Final Exam Photo - Oh...To Be a Bird - Diagonal Focus

This photo is for my final exam in my digital photography class. I took it in Siesta Key, Florida back in February. I was wandering a beach with a lot of old ruined piers when a boy climbed out on one to get closer to a water bird. This is the photo I took.

Assignment #12 - Animal Shot/Humor - Stuck?

Since you already have seen my fascination with birds, this one should be no surprise for content. However, this nuthatch looks like he might have gotten himself stuck from the way he's feeding from my birdfeeder!

Assignment #11 Emotional Movement - Vincent's Attempt

This photo was taken by me (as you can see in the background) during one of my children's karate classes. Each student was taking a turn sparring with the instructor and trying a certain technique or fighting style. This student was attempting to perform a leg sweep at the time.

Assignment #13 - Photosketch/Remove Items/Transform B&W - Mackenzie Collage

This collage took some serious work to put together!! The top left photo has only some minor editing that I would do to a normal photo. The top right photo has the blemishes on my daughter's cheek and chin, as well as some stray hairs on her forehead, edited out. On the lower left photo, I transformed it to a black and white photo. The last photo on the lower right has a dry-brush filter on it. This seems to give it an old-fashioned photo look to it...the kind I remember seeing in old photos of my mom in the late 50's. Then I made all the photos in to layers, and positioned them into this collage. Lastly, I flattened the photos to make it into one image. (You may have to click on the photo to enlarge it to see the changes effectively.)

Assignment #4 - Portrait Photo - Modern Sleeping Beauty

My occasional outside-the-box thinking produced this portrait photo of one of my daughter's classmates on our field trip to the Tellus Museum. She fell sound asleep on the bus on the way there and I turned around and quickly took this shot of her. It's priceless!

Assignment #10 - Atmospheric Space - Sky Ripples

This photo is of a view off my back porch at sunset. It was one of the first photos that I took for this class. The rippled clouds in a v-shape caught my attention, however, the original photo had the power lines in them that go across part of the lower left of the photo. Of course, I felt the photo would be improved without the lines, so this was one of my early attempts at erasing objects!

Assignment #9 - Depth of Field/Architecture - Tellus Observatory

This was one of those photos, where you turn around and say "I have to take a photo!" I was on my daughter's field trip to the Tellus Museum in Cartersville and was waiting on the students when saw this shot. I love the perspective of it and the dome looks so crisp and new!