Thursday, April 8, 2010

Week 11: Portraits!

I actually like shooting portraits. Self portraits are a different matter, though. Boy is it hard to get decent shots with a timer! I took a few today and will be working on a few more this week, hopefully. I created the fake depth of field using a gaussian blur, a layer mask, and the gradient tool. The new hair color is not from Gimp... it's from a bottle. :)


This one is done in a more traditional pose. He was a really good sport about it.


I took these at the playground. I was having fun using the equipment as a way to frame the shots.

5 comments:

Derek Murphy said...

Karen,

You my friend, are inspiring me to take another round of shots! I love your self portrait work (and the bottle color suits you very well if I may say) and the downward photo using the playground equipment!

More photos Murph...take more photos!

=) Murph

kari gypson said...

Really great photos! You did a really amazing job with the self portraits. I especially like the second one. And the new hair color looks great, too!!
Very creative playground shots!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful,

I like that you brought your kids out to the playground. I too tried to capture my subjects environment to enhance the image. Well done.

Tonia said...

Great pictures. It is not easy at all to take a self portrait. I really like the use of the playground. It makes very good framing.. Nice angles. Again great job.

Crystal said...

Great job on your photos Karen! I like the self portraits and the new hair color looks nice! I really like the framing in the last photo. The lighting is just perfect! Well done!!

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