Fun with PhotoShop

During a field trip my photography class took, most of us got together and had lunch at Mellow Mushroom. I guess there were some sort of cut glass windows in there acting as prisms, because there were rainbows everywhere! I captured one on a salt shaker. At some point I moved my face into one of these rainbows and someone told me not to move. Now, being a photography class, there were plenty of cameras to choose from and whoever it was who shot the photo, used mine...lucky me!

I was feeling kind of blah that day and the photo showed it! Bags under the eyes, dull-looking skin, grungy gray t-shirt, hair all a mess, NO makeup on, etc. Fortunately, I had that rainbow over one eye to give me a little color.

Enter PhotoShop! I love, love, LOVE this program! Get rid of the bags, give the skin a makeover, change the color of the t-shirt to something a little more flattering, change the hair COMPLETELY, and add a little lipstick. Below, you will find the original and the edited photographs.

I call the one on the right "Medusa meets Rainbow Brite".

Motivation

Motivation is my biggest problem. I have none. Recently, I received some advice from an RCC photography graduate and it would prove valuable if I would just follow it. He said that I should get out and shoot something...anything. So I went out into the back yard and shot some clover.

And then it started raining. So I pulled some strawberries out of the fridge. I was hungry. But then I looked at them and thought, "I should shoot these before I eat them." So I did.

To everyone who reads this blog (both of you), thanks for the motivation!

I Won an Award!?!?

Yes, friends, I am now an award winning blogger! Ok, so my sister awarded me the Beautiful Blog Award and hinted that I should post more. Apologies. I'm not a consistent and steadfast blogger, as she is. Blogging is usually something I do/did for one class that required it. However, if I keep getting reminders, maybe I will post something when I have something worth sharing. That being said, I recently took a Spring Break trip to Bald Head Island and came back with a few shots I turned into High Dynamic Range images.

Thanks again for the award, B!!

Jewelry

Our last photo assignment for Advertising Photography was to shoot a piece of jewelry. The specifications were "close up and dazzling". Now, I wouldn't say mine is dazzling. It doesn't have any actual jewels. Is it still jewelry if there are no jewels? We had to use a large format camera with a medium format digital back, tethered to use CaptureOne software. It was frustrating! With a little help from my friends PhotoShop and Maria B., this is my final image.

Repetition

My Multimedia class (some of us) took a field trip to downtown Greensboro with the theme of REPETITION in mind. Here are some of the photos I took.

CHUCK!

The assignment in my Advertising Photography class this week was to photograph our instructor, Chuck Egerton. I wanted the background to be a deep, jazzy looking red, but the only gels I could find were hot pink. So I worked a little PhotoShop magic and this is what I ended up with...

Thanks Chuck!

Stop Motion

This is a very rough video that took me a few hours a day for four days (good thing it snowed!). I used close to 700 photographs in this video and did a bit of audio editing as well. This is the closest thing to actual video that I enjoy.

I hope you enjoy it!

Juicy!

The joint project is here! The Photography and Graphic Design students of RCC have been teamed up to create an ad campaign for the product, service, or idea of their choice. My partner and I have decided to go ORGANIC. Our first photo shoot was a success for both of us. These photographs were some of our favorites.

Mmm...pie!

It's good to be back at school and feeling semi-productive again. I spent the last eight weeks of last semester on an internship at Viewpoint Studios in Greensboro, NC and had a WONDERFUL time. This semester started with a bang, or in my case, a cough. Hopefully, this past week has just been a rough beginning and the rest will be smooth sailing.

The first assignment of the semester involved food...dessert, specifically. Now, we've all heard the excuse, "The dog ate my homework!" and this assignment gives it a new twist; I ate my assignment...after I completed it!

This photograph was taken with a Mamiya 645 medium format camera with a Phase One digital back, tethered to a computer, using Capture One software. Thanks A.L. and J.B. for the input, and for helping me eat the evidence!