Mirror-warp demo

I haven't finished editing my photo for Thursday, it's definitely going to take some more time, so instead I'm posting a smaller version of it as-is. Think of it as a teaser while I learn how to tweak and edit this to my liking.

The overall goal is to make it appear as though her hand is going into the mirror in her hand (difficult to see) and coming out of the mirror on the stone by her.

The outsider

This photo was a side shot we took during the photoshoot on Sunday. Emily wanted to play with a cloak, so we ran off and took a few shots like this. Since I didn't have anything planned for this shot, I didn't do much editing to a theme, made it black and white to hide the random weeds scattered about, faster that way. Some fog would make this photo awesome...

Behind the Scenes

I wasn't sure what I should post today, since I try not to recycle photos from shoots to keep things different on here. I'm obnoxiously picky though, and couldn't decide what, if any, of my photos to use. I spotted this one though, and thought some of you might like to see it. If you remember on Tuesday I showed a compare and contrast of my photo vs. Kristen's photo. This photo here is a behind the scenes shot of Kristen taking (possibly) that same photo from Tuesday. She's crouched so that she can get the strong light source high on the right side of the photo, while still giving a good angle for the photo.

We are planning to do another photoshoot this sunday, so keep an eye out on Tuesday for the results of that shoot!

Interpretations

I had a great opportunity to join Kristen on a photoshoot she wanted to do with some friends, and I learned some interesting lessons for future shoots. Nothing important to share with you all, just small useful things. Since Kristen and I were taking photos of the same subject from different angles, the results of our photos took drastic turns once we got them to our computers. I prefer realistic, clean photos, with strong colors if possible. Kristen's interpretation was more vintage and takes a different appearance all together. I personally love her style, although it doesn't reflect my own views. For your viewing pleasure, I have my photo and her photo below, so you can see the different styles and angles. It's pretty awesome. For some reason the compressions used during upload drain a bit of the warming filter out of my photo, so I will have to look into that. Mine is supposed to have a sunset colored glow to it, similar to what you see on the stone, but stronger. Oh well!

The Most Familiar Nightmares

So this photo is actually really interesting for multiple reasons. It started off as a stitched panoramic, so I took about 8 photos of this tree in series, hoping to stitch them all together to form a wide angle shot of this area of the duck pond. The stitching went very well, but after closer inspection, I realized my photos suffered from very extreme chromatic aberration, which is when colors don't line up. To put it simply, the edges of tree branches had glowing lines of magenta/cyan.

While I was attempting to fix this, Kristen suggested I put it into black and white, which would completely hide the aberrations, and it looked alright. While she was showing me a technique she uses, we accidentally inverted the photo, giving it a photo negative look. I immediately knew what I wanted to do, and set about editing this photo into what you see here. I won't go into the details about what I did, but if you're curious, you can always ask. I enjoy sharing.

Quack Quack!

Quack Quack, i'm a duck! xD

A Dangerous Path

I walked over to the Duck Pond the other day to find it almost completely frozen over. I spotted this trail of footprints from the shoreline to the island and back, less than a few days old. I don't know who managed to walk there and back without falling in, but they sure have some guts.