Something Fishy

Some more of the fish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Wind Power

This is to show contrast between the new and the old windmills in the area.

Waterfalls

Recently I have sent a lot of time in the Portland, OR area and I find quite a few waterfalls, both man made and natural.

Flowers

Here are some of the jelly fish and leafy sea dragons at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Retouched Photo

This is portrait of my great-grandmother, taken sometime between 1910 and 1915. On the left is the original and on the right is the retouched version. When I started I was really trying to remove the yellow age spot on her dress and Ms. Russell suggested that I change the print to black and white. However after changing it I found the it didn't look quite right, it was a little to blue, so I went back and added some sepia tone to begin the brownish tone back into the picture. After doing this most of the age spots have been removed, however it still has the antique look to it. I also did a lot of blurring of the background to remove the lines and creases.

"The True Meaning of Pictures"

While watching this film I thought that some of the pictures were very graphic, like the one of the slaughtered pig. However, some of the shots were a little subdued also. One of the things that I noticed while watching this film is that Shelby Lee Adams was able to show how harshness of the lifestyle the people in rural Kentucky live, but he also showed that they were happy. I found the fact that he only showed prints that were approved by the subjects of the photo interesting. To me this shows that he wasn't taking advantage of the people as some of the critics were saying.

"Stranger With A Camera"

I found this movie to be very interesting. It was a good history lesson about an area of the country that I know little about. The main thing that I got out this movie was that the life of a coal miner in the 1960's, in Kentucky was very hard. Hugh O'Connor was trying to show the rest of the country the way these people lived, and was killed for it. Some people thought that O'Connor was trying to make the people of the area look bad.

Hockney-Indoor

This was one of the first times that I have tried to stage a shot. While I enjoyed this experience, I still would rather shoot landscapes and architecture.

Western Technosites-Critique

I know that this is a little late, but here is my critique for the show at UOP. It took me awhile before I realized what Daniel Kasser was doing with his prints. The first one I looked at was the gold panning pan in the ground, and I just thought that it was a close up of the pan with the pine trees in the background. It wasn't until later in the show that I realized that he was enlarging common objects and placing them(with PhotoShop) in landscapes that they may be found in. I enjoyed the show and the way the prints were not traditionally framed as normally seen in most shows.

Curve

I found this to be an interesting experiment with color. The image in the center is the original, and the images on the left I have increased red, green, and blue(from top to bottom). The images on the right I have decreased the red, green, and blue(from top to bottom). For the image in the top center I combined all the images on the left, this didn't change the color much but it did lightened the image. The bottom center image is a combination of all the images on the right, this darkened the image.

RAW

Here are a couple of different exposures that I fixed(changed) in the RAW format. The first one(on the left) was over exposed, so I fixed the exposure. The bottom left was properly exposed so I was playing with the saturation, clarity, vibrance, and a little bit of color. I like the way it softened the edge of the flower and making it mostly black and white, while highlighting the magentas.

New At This

Since this is a new thing for me, hopefully it will not take me that long to get the hang of things. Although it seems like it is going to be pretty easy.