First try at surrealism!

Let me know what you guys think...gave that Atheneum Website a shot. Pretty cool!

This assignment really allowed us to get as creative as we wanted to. This program and it's tools were really great. At times I would look at what I had created and wondered how I got there and where was I going next. I wish we had more backgrounds to choose from and more objects too, but it still had some really wild effects. ENJOY!

God's Creation

What a beautiful site of what God created!

The Eye Traveler

This picture is called The Eye Traveler. I made an abstract photo of objects I felt dealt with travelering.

One day dad

This is a picture of my son in deep thought.

Off topic...

I realize that these are probably not one of our weekly assignment, but I wanted to share a couple of photos with everyone before our class is over. I took these over the July 4th holiday weekend up at Lake Winnipesaukee. The first one was from the Wolfeboro town docks at sunset and the other two are looking out toward Rattlesnake Island from the boat while we were heading over to Alton Bay to watch the fireworks one night. I didn't really change the color very much - it was very close to this in real life.

Portrait

Well, while trying to juggle life, house, vacation, kids, term paper, etc., I was trying to get some nice evening light to take some portrait shots of my wife (we get some nice evening sun in our front windows). It just wasn't happening! Rain on and off today, but between the raindrops, we went out to the patio and tried our luck. Many more on Fotothing. Hope you like them as much as I do!

This has been a great class. Jerry, thank you for helping us to understand the finer points of photo composition. I can't wait for DPII!

In My Son Eyes

I named this picture In My Son Eyes because of the dreams he have about his future. The hand is him reaching for his future because it has no limitation.

Surrealism... The Forbiding Fruit

Hello Everyone

After I visited fotothing and saw some of the art pieces I decided to go back and try a new one.

I took a few more minutes to play around with new objects and piece by piece it elaborated into this scene. Hope everyone enjoys this piece of art.

Peace be Still!

The Surreal

The Challenge.

Digital Portrait

For this assignment I decided to use a co-worker. He loves taking pictures so I knew we would have fun. His expressions is so soft and truthful. I decided to post them in black & white. You can see them in color on fotothing.

The beauty

I love the pose my wife choose for this photo, it captures the essence of her beauty.

Dreaming

I decided to shoot this picture in black and white, to capture the moment.

Surrealism

Here's the one that I had the most fun with. I guess it's a little weird to play chess with body parts, so I also threw in a few other items. Eh, just having fun!

Surrealism

This is one of the few that I've had fun creating on the Wadsworth site. I have tried several things to get it to be clearer and larger once uploaded as a JPeg file from "Paint", but I haven't had much luck. Anyways, I will also post several fun ones to Fotothing. I hope you can all see this one clearly. I named it "Good and Evil".

Portrait...

It's been a tough week to get any decent portraits (still trying this week with my wife). Here are a couple of more or less random snapshots of my son and daughter.

The Surrealist - Snack Catch

I enjoyed this project very much. I played with the items and the colors and this is the result. Hope everyone enjoys it.

Here is an additional photo in Black and White of my son.

Week 6

Week 6 was great. I was able to use my son Jaylon as my model. He did a great job giving me various poses while capturing the light from my bedroom window.

Week 5

Here is another picture I enjoyed from Week 5 on the Golf Course near my job.

Windows Collage

A few of my fave's in collage form - as always, more on my fotothing. Hope everyone is staying cool!

Finish Up Week!

Where did the time go?  Here we are in our last week!  I will be doing the grades for the class on Thursday.  Do take a few moments to go through the rubric posted in the upper right corner of the blog.  You can continue to add new work right up until the end on your fotothing account.  There is a 10 image/day limit so plan accordingly.

The last project is meant to be fun and get you thinking about composition and scale without the need to be looking through a camera to find it.  Remember that you can't save the images you create on the Atheneum site, but rather, you need to take a "screen shot" using the "print screen" button on your keyboard.  That puts the image on your screen in memory then you need to paste that "memory" into either Photoshop or "Paint" that ships free with every PC.  Select just the image, then copy it... next FILE>NEW and paste the selected area.  Now save it as a jpg and you are all set to post to the blog and fotothing.  If you have a laptop, the print screen button may be a shared button and you might need to press the Fn or function key to access it.... you do have one though!

It has been a pleasure working with all of you... what a great group!

Midnight and Tanny are exhausted! The kids were probably chasing them around

my little cousin

This is my little cousin Jerron. Everyone knows when he is in the room.

Portrait of my oldest son Tylor

As pre-teen my oldest son, Tylor is almost always  to busy to hang out with me. The kid does attend school  year round, and is always doing something school related or outside playing sports , all three account for much of his time. Well today is a good day, I was able to snap a few photos of him. We both enjoyed the assignment. I will be posting the rest of this weeks images on fotonoting.com for your viewing.

save the bees

Macro

shadows and light,
This photo I took of my son Malik just leaning against his black tee that he placed over the back of his chair sitting directly under the fan. I thought it was a cool shot. I went on Picasa and did the B&W and filtered the light on it.. hope you like it

fly

racquel