Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Lacrosse

Well, in the weeks that have passed, I have found a new obsession, LACROSSE! Boys lacrosse, to be specific. It's the greatest sport in the world, if I do say so myself! It's a combination of all the best things from the best sports to make the best sport of all time! I took some pictures for the yearbook at the last home game; it was raining so the lighting is bad, but I did the best that I could with a batch edit auto-fix in Adobe Photoshop 10.










Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Pittsburgh Knit and Crochet Festival


Here are some pictures of yarn and projects from the 8th Annual Pittsburgh Knit and Crochet Festival the weekend of February 10. It was very interesting; I'm a terrible knitter, so I got to be extremely jealous all day!
http://www.pghknitandcrochet.com/



Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Tons of Fun

Flowers at Phipps Conservatory
I've gotten moderately good at using Photoshop Elements 10, and here's what I've done over the past three weeks.
10 Quality Sticks: The Inscription on a Package of Chocolate Crayons


This is a still capture from a music video I made for a project.

Downtown view outside the O'Reilly Theater in Downtown Pittsburgh


Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Photoshopping Techniques

In honor of the one-year anniversary coming up, here are some examples of all the awesome things you can do with photoshop. It's so fun and exciting! This other photographer, Jason Snyder http://jasonsnyderphotographer.blogspot.com/, a fantastic inspiration of mine, now does the same thing on his blog but better. Also, a shoutout to our new fan Jen, who is not a swimmer but a diver!
Here's the original photo.
Here, all I did was edit out the logo on the sweatshirt.
In this one, I opened all the editing options and just clicked Auto and let Adobe do its thing.

This is called the Lomo Camera Effect
I don't know how it works, but you cross process the picture, and then add a black vignette.
In this one, I changed the apparent "depth of field"
First, I blurred the picture. Then I used the gradiant tool over the faces. Finally, I increased the blur of the rest of the photo.
This one is the Orton Effect, invented by Michael Orton. Personally, I don't like it, but apparently some people do because it's famous.


This is self-explanatory, it's a picture pile. Kind of weird; cool I guess. I don't really know when someone would really want to use this?
Here's some Pop Art, like Andy Warhol.
First, you "posterize" your image, then add a "Neon Glow Effect", then duplicate the image.
This is done with a Reflection.
First you add the reflection, then use the Eyedropper Tool to get the color, do some distortion, then add a gradient. cool!

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Wow - One Year!

Wow! What do you know! On Thursday, January 26, Swimming Sensations will have been around for exactly one year! I guess we'll try to do some sort of celebratory thingy-ma-bob. But for now, here's some pictures from last night's winter semi-formal.

Here's Alec (one of our biggest fans!) and his date

Here's the Beautiful Lexie <3

Jen and Nathan

Max the Boyfriend and "A"

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Happy New Year

Hopefully the New Year of 2012 will bring health and happiness and lots of pretty pictures!


This is a small portion of my winter semi-formal dress.

I got a ukulele with my earnings from the Civics Fair! My sister took this picture, but I edited it to make it cool!

Here's a SWIMMER painting her nails before a swim meet.

TOMS Shoes - Totally Super
http://www.toms.com/

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Christmas-ing with Photoshop

Well, for Christmas, I got Adobe Photoshop Elements 10! I'm still getting used to it, and I don't really know how to do all kinds of cool stuff, but I was messing around and here's what I came up with: