week 48

Wow. Totally behind. I'm not going to try and pretend I will catch up. I will, however, blame my behind-ness on the fact that I have been taking a darkroom techniques class at the community college and have been busy there. Once my portfolio is complete, I will scan and upload those pictures here. In the meantime, here is a faux tilt-shift picture of New York City.

I love this effect, but cannot afford the real deal, so Photoshop, it is!

Week 6

I have good reason to be posting this a week late. I was out of town last week. But it was taken last week and still counts.

This week's picture was a product of photoshop. I had an idea of how I wanted to execute this with a single shot, but the logistics of it got really hairy, really quickly. Especially considering it was a self-portrait, taken with the timer function. So I chopped it up, did some layering with pictures, and called it a day. Also, I used my flash, because I'm trying really hard to get better at that, but I'm just not where I want to be. The picture is in focus (quite crisp, actually), but you'd never know it, because there's still this hazy quality to it. So I don't know if that just comes with the territory of shooting with a flash, or if I'm missing something. Either way, it bothers me. Oh well.

On an un-related note, I'm still not sure about my new bangs.