Riply!

Well, I actually posted something. Anyway, this first image is one of my sister's dog, Ripley. Not my favorite dog, but a great poser. I was laying on my mom's bed watching a movie, and she kinda 'threw' this blue ball at me. So, I grabbed it and she jumped on the bed. Since I had my camera, I decided to take her picture for my sis. I was aiming to get a picture to look like she was a person staring into the camera. It didn't work that well, but the lighting turned out to look really cool. It was by accident really. I was using the flash, because it was just easier than trying to get her to stay still long enough for a slow shutter speed, and I was holding her blue ball in front of the flash without realizing it, and took the picture, so the light came out to look like a honeycomb, Since that is what her ball looks like. The fact that I got it on her nose was cool. I tried to do it again, but it didn't look that great. The next picture is of Ripley with her honeycomb ball. I like this one, even though her eyes aren't in focus, but her nose is and you really focus more on the ball and not her eyes. And, the last picture is one of Rip again with her ball. I like this one, because you see just how much she loves to chew on that ball. She also looks kinda scary. =p Maybe not. Again, her nose is in more focus than her eyes, but again, you focus more on the ball and her teeth. And they aren't that out of focus, anyways.

First Blog

Well, this is very unusual for me. I'm definitely not used to "blogging." But, better get started. The image I put up today is just something i made in class while Twitchell (my photography teacher) was talking to the other class. Granted, I have made better, but I'm still getting used to how basic Photoshop 4 is. T make this, I used a 1000x1000 at 300PX resolution and filled it in black. I then did two lens flare filters. Both at 100 intensity. I then desaturated it and then colorized it. after that, i used some color variations and made another layer. I filled this layer in with black as well and used the difference clouds filter about 8 times. Afterwards, I set that layer to overlay and lowered the opacity to about 80%. I then went back to the original layer and did some burning and dodging to great a better affect. The fact that it has orange and purple is a complete mistake and I didn't notice until I started dodging the edges of the orange. So, to make it blend better, I used the smudge tool and brought out some of the color and reduced the intensity of the lines from the lens flare. I then dodged some more around the flare and burned around the edges to give it more of a "burst of light" effect, for lack of a better phrase.