Photo Book Template

By the end of this semester we have to make a photo book with our work. So for this assignment we were asked to design a page layout for the book. I used the already made template made by Sister Esplin and added my own touches (colors, damask, quote, and my pictures). I used the clipping mask tool to place my picture inside of the set frame which makes it a lot easier to fit the picture inside.

Photo A Day

1.
8/25/09 @ 3pm
Rexburg, ID - Fall 1
f/11 - 1/80 - ISO 200 -natural light with a Nikon D5000
Edits: Increased saturation, selective color red, adjusted levels, drew elliptical marquee and inversed with feather of 60 and vivid light and deleted center and reduced opacity down to 20%.

2.
8/26/09 @ 4:30 pm
Rexburg, ID - Fall 2
f/11 - 1/125 - ISO 200 -natural light with a Nikon D5000
Edits: adjusted levels and drew elliptical marquee and inversed with feather of 60 and vivid light and deleted center and reduced opacity down to 20%.

3.
8/27/09 @3:45pm
Rexburg, ID -Fall 3
f/7.1 - 1/125 - ISO 400 -natural light with a Nikon D5000
Edits: added gaussian blue and masked out big leaf, adjusted levels, and drew elliptical marquee and inverse with feather of 60 and vivid light and deleted center and reduced opacity down to 20%.

4.

8/29/09 @ 5:45pm
Rexburg, ID -Fall 4
f/8 - 1/2500 - ISO 200 -natural light with a Nikon D5000

Edits: None
5.

10/30/09 @ 10:45 am
Rexburg, ID -Fall 5
f/5 - 1/1000- ISO 450 -natural light with a Nikon D5000
Edits: adjusted levels

6.

8/28/09 @ 12:15pm
Rexburg, ID -Fall 6
f/8 - 1/125 - ISO 400 -natural light with a Nikon D5000
Edits: increased saturation and adjusted levels, and drew elliptical marquee and inverse with feather of 60 and vivid light and deleted center and reduced opacity down to 20%.

7.
8/31/09 @ 3pm

Rexburg, ID -Fall 7
f/ -flash with a Nikon D5000

Edits: increased saturation and drew elliptical marquee and inverse with feather of 60 and vivid light and deleted center and reduced opacity down to 20%.

Portraits

[the colors are not doing it justice on blogger?!]

Burnside Family - Rexburg, ID
10/24/2009 @ 11:19 am
f/6.3 - 1/100 - ISO 200 - with natural light and Nikon D5000
Edits: added a warming filter masked out little girls eyes, increased saturation and masked out the family.


Burnside Family 2 - Rexburg, ID
10/24/2009 @ 11:11 am
f/6.3 - 1/100 - ISO 200 - with natural light and Nikon D5000
Edits: added a warming filter masked out their eyes, increased saturation and masked out the family

Army Dad - Rexburg, ID - Environmental Shot
3/10/2009 @12:05pm
f/4.5 - 1/640 ISO 100 - natural light with a Sony DSC-H50
Edits: Black and white with sepia and masked out the american flag


Firehouse 10 - New York, NY

Environmental Shot
7/18/2009 - 2:17pm
f/5 - 1/100 - ISO 400 with natural light and Sony Cybershot DSC-H50
Edits: increased saturation and masked out the mens skin tones

Edited Portraits

Keanon - Rexburg, ID 

10/20/2009 @ 4:03pm

f/5.6 - 1/60 - ISO 200 with a Nikon D5000 and natural light
Edits: increased saturation, increased brightness/contrast to eyes masked out everything else, and added curves to background.


Keanon 2 - Rexburg, ID

10/20/2009 @ 4:15 pm

f/5.6 0 1/60 - ISO 200 with a Nikon D5000 and natural light
Edits: increased saturation, increased brightness/contrast to eyes masked out everything else, and added curves to background.


Madisyn 1- Rexburg, ID

10/20/2009 @3:40 pm

f/3.5 - 1/200 - ISO 200 with a Nikon D5000 and natural light

Edits: applied gaussian blur to skin tones and masked out everything else, applied curves and masked out skin tones and hair, increased saturation on skin tones and masked out everything else, brightened up face skin tones and added contrast to eyes. Decreased saturation on background. Used selective color reds to change tint of lips and masked out everything else and did the same to increase color in eyes. Added an inner shadow and changed the quality contour and vignette.

Madisyn 2- Rexburg, ID

10/20/2009 @ 3:55 pm

f/5.6 - 1/80 - ISO 200 with a Nikon D5000 and natural light

Edits: applied gaussian blur to skin tones and masked out everything else, applied curves and masked out skin tones and hair, increased saturation on skin tones and masked out everything else, brightened up face skin tones and added contrast to eyes. Added inner shadow.

Edge Effects

In this assignment we were suppose to show different ways to making borders for our pictures... I chose clean sleek lines just because those are the borders that I tend to favor more.


10/14/2009 @ 2:08 pm
f/3.8 - 1/25 - ISO 200 natural light with a Nikon D5000
Baby Payton - Rexburg, ID
Edits: Black and white, new layer (inverse, set white as foreground color, which made white border) then went to canvas side and added black 50 pixels to the width and height to give the outside black border.


10/12/2009 @ 5:20 pm
f/4 - 1/30 - ISO400 natural light with a Nikon D5000
Baby Kinsey - Rexburg, ID
Edits: I added a photo filter added a brown color and turned density to 100%. I added a new layer, added a rectangular marquee around the border, inverse, exclusion overlay blending mode. Then, added another layer added rectangular marquee on the outside of that first border, inverse, added a multiply overlay blending mode.

Night Light Shot

In this assignment we were told to go shoot at night. I used a tripod or something to sit it on for all of these shots. I really like trying to get the starburst light effect in my light shots.

[not quite sure why but this image shows really weird on the blog but not when you click to make it bigger]

10/18/2009 @ 8:36pm
Urban nights- Rexburg, ID
f/7.1 - 2.5 - ISO 200 - natural light with a Nikon D5000


10/18/2009 @ 7:53pm
Night Life- Rexburg, ID
f/7.1 - 1.3 - ISO 200 natural light with a Nikon D5000
Edits: adjusted levels, brightness and contrast, and added black and white. I also filled in an awkard shadowing on the grass.

[not quite sure why but this image shows really weird on the blog but not when you click to make it bigger]

10/18/2009 @ 8:40pm
inLove- Rexburg, ID
f/7.1 - 2.5 - ISO 200 natural light with a Nikon D5000
Edits: color fill overlay


July, 10th 2009 @ 9:34pm
Philly Skyline -Phillies Stadium Philadelphia, PA
f/8 - 0.8 - ISO 400 -set camera on the cement siding at the ball park with natural light used a Sony DSC-H50

Bannack Ghost Town

Our class had a day long photo excursion to an old Ghost town in Bannack, Montana an old gold rush town. We took photos all day regardless of the poor weather conditions. We focused on getting shots with slow shutter, shallow depth of field, portrait, and HDR.


10/7/09 @ 3:36pm
Key Hole -Bannack, Montana
F/5.6 - 1/60 - ISO 450
Edits: adjusted curves then added a multiply blending mode then masked out the middle so it gave it a darker vignette


10/7/09 @ 4:07pm
Headlight -Bannack, Montana
F/6.3 - 1/200 - ISO 200
Edits: adjusted curves


10/7/09 @ 5:17pm
Ghost Shot -Bannack, Montana
F/29 - 10.0 - ISO 200
Edits: added black and white, added sepia @ 100%, then added solid tan color and reduces opacity to about 20%. and finally added a texture masked out the middle and left the outside for a border.


10/7/09 @ 2:10pm
A Fall snow -Bannack, Montana
F/5.6 1/200 ISO 200
Edits: Adjusted curves, adjusted levels and masked out everything above the grass, added a sepia photo filter at 84% and masked out the grass.


10/7/09 @ 12:45pm
Bannack back yard -Bannack, Montana
F/8 1/250 ISO 200


10/7/09 @ 1:43pm
Court Ruling -Bannack, Montana
F/5.3 1/10 ISO 200
Edits: I added black and white, photo filter sepia at 100%, 30% opacity beige color fill, added texture and masked out gavel and his face.


10/7/09 @ 2:09pm
Bannack House --Bannack, Montana
F/3.5 1/250 ISO 200
Edits: I adjusted levels and masked out everything above the fence, adjusted curves, and pulled out the reds with selective color.


10/7/09 @ 3:41pm
Antique Truck -Bannack, Montana
F/8 1/160 ISO 200 - natural light with a Nikon D5000
Edits: Adjusted levels and masked out the sky, added a texture and masked out the truck and sky, added a Sepia photo filter with 85%, and lastly I added a selective color and brought out the red.


10/7/09 @ 3:41pm
The Spiders Web -Bannack, Montana
F/8 1/160 ISO 200 - natural light with a Nikon D5000
Edits: Adjusted levels



10/7/09 @ 3:18pm
Bannack Ghost Town -Bannack, Montana
f/5.6 - 1/2000 ISO 200 - natural light with a Nikon D5000
Edits:I first adjusted the curves then masked out the sky, then adjusted the brightness to +65 and brought down the contrast to -50 then masked out the sky again, the last touch I made was adding the overlay blending mode and then masked out everything below the sky.

HDR

In this process called HDR (High Dynamic Range) I took three different shots using a tripod on the bracketing setting. I took these shots at three different exposures (+1, 0,-1). I was not yet able to figure this out on my Nikon so I used my Sony DSC-H50. Then I took these three photos and combined them into one in a program called Dynamic Photo HDR and did some more minor adjustments (ultra contrast was one of the adjustments).
1)
7/9/09
f/4.5 - 1/800 (+1 ),1600 (0), 3200 (-1) - ISO 100
Fenced in - Bannack, Montana

2)
7/9/09
f/4.5 - 1/320 (+1), 1/640 (0), 1/1250 (-1) - ISO 100
Masonic Temple- Bannack, Montana

3)
7/9/09
f/4.5 - 1/125 (+1), 1/250 (0), 1/500 (-1) - ISO 100
Recess- Bannack, Montana

4)
7/9/09
f/4.5 - 1/15 (+1), 1/30 (0), 1/60 (-1) - ISO 100
Shoe Shine- Bannack, Montana

5)
7/9/09
f/4.5 - 1/320 (+1), 1/640 (0), 1/1250 (-1) - ISO 100
The Ghost Town- Bannack, Montana