Seriously Stylish

This photograph was taken in the studio with a 9.0 aperture, a 1/60 shutter, due to the little movement, and an ISO of 100 due to the amount of light. I used the burn tool on a very low percentage to contour her face after I softened her skin. I used the dodge tool to lighten a few of the pieces around her hair because it brightens her face. Her eyes are already blue but I used the hue and saturation tool to alter them slightly in order to match the blue in her dress.  Her dress was bulging in the back just slightly so I used liquify, which is found under filter, to push her dress in so she would appear her usual size. You can't go too far with liquify or it will look unnatural.

Queen Bee

A lot of light was present when taking this picture so my camera was set to a 1/125 shutter and a 200 ISO. This picture was taken with a 4.5 aperture to keep the focus on the model. Originally this photo had a background of a bathtub and an ugly wall, but I selected the model using the polygonal lasso tool, made a copy, and pasted her onto a blank background and added a vignette. I softened her skin by using a high pass on an inverted hard light layer. I used a mask to reveal just her skin so the rest of the picture stayed in focus.

Merry Christmas

This picture was taken for the holiday season. I captured Santa stealing the milk and cookies just in time. I used an aperture of 2.8 to to focus on his hand taking the cookies and to leave the background out of focus. I used a fast shutter to catch him in the act, and an ISO of 200 to bring out all of the christmas color. Some of the christmas lights reflected into the plate and the milk so, in photoshop, I used the hue and saturation adjustment layer to correct the color. Santa wore a suit that was a little too small so I used the stamp tool to stretch out his sleeve.

Illusion

My friend Izaak came to me and asked if I could take some senior pictures for him. I was so excited to take on new responsibility and put my skills to the test. This is my favorite picture from the photo shoot. My aperture was placed at a 5.6 so Izaak is in focus, but the brick around him is not. My shutter was 1/200 due to the amount of light and my ISO was 100. I desaturated the tiles by using a hue and saturation adjustment layer.

Gentle Giant

This picture was taken on a very hot sunny day and you can tell the bear is worn out. I originally took this photograph with the bear centered, but in photoshop I cropped it to give him direction and space to look into. I gave the rock more contrast by using the dodge tool on lighter areas and the burn tool on darker areas. There was originally an ugly bush in the left background, but I replaced it with part of a bush from another picture of a bear using the stamp tool.

Toitles

These turtles are found at Steigerwald lake wildlife refuge. I do not remember my metadata for this particular picture, but I would have a fast shutter due to light and movement, an ISO of 200 to keep light and color, and a shutter of around 3.5 to 5.6 to keep the turtles in focus, but the background and log out of focus. There was not much editing done in photoshop other than lightening up the darker areas using the dodge tool and creating a brightness layer, placing a mask on it, and revealing the areas necessary.

Flower Child

The picture on the top was taken at a 6.3 aperture in order to keep her face and the flowers and focus, the shutter was placed at 1/60 due to little movement, and the ISO was at 200 due to the amount of light. I didn't edit this photo a huge amount. I added a vignette to close in on the model and to take away from of the blank corners. I was able to do this by using the elliptical marquee tool and inverting it (command i). I then changed the hue of the vignette to pink, put a layer on it, and only revealed the top because the bottom pink was there originally.

The picture on the bottom was also taken at a 6.3 aperture in order to keep her face and the flowers and focus, the shutter was placed at 1/160 because the amount of light let in needed to be cut down, and the ISO was at 200 also due to the amount of light. I used the same technique to create the vignette but then changed the hue of the vignette to pink, put a layer on it, and only revealed the top because the bottom pink was there originally.

Disapear

This photoshoot made for an interesting experience. Sarah was brave enough to submerge herself in a bathtub of milk. I didn't use milk from the jug but, instead, I filled the bathtub with water and poured in milk powder. I poured gold glitter on her forehead, hair, and flowers. I used an exterior flash but, it was faced toward her which created the glow on her forehead. If I were to take this picture again, I would aim the exterior flash at a reflector which would give her skin a glow. In Photoshop, I matched the flowers to the color of her lips using a hue and saturation layer. I softened her skin by changing the layer to vivid light, inverting it and creating a high pass to blur her skin. I put a mask on top of the layer and painted her skin so it would appear smooth.

Captain Cooper

Here is Cooper, the gentle giant we love seeing around Camas High School. I had the opportunity of taking Coopers picture in the studio. I didn't use a flash on Cooper just incase it shocked him in any way. I put down a black a large, black sheet of paper underneath him and a black curtain behind him so he would almost blend with the background, but the different shades of black would still stand out.  The curtain did not reach all the way to the ground so, in photoshop, I used the stamp tool to blend in parts of the curtain and parts of the paper in order to take out any hard corners or lines. The key when using the stamp tool is to take the filler from areas that are not immediately around where you are stamping. The viewers are not immediately aware of repeated sections of the image, making it more believable and natural to the eye. I did not make many other edits to this image other than taking off the words that were on his bandana, also using the stamp tool.

I Do

These two photographs were taken in the studio for a wedding shoot. I used a top light on both of these photographs and a parabolic umbrella to enhance the light on this model.
The top picture was taken at a 1/60 shutter because there was very little movement and to let in as much light as possible without placing the camera on a tripod. My aperture was placed at 5.0 to keep a reasonably small depth of field but large enough to where I wouldn't lose her face or the flowers. My ISO was 400 due to the slow shutter. When put into photoshop I desaturated the wood because it had a strong yellow tint. I brightened the color of the flowers with an adjustment layer only on the flowers. I smoothed her skin by changing the layer to vivid light, inverting it and creating a high pass to blur her skin. I put a mask on top of the layer and painted her skin so it would appear smooth. I also transformed the dress into a strapless dress by using the stamp tool. The final edit I made on this picture was adding a light vignette to create more of a focus on the model and to create an elegant effect.
For the second picture I had an ISO of 200 because there was a lot of light present, an aperture of 3.2 due to how close she was and to keep a small depth of field. A small depth of field makes it clear to viewers that the focus of this photograph is the flowers. My shutter was placed at 1/160 due to the amount of light. This picture was originally a portrait but I felt as though it was too tight on her elbows so I expanded the canvas and recreated the background. I used the same process to smooth her skin as the picture above and I used the burn tool to make her shoulder blades stand out.

Dead vs. Living

These photographs were taken in the studio with four flourescent black lights. I used neon, blacklight paint to create designs and images on their bodies and faces. Each photograph was captured with a 5000 ISO because of the little light that was in the room, a shutter of 1/60, and an aperture of 1.8. This metadata allowed for only they bright colors seen to show up in the photograph, and the rest to disappear into darkness. The bottom photograph consists of multiple pictures revealed in different locations.