Major Project

"Rock'n Billy"

Being a big 50's rockabilly fan I set out with the intent of re-creating a 50's swing scene.

I did things a little differently to everyone else, although the development of ideas was proposed first. I shot my deep etch subjects (Jukebox, Megan & Megan's Identical Twin) first & created a scene in photoshop afterwards.

I gained alot of knowledge that Im still working on polishing about perspective & light using photoshop to create the room & shadows featured in the image. I had Andrew Burke suggest some alternative approaches for future reference.

I quite enjoyed this project & look forward to exploring the ideas & technique with different scenes & subjects in the future.

Panorama

So after some exploring of some local nature tracks I found a lookout which Im going to keep secret (haha!)

I shot 6 images to make up the panorama, shot late afternoon keeping some important things in mind...

• Use a tripod
• Overlap each photo by roughly one third allowing good alignment when you come to merge the images a one
• Use a smaller aperture to maximise depth of field (have the whole scene as sharp as possible)

Some things I could have done differently or thought to take into account

• Shoot in portrait orientation instead of landscape orientation to avoid a skinny panorama crop, allowing more room top and bottom for environment detail.
• Explored my surrounds a little more for a better position to include more of my foreground interest in the end result.

Calibration #4

Imaging Technique Presentation - Resubmission

Chosen Technique - Creating a realistic flowing liquid

As we are shooting glass for our studio assignment I thought this technique could come in handy for some experimental work.

In this technique I will be using

• Artistic bubblewrap filter
• Dodge & Burn Brushes to create & shape effects of light
• Experiment with a "Hard Light" overlay in layer modes
• and "Inner Bevel" in Blending Modes

I also experimented with the smudge tool to soften edges of the liquid & neaten them up.

Original Image

After

I referenced off this tutorial from

http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/making-a-flowing-liquid-effect-in-photoshop/

HDR Final - 1966 Ford XP Falcon Deluxe

So after speaking with Megan Olsen & reading through some HDR photomatix websites I think Ive finally got the hang of an intense HDR effect. I used 5 exposures, combined them in photomatix, tweaked tonal mapping using a grunge preset which seemed to give me the most desirable effect then I took all my original RAW images & the generated HDR into photoshop for some final tweaks. Still not PRO looking but I think Ive achieved a good result for my 2nd ever attempt...

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AFTER

High Dynamic Range

Ok, so heres my 1st attempt at creating HDR images - I have never before created a HDR Images. I can see slight differences between the original "correctly exposed image" & the HDR generations but Im not sure I've used this new program properly (Photomatix) nor do I really know what Im looking at besides more tones throughout the overall image in light & dark areas.

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AFTER

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Calibration #3

This week seems to meet the requirements better than our last result again.

Our Luminance value is only out .8 which is the closest result we've had yet.