April 12, 2015

Blue Chair Journey

 Kim Klassen gave us a bonus prompt called, One Thing. The idea is to pick something you love and photograph it in as many different ways as you can think of. So I chose my beautiful blue chair. 
 I absolutely love this chair. I found it at a garage sale for $5.00. What's not to love? 
 So here I go on my blue chair journey. 

April 11, 2015

Coddled Eggs

  New photography prompt coming on Monday. No more eggs. Thank you! 

April 10, 2015

Choclolate Pudding & Meadow Grunge

 Thought I'd show what I'm learning from Kim Klassen. TEXTURES! I made my own textures to add to my photos. This one is called Meadow Grunge and I love the green. I painted them on canvas using different things like paint, ink, drywall mud and ripped paper. It was really fun and interesting to do and I was covered in paint when I was done. I scanned them into my computer then adjusted them in Photoshop.
And this one is called Cracked Eggs Lt. It's a lighter version of the first texture I did the other day. So now I have two textures of my very own. Woot! Woot! 
Here's what they look like on my photos. In Photoshop I stacked them onto the, Making Chocolate Pudding photos I took yesterday. 
 I love how they turned out. 

April 9, 2015

Chocolate Pudding

Okay, I made my own preset called Chocolate Pudding in Light Room then in Photoshop I used a lightened version of my texture Cracked Eggs, over top of my photo.  Yesterday I found a pretty vintage apron at the junk store, unfortunately it's unrecognizable in the photo. It's the piece of fabric with the green edge, near the bottom of the frame. 
 Time to clean up my mess, dump out my milk and have a cup of tea. That's actually watered down white paint in the milk bottle. 
I really like how these photos turned out, but boy, there's a lot to learn. This took me all day, I'm exhausted. 

April 7, 2015

Cracked Eggs

Still working on the egg prompt, today. 
All of the above photos are using Kim's textures. 
I really wanted to make one of my own so I watched her instructional videos and here's what I came up with.  I love it. Thanks Kim!
Here's what it looks like on one of my egg shots. 



April 5, 2015

An Honest Thief

Worked on another egg still life today using the nest my husband found yesterday while he was cleaning up. 
I was looking through my books for some old ones to use and realized after I stacked them that the one I chose was perfect, it's by Fyodor Dostoevsky called, An Honest Thief.

April 4, 2015