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Photo Contest Entries

Black Kettle | 6/11/11 | 5:02 pm | Ashton, Idaho | f/14 | 1/125 sec | Nikon D3100

Since this photo is unedited, I didn't do anything to it except crop the right side off. When I tried to add saturation or contrast, it just took away from the detail, so I left it unedited. Black Kettle needs no alterations :)

I entered this in the Photographic Society contest "Endurance" Unedited on 14 June . The contest is school sponsored and was one of three for the semester. I chose this contest because I felt like I had a couple of photos that fit the contest theme. The Mountain Man tradition has endured many years, and at this rendezvous in Ashton, Idaho, men and women came together to celebrate the history. They sold goods, had traditional food, and participated in archery and shooting activities.

Dancer | 5/31/11 | 7:54 pm | Rexburg, Idaho | f/5.0 | 1/100 sec | Nikon D3100

This photo was taken in a ballet studio that had terrible lighting, but my sister wanted to make a flyer for the lessons she teaches. I could do nothing in camera to improve it. So in Photoshop I smoothed out her face, selected her outline, then added a smart filter to the background. Then to make it an 8x10 I increased the canvas size and used content aware scale to increase the left side. Then I had to select the straight line that was created of the barre and floor line and rotate it. I used the clone stamp tool to touch it up. A lot of work.

I entered this as an "Edited" photo in the same "Endurance" contest sponsored by Photographics Society on campus. I thought it fit in well with the theme because it takes a lot of endurance to become a ballet dancer, and to dance in general.

Here is the website for the contest:

http://byuiphotographics.blogspot.com/p/contest-intructions.html

A Photo Excursion Part II: Mountain Man Retreat

Adam throwing the tomahawk. Serious business!


Brandon got one in!


Some cool garb a real mountain man let us try on.


This guy was shooting his rifle when we arrived. We had to trudge through some swampy land to get to him!


The very long drive to Ashton by way of an extensive gravel road was at least gorgeous. All week it rained, but we got lucky with great weather all day.





He didn't quite seem to fit in...


Who will buy?...



The kids sat and made several art projects with beads and sticks.


Caryn Esplin and Black kettle chat about his advertising posters


Julie is probably the most photographed member of our group.



These photos were taken in Ashton, Idaho at a Mountain Man Rendezvous. Several class members carpooled up, and we followed in our car. It was fun to get some interesting portrait experience, and the kids enjoyed watching archery, tomahawk throwing, crafting, and walking through the little 'booths' which sold cool beads, hats and other goods.

A Photo Excursion Part I: RuInn

Extras

Self Portrait 5/1/11 | 1:50 pm | Rexburg, Idaho | f/3.8 | 1/60 sec | Nikon D3100

Laila Grace 6/14/11 | 6:56 pm | Rexburg, Idaho | f/5.6 | 1/50 sec | Nikon D3100 | Turned Sepia in Lightroom. Brightened eyes in Photoshop using brush tool.

Joelle with Guitar 5/19/11 | 3:32 pm | Rexburg, Idaho | f/5.6 | 1/50 sec | Nikon D3100 | Darkened background using adjustment brush in Camera Raw. Used brush tool in Photoshop to smooth skin.

Pelicans | 5/7/11 | 2:32 pm | Idaho Falls Zoo | f/11 | 1/500 sec | Nikon D3100 | Increase saturation and contrast in Camera Raw. Also added a vignette in Camera Raw.

The Truck again | 5/25/11 | Bannack, MT |3:03 pm | f/5.6 | 1/2500 sec | Nikon D3100 | Increased sats ad contrast in Camera Raw. Added filter Poster Edges in Photoshop.

Black Kettle | 6/11/11 | 5:02 pm | Ashton, Idaho | f/14 (yea, it was set wrong) | 1/125 sec | Nikon D3100

Beads | 6/11/11 | 4:19 pm | Ashton, Idaho |f/5.6 | 1/100 sec | Nikon D3100 | Increased sats and contrast in Camera Raw. Added burned border by selecting using the rectangle marquee tool, copied the layer, and chose blend mode Multiply.

Purple | 6/13/11 | 7:56 pm |Rexburg, Idaho | f/5.6 | 1/60 sec | Nikon D3100

Bud | 6/13/11 | 7:40 pm | Rexburg, Idaho | f/5.6 | 1/60 sec | Nikon D3100

Light through the Trees | 6/3/11 | 10:51 pm | Garden city, Utah |f/36 | 1/4000 sec | Nikon D3100 | Border added by first adding canvas size, then using the rectangle shape tool on New Shape mode, filling with color. Then changing to Fill Pixels, and adding a black mask (alt-mask) deleted the inside shape. then chose motion blur to get the blur on 45 and 0 degrees. Changed the opacity of the layer.


Mountain Man Panorama 6/11/11 | 3:25 pm | Ashton, Idaho | f/16 | 1/400 sec | Nikon D3100