Photostory

Since I started this class with euphonium pictures, I figured I might as well go out with them as well. I present to you "A Day in the Life of a Euphonium" -


Comments and Image credits:

1. Levels adjustment & cropping in Lightroom. Text added in Photoshop.
2. Levels adjustment (including darkening windows) & cropping in Lightroom. Text added in Photoshop.
3. Levels adjustment (including changing color balance to make an afternoon shot look more morning-like)) & cropping in Lightroom. Text added in Photoshop.
4. Levels adjustment & cropping in Lightroom. Text added in Photoshop.
5. Levels adjustment & cropping in Lightroom. Text added in Photoshop.
6. Levels adjustment (including darkening windows) & cropping in Lightroom. Text added in Photoshop.
7. Levels adjustment & cropping in Lightroom. Text added in Photoshop.
8. Levels adjustment (including changing the backgrouns sky) & cropping in Lightroom. Cutting, assembly, lens flare, and text in Photoshop.
9.  Levels adjustment in Lightroom. Cutting, assembly, and text in Photoshop. Image credit: PP-Pixelpro
10. Levels adjustment in Lightroom. Cutting, assembly, and text in Photoshop. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
11. Levels adjustment in Lightroom. Cutting, assembly, and text in Photoshop. Image credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)
12. Levels adjustment in Lightroom. Cutting, Euphonium Warping (blur and twirl filters), assembly, and text in Photoshop. Image credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
13. Levels adjustment in Lightroom. Kaliedescope effect (cutting copying and assembly), lens flare, and text in Photoshop.
14. Levels adjustment & cropping in Lightroom. Cutting, assembly, and text in Photoshop. Image credit: clipartbest.com

Portraits

This weekend my family visited Melvín - a friend of ours who works as a trainer on a fancy horse farm down in the Mad River Valley. I figured this would be a good opportunity go get some pictures of people - both because it's a beautiful place, but also because it's interested to see people at their work.

With Melvín there's added political resonance since he's an undocumented worker from Nicaragua. I think a lot of folks in Vermont don't know that much about undocumented immigrants in our state and I wanted to take the opportunity to show him as a real person, not just a statistic or political point.

In terms of my photographic progress, there were some posed photos (The picture of my son Zeke by himself on the pony), but I mainly just followed around Melvín and Zeke taking lots of pictures. Looking back at the pictures, the thing I wish I had payed more attention to at the time was some of the mid-range backgrounds - I was concentrating on capturing moments in the foreground with good scenery in the background, but sometimes thing in the mid-range (fences, trees, etc.) were distracting and I didn't notice them at the time.