A little photoshop action

I've been working at a small start-up for 7 months now, and I've been doing a bit more odd projects. A client wanted a very specific icebreaker ship image showing ice breaking away...which doesn't really exist, because the ice doesn't break like how they imagine. So yay, I get to practice my photoshopping skills. Kinda fun, super random.

Here's what the image looked like before:

Floral

Took some photos of the lovely flowers I got today. They somehow seem even more romantic now in black and white. Perhaps I've been single for far to long... Yearning for more romance in my flowers. But, they really do liven up my apartment, that is currently in disarray with moving. 

Summer Pools

Died when I saw Morgan Hiscocks instagram shot of this pool (top pool). It looks way too similar to the shot I directed for Target in June (bottom pool). Same floats, but the male models are definitely working it better than the girls. In love.

Pictures

I think Instagram might end my blog eventually...

St. Bonifacius

I moved back home for a month awaiting my new roommates. Long days of biking, picking raspberries and chasing snakes. This is St. Boni back when it was lovelier. Click here to see the current sign.

I wish my parents quality PC/scanner didn't make pictures look horrid. I apologize, but my post for this month might look like crap.

Over & Out

Packing and moving. Found some polaroid film. Super old, thought it wouldn't work. Used it up on kitten... I'll miss her. She is dear.

Meat & Potatoes

Foust cabin 2009

Bath::Suit

Waiting on jobs. It's nice out, time to have a little fun.
Hello beach. Hello summer.

I think one of the boys is my grandpa.

Yousuf Karsh

I went to the Art Institute of Chicago today saw a gorgeous collection of portraits by Yousuf Karsh. Defiantly want the Catalogue. During his career he held 15,312 sittings, produced over 150,000 negatives, and left an indelible artistic and historic record of the men and women who shaped the twentieth century. He was lucky to photograph so many amazing people. Some of my favorites were: Frank Lloyd Wright, Audrey Hepburn (both above), Helen Keller, Andy Warhol, Picasso, Albert Einstein.... so good. see more of them here.

found::photo

Hannah and I spent much of the day at Magers & Quinn book store researching for our senior projects. Hannah pulled out this awesome find! It was slipped into the pages of a book, perhaps the previous owner? This picture is the only thing settling my stomach from the large amount of acid that has been churning from the stress that is The Senior Project.

Thanksgiving

The joys of underwater cameras, living things, food lots of food, and a large group of people I don't know.

Nani::Maui

Hawaii Loves Ice Cream



So my dad and I went parasailing and I gave my camera to some lady on the boat to take a picture of us while we were up.
This is the picture she took. Brilliant!

Fashion::Photos

Woo Hoo for my muffs making an appearance on The Minneapoline. YEay for Allison Vallant and her lovely photographic skills as guest blogger.

Talent

I have to show off my awesome photoshop skills being it took me all day. I had to remove a railing from the picture.



Photo by: Jenny Tondera
Mega Flier by: Abi Chase and KRez

holding hands::hands holding

Some fam negatives I scanned in a while back.

You can always go home

It's Fall!!
I went for a hike.

I stood on lillypads

Hi Grandpa
Hi Mick

Photo::Album

Some good old photographs of the fam

Lee Friedlander

I went to the Friedlander exhibit today and fell in love with this photo.
I also bought Letter's from the People..... I can't wait till it comes in the mail!

Alain Paiement

Expansible #4
Pigment Jet Print on Polyester Face Mounted to Plexiglas
24"x42"
2006

Take a look at Alain Paiement. He is a canadian artist that constructs photographs of space in a way he calls "building photogrpaphy." He has been around for a while, touching on architecture, anthropology and all form. His pictures have a ways locating yourself, of finding were we sit in relation to the image. It's like viewing the earth from space and how the view reorients us in a way that lets us understand how the world works on it's own. We inhabit the earth, yet it moves on it's own. The bubbles are just there and we orbit around them. Country Base
Edition of 5
lambda print mounted to dibond
66” in diameter
2004

3D::ish

3D representation of a spread