Contest Entries

Monarch Silo, 3:21 PM, 7/9/11, Rexburg, Idaho, F 10, 1/50, Canon t2i

Teton Drive,11:45 PM, 11/15/10, Rexburg, Idaho, F 10, 16 minutes, Canon t2i

Burnt Stack,4:45 PM, 10/19/11, Rexburg, Idaho, F7.1, 1/250, Canon t2i

I was thinking about entering into the Jones soda photo contest, but I decided to enter into the Idaho Falls magazine photo contest, because all the pictures I wanted to submit were all photos that I have taken here in south eastern Idaho.  So I think it would be more appropriate to enter into this one because the pictures would be more fitting for the magazine. 

The information that I submitted with the images were the same ones that I used here for the blog. I submitted my pictures today November 29, 2012.  

http://www.idahofallsmagazine.com/gallery/contest.cfm

Poster

Teton Drive In,11:45 PM, 11/15/10, Rexburg, Idaho, Manual Mode, F 10, 16 minutes, Canon t2i

So this was an older picture that I decided to use for my poster project.  I made it a 24x36 print, and framed it in a black mahogany frame and I also decided to matte it as well.  And as for the process of taking the picture, I went out to the drive in and put my camera on my tripod and connect my shutter release remote and locked the lens open for 16 minutes and this is what I came out with.  I used selective color to bring out the red and the brown in the Teton sign and the wood of the screen.  And I also used selective color to lighten the sky a little bit in the top left corner.  I had to crop it because the image itself was actually bigger than 24x36.

Fine Art Templates

 Full International; Bannack 10/20/11 4:36 PM; F/9; 1/125; Focal Length 18; Iso 100; Canon t2i
Rexy Pana, 8:36 PM, 9/9/11, Rexburg, Iso 100, F 4.5, 1/25, Canon t2i

Both Images are edited from earlier in the semester.  So I just sized them down and then used the clipping masked to insert them in the boxes to make the template.  On the little logos at the bottom of the image I just cut down the opacity to about 40-50 percent and then went into the blending options and put a little drop shadow on them and added a contured edge to them to give them a blocker/3D look.

NIght & Light

Blurred Lights
South Salt Lake
10/22/11
11:38 PM
Iso 100
Focal Length 18
F/11
8 Seconds
Canon t2i, tripod, remote camera release

Light Sketching
Rexburg
10/30/11
10:31 PM
Iso 100
Focal Length 55
F/5.6
25 Seconds

Canon t2i, tripod, remote camera release

Camera Motion

Rexburg

11/5/11

9:43 PM

Iso 100

Focal Length 55

F/5.6

3 Seconds

Canon t2i

Light Painting

Rexburg

11/6/11

10:31 PM

Iso 100

Focal Length 25

F/10

10 Seconds

Canon t2i, tripod, remote camera release, Polarizer Filter

Light Painting
Rexburg
11/6/11
10:31 PM
Iso 100
Focal Length 33
F/10
10 Seconds
Canon t2i, tripod, remote camera release, LED flash light, polarizer filter.

So this was a really fun assignment.  Night photos are what really got me interested in photography a couple years back.  But on the first image I was in Utah a couple weeks ago and shot this at Oquirrh Mt. Temple.  I love it cause it is on a hill and the cars would just fly by so it gave it a cool light streak effect.  On the 2nd picture, I shot in the kirkam building last at night with a friend.  I had her sit down in a seat and then I set my camera up and hit the shutter and put a flash on camera and had her make a straight face and then after the flash went off I ran around her with my flashlight making the streaking lights and then I put the flash like on her face to make the two face ghost effect on her face.  And image of fat cats I just used a 3 second exposure and as I hit the shutter button I was backing up and I zoomed out.  The picture of my Tom's I put them on my table in my room and put a black portfolio back under them so I could have a black background and took out all the lights and used the LED flashlight on my camera and slowly moved the light on and off of the shoes.

Scanography

1. Multiple Scans; Rexburg; 10/29/11 7:23 PM; Epson Scanner
2. Set up one shot scan; Rexburg; 10/29/11 7:23 PM; Epson Scanner

I used the scanners down in the lab.  I didn't edit them in anyway.  The only thing I did was try and use a higher resolution inorder to get a sharper image.  And I had the lots light so that the back ground would be dark.  I think the hardest part of this was scanning my face.  Especially whenever you up the resolution, it scans a lot slower so you have to sit then with your face on or close to the glass of the scanner.

Edit

1.  Legion of Ghost; Rexburg 10/30/11 4:35 PM; f/5; 1/250; Focal Length 21; Canon t2i
2.  Darwin; Rexburg 10/30/11 4:45 PM; f/5; 1/125; Focal Length 18; Canon t2i
3.  Pac Man Love; Rexburg 10/30/11 5:01 PM; f/4; 1/125; Focal Length 18; Canon t2i

So I went out and shot these pictures of my friends.  These were their halloween costumes.  It was a perfect day for shooting.  But I used three different borders,  on the first image I used the burnt borders effect, then the flexible brushed on effect, and lastly I used the brushed on effect.  Not really much to say about them.  I just followed the directions in the book.

Bannack Best

  

1.  Blue Skies; Bannack 10/20/11 3:34 PM; F/9; 1/125; Focal Length 18; Iso 100; Canon t2i
2.  Hinge; Bannack 10/20/11 3:05; F/5.6; 1/150; Focal Length 32; Iso 200; Canon t2i
3.  Stairway Meade; Bannack 10/20/11 3:25 PM; F/5; 1/140; Focal Length 39; Iso 200; Canon t2i
4.  International Pickup; Bannack 10/20/11 4:34 PM; F/9; 1/40; Focal Length 18; Iso 100;
Canon t2i PM
5.  Jenni; Bannack 10/20/11 5:15 PM; F/4; 1/40; Focal Length 27; Iso 200; Canon t2i
6.  Bannack Pana; Bannack 10/20/11 3:44 PM; F/7.1; 1/200; Focal Length 27; Iso 100; Canon t2i, tripod
7.  Full International; Bannack 10/20/11 4:36 PM; F/9; 1/125; Focal Length 18; Iso 100; Canon t2i


So I have a couple more that I wanted to post but I thought these 8 photos would be enough.  For the Blue Skies picture I turned it into a black and white photo and had a green filter to it.  I really liked how much contrast the green filter gave the image.  And on all the other images besides the portrait of Jennilyn, I just bumped up the contrast and made the colors of the images more vibrate.  The pano image is straight out of the camera.  And the portrait I just air brushed her face so the skin tone would be a little more even, brighten up her eyes, and brought out the colors using the selective color layer.

Light Painting

 







1.  Chair; Bannack; 10/20/11 7:05 PM; F/6.3; 25 secs; Focal Length 21; Iso 400; Canon t2i, Shutter Release Cable, Polarizer filter, tripod
2.  Boots; Bannack; 10/20/11 6:55 PM; F/7.1; 1/25; Focal Length 27; Iso 400; Canon t2i; Shutter Release Cable, Polarizer filter, tripod

These were pretty interesting pictures.  I had a little color lights from everyones self timers so I just went in with the heal brush tool and took all those house and warmed up the color of the light so that it didn't look so blue

HDR

 

1.  International Truck;  Bannack; 10/20/11 4:52 PM; F/9; 1/60; Focal Length 18; Iso 100; Canon t2i
2.  Menacing Skies;  Bannack; 10/20/11 4:45 PM; F/4; 1/1250; Focal Length 18; Iso 100; Canon t2i


HDR is something that I played with before but wasn't sure if  liked it.  But after using photomatix and dynamic photo I'm starting to like HDR.  It just makes the color of the images pop.

Macro Abstract

   

   



















Blend; Bannack; 10/20/11; F/5; 1/40; Focal Length 39; Iso 200, Canon t2i

So I just used the overlay option to blend these two images together to get more of grainy old school look.  I didn't edit either image just blended them together.

Reverse Depth of Field

 

1.  Foreground; Bannack; 10/20/11 1:20 PM, F/5; 1/40; Focal Length 40; Iso 100, Canon t2i
2.  Background; Bannack; 10/20/11 1:20 PM, F/5; 1/40; Focal Length 40; Iso 100, Canon t2i

Not much to these ones.  No editing done.  And to get the different depths of field I just used manual focus to shift my focus from the foreground to the background.

Action Blur and Freeze

1.  Ghost Door; Bannack; 10/20/11 1:34 PM; F/22; 8 secs; Focal Length 53; Iso 100 Canon t2i; shutter release remote, polarizer filter, tripod
2.  Jump for joy; Bannack; 10/20/11 1:25 PM; F/6.3; 1/320; Focal Length 35; Iso 100 Canon t2i

The ghost door image was a fun one to do.  I used my shutter release cable, and my polarizer filter to make it darker.  I put my camera on the tripod, set my shutter speed and hit the shutter button, ran to the door and closed and opened it.  And the freeze action picture I just used a face shutter speed to get the frozen action effect.

Portraits

 

1.  Cassie; Bannack; 10/20/11/ 1:16 PM; F/5; 1/40; Focal Length 40; Iso 100; Canon T2i
2.  Jenni; Bannack; 10/20/11 4:58 PM;  F/4; 1/40; Focal Length 24; Iso 200; Canon T2i

So I usually don't like shooting portraits too much, but at Bannack I tried to take more portraits than I would usually.  I always wanted to shoot a portraits like the one I shot of Cassie.  I shot it using side lighting from a window and she was just standing in a room with a really dark background.  The shot of Jenni turn out well I think.  I shot multiple portraits of her.  This is a shot that came right out of my camera.  The only thing that I did to it was slightly air brush her face so that her skin tone was a little more even.

Enhancements

      

      

  

1.  Airbrush/Spot Heal \ Rexburg \ 10/13/11 \ 4:35 PM \ F 8 \ 1/125 \ Canon t2i
2. Replace Color  \ Rexburg \ 10/13/11 \ 4:30 PM \  F 8 \ 1/125 \ Canon t2i
3. Match Color  \ Rexburg \ 10/13/11 \ 4:33 PM \ F 4.5 \ 1/80 \ Canon t2i

On the first image I did removed some blemishes by using the spot healing tool, and I also air brushed his face a little bit to even out his skin tone.  On the second image I tried using the replace color adjustment and it didn't come out well but I tried to find the right image to use this effect for and this is the best I came out with. I work on the for about an hour and it still turned out bad.  I just tried to change the color of the lime green on his hat and watch to a darker green.  And on the last image I just used the match color to make this image a little more lively.  It made the image more vibrate and I really like the effect the image had. I will be using the match color on more of my images, but in a less flashy way.