Week Five:

Today I worked in photoshop to make a couple more photostories. I realized that I only have about two weeks left to take pictures for my concentration series before it is due. Although I only have a few final pieces, I plan to take the rest of my photos during my trip to Ireland. I'll be in places that are full of history and culture and centuries of human development. Here are my final products so far:

I'm not sure if I'm happy with this last image. I'll spend more time after spring break perfecting it, maybe by taking out a couple unnecesary pictures. 



Week Four (Cont.):

This week I took a whole bunch of new pictures to make photostories with next week. I'm leaving to Ireland on Thursday, so I'll have some really cool images once spring break is over. Here are the final photostories I created this week.

This pictures I'll definitely include in my final concentration.

 



 

With these two pictures, I need to choose one or the other to put in my final. I'll decide that next week.

 

I'll also be editing this idea and including some new pictures that I took to make this photostory more interesting.

 



Week Four (cont.):

I worked with photoshop a little more today to create some different versions of two photo stories that I want to put in my concentration. The first is one that I'll place near the end as I incorporate people in to my images. I have two versions of the photo story; one with a picture of a mountain goat and the other with a shot of the Colorado River at the bottom of The Grand Canyon:

 

The second photo story is made up of images that I took on the Indian Creek Trail during class. I'm leaning towards the second one, but I could also retake some of my pictures to get one that fits better with the other two images. I edited the exposure of the bridge picture in photoshop because it was originally really overexposed.

 

 

By the end of this week I hope to have at least four or five final photo stories. Tomorrow I'll be taking pictures in the dance studio for one of them, and I'll probably end up going on a hike this weekend in order to get more pictures. 





Week Four:

Today I worked with photoshop to create my first final piece. I kept it pretty simple by only editing each picture a little bit to increase the contrast of colors.

Once it gets sunny (if it ever gets sunny!) I'll retake some of my macro shots with more interesting composition.



Week Three:

It took me a while to decide on a final concentration theme, but I think I've finally got it. I'm planning to take pictures of places that are deserted by humans in the beginning of the series, and then slowly progress to places that have traces of people, and finish off with places full of people. Whether it be a full ballet studio or a deserted hiking trail, I'll take a large picture of the area, and then take 2 to 5 macro shots showing tiny details about the place and combine them in to a collage or layer them in photoshop. This week I took a lot of pictures in the sun on a hiking trail, so I'll be posting those today. Also, I took a few really cool shots this morning when the whole town was covered in fog.

Here are the shots that I took the other morning. I was trying to portray a place that had just had a kid in it, but the kid had left. I'm not totally sure if I want to include these in my concentration, but if I do, I'll make the one of the full balloon floating in the street larger than the other two, and have them on top of each other on the right of the bigger picture.

Here are a few of the shots from a hike that I took on Indian Creek Trail. The light was perfect, and I found a lot of manmade things that were rusted and deserted. I can't decide between the two pictures of the trail; I really like the lens flare in the top picture, but if it looks unprofessional I can remove it in photoshop. What do you guys think?

I'll probably end up taking a few more pictures and adding them in to the final collage in photoshop, but these are the good ones that I ended up with.

I went out on the trail during class on Thursday and took a lot of pictures. They have the same kind of feeling as the above pictures, but they seem more natural and peaceful. 

Finally, here are the pictures that I want to end my concentration with. I think that they show how people and nature can connect and make each other better.