Tutorial Tuesday - Paint Flag on a Face

I'm not the biggest fan of taking selfies. I don't like my extra chins! Today, Ashley inspired me to do it anyway. I liked the look of her selfie(I'm such a copycat). So, I straightened my curly hair, put some makeup on my eyes, grabbed a fan and proceeded to shoot away. Do you like my red walls? That's my office! I LOVE it!!!

Tutorial Tuesday-Double Exposures

This week is all about double exposure. This effect has kind of fallen by the way side since film is rarely used anymore. But, lucky for everyone we can all recreate the idea in photoshop.

The original 2 photos...

My second attempt.

The original 2 photos...

Tutorial Tuesday-Vintage effect

When it comes to these types of tutorials I like to try them on a few different types of photos to see how I like it. Then I choose the shot to share. I tried 4 photos and I liked the effect on 3 of them. Here they are...

Vintage

Original

Vintage

Original

Vintage

Original

Tutorial Tuesday-Shooting Silhouettes

I took these pics out of archives as I'm pretty sure I won't be making it to the beach this afternoon. I love the silhouettes that Jaymi shared over on Sarah's blog Naptime Momtog. I can't wait to try something that creative.

Tutorial Tuesday-The Dragan Effect

Today I spent the majority of the day at the hospital. Hubs had surgery to put his dialysis catheter back into his belly. In 2 weeks he can go back to doing home dialysis. Hopefully, that will also mean he can get back to work soon. In honor of him I am using a photo of him from last year. I tried this technique on a few recent pics of my niece and nephew and I hated it. This one I like. So here it is...

My original edited photo...

Tutorial Tuesday-Foodtography

This week we are shooting food. I shot an orange. So cliche! A yummy cupcake would have been sooooo much better. I don't usually shoot food photography but this shot was made to order just for you all.

Tutorial Tuesday-Watercolor Edit

This week we learned how to use Photoshop to edit a photo into a watercolor. Pretty cool effect. We are allowed to used archived photo's this week if we want. These are all archived.

Tutorial Tuesday-Building A Lightbox

I've been wanting to build a light box so I had to jump on this band wagon. I had the box. I had the tracing paper. I did not have the poster board. I simply made a mad dash over to Michaels and bought some. (San Diego doesn't have a Hobby Lobby. I'm terribly jealous of all of you who are near one.) I think I waited until too late in the day to do this. My lighting sucked. I don't have enough artificial lights to work with. I may have cheated on this challenge. Here's what I did...I set up my light box, set up my object in the box, set up the camera on a tripod in front of the box then turned off all the lights in the room. Then I use a led flashlight turned up to the ceiling(the camera has to have some type of light to draw from), then I set my shutter to bulb and went from there. Most of the pics came out great at about the 30 second mark. I've used this technique before(without a box). It's great for having no shadows as there is no direct light on the object.

Anyhoodles...

If that's cheating the assignment then my apologies!