This week was fun, but challenging for me. Our task this last week was to go out in nature and take 9 photos of one subject, two of the photos being of the landscape with the subject smaller in the photo. The rest of the images were up to us, but one of them needed to be “humanized” and another needed to have a texture overlay.
For these photos, I hopped in my van and headed towards the Tetons. I found a nice area about 10 miles out of Tetonia where I saw some nice trees that sat in front of a nice landscape. I had unfortunately missed the clear skies that were there the day before, though, but I got some good shots. I used this little cluster of three trees as my subject. I wanted to get some images of the landscape, but it was pretty foggy in the distance so I focused on the trees most of the time.
My images are below. You’ll notice that my trees in my two landscape images are out of focus. This is something I need to work on. I’ve noticed in post-production that some distant shots are totally out of focus, but I never realize it until after I’ve shot all the images!
I edited all of these images in Adobe Bridge (camera raw), mostly focusing on lightening the shadows (since the trees shot pretty dark with the bright white snow around it).
Tall Shot of Trees
In this shot above, I went into Photoshop and added a sky texture to make it look less dreary and cloudy. I placed the sky image over my own image and set the image on “Darken” and set the opacity to 30%. Then I put a mask over it and painted out the bottom of the sky image because it had some trees and things I didn’t want. I got the texture sky image from textures.com
Sarah Barrett 
Awesome job with the pine tree photoshoot. I like how you have a variety of lens focus, you dignity just focused shooting on a wide angle lens or only close-ups of the subject but you have both. I like the wide angel lenses because it makes everything round and feel like you can see everything, like the first picture of the two pine trees. In this photo you have both next to each other but they don’t look straight, they look like if they were going around you. I also love the Humanizing picture of the hand trying to touch the pine tree. It was genius reenacting the Michelangelo’s painting with the hand trying to touch the branch. I love it!!! I wish to see more of your work in the future.
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That’s cool that Sister Esplin chose to show one of your pictures in class! I really like them. THe contrast causes them to stand out as well as the depth. This is my blog https://sarahbarrettblog.wordpress.com/category/digital-imaging/ and this is McKenna’s https://mckennaashcraft.wordpress.com/2019/02/06/perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-49
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Sorry, I accidentally posted Sarah’s blog and not mine. This one is mine https://wordpress.com/view/mydigitalworld990685823.wordpress.com
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