The Fine Art assignment was my favorite part of the Bannack trip because I felt like my fine art skills would best be shown in small details of things. I wanted to stop and capture parts of things that others may not have otherwise thought to capture.
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For these portraits we traveled to an old Ghost town in Bannack, Montana. It was a fun trip where we got to learn the history of the town and then explore on our own to capture different types of images to add to our portfolios. One of my favorite parts was practicing our portrait photography because we got to use professional lighting equipment. This was a totally new experience for me and something that I would love to invest in, in the future. I loved working with the different set ups and especially the models, they were so willing to try out different poses for us inexperienced photographers and helped with ideas.
2. Prairie Girl on Stairs
3. Indian Couple
4. Teacher
5. Ghost
For this project I had my family model for me so I could work on improving my portrait shots. I must say taking portraits of children is hard work, I posed them so many times and by the time I could snap my photo they had moved, I had to work quickly. My husband was also less than thrilled that I made him be in some of the shots. I had originally intended to photograph my best friends family, but our schedules didn’t line up in time to complete this project. I think that I have learned some great lessons though that I can apply to our session in the next few weeks.
I loved this day for my portraits because it was foggy and I have never taken photos in fog so to see the smoky faded background in the images I instantly fell in love with the look and will definitely cherish these photos forever. I planned to try and use some reflectors but I think the fog helped light my subjects very well and worked out great as I didn’t have an extra hand.
Portraits:
Portrait Edits:
On this photo I edited the overall color to make the fog stand out a bit more, then I edited their faces to make them smoother and brighten her teeth and eyes to make them pop a bit more.
For this image I loved the look of it but the original was too dark so I matched the coloring from another image, I love how simple and easy it was to use this tool and make the image similar in coloring to the source image.
For this image I changed the color of her coat to be a bright blue with a blue trim instead of the original gray with pink trim using the color replacement tool in photoshop.
For this activity we used reflectors and natural light to capture the way light reflects off the reflectors and captures our subjects in a better light. I liked this activity because it showed how you can drastically change the look of an image just by using reflectors before editing the image. I used a white, silver and gold reflector to capture the light on my model.
White Reflector
Gold Reflector
Silver Reflector
No Reflector
This week was fun as we learned about how to take good Macro images. I never realized how hard it is to capture a great macro until we started practicing. We used extension tubes and filters to convert our cameras to take amazing macro shots. I used the filters on my camera to capture my images and really had to focus my breathing so I could capture that one sharp spot of the focal point in my images. I also liked that we turned off the auto focus on our cameras and caught these images by manually focusing on the subjects. As hard as it was to get out of the habit of not using the auto focus, it made me really thing and focus on where I wanted to set up the composition of my images.
Pink and Gold Brooch, I love all the details that are captured when you are able to capture macro images.
Purple Prickly Flower
Banana Grape Juice
Rainy Shades
For this project I chose to use a camera from my camera collection. I chose to use the Kodak Duaflex IV Camera. I was lucky enough to inherit all of my grandparents old cameras right before my grandfather passed away. They were in the process of moving and I came across all these cameras that they were trying to sell at a yard sale. I asked my grandpa if I could have them if they didn’t sell. At the end of the day I got a box full of vintage cameras that mean so much to me. I love thinking about all the images that this camera took in its former life and wanted to capture the different perspectives of this camera.
I wanted to edit these pictures with a vintage feel. I edited them with photoshop by adjusting the levels of the pictures and sharpening the focal points of the images. I then added a faded action to make them look slightly vintage. Some of the pictures I added a “red plaster” texture to the image and then changed the overlays to enhance different parts of the pictures I added them too. I used overlays like multiply, overlay, and hue. I used the same texture for different images I added it to.
These are my favorite images from the collage.
I had a lot of fun taking these pictures and remembering my grandpa. I love vintage things and especially my camera collection since they are a family heirloom.
This was the texture that I used: http://www.textures.com/download/plastercoloured0313/59020
I had a lot of fun with this project because it really made me think about the settings on my camera and the effects that they would give to the outcome of the images. I love shallow depths of field because I think it helps bring a stronger focal point to your images, but it is also nice to have a deep depth of field when you are taking other shots such as landscape shots. I was asked by my brother in law if I could take some engagement pictures for him. We went met in Pocatello since they live in Logan. This was somewhat of a challenge to finding somewhere to take the pictures since neither one of us were familiar with the area. We went to a couple locations and got some great images. I also got a few of my kids in between the location changes.
Deep Depth of Field:
1. Campus Landscape 2. 1/20, 1:00pm, BYU-I Campus 3. Focal Length 50 4. F/stop 36 5. Shutter Speed 1/50 6. Outside light snowy day.
1. Snow Day Fun 2. 1/25, 12:30pm, Pocatello Mountains 3. Focal Length 55 4. F/stop 36 5. Shutter Speed 1/80 6. Outside light, sunny day.
Shallow Depth of Field:
1. Young Love 2. 1/25, 1:00pm, Pocatello mountains 3. Focal Length 43 4. F/stop 5 5. Shutter Speed 1/250 6. Outside light, sunny day.
1. The Key to my Heart 2. 1/25, 12:20pm, Pocatello Mountains 3. Focal Length 53 4. F/stop 5.6 5. Shutter Speed 1/800 6. Outside light, sunny day.
Bonus fun image:
I saw the pitch fork and wanted to make this image look like the famousAmerican Gothic Painting. I wasn’t completely sure how it was set up and didn’t have my phone handy, but I love how it turned out. I added some “old school” actions to it to add to the essence of the portrait.
1. Faux American Gothic 2. 1/25, 2:00pm, Ross Park Pocatello 3. Focal Length 33 4. F/stop 4.5 5. Shutter Speed 1/100 6. Outside light, sunny day.
Freezing Motion
I love glitter and thought it would be fun to play with capturing how it falls in a photograph. I set up a spot on the table with my camera on a small tripod and had my husband pouring the glitter as I snapped the shot. The next shot I was playing around with stopping the motion of water, we tried several different set ups of my husband pouring the water, but the most interesting drops came straight from the faucet. I think its cool to see how the droplets form. I set up the shot by resting the camera on the sink and turning the faucet on to barely drip.
1. Glitter Freeze 2. 1/19, 3:00pm, living room 3. Focal Length 55 4. F/stop 5.6 5. Shutter Speed 1/1,000 6. Camera tripod and indoor apartment lighting
1. Water Drops 2. 1/19, 3:10pm, living room 3. Focal Length 55 4. F/stop 5.6 5. Shutter Speed 1/800 6. Camera resting on sink and indoor apartment lighting
Blurring Motion
These photos were especially fun for my daughter since she got to help out and model for me. I set up the shot by moving my camera with her as my husband pushed her past me in her toy car. I also tried some glitter and focused on the pile of glitter to capture the falling motion of the glitter. Then finally I really like the pattern on my back pack and wanted to try blurring the image as I zoomed out, I like the popping pattern it created with the shapes and colors.
1. Child Driver 2. 1/19, 4:30pm, living room 3. Focal Length 18 4. F/stop 4 5. Shutter Speed 1/30 6. Camera moving with subject, indoor apartment lighting
1. Falling Glitter 2. 1/19, 3:05pm, living room 3. Focal Length 51 4. F/stop 5.6 5. Shutter Speed 1/60 6. Camera tripod and indoor apartment lighting
1. Geometric Zooming 2. 1/19, 5:00pm, living room 3. Focal Length 34 4. F/stop 13 5. Shutter Speed 1/25 6. Camera zoomed out while snapping photo.
I had a lot of fun designing this photo book layout. I got the privilege to take pictures for this adorable couple in the summer of 2012. I was so excited to take pictures in this new location and to share the joy these pictures that would bring years of memories to my sweet cousin Maycee and her husband Cody for years to come. I was even more excited to find out at the end of our session they were expecting their first baby and these pictures were a surprise for her mom for mothers day. This has always been one of my favorite photo sessions.
Process: I first chose the images that I wanted to use, then brightened and touched up the images in Adobe Photoshop. I then sketched out some ideas on how I wanted to layout the images and text on the pages. Once I was ready to design the layout I used the tools in Indesign to make a grid and add the images and text. I loved working through the whole process and designing a layout that was modern and fun. I wanted the layout to be a showcase of some of the best images that I was able to capture and be a layout that would make a beautiful art piece in their home.
Hello, my name is Jalene Stradling and I am a Web Design and Development major. I am wife to my handsome husband (Nate) of almost 6 years and a mom to our 4 beautiful children, 2 of which we get the pleasure to raise here on earth! Paetyn is our oldest and she is 4, Nate is our youngest and he is 1. They are our pride and joy. We are originally from Arizona and moved to Idaho 2 years ago because my husband wanted better hunting!
About a year ago we both decided to go back to school. This is hard with our children and no family close, but we make it work. I originally graduated from the LDS Business College in Salt Lake about 8 years ago with 2 associates in Accounting and Business. I took a photography/photoshop class while I was there and I loved it and hope to improve my skills this semester.
Below is some examples of my past photos that I have taken and edited in photoshop. I have gotten in a bad habit of just using my cell phone camera, but hope that this semester I will take more pictures with my dslr to truly capture all the beauty around me.
This image is one of my favorites of my kids and all I did was add a sepia action to the image and adjust it to how I wanted it to look.
This image was brightened up and I used some actions to smooth her skin and brighten her eyes some more.
This image was brightened up and I used some actions to smooth his skin and brighten her eyes some more, I also added some saturation to brighten the background some more.
This image was brightened and I added some actions with some yellow tones over top of the image to make the image warmer and a little foggy looking.
This image was brightened and I added some actions with some yellow tones over top of the image to make the image warmer and a little foggy looking, I also added a texture over top of the image and then removed it from her skin so the background looks like it has a linen texture.
This image was brightened and some saturation added to it.
This image was brightened and cropped. I love to create things with wood and sell them, this is one of my creations and product pictures.
These are also all of my creations and this image was cropped, brightened and had some saturation added it it to brighten the pink ampersand.
This image was first all colored black and white with an “old school” style action and then I used the art history brush to add some color back into the player and add to the focal point of the image.
Jalene Stradling 