Scanography

Scanography is so cool. I had never heard about it before this class, but I had a ton of fun playing around with it. For those of you who don't know, scanography is taking a picture, but with a scanner instead of a camera. You can get some really neat effects with light and focus that are very unique to this style of art.

For this assignment I was supposed to do two images. One just with everything on the scanner (a one scan) and one that was at least three different images that I blended together in Photoshop (a collage scan). Here's what I came up with.

One scan:

Girl Power

This scan was created by placing all the items on the scanner bed and placing a box over the top (to block the light) so the background would be black. I increased the contrast and the saturation in the advanced options on the scanner.

Star-Gazing

 

For this one, I just placed the bouquet on the scanner bed and put ribbon all around it. I also increased the saturation and contrast on this one too, as well as boosting up the fuchsia tones.

Collage Scan:

 Original Scans

Final Edit:

 Ode to the Uke

 This one was a little more tricky than I thought it was going to be. I scanned all three images in, only editing the contrast and saturation on the ukulele. I then took the three images into Photoshop. I used the music as the background, so I didn't make any changes to it except to up the contrast just a bit. I then removed the black portions off the ukulele image and the book image. I wanted to use the book picture because it is a book I inherited from my grandparents, and it's pretty cool. The song in the back is one of my favorite songs to play. I used the linear light blending mode on the book and decreased the opacity of the ukulele to 90%. I rotated the images slightly to get the composition I wanted, and I really like how the final image turned out.

Edit: Borders

I had a lot of fun learning different border effects. It really can make a regular picture really turn into a piece of art. Here are three different effects I have learned.

Original

Edited

 

Little Chickadee: 2/2/11—1:00 PM; Rexburg, ID; f/5.6; 1/800 sec; Canon PowerShot A 1100

-I added contrast and more saturation to help the picture look better. For the edge effect, I used the #11 Flexible Brushed-on Effect. I used an all black mask and painted the picture back into view with white paint. I changed the opacity several times on my brush to give it a more realistic brush stroke look.

Original

Edited:

Always Watching: 1/31/11—1:23 PM; Rexburg, ID; f/3.5; 1/125 sec; Canon PowerShot A 1100

-I increased the saturation and made the skin more even using a soft paint brush at 30% opacity. I used the #9 Sprayed Edge Effect for the border on this picture.This effect is obtained by adding a sprayed strokes filter and a border to the photo.

Original

Edited

La Bandera: 1/30/11—6:26 PM; Rexburg, ID; f/6.8; 1/500 sec; Canon PowerShot A 1100

-I increased the saturation and contrast. I used the #12 Double Fade Border for this picture. This border was created by increasing the canvas size to put the black border around the edge. The inner border was created by using the rectangle shape tool. First, I added a white rectangle to the inside of the black border and then, using a mask, got rid of the inner part of it. I added a strong motion blur to the inside so it would fade into the picture and decreased the opacity of the layer.

Portraits

Portraits:

 

Blake: 2/2/11—12:00 PM; BYU-I photo studio; f/8; 1/160 sec; Nikon D2X; no camera flash, used studio lights, tripod

-For this picture, I zoomed in from the original and enhanced it a little bit.

Homeless Harrison: 2/6/11—7:35 PM; Rexburg, ID; f/4; 1 sec; Canon PowerShot A1100; used tripod and timer
-I adjusted the levels slightly as well as lowered the brightness and contrast just a bit to make it a little darker.

Environmental Portrait:

Erin in her Element: 2/5/11—6:15 PM; Rexburg, ID; f/2.7; 0.6 sec; Canon PowerShot A1100; used tripod and timer

-My sister-in-law came over and was working on an armature for one of her art classes. I used a warming filter as well as bumping up the contrast. I then added a blank layer and applied a flexible vignette to make Erin stand out more.

Group:

Weather Proof: 2/5/11—11:57 AM; Rexburg, ID; f/2.7; 1/100 sec; Canon PowerShot A1100, used timer and set camera on dash of car
-My husband and I went sledding on Saturday and I decided we should get a picture of the occasion. This picture was kind of blown out, so I lowered the exposure and increased the gamma. I also applied a photo filter and warmed it up.

Edit: Portraits

I really enjoyed this assignment. I love editing photos and I am always looking forward to learning how to do new things.

Enhancement:

[Challenge] Luminous: 2/3/11—4:14 PM; Rexburg, ID; f/2.7; 1/100 sec; Canon PowerShot A1100

-I really wanted to try this effect, but didn't have access to a model, so I used myself. The light was coming just right through my window, so I took a few shots and chose this one. I am really not a fan of the original. I used this tutorial to get the luminosity effect on this picture. http://www.planetphotoshop.com/design-effects-2.html I also zoomed the picture in because I didn't like the composition.

 ORIGINAL

EDITED

Color Replacement:

Kooky Rachel: 2/2/11—12:00 PM; BYU-I photo studio; f/8; 1/160 sec; Nikon D2X; no camera flash, used studio lights, tripod

-I first selected the shirt that I wanted to change and then used the color match tool (under Image--Adjustments) in Photoshop to match Rachel's shirt to her boots.

 ORIGINAL

 

EDITED

Color Match:
Messy Max: 2/6/11—5:50 PM; Rexburg, ID; f/5.6; 1/60 sec; Canon PowerShot A1100; flash
-I used color match to warm up this picture a little bit. The original match without any changes made the picture of Max pretty dark, so I bumped up the luminance and increased the fade as well.

 ORIGINAL

Match color using:

EDITED

Panoramic

This was a brand new concept for me. I had never realized before that you could take several pictures (without the panoramic option on your camera) and blend them together with Photoshop. Photomerge is a great tool and that is what I used to create this image. I took five separate pictures of the temple and then blended them together with photomerge. I added some brightness and contrast to the image and cropped it slightly as well. I also used the content aware tool in CS5 (it's totally awesome) to help increase my borders so I didn't have to crop in as much.

 

 

 

Rexburg Beauty: 1/30/11—5:24 PM; Rexburg, ID; f/5.2; 1/400 sec; Sony DSC-S930

Edit: Camera Raw

Camera Raw is pretty awesome. I am still learning how to use it, but I am having fun in the process. For this first image, I just did a few edits with Camera Raw. It definitely makes things easier and faster with editing. I increased the blacks, and added a little brightness, clarity, and vibrance. The original is first; the edited version is second.
 

 

Sunset; 1/30/11—5:27 PM; Rexburg, ID; f/8; 1/250 sec; Sony DSC-S930

           

For the second image, I actually took a raw image with a DSLR. The lighting wasn't very great when I took the picture, but I was able to fix it up quite nicely with Camera Raw. I increased the recovery, blacks, brightness, contrast, clarity, vibrance, and saturation in this image. I also cropped it in.

Magic?: 1/29/11—7:52 PM; Blackfoot, ID; f/3.3; 1/10 sec; Nikon D70s; raw image

This image is of a little trick my brother-in-law taught me. Pretty cool, huh?