Panoramic

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So I am trying the slide show option and I am liking it. But you didn’t come here to read about that did you. You came here to read up on about my Panoramic photos and the magic behind them so lets start.

The key to getting a great panoramic picture is multiple overlapping images. Just in case you didn’t know.

So the first one I am going to call “Night Blend”. This one was way fun and interesting to do. I have never done a panoramic picture before, and never at night either. My biggest challenge was to get the height, luckily for me there was a flowerbed covered in snow so I set my tripod in the center of the flower garden. I played with my settings till I felt like I got what I wanted and then touch this picture. I stared from the center moved to the left and then started from the center again and moved to the right. I brought all the pictures into photo-shop and using the Automate i merged all the photos into one. Then using the healing tool I fixed the edges.

Night Blend                                                Rexburg,Idaho

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS                  1/26/12

f/8.0                    1.3                      ISO     1600

The second one is called “Post” fun part about this one is that it is on the other side of the first picture. I tried taking some indoor shots and they didn’t work out as well as I had wanted to so I used this one. So I did basically everything I did to “Night Blend” however there was one big difference between “post” and “Night Blend” if you look at the bottom left corner it basically matches the rest of the photo (the cement is dry unlike the rest of the cement” however I included one of the pictures that I took so that you can see what was realy there.

Post                                                Rexburg,Idaho

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS                  1/26/12

f/8.0                    2.0                      ISO     1600

Camera Raw

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So I call this one Pine cone. I actual took this picture during the challenge period. But since I haven’t used it, and since I liked it I thought I would use it for this post. So the first part was getting into Camera Raw. Once I got in there it was one big experiment. I kept sliding bars around until I got the green to really pop. I didn’t like the background to much so I darkened the entire area around the pine cone. Ok true it’s not a pine cone, as much as it is a pine tree branch but what the heck its what I am calling it.

Pine Cone: Edited in Raw                   Rexburg,Idaho

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS                  1/13/12

f/2.7                    1/1600                ISO     400

So I call this one Flower. I actual took this picture for blog 3 But I didn’t end up using it so again I thought it would be fun to use for the Raw editing. Basically the goal with this picture was to again ring out the green as well as the red in the picture while trying to keep some of the other plants with there natural color. It did work and it didn’t. In raw I mostly focused with the color hue sliders.

Flowers:      Edited in Raw                  Rexburg,Idaho

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS                  1/19/12

f/4.0                    1/125                  ISO     400

Jug:      Edited in Raw                  Bannack Montana

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS                  2/10/12

f/4.0                    1/400                  ISO     100

 

Flexible Edits

So at first I was think what am I going to do I have no Idea what I am going to take a picture of or exactly how to edit it. But as I looked around campus I found some way cool things to take a picture of and to edit.

Adjustment layer

1) OK so this picture has several adjustment layers. There is a brightness/contrast layer, an exposure layer, a Black and White layer and lastly a Vibrance Layer.  On the first layer I set the brightness to 84 and the contrast to 32, I masked out the Taylor building and the dirt on this layer so that it doesn’t effect them. On my second layer I set the exposer to -4.92 and I didn’t touch the offset or the Gamma. I masked out everything except for the dirt part. The black and White one is kind of hard to say what I did but I masked out everything except for the Taylor building and the sky. My last mask I set the Vibrance to +59 and the Saturation to +39. I masked out everything except for the Kimbal building.

Taylor                  Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

1/19/12              Rexburg,Idaho

f/8.0                    1/250                  ISO 400

Smart filter

2)When I first started on this one I didn’t know how to convert the image into a smart object. Here is what you do. You right click into the image layer and select smart object, ya it was that easy. Just thought I would share that with you. Once it became a smart object I added some smart filters. I tried twirl and the un-sharp mask and didn’t really like them. Then I found Poster edge and Neon Glow. On the poster edge I set the edge thickness to 6, the edge intensity to 0 and posterization to 2. With the Neon Glow I picked a green color and then set the brightness level to 17 and the glow size to 12. I like how this picture turned out.

7UP                  Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

1/19/12              Rexburg,Idaho

f/8.0                    1/200                  ISO 400

Flora & Fauna

During the Winter time its really hard to get any good pictures of live plants, besides trees and bushes. Not only that but all the fauna are either hibernating, or hiding somewhere where it is warm. For this Project the Benson building became my favorite place. They have living plants, of all shapes, and colors. Plus they have stuffed animals. So hope you like these pictures.

1)

White Fox             Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

1/19/12              Rexburg,Idaho

f/4.5                    1/25           ISO 400

2)

White Flower         Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

1/19/12              Rexburg,Idaho

f/3.5                    1/100                  ISO 400

3)

Grass Flower         Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

1/19/12              Rexburg,Idaho

f/8.0                    1/15                    ISO 400

4) This is my one outside picture, I’m glad I got this image with the Taylor building in the back ground.

Dried Berry           Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

1/19/12              Rexburg,Idaho

f/2.7                    1/1250                 ISO 400

5) I really liked the the shoot I got of the pink flower, but I wasn’t to much of a fan of the background, I first re-scaled the layer and lastly cropped the area I wanted around the flower it self. Next I created a second layer and filled it completely with black, I added a vector mask to the image and then used the brush tool to hide the background and bring the black into the image.

Pink Flower           Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

1/19/12              Rexburg,Idaho

f/5.0                    1/80                    ISO 400

6)

Lonely Ladybug           Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

1/19/12              Rexburg,Idaho

f/8.0                    1/13                    ISO 200

My Blend Type

GAME DAY………TYPE

Name: fieldDate 1/12/12Rexburg,Idahof/8.0   1/640      Iso 200 Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

Name: GrassDate 1/12/12Rexburg,Idahof/8.0   1/125      Iso 200 Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

Name: Game dayDate 1/12/12Rexburg,Idahof/8.0   1/640      Iso 200 Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

I really want to start playing outdoor sports, like Lacrosse or soccer. But it is still too cold, and we had just had a snow storm, So when I found a nice patch of green grass I decided to merge them together in this way. At first I was thinking about using the field goal posts; the blue sky would  have given me more contrast, but I decided against it and decided rather to go with the center line in the middle of the field. While there isn’t nearly as much contrast I feel like I could do it again, that is as long as I have the right font type I could.

SECRET GARDEN…….BLEND

Name: Fountain Date 1/12/12Rexburg,Idaho f/4.0   1/10        Iso 400 Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

Name: Plant Date 1/12/12Rexburg,Idaho f/2.7   1/160      Iso 200 Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

Name: Secret Garden Date 1/12/12Rexburg,Idaho f/4.0   1/10        Iso 400 Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

Well this one picture that one of my teachers would call a happy mistake. I had to blend 2 pictures into one. In particular I was going to go for an antique look. I took fountain over lade a solid orange color, then went into Plant took the Green layer and put it into Fountain, then making a mask tool for both I played around with it until I got this nice look. It was hard original to find some of the tools, but once I did I got it looking nice.

I’m feeling Blue

I’m feeling Blue, when the world right now is white and dead.

Well… that’s not 100% true but still during winter time its cold, snowy and the grass is dead.

I picked blue because of its ability to stand out in the snow.

Name: 40       Date 1/12/12                       Rexburg,Idaho

f/3.5               1/1600                      Iso 200

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

Name: Lights              Date 1/12/12                       Rexburg,Idaho

f/4.0                           1/100                         Iso 800

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

Name: Blue                Date 1/12/12                       Rexburg,Idaho

f/8.0                           1/250                         Iso 200

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

Name: B                      Date 1/12/12                       Rexburg,Idaho

f/8.0                           1/200                         Iso 200

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

Name: WR250X         Date 1/12/12                       Rexburg,Idaho

f/4.0                           1/400                         Iso 200

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

Name: Track              Date 1/12/12                       Rexburg,Idaho

f/8.0                           1/400                         Iso 200

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS

On Blue, Lights and on the WR250X I used the spot heal tool to clean up some of the dings, leaves, and dirty spots that were in the picture original.

Cut It Out

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1) Original Table Tennis    3/28/11 Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS Action/Speed Shot	2) Cut Out Table Tennis Partial Cutout Cleaned and softened the edges
3) Original Dog        8/10/11 Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS	4) Cut Out Dog Full Cutout Cleaned and softened the edges

Top 11 From 2011

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1) California Adventure    11/4/11 Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS Night Shoot Blurred everything except for the Farris wheel.	6)Reflection Pool    8/27/11 Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS Wanted to get part of temple in pool.
2)Couple at Light Show    11/4/11 Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS Night Shoot Blurred background. Made minor changes to light and contrast.	7)Salt Lake Temple    8/27/11 Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS Purposely got the sun in the background of Temple to make it stand out.
3)Dancing Sticks    9/2/11 Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS Night Shoot Made minor change to light and contrast	8)Side Shot SLC Temple    8/27/11 Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS I saw the Temple and thought it would be a greet side shoot, I incorporated the pot into the picture.
4)Fountain at Temple Square    8/27/11 Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS Got the fountain shoot with the temple in background.	9)Stick Figure w/Heart    9/2/11 Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS Made minor changes to light and contrast
5)Girl by Rock    4/30/11 Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS Position the camera to catch a side shot of her, while at the same time catching the hole.	10)Temple Blur Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS Night Shoot Blurred Plants and office building

11) It’s me    11/4/11