Smooth Sailing

Scanned old photos today that part was EASY. Loved it. Completely manageable. (not saying Amanda and I didn't mess it up, but it was an easy fix!) After scanning was retouching, and you all by now that I'm not the most Photoshop savvy, so it wasn't perfect, but today was a nice digiphoto day! I didn't feel like MAC was controlling me, and the rainbow wheel shyed (shied?) away for the most part. I'm pretty excited for the next class when we bring in our multiple old photos, and self portraits on the scanner!

and until next time :D

Modeling

Today we learned about studio light. AWESOME. I'm basically really stoked to try it and be in charge of lighting someone/thing else's face instead of having mine display the Rembrandt Triangle. (I'll have to google it to see what it looks like, unless someone photographed it) It was a bit crowded for my liking and I would love to get back there on a Friday someday soon when I can spread my photo wings and just go for it!

btw, super excited for the retouching assignment!

but until next time...:D

as of yet.

Ok so maybe not. I'm not really sure what's going on here. I feel like I'm so far behind and I don't know what's going on. I think I'm just a little overwhelmed. This class is gone, but I'll try desperately to make the next one better (and MORE PRODUCTIVE!)

Until next time...:/

contact sheets

I always knew contact sheets were my friend! From the darkroom with the beloved photo paper to now with adobe the contact sheets are cooperating! Hallelujah! Well I'm off to shoot my 10 images with f-stop bracketing.

Until next time!

the new hourglass

So I'm SURE one of these days everything will go right. One day. Finally got batch processing down, so I moved on to photomerging. That ALMOST worked. So close. Except apparently none of my images can be matched. That, I don't know if I understand haha. Of course that leaves me to puzzle them all together manually anyways (again).

Also my relationship with the infamous rainbow wheel is now growing I'm sure soon we will be having picnics in the park on a sunny day because at this rate we are spending so much time together. You know, it's always nice to know that there's someone(thing) that wants to spend a lot of time with you(me)...then again, too bad its the one thing slowing me down so everything I would like to get done takes about 4 times longer that it should. As far as I can see, the main thing I'm learning in this class is patience, and BOY am I learning!

Until next time... :)

Batch Processing

WHAT A DAY!!!!!! I officially HATE batch processing. I understand the concept. Record my actions and then apply the same actions to the next pictures. It SHOULD be that easy, but nooooooo of course not! First none of my files would even open! Then when I was able to open them, they wouldn't save properly. Then when I figured that out, and I thought EVERYTHING was done correctly, the batch processing didn't adhere to ANY of the other pictures. SOOOOOO all class the only thing that I've done is go in huge circles just to start at the beginning and just continue doing it the "old fashioned" way and resizing the images one by one. All I can say at this point is I hope and pray things will go better next week!!!! Thank God Monday's a holiday, I think I need it after this class.

Highlarious

I just searched Hockney on Flickr to see what other people have done. I found my favorite one. Someone photographed a hockey puck a la Hockney and called it "Hockney Puck." TOTALLY made my day :D