Photoshop CC

I love it!

We went to a gathering last week with my Photoshop class. We got taught about the new Photoshop CC and he explained things I didn't know about. Really cool things. Such as when you take a pictures and it turns out to be blurry you can make it so it's in focus.

And many more. I am lucky to have a boyfriend who knows me and knows what I want. Photoshop CC.
I have it now and I love it so much.

I will try it out for the next week and report back soon.

Stay tuned.

Websites

I'm trying out all those different websites to fin one that I like. I want one where it's easy to access for other people and where it's not so complicated to click on things.
I started with squarespace.com.
I started with a trial version. I liked it. It was easy to upload pictures. I still need to figure out how to make pictures smaller on the website and how to make your logo bigger when you are trying to upload it onto your site. I will wait until we are through with every website trial we are going to do and then I'll decide. I don't feel like I can commit to something this big yet.

Right now I am trying out zenfolio.com and I must say I like it. The only thing I don't like is that I can never find the button that shows me my site, that is frustrating. Besides that I really like it. I like the style I picked and it's easy to access when you click on my website.

photodeck.com I did not like it a bit. The pictures where to big and they had a nasty watermark right over the picture which you could not get rid of. I didn't like the layout and I did not like the way you can access the pictures.

What to do when you run out of ideas

Hi everybody,

today is the day where you can't come up with anything. You know one of these days where you don't feel it and nothing comes to mind?! Creativity is gone for today.

NOOOOOO WAYYY!!

Of course this can happen to the best of us but there is no way that creativity just leaves us.
You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Isn't that something your mother told you when you had to come up with something to write/talk about in High School, or even earlier, Middle School?

Your mother was right!! :)

Now what you do is; don't think about something that you've have seen in a magazine before. Pull out a sheet of paper and start writing down ideas even if they sound "impossible" or silly.
You got nothing?

How about this I name a few things and you think of something to do with this.

Halloween, dramatic, black and white, gel your backdrop, funny, two person portrait, switching roles....any ideas now?

This is what I do. I write down what I either, always wanted to do, or I've heard about but what to di it differently.

This week I took a pictures of a Lego airplane. This was for a class I'm taking but it gave me great ideas what I want to do and not copy. You can play with shadows that are not really there, meaning the object that is shown has not the shadow it's suppose to have.

Now these are just a few ideas that I am happy to share.

HDR

"What can I should nobody else has ever done?" Seriously that is everyone's question. Just got outside and look around. There're things around you that nobody can see. You have a creative side in you, you are a Photographer. You have to be, to make it in this business.


So this week I have to work with HDR photographs. I have never taken HDR pictures. I've been thinking what I should photograph that would make it look pretty amazing. I had an Idea of waiting for an storm and then go somewhere where I can see clouds go wild. I want it to look dramatic.
Does is look good when it's light outside, with the sun out? I better check with Google and see if it does.

I guess it does work, but I still like the drama in the dark, black and white pictures of clouds going wild above a building. I would love to try it out with animals. But it's a little difficult to capture three images that are the same without them moving around. I think I will take one of my Siberian Husky Quinn when she sleeps. I want it to look very detailed and sharp. I can't wait for fall to really hit this city and walk around and take some nice colorful pictures. Even winter is going to be great. :)
I will try it tomorrow night and post it so you guys can see what I did.
Stay tuned.

I'm thinking final...

So I've been thinking about my final a lot lately. (Its for my Photoshop class)
I want to use my dog for this project. I saw this picture once online, it was of a woman's body and the head was from a dog. It was perfectly photoshoped together.

 William Wegman has a series where he uses his two weimaraner and uses them as heads with a human body. He appeared on Sesame Street and had funny videos about it.

My dog is very special. She is a Siberian Husky and sure is very friendly. She snoozes 18 Hours a day and loves to just hold hands.

I dressed her up before when my boyfriend and I sorted though our clothes. She doesn't look happy when I do dress her up but she sits perfectly still, so I think she would be a great candidate for this project. I'll be shooting from home. I will use every days situation and put her and my boyfriend in it. Eating deal in the morning, Reading the newspaper, shaving....

Product

I started to get friendly with the view camera. I had to take pictures of things in the bathroom and kitchen. I wanted not do something more creative than just pit cereal into a bowl and shoot it. While I starred at a bunch on cheerios and fruit loops. I had an idea, I wanted to use a Dinosaur. Haha not a real one of course. First I thought I should form one with Cheerios, but that turn out to be a bad idea. It didn't look like a Dinosaur at all. I went put to get a dry eraser and started drawing a Dinosaur on a tile. It looks great.

For my bathroom picture I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I had a washcloth and foam, which I made with mousse and soap. I created a fancy bathroom harmony.
Now tell me you don't want to take a bath. :)