Portfolio Photo Book

This is the final draft of my photo book. This photo book is a compilation of photos I have taken this semester. There are portraits, landscapes, and macros as well as some other creative ones.

A lot of the pictures are from a class excursion to Bannack Ghost Town in Montana. A lot of them were also taken on a family outing to Swan Valley, Idaho. There are a few others scattered here and there from various photoshoots.

All the photos in this book (other than the photo taken of myself) were taken by me. I also created the layout for the book using Adobe Indesign.

Click here for the Photo Book PDF

Extra Photo Book Pictures

Bannack: Fine Art

After some critique, I was able to select from among my best shots taken at Bannack for my fine art shots. All of these (except the rusty wheel) were bracketed shots that I merged using the Adobe Lightroom “photo merge” feature. After merging them I was able to bring up the shadows and fix the white balance as well as a few other things.

Landscape Perspective

These are some pictures I took of a lone tree in the middle of a field on the way up to Palisades, ID. I took pictures from several different angles to capture many different perspectives of the tree.

I placed the car in the background of the below picture to humanize the tree and show scale.

This next picture was done using a roots texture. I brought the photo of the lone tree I took into Photoshop as well as another picture I found on textures.com. I first put the picture of the tree roots on top of my picture and changed it’s opacity. I then used the overlay blending mode and a mask to get rid of the parts of the roots texture I didn’t want.

Here is the roots texture I used:

Aperture and Shutter Speed

1. Wide Aperture: When a picture is taken with a wide aperture, the main subject will be in focus and the background will be blurry.

2. Narrow Aperture: A picture taken with a narrow aperture will usually have everything, or almost everything in focus.

3. Fast Shutter Speed: This means the lens is open for a short amount of time allowing it to stop the motion of the bike. If the shutter speed had been slow when this picture was taken, the bike and person riding it would have been blurry.

4. Slow Shutter Speed: The clouds and water look smooth and blurred here because the lens was open for a longer period of time.

5. A photography or editing topic I am interested in: Portraits! I have never done much with portrait photography. For some reason I have always felt more comfortable doing macro photography but I would love to do more portraits because I feel like those mean a lot to people.

These are not photos I took but photos that were on unsplash.com.