to Rexburg an hour before we usually have when we’ve traveled just 30 minutes away. Tell me what you...
Read MoreImproved Skills – 1 year.
Okay. So lately I have been going through some old photos I have on my computer. Let me just say. Yikes! It makes me wonder why I thought that was so good at the time or why the edits I applied were even skillful. However, I must say this… if it weren’t for those photos, I would never know where I’ve been. It has actually been very exciting to see my growth and progression in the Photography and Design areas of my life. Two years ago I started taking classes in college to help me better understand the basics of all these creative subjects and I’ve come so far! I will...
Read MoreBe Patient – We all get better with time!
“ Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. “ – Henri Cartier-Bresson Do you know how many photos you have taken up until now? You will have to take thousands of pictures to reach a point where you can begin to evaluate them objectively. Looking upon your photos as if you were looking at them through someone else’s eyes is a good way to give yourself constructive criticism. Comparing your first photos with your most recent, do you see improvement? Do you remember how you loved some of your first photos – do you still love them or are they now not so good anymore? Read...
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