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