Wildlife

You know, there are definitely perks to living in Idaho. Yesterday we went for a drive and saw this guy.


He jumped 2 fences with no trouble at all and then posed right in front of these sprinkler pipes. Definitely an Idaho photo.

And we've seen the owls at Smith park a few times in the past few weeks. There are 3 great horned owls that I have seen there. 2 small ones and a big one. This is one of the small ones.


And this is just a fun project I learned from one of my favorite classes on campus.

Grunge layer Tutorial

First start out with whatever color you are hoping to have for the background. Keep in mind that the grunge layer is going to change the color a bit.


Next you'll need a texture layer. The best way to get these texture layers is to take close up/macro photographs of a textured surface. Almost anything will work for a textured surface - wood/grass/carpet etc. This one is some old wood.



Change the texture photo to gray scale or black and white - and you can do this however you choose. This is my favorite way for quickly changing an image to black and white.




*** Don't save your image when you close it - so you don't lose your original color image.*** And this quick change doesn't allow for changes later - you're kind of stuck with these changes - which is fine for the grunge texture - but not for other images***


Drag the texture photo over the top of your color.


Stretch the texture layer to fit your color layer


Reduce the opacity of the texture layer - I moved this one to 20% so that you can see the color under the texture layer.


If you link the texture layer to the background/color layer then you won't move them while you're working with other layers (especially helpful for digital scrapbooking) To link layers - select them both in the layers pallet and then click the link button on the bottom left - see image below.


Here's the before and after image. See how the color changes?

And the winner is...

Congratulations!
You can email me at holdthatpose@gmail.com to set up a time for your photo shoot!

Give away!

June is here and I found a great, somewhat secret, new place to take photos. It's very wooded and green and down by the river. It is so beautiful. So I'm giving away a mini photo shoot (half an hour of photographing and the best 10 images on a CD) down in this new place. There are 3 ways to enter:

1 - be a follower of this blog (post a comment to this post to let me know)
2 - post about this give away on your blog (post a SEPARATE comment with your blog address to let me know)
3 - post about this give away on Facebook (post a SEPARATE comment with a link to let me know)

So you have 3 separate chances to enter this give away. If you do all three of these things but only leave one comment - that counts as one entry - so make sure to leave separate comments for each entry. I'll be taking entries until

June 15th

And on that day I will use a random number generator to find out the winner.


*This photo shoot is only for this specific location (in Rexburg). You can enter for someone else - but they have to come to this Rexburg location for the photo shoot. There is no stipulation on the type of photo shoot. It can be anything from Babies to Brides or anything in between. If you post as Anonymous please leave at least your first name and last initial.