Goddess Eris...

This is the representation of the goddess Eris. She is the goddess of discord and chaos, and so I did a lot of editting for this image. In the end, I probably had close to seven layers, and I did a lot of distorting, and playing with the hues and saturations. The stream was actually from a hand firework, and the picture turned out as just a red stream of light. Then I distorted that picture with another picture that was very colorful, and when I took the picture, it looked like someone was moving quickly, even though it was a still picture. I really like the overall picture and portrays the chaos perfectly. :) I know, this picture is really different from my usual work, but I really like it. ;)

Pandora's Box Beginning and During Pics

Initial... lomo effect
then sun beam trick following the mist and words
...bringing it to the final pic! :) no, it's not the final picture, but the penultimate...:)

Pandora's Box Myth Final Pic

This picture is of my little sister, Emma, and she was wearing this beautiful dress. In the myth of Pandora's Box, or really a jar, according to the primary myth, all of the evils escape from the box when the human, Pandora, opens the box/jar, with the exception of one. The only evil left was hopelessness, showing that even though life can get tough, it's still possible to have hope. I burned the background, witch was my garage, and I used one of Gavin's tricks of adding a light beam. The lighting was good in the original picture, but now I really like the lighting in the final image, because it shows that beam of light, portraying that hope that humans can have. I purposely did not make the girl dark because I wanted to show that just because Pandora did something evil does not mean that we should be able to assume that Pandora is dark and evil for the thing that she did. In the darkness on the right, I translated some of the evils, which came out of the box, into Greek and changed the opacity so it wouldn't be so visible. Also, in the mist at the girl's feet are different words like Pandora, hope (the opposite of the only evil left inside the box) and Anesidora (some say this was her other name) in this Greekish looking font, and changed the opacity levels on those words. The mist at the girl's feet was blurred with a motion blur. I really love how this turned out, and all the work that I took time to do payed in the end. :)

St Patty's day green picture

This was originally a really flat picture of a star that was painted over on my wall before I repainted it. I did a lot of neon glow and played with the layer settings. I also cropped it a lot so I could use the rule of thirds.

A whole new world...

This was originally a picture of bushes ligned up by the lake down on beach road. I don't really like it too much.

Jackie B.Portrait

I really love the way this portrait turned out. At first, it was super grainy and it was very confusing as to where to look, because there was a group of women in brightly-colored shirts that detracted from the true focus of Jackie and the little girl. I blurred the whole thing, then erased Jackie and the little girl, then I flattened the image and duplicated the layers and did it again. I also played with the hues and saturations of the picture, and I added a border to frame it more. I like the coloring in Jackie's hair because it really stands out. I think I could have gotten rid of the red basketball court line, but what's done is done. :)

Portraits

I really like the coloring in this picture, because of how I emphasized Sydney's hair color. It does make her hair look a little red, but I think that's really cool because her hair looked kind of dull compared to all the white. I wanted to emphasize her purity so I had her wear white and I put her in front of my white curtains, and I actually like the flash, for the most part, because it does really bring out the white. I just wish the whole background could have been whiter. But that might've made it look really flat. So I really like the way this picture turned out.

This is my favorite portrait out of all of them. It really does emphasize her, and not the background, but it still gives it the kiddish feel because of the bright colors. The flash is a little annoying because it makes her look extra pale, but it, again, really emphasizes the colors, and the kid-like feel.

This picture I really like, because it's natural. I was taking the "purity" picture with my sister, Sydney, and my little sister, Emma, was curious and walked in my room, and posed with my sister. I took a couple pictures of them, and it was truly a coincidence that Emma was wearing white, but it worked out great, and I really loved the picture so much, I did hardly anything to it. The flash is kind of harsh on this picture, but I just loved the picture so much that I couldn't do what I did to Sydney's photo, and change the coloring, so I just duplicated the layers and set the opacity at 50%, lightening it a little bit, then did a Gaussian blur, which gave it that "heavenly" feel almost. I really love the way it turned out, minus the flash. :)

This one is one of my best pictures I feel. The picture really keeps your eye moving all over the place in an orderly way, and I really love the colors on this picture. Plus, my brother was being a pain in the butt because it was almost his bedtime and he wasn't smiling a lot; this was one of his good smiling pictures. However, on my camera, his left eye has a red eye, but that didn't show up at all on the computer, which made me happy. I know that there is an obvious flash, but I like it because it draws your eye to his face and his eyes too. I think I could have done a better job with editting his eyes, but thats done and overwith. I still love the picture. :)