Busy at work finishing curriculum work and setting up the art room.
Found an excellent Photography resource -- 500px -- it's both a website and an app. You can look at other's photos, mark your favorites, upload your own, and even sell your work. When you try to right click and save an image, the site won't allow it. I started an account on 500px (500px.com/jstratton) and explored others' work on it. (1 hour) I also messed around in Photoshop with the HDR Toning settings and edited some existing photos from my collection. (2 hours) Helped a friend who bought a new DSLR camera figure out how to use it. Showed her how to switch out her lenses and how to use "P" or Program Mode. (1 hour)
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New computer arrived which means I finally got to upload all the images on my camera and play with Photoshop again! Messing around with some digital self-portraits because I have no access to new models at the moment. (2 hours)
Also took many photos in Buffalo, NY (around town and at the Botanical Gardens) and at the Wildflower Trail in Ithaca. (1 hour) Another small project was redesigning the "Artistic Process" bubbles in Illustrator. Don't know why I did not do this years ago! Super easy now to insert into a document and resize without having to change the size of the font. (1 hour) Total time: 4 hours August already! Back to work for two hours today, planning for the new use of Weebly with my Advanced Art students. Also spent just a few moments taking snapshots of how beautiful the light was after a rainstorm. About to go through and edit some vacation photos. (1 hour)
Just finished making a beach panoramic and uploading it to Weebly, along with my process and reflection (3 hours). Total time: 4 hours I have a collection of authentic (Adobe Photoshop, not iPhone) Panoramic Photographs from a variety of places I have visited. While in Destin Beach Florida, I shot a series of vertically oriented images from the balcony of our condo. I stitched them together in Photoshop, then cropped the transparent edges, as you can see in the first two process images. I resized and rotated the image so I could turn it into a 360 degree panoramic image. Once I did that, I creative problem solved around the two edges that meet once the 360 is made. To make a seamless transition, I copied a palm tree from the left side of the image, reversed it, and pasted it on the right side of the image. I also re-evaluated where I needed to crop the image to allow for a smoother transition. I turned it into a 360 again, and spent about an hour using various tools in Photoshop to blend the seam. Finally, I selected the sky and moved it to a new layer to play with color/contrast variations so the sky and water were more defined. I also cropped the final image into a circular shape and experimented with the rotation until I was content with the gulf in the upper left hand corner and the various structures in the lower right. Questions: |
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