Project 50 - Week 2 - Update #1 (Proof of Concept)

Project 50 - Week 2
Update: #1

Today I wanted to try some proof-of-concept ideas I had for my main project this week.  For this proof idea, I used two photos of Highway 80.  The first is shown as the layered idea, with each photo having a frame and "stacked" on top of each other in a somewhat "hap-hazard" way to make them look like they blend together (although if you look closely you'll see some slight errors).  The second is shown as a single photo, with the two separate photos being blended together as one (using PhotoShop, blending, deleting, layer-masks and gradients).

I'm going to try and do another, larger proof in a day or so of San Francisco.  Comments and feedback appreciated!

Enjoy!

 

Photo 365 - Day 218 (One Ring)

Day 218 (February 6th, 2011)
Title: One Ring

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try you just can't get a "perfect" picture of something.  Take my wedding ring for example - I love it.  It looks cool has this nifty design and does fun things with reflecting light.  But not on film.  I tried taking a ton of photos of it to show off how the cut angles bounce light around, but no success.  So, rather than calling the session a "wipe" I decided to use Photoshop to show, abstractly, how it makes little rainbows of light.  Its not exactly the same, but that's why I call it abstract!  Woo!


Enjoy

Photo 365 - Day 211 (Intersection)

Day 211 (January 30th, 2011)
Title: Intersection

There are some pictures, that I really have no idea why I took them.  Perhaps I thought they would look interesting or have some sort of compositional element that would be fun to look at, but most of the time I think its just because I'm nuts.  I was taking some shots from the top of our building (18 stories high) and I looked down and saw the tennis court and though: "Hey, white lines!  Those are cool!" and shot away. Afterward, I downloaded the photos, looked at them and thought: "Well, that was just stupid.  Its just white lines." 

After basically ignoring them for a while, I decided to come back to them and see if I could "play around" with just white lines and try and make them a bit more fun to look at.  Here is the end result! 

Enjoy