COLLAGE EFFECTS........

Well, I went out and tried my hand at shooting a friend's son at one of his baseball games.... Be easy on me, this is the FIRST time I think I have ever shot action sports stuff! Ya and I work at a school and sports photography place... Well, first time for everything. So I got home, and thought, this is a perfect opportunity to practice making a collage. Well turns out it was a couple hours of work, but mostly just the figuring out part and all..., I think it would go much faster the more I did, so, I was thinking about doing some freelance digital stuff on the side for photographers, etc. ANYWAY... here are a few samples I whipped up, (incorporating things she wanted) to show my friend, man there are so many possibilities, I could even do a custom type layout for a specific event and go from there.... it's endless....

CREATIVE JUICES

This is an image my father shot in Africa on safari, this is as shot from the camera, (he shoots a Canon 10D) he over looked it because of obvious reasons, he didn't see anything exciting in it, but it wowed me from the start knowing where I could take it.

Here's the same photo after I played with it for a while, goes to show what color and cropping can do for you, I added a creative boarder and also removed a blade of grass from the eye.

SKY FUN

Here is a photo my Father took while in Russia, I found it very interesting with the country and the grand churches in the background, so I decided to play a bit, and make it "WoW" here's the before:

And here is the after, I canvased it with white to make an 11x14 and of course enhanced the color and added a stock sky to the dull grey/white one. My Dad hasn't seen it yet, they are on tour in Canada right now.

BUBBLE FUN

BEFORE: Here is the image as shot out in our front yard. My husband suggested adding fairies to the bubbles (since her new "thing" is now fairies) I took it one step farther with photos of her as a fairy below. I wish she had a better expression on her face, her eyes are a little weird for me, but if you don't know her, it's probably fine.



AFTER: I spiced up the color, added the bubble on the wand, and added photos of her dressed in her fairy wings to the bubbles (LOVING the warp tool!), I may continue with the alterations, I will post another if I work on it more, for now I am happy....but I can see a background change in the near future! Of course a bigger photo shows more detail, but I can't change that here, you can always click on the photo for a bit bigger sample...