My Friend Jessica Part 2 Conceptual Images

Contact

I enjoy creating story with my photography, during  the first session with Jessica I worked on different themes, even if it was our first session together it went very well and I was able to create storyteller images.  We had nothing planned and not a lot to work with, but we managed to get some great shots, I was very fortunate to work with such an amazing woman.

For all of the images except the falling one, I extended the frame, what I mean is that I started by getting a perfect shot of my subject and after I took some shots of the surrounding keeping the same settings including same focus, very important to have everything the same for a seamless darkroom process.

To do the stitching I used 2 different methods, for "Contact and Levitation" I did them manually, only 6 to 8 images to stitch.

To do "Hope I used Photoshop Panorama stitching, I had 28 images, Photoshop didn't do a perfect job but it was almost impossible to do it manually, I also tried Kolor Autopano an amazing and very expensive software, did the job perfectly but because I don't own it the result was covered with water marks and I wasn't able to use it.
Falling was a collage using 3 images, a completely different process, many hours, but sometimes it's the only way to get what you want to illustrate. I also used a small collage for contact just adding the butterfly.

For all of the images except "Hope", I used Photoshop curve, hue/saturation, replace color, liquify, and many layers.
Hope was different as I wanted to create a comic book image, I always wanted to create a series with this kind of images, if I had the resources, I would have a skyscraper, a back alley, a dark figure, a super hero, to add to this image to create a real story, one day I will have the resources to do it.
To create this image I used Photoshop cutout filter, and added some black lines using Corel Painter 2015 ink brush, after what I plaid with Photoshop curve, hue/saturation, replace color, etc...

Levitation

Falling

Hope

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Conceptial Photography 2 redone

I enrolled in a PPSOP photography class few weeks back, a very interesting subject “Conceptual Photography”. I had a few posts on it, but no 2 was erased not sure how it happened, anyway I am rewriting it!

Conceptual Photography, is very different as you can cut head, brake all the rules, a lot of creativity.

The goal is to represent a concept with image for book cover, look at my images, and read the caption to find out what concept I wanted to represent. One thing to keep in mind when doing this kind of work is that the book cover are normally portrait format.
If you want to enroll in this class or any of PPSOP classes use my 10% discount code  ppsop67360,
I am starting Photography Magic Friday should be very interesting!!!

thriller image, is it an abduction a kidnapping, or a rescue!

An eyewitness someone feeling the need to speak out, someone that was humiliated, someone that want to tell the school dirty secret!

estate history, family matter, she maybe the last generation living in the same house, a lot of story happen is this family in this house.

Love Fear break up!!!

Fear, hope for help, lock up, captive, lonely, depression, nightmare, so many thing come to my mind, I have a real fear of being a hostage, this time again I used myself as the subject, and a flash to light one side, to get definition! I had the cyan tone to add drama.

Pure Fear, King Kong or Godzilla!!!

 oncept of hope, and dream, as most of us have dream and goal, that we keep inside, and hope that one day we will accomplish them, many concepts and stories in this one!

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Mendoza Week 10

Like most of the week, Monday is the shopping day, I try to buy most of heavy stuff, juice, oil, milk, yoghurt, and all the pharmacy and grocery stuff, I start by the Mercado Central, for some fruit and veggie, my week dose of ham and cheese, I always bring my cold pack, in case I need to buy meat or ice cream.

Mercado Central

The next stop is Carrefour our Super Grocery Store, when I do my shopping on Mondays, I always bring my little bolsa de compras, it’s a grocery bag on wheels and I filled it to the top.

Back home I clean all the leafy veggies and bag them.

Tuesday was my day off, I went for a walk and a coffee with my friend Alejandra, we went to San Martin Park, I love that park, I will come back to take some flower shots, with my new meet up group “Mendoza Digital Photography Meet Up”.  

San Martin Park, a great place to relax

Wednesday I decided to take a walk to visit my friend Haisley Hair Salon, 10 min walk from my house, the weather was extremely hot, it’s getting very warm in Mendoza, I think spring is over for good, Wednesday we got 35C and by Saturday we should get up to 37! When I got to his salon I asked him if he could do my hair, I didn’t expect to have it done that day, but he had space and told me to come back in an hour.

Haisley Hair Salon is Paso de Los Andes only few min. walk from my house

What a great experience, Haisley is from England, he moved here a bit more than 8 years ago, he is a great guy and a fabulous stylist, a real artist, the kind of hair stylist that everybody wants, such a relieve to have him living so close by, it is always very difficult to fine the perfect hair stylist, it can take forever, and even worst you may never find a good match, I felt so lucky, he did an amazing job with my hair. He did my color, my highlight, my cut, for $510 pesos, it’s not cheap, but for a pro like him it’s an amazing value, he is by far the best hair stylist I ever meet, this is it for me, no need to look somewhere else!

 Haisley doing my hair

I was very happy with the result

 Love the hair cut and the color, thank you Haisley

I have been looking for someone to print Marc and I work, we got an answer from one of the best one in Mendoza that does work similar to  Adorama in the US or Vistek in Canada, the only drawback was that they only had two kinds of paper available. I also got the name of one of the top photographer in Mendoza, he is an art teacher at the University, and a printing pro, he is using all kinds of paper, like my old time my favorite Epson Summerset Velvet, he also print on canvas, he is using a Epson Stylus Pro 9900, 44” wide, he also have a studio that he rents. I sent him an email, and we will meet with him Friday pm, cannot wait, he only speak Spanish but I don’t care, it will be a real treat to have a pro to take care of our printing needs.

Thursday I waked up early, I had to do an image for my conceptual photo class, this one was on fear, cry for help, lock up, captive, lonely, depression, nightmare, so many thing come to mind, I have a real fear of being a hostage, this time again I used myself as the subject, and a flash to light one side, to get definition! I had the cyan tone to add drama.

Friday we got our meeting with our printing pro, so much knowledge, feel very good to know that we were in good hands, he is a real pro, and got all kinds of paper from Europe and the US, everything that I was looking for and more. He is quite expensive and we will revise our pick, and try to reduce cost, we have our next meeting on Tuesday, we are looking forward to have many prints done by him.

Saturday morning I went to Leon to meet with my new Meetup members, we were 4 on 12, this first meeting was only a welcome meeting, next one "Saturday Nov.8" will be hands on, street photography in downtown Mendoza!

To finish the week we went to church on Saturday night, it's a new church close to where we live, only Spanish, we will eventually get fluent!!!

Our Parish Church,

This is the inside of our church, I used Topaz Impression "Da Vince Sketch 1 modified

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Conceptual Photography

Melancholy, sadness, depression, I wanted to represent someone that is so sad, and nobody sees her, she alone by herself, she is fading away deep into depression. I put my self timer, my camera at 5 sec to fade away, and a flash directly above me on the right side, I wanted harsh light, I added the blue tone and smoke to make it even more melancholic,

I enrolled in a photography class few weeks back, a very interesting subject “Conceptual Photography”.

It’s very different as you can cut head, brake all the rules, a lot of creativity.

The goal is to represent a concept with image for book cover, look at my images, and read the caption to find out what concept I wanted to represent. One thing to keep in mind when doing this kind of work is that the book cover are normally portrait format.

  Faith, power, truth,

Solitude, loneliness, indifference, withdraw,teenager out of our society, like a lot of kids, feeling disconnected, detached.

 Concept of freedom, backpacker freedom, no real destination, like a dream no restriction. As you can see I focus on the train to make my subject out of focus.

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