Week 10 - Holiday Choice - more new portraits

I decided to make a collage of all their photos with the saying they're planning on putting on the wall with the new portraits. I like how it turned out. I am learning all sorts of good stuff about editing photos and adding enhancements in Photoshop - I'm so glad I got a chance to take the Custom Images class!

Baseball Portraits


Ben and Jeff's baseball team played Mason and Keaton's baseball team for the championship this week. Ben and Jeff's team won - Mason and Keaton both got injured...not sure that is fair - but I'm happy with the way the photos turned out!




Camera Info soon to come

Week 10 - Holiday Choice

This week we get to chose something out of the book to try. I tried the fish eye lens effect for these.





Steps
Choose the elliptical marquee tool - no feathering - create a circle or oval shape around what you want to fish eye - you will probably want to include a little more than you think.
Select the inverse (Command - Shift - i)
Delete (this gets rid of the everything but what is in your marquee)
Select the inverse again (Command - Shift - i)
Go to Filter - Distort - Spherize
Start at 100% and see how you like that. If it isn't enough - like on the above photos - try adding another of the same filter at 50% for a total of %150 - or maybe even 200%
Before you deselect your marquee copy and paste it into a new (transparent?) document if you don't want a white background. I put these edits back in their original images because I thought it looked pretty cool.
When you put these fisheye effects into a new document or on an existing document you will want to add a drop shadow and perhaps a stroke so that it is very plain to see that you did the edit and you meant for part of the photo to look bulgy. Both of the above photos have drop shadows as well as strokes.

Week 9 - Water Photos

Camera Info:
Waterfall 1: Nikon D50; Shutter Speed: 1 sec; F stop: 27.0; No Flash; Date: 6/13/08; Big Springs Camp - Provo Canyon
Rain on the Roof: Nikon D50; Shutter Speed: 1/80; F stop: 5.6; No Flash; Date: 10/4/2006; Girls Dorms Rexburg ID



Camera Info:
Floating Flower - Nikon D50; Shutter Speed: 1/500; F stop: 5.6; No Flash; Date: 5/5/07; USS Arizona Memorial - Pearl City - Oahu - Hawaii (The oil from the ship mixes with the water to give it the shiny look)
Waterfall 2: Nikon D50; Shutter Speed: 1 sec; F stop: 27.0; No Flash; Date: 6/13/2008; Big Springs Camp - Provo Canyon

Poster Idea

This is the print I'm thinking of printing for my poster print. I'm wondering if I should add some text up in the upper left hand corner. What do you think?

Photo Book Spreads

Do you like this template better? These are two page spreads (I haven't fixed the text on the HDR page yet) Should I move the text to the bottom of the page and align it to the right rather than the left?