1. Clock: October 1, 2011, 11:18am; Salt Lake City UT; f/3.3; 1/1000sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8

Poster

Lily: October 8, 2011, 3:20pm; BYUI gardens; f/5.7; 1/30sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8; Mode-Pattern

I chose this image because it made me think of summer and things being alive, it also really reminded me of Mont, who I love. I took this picture by getting as close as I could, which was still kind of far away, and then zooming in. I wanted to get the reflection as well as the the flower and lily pads, so I was careful to leave enough room for the reflection to fit into the picture.  The editing I did on this was pretty basic. I adjusted the saturation to make the blue and green brighter. I adjusted the levels quite a lot because the flower in the middle was a little blown out, so I adjusted it until the flower was where I wanted it to be, then I went and masked out the areas that didn't need as much darkening. I used a smart filter to sharpen up the image. I sharpened it the most on the flower so that would be the main focus of the picture.  

Week 8, Night and light

1. Speeding cars: 11/2/2011, 9:24pm; Rexburg ID, Porter Park; f/8; 8.0sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8
2. Time for Ice cream: 11/2/2011. 9:22pm; Rexburg, Porter Park; f/8; 8.0sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8
3. My Name?: 11/2/2011, 9:43pm; Porter Park; f/5.0; 8.0sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8
4. Lamp post light: 11/2/2011, 9:30pm; Porter Park; f/8; 8.0sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8
5. Slide: 11/2/2011, 9:34pm; Porter Park; f/3.3; 8.0sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8

I didn't do any editing on any of these except for the last one, there was a ghost Rebekah in the slide picture, so I used the paint brush at a low opacity, and by matching the color to the background I painted over myself so I wasn't blocking any of the picture. You can still kind of tell where I was though. On all the picture I used a really slow shutter speed, and held the camera still on a tripod, except for the fourth picture. This one I used a slow shutter speed, pointed the camera at a lamp post, and moved my camera around as I was taking the picture. 

Week 8, Fine Art Template

1. Salt Lake: 9/30/2011, 11:13am; Salt Lake City UT; f/5.9; 1/1000sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8
2. Daisy: 10/6/2011, 10:51am; Rexburg, BYU-Idaho; f/5.8; 1/125sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8

I started out by creating a template for both pictures. I started with a white background and added black rectangles on a new layer. Then I got a separate layer to stamp my signature on it, I put it on a separate layer so it would be easy to change and adjust the opacity. Then I added type, and changed it to the font and size I wanted it at.  The I added the picture, I had already adjusted the pictures by changing the levels and adjusting the saturation. I also cropped the pictures to be the same size as the template, I changed the size to so the ppi was the same as the templates (150ppi). Then I selected the picture, and dragged it into the template picture. Then I selected create clipping mask and adjusted the picture to where I wanted it to be. After that I changed the background color and signature color so it would go better with the individual picture.

Week 7, Edge Effects

1. Pink Flower: October 8, 2011, 3:25pm; BYUI gardens; f/5.7; 1/125sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8
2. Bus: October 1, 2011, 11:29am; Salt Lake City UT; f/8; 1/1000sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8
3. Lily: October 8, 2011, 3:20pm; BYUI gardens; f/5.7; 1/30sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8
For the first picture I adjusted the levels and saturation to brighten the whole picture. I also made it black and white, then masked it out completely on the pink flower, and only slightly on the rest of the picture. Then I added an inch to the canvas size, and had the background be white. Then I drew a white rectangle over the picture then erased most of it, so only a small white line, then I feathered it, and lowered the opacity.
On the second image I did the same basic editing as I did on the first picture. I copied the layer, then I darkened the outside edge of the picture, then I added a small red line around the whole picture by leaving the selection selected, and clicking on the first layer. Then I went to Edit-stroke and selected the color and thickness I wanted the line to be.
On the last picture I did the same editing, except I sharpened it then masked out some of the water and lily pads so they wouldn't be as sharp as the flower. Then I used the rectangle marquee tool and made a rectangle about one inch inside the picture. Then I went into mask mode and went to filter and used the brush strokes sprayed tool. I increased the length a lot, and the radius as much as it it would go. Then applied this to the picture and changed the color to a green I got from a part of the picture.

Week 7, scanography

Single scan, Original

After

 Collage scan

1. Fall face: October 29, 2011, 4:00; Spori building BYUI; Epson Expression 10000 XL; 300dpi
2-6. Poker: October 29, 2011, 4:15pm; Spori Building BYUI; Epson Expression 10000 XL; 300dpi

For the first scan I just placed a bunch of leafs and stuff on the scanner, then I put my face right next to the scanner, and then took the scan. In Photoshop I adjusted the levels I little to lighten it up, and I adjusted the vibrancy a little to make the red leafs look more bright.
For the poker picture I started by scanning in the cards, I scanned them all in at the same time. Then I did the cup, this was kind of hard because the cup kept moving, and for the first couple of tries you couldn't even see the cup, so I ended up putting a white paper over the cup so it wouldn't be so clear, then I was able to hold the cup still with my hand. That's why the cup is a little bit of a different color than the rest of the pictures in this collage. Then I scanned in the money, at first I tried to do dollar bills, turns out it's not okay to open that kind of image in Photoshop, so I scanned in coins instead.
 Then I took all four images into Photoshop. I used the card picture as the background, and selected the cup, and moved it onto the card picture, I copied that layer so there would be two cups in the picture. Then I selected the coins and put that onto the card picture, I copied both picture of the coins so that it would look like there was more money in the middle than on the outside. I used a mask to get rid of the coins that were cut of.

1. Boots: Oct. 20, 2011, 5:52pm; Bannack Montana; f/5.6; 1/20 sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8
2. Chain: Oct. 20, 2011, 1:22pm; Bannack Montana; f/3.3; 1/1000 sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8
3. Peephole: Oct. 20, 2011, 5:13pm; Bannack Montana; f/3.3; 1/640 sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8
4. Red roof: Oct. 20, 2011, 6:09pm; Bannack Montana; f/5.2; 1/160 sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8
5. Wagon: Oct. 20, 2011, 5:03pm; Bannack Montana; f/6.3; 1/320 sec; Panasonic DMC-LZ8

On all of these pictures I adjusted the levels, saturation and vibrancy, especially on the first and fourth one though. The first one I adjusted it a lot, and then masked it out except for on the boots, I wanted them to have the more color than the rest of the picture. The second picture I added a blank layer and made the sky look a little more blue under were the chain is. The sky looked great on the outside of the chain, but then it turned white on the inside, so I just used the color from the rest of they sky and lightly painted it onto the white part of the sky. The peephole picture I sharpened the house and trees in the peep hole, and blurred the wood around the peephole so it would be less of a focus. I also darkened the wood, and lightened the house, and adjusted the saturation and vibrancy so the colors would be more bright in the peephole.The last picture I didn't do much editing, I just sharpened the wagon a little and made it brighter.