Vienna

Vienna is a beautiful city. We spent a lot of time around MuseumQuartier and did some walking around as well. We had awesome weather-- meaning sunshine! Any sunshine here is good. The german definition of a clear day is no low hanging cloud cover. Gray=clear. Oh well!

Continuing Education

Class is over, but of course that doesn't mean the photography ends. I'm not very good about blog posting (I should work on that), but I've got some things to show so I might as well get them up there.

I'm in Germany for the semester just relaxing so I'm trying to take lots of photos. It is literally cloudy here everyday. Does anyone have any advice on quick fixes for when I'm shooting cloudy days? I know I could put them into photoshop and play with them that way, but I like the idea of the raw photos.

Photo Essay Part 1: Life on a Couch

Ordinary to the Extraordinary

We worked on photoshopping these in class today. Ironically enough, I'm not overly into editing my photos a ton. I like to try to take photos that don't need much editing. That being said, this first one is of my father and sister and it's not very good quality. I had been taking photos with a really shallow dof when my sister grabbed Dad and made him take a picture. Neither of them sit long for photos so I had to just take one quickly or lose the opportunity. So I took what I could and did what I could with it.



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I was also taking shots of the kitchen as we got ready for Thanksgiving (seems really clean for dinner prep, doesn't it?). I like the angle and I think the saturation effects I gave the photo make it just a little more interesting.

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Thanksgiving Cats

So my family is super camera shy... They get really jumpy around me when I'm walking around with the camera, so I settled for photographing my cousins cat. She was a pretty willing subject considering the fact that she was next to the fire and didn't want to move.

Airbrushing 101

Monday in class we went over how to airbrush and edit. I also played with dropping people onto different backgrounds. Matt was a great model so we had fun!

The Unseen

I tried the skateboard, dolly technique and it didn't work the way I wanted it to. So here what you hardly ever see, the bottom of your shoe from the viewpoint of a bug!