Portrait Photos - Week 13.

My first portrait was taken in the natural light of sunset. The girls appear to be looking off into a distance and I choose a slightly upward angle to shoot this portrait show. I like how the light from the sun behind shines through their hair.

The second image was inspired by the lady in the tutorial. I thought the light blue scarf brought out the blue in her eyes. This is more of a close up shot with the main focus on the eyes.

Third image is more in a posed setting, I tried to get the color scheme to be close with the blues/blue-green. The lighting is a florscent with flash. The glasses were to inspire a creative flare as they are fake.

Fourth Image is with a prop, that actually almost matches the color-scheme. More of a candid shot taken in the corner of a room, where the angles of the corner give a depth to the photo.

My Wish.....Storybook by Paula Clark

Final - Storybook - Notes on Process

Many of my photos began as scanned images that I produced with Photoshop Elements.

1st image in my collection is a photo of my son meeting his grandparents for the first time (their first grandchild). The photo was cropped to take out the top of the curtain, changed resolution, adjusted hue & saturation to enhance the photo and also I adjusted the ambient color.

2nd Image - my son meetinng his sister for the first time, the photo was scanned, changed resolution, made duplicate layer for the magic tool, inverted the selection and changed used the paint bucket to change the top background different from the bottom, added text. Image seems to pop of the page.

3rd Image - taken at more of a portrait angle when my daughter was learning to crawl, photo was scanned and cropped, moved image to show a RoT and to clean up background, changed layer to warming layer and adjusted brightness of the photo, and added text.

4th Image - images were all scanned and then I used the clone stamp and added them together to show the "many faces of my son". Lighting was adjusted and text was added. Opacity was changed to 78% with brush size of 50 px, and cleaned up background to remove clutter.

5th Image - image was scanned to adjusted to again create RoT, the kayak padded acts as part of a frame for the photo. Text was added as well as a warming layer, and adjusted hue and saturation.

6th Image - (with the cow) Image as scanned and then made black and white to give a more old time feel and text was added. Adjusted for camera discolorization

7th Image - Flying dirt bike. Landscape photo This photo is one of my favorites, there was originally only one dirt bike in the middle of the photo. Created an image of balance with the clone stamp tool with the bike coming in to the photo from the left and exiting on the right side.
Adjustments were made to brightness and hue/saturation and text added.

8th Image - Image was scanned and adjusted with the gradient tool and added text with a duplicate layer, adjusted with warming layer.

9th Image - Image was scanned and changed resoluation. Portrait image made a duplicate layer and added water paper filter to give a fuzzy feel as that is what happens with friends and added text.

10th Image - Adjusted photo with fix for camera distortion as this was a scanned image. Added warming layer used duplicate layer and the color dodge to make the camo stand out more as well and put text on the page.

11th Image - Image was adjusted for brightness and diming of shawdows, selected the image and added the blur motion filter to appear to have him moving fast and added text.

12th Image - Added the gradient tool again th this layer, where the railing is framing and added text to image, used the clone tool in the background to remove some things that I didn't like.

13th Image - Photo was duplicated with a layer and adjusted brightness and hue/saturation, used the clone tool to take out "flag" in the background to make the image cleaner, added text.

14th Image - Image was changed created by selecting with the magic wand tool and then selecting the paint/brush tool to fill the background to black, yet keeping the lights their original color. Added Text.

I used the Amimoto program to create the slideshow above and added the music.
Thank you for taking the time to view and allow me to share my storybook with you. The text added include some of the things I wish for my son to remember as he moves on to the next chapter/season of his life and all it has to offer.