Photostory

 

 

Vinyl has such a pure sound. There is nothing like cracking open the plastic wrap on a new album, opening up the album to see the what's inside, sliding the record out of the sleeve and holding it in your hand and then the moment you set it on the turntable, the excitement takes over. I hope you enjoy my journey through vinyl. It was a fun project to make!

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Portraits

 

 

Taking portraits are probably the most difficult of all photos to take. I can see the shot I want, but when I get my camera pointed at the subject, that shot is gone. This week posed as a great challenge. Even with doing a research paper on Robert Frank who captured such great photos of people all around the country, I just couldn't get the right photo. In the readings it mentioned portraits don't have to be of people but objects. The two photos below are my attempt at portraits. One was taken at Field Days in Addison County and the other was taken on the way to Basin Harbor.

I call this one "Pops". I was sitting eating at the sausage stand. The gentleman grilling yells over, in his thick NYC accent,  to the main relaxing on a folding chair, "Pops! Can you get some more peppers prepped?" The older man jumped up and eagerly helped. What intrigued me about this man was he was a bit older than the two gentleman grilling. Was Pops the one who started this stand, was it a father to one of the guys grilling, was he just along for the road? These were my thoughts as I quickly grabbed my camera. This ones for you Pops! Thanks for a great dinner.

 

Driving to the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum with summer campers earlier this week I spotted this tree. It jumped at me. There was only the tree behind it and the way the clouds in the sky highlighted it was beautiful. I had to then go back and capture this image. Unfortunately it was in the evening and the sun was beginning to set. I did a few adjustments to nightlight the tree and reduce the brightness.



Text, Clone, and Paint

 

 

I went to the text tool and picked out the font, Sharpie. I then typed by text out. There was a tool where you could bend your text. I clicked on that and added the degree of bend and came out with this photo.

 

Next, we have Mario.

I found a tutorial online on how to clone, which helped tons. Using the clone stamp I clicked at the top of Mario's right leg. Choosing the proper brush size proved to be a bit tricky, it had to fit the length of his leg to get the right image. And here is the finished product. I think that I will be using this tool in my photostory.

 

 

I started by selecting the paint tool on the side bar. I then went into the brushes and chose a round fan thin brush at about 66 pixels. I then chose a darker purple color that helped blend with the center of the daylily. I then used the paint tool to fan out the color in the center of the petals. It made a wispy look to the flower.

 



 

Photostory

Here is the beginning of my photostory. I'm not sure why my photos are coming out rotated on my blog. Any ideas? There are a few more photos in my file, but those will be a surprise.

Disregard the message above....

I went into Photoshop and rotated them all and re-uploaded them. It was a pain in the butt, but looks much better.