Taken for the Class with Dave group. The assignment was to take a picture inspired by music. This is about as inspired as one can get I guess. This is Bonfire Night, my friend Lisa’s band. Steph and I went to go see them perform on Friday night. Sadly, Lisa stood in the shadows pretty much the entire time, so the rest of the band shows up much better than she does. Better pictures of her are available in the photoshoot of her I did a while back.
Taken for the Class with Dave group. The assignment was to take a picture of anything and use a "non-standard" crop. I’ve actually used lots of weird crops at different points, but that actually made this a little harder. I spent the entire week trying to find something that could really be featured by a really long tall crop. I decided on the lightswitch ot my kitchen, which is really dirty and needs to be cleaned. Ah well. They can’t all be winners
Taken for the Class with Dave group. The assignment was to take a picture with lots of colors. This was actually tricky for me because even when I don’t do black and whites, I’m not big on featuring lots of colors. But I did have an immediate idea for it. And so, off to the comic book store! I had to hit at least 3 of the following colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. I think I did a little better than that.
Taken for the Class with Dave group. The assignment was to take a picture of some sort of architecture in black and white and to share the photoshop settings for the translation with the group. This shot was immediately what sprang to mind when I read the assignment. Its a steel plant on the way to one of the cities I wrestle in. I took the shot on the way home so that it would be darker and the lights would be on. I used a fairly long exposure and a higher ISO to get a lot of exposure detail.
In photoshop I used a channel mixer adjustment layer to set it to black and white with the following settings:
Red: +20%, Green: +35%, Blue: +75%
Then I added a levels adjustment layer with these settings:
input Black: 15, input Mid: 1.0, input White: 240
output Black: 0, output White: 255