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So I did these last night real late like, and had in my mind everything filter that I used on them. The picture of my wife and I when I was still liven' large and a bit tipsy has a graphic pen filter, and then a waterpaper filter. That brings us to the lanetern. I used the flaurecent chalk filter and then the rubber stamp filter. I cropped it, cut it and stretched it over the solid colored background. Last night made me feel a bit warholesque. Tons of fun! I can't wait to play some more.

Ok so here is my dodge and burn photo. This is an amazing tool, and I am not doing it any sort of justice. I wish more and more that I purchased CS#, but elements is doing well enough. Anyways the edge is a bit ruff so I will work on this. I reduced the shadows in the shot,and took away a bit of the grass on the sand. I'm going to keep working on this to clean it and make it more realistic, but here it is as my first post.

Here is my second attempt. Not only did I play with color, but some other features jumped out at me. In these pictures I started by erasing the tree. I know many of you have used Photoshop before, but I am new at this. The fact that I can quickly remove a tree from the photo just blows me away. Then I colored The leaves through the whole in the wall. I need to get better at this for the green doesn't look overly natural to me. I then added a red tint to the image darkened it and replaced the color on the wall with a deeper brick color. This week was a ton of fun. I am also excited about the photo mosaic, but still have to download the program.

So Sadly I did not go to Florence this last week, I did however work so much that I had to go back to shots I took in Florence instead of getting to shoot new ones. Not nearly as much fun for me, but what can you do. I have Photoshop Element so I didn't have all of the controls that the reading explained, but I found all sorts of interesting things to do with my shots. I took out the color from this shot and played with the warmth of the colors. I love how this shot looks ancient. The yellow tones looks like an old black and white shot to me. I lov ethese colors, and miss them in modern black and white. It is almost too crisp. Anyways here is my first go.

So this is my parent's home where I spent most of my childhood. It is idealistic. It sits back off the dirt road that few people drive down. Its nestled in rolling hills, and never once has it been attacked by storm troopers. That is until I finally nearly figured out merging with photoshop. This is not not the best job, but you should see my first few tries. I found this painful, stressful, and in the long run alot of fun.

 
I love this photo that I took from Depot Park in Burlington. At this point it was very overcast, and it I loved the monochramatic color scheme. The lighthouse looks tiny and alone. The hills across the lake look cold and grey, and the clouds are dusty greys and whites. This picture makes it look like I took this picture much earlier than I did, and I think it just looks cold and isolated. This is my favorite shot for the landscapes.

 

This photo was taken at the waterfront in Burlington. These are the docks in front of the Echo Center. The sky was breaking allowing the sun to shine on the hills of New York. I like the angles of the docks how it fills the entire shot at the bottom of the frame and leads you down the right side of the picture. I also enjoyed the dark break in the provided by the rocks.

 
So I was lucky enough to have two beautiful days in a row off. The day I took my landscape shots was overcast and warm. I was driving and walking around Lake Champlain. This Picture is taken from the side of RT 7 near Shelburne. I noticed the lake poking through the fields and Hills. I put the homestead right of center to pull the viewers eyes over the whole shot, and was pleased to see the sapling left of center in my viewfinder. I love how the mountains way in the back fade into obscurity. I was pretty happy with this shot.

This has nothing to do with anything but this is crazy huh? One of two buildings of this ex factory right in the middle of the woods. Just wanted to show you.

Here is the object centered. I still find it pretty. I mean its a covered bridge, right. How could I go wrong? The road, however, doesn't offer the same curve. The bridge still sits amongst trees, but it looks more utilitarian to me. the guard rails and sign pop out at me, and my eyes don't move over the whole shot. I find I hardly even notice the right side of this shot.

So here is a shot that I took using the 3rd lines. My subject is right of center. This allows the road to curve into the bridge. I feel this gives the eye a little more to follow as well as add some foliage to the left. I like this composition much more.

So the composition technique that I found was Object Isolation. There are different ways to do this, but the way that I read about and used was to choose a small depth of field. This made the main subject stand out in front, and everything in the foreground and background fade into obscurity. I have had many pictures come out like this, however it was by luck, not design. I think it ads a little something to what could have been a pretty dull shot.