Where do I begin? Today has been a great day! I woke up pretty early and went over to the Nelson’s house to ride with them to UCO in order to help Heather move out. The ride up there was normal; I took my iPod up there hoping to get some quality music time with Mumford and Sons, but no. For some odd reason my iPod audio is on the frits. I couldn’t hear the foreground audio, things like the vocals, and leads were heard. So that put a damper on trip, but I stayed positive… When we got there Heather was nowhere near packed. But I don’t blame here I mean I wouldn’t have been packed if I just finished my last final not 50 minutes before we showed up. Luckily Heather has Paula, who is a packing genius! Not two hours from then Heather’s entire room was in the back of their truck. I’m Impressed. After that Nikki had volunteered to model for me. So we took a couple shots around campus, which due to the bright sky and no cloud coverage gave me incredibly harsh shadows. We moved to the shade and got this.
I used a low f-stop, I think it was 7.3, to get a slight focus on the background. But obviously the main focus still on Nikki. Then taking it into the photo shop side I added some more contrast and tonal evenness. Used the spot healing brush where necessary. And added some more definition to the eyes.
With such a limited area of shadow to work from Nikki and I decided that it was time to head to the dance studios. We hopped in her little truck and off we went. When we got there I was a little disappointed, I for some reason thought it was be a little more… epic. I was expecting stage lights black floors, lots of mirrors, an elevated stage. None of which was even hinted at actually being there. But that’s my imagination running away with me again. Nikki posed several times for me. But I was having a hard time getting the composition to work in my favor. The walls with the ballet bar would always have a vanishing point, which made the room look funny. So those shots were… shot. Lame humor. Nikki wanted a shot of the shoes and her ring; we tried some with the shoe on her foot. But again, looked odd. I hung them up and got this.
With a low f-stop I was able to put the ring in focus and the rest of the shoe out of focus. Letting the shape become its identifier. The salmon color of the shoes came out nice. I heightened the definition of the ring to make it stand out more and adjusted its values. Then by adding a second layer and editing it I took some of the saturation out of the outside. Which allows the focus to again be brought into the center. Darkening those outside walls again adds personality and contrast. The only thing that was a little messy was the tips of Nikki’s shoes were torn. So I had to repair them and the strings hanging off them. Doesn’t look bad, I just can see some spots when zoomed in.
Then we headed back to Allen. And I didn’t have time for P90X that day. Whoops!
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