Sultry Argyro

There was a model shoot at Mark Hosko's house last weekend.

This is beautiful Argyro. She is fairly new to modeling. When asked to look sultry, she appeared puzzled. As the photographer began to explain, she cocked her head at him and said, "I'm Greek I don't understand sultry."
Personally I think she was born understanding.

Shot with Hipsta. I really think it is a great choice for low lighting. 

Shock my Pic

OldPhotoPro

Blender

Filterstorm

Dynamic Light

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Scrape Metal? - please NO!!!

As I have explained before, I spent about 6 wonderful weeks in the Palouse last summer. I asked lots of questions and had many adventures. Rod introduced me to Scott and Paula, two hard working farmers. Paula is the owner of these two combines that have been put out to pasture years ago. She has many heads of cow that frequently graze among them in the true spirit of a family farm. Last year I spent many days returning to these jewels to photograph them at different times of the day and weather conditions. One of my favorite images of the 7500 I captured last summer was this scene.

So this year one of my first stops was to show my clients this great photographic opportunity they presented. We spent a couple hours here getting the panoramic scene to close ups of the colorful rust. With my favorite image of last year in my head. I took the same angle with my iPhone this year. I like this scene because of Steptoe Butte, the icon of the area, in the background.

A few days after spending time photographing these antique combines I ran into Scott. He had a very welcoming joyful smile for me. I once again I told him how I had much I loved the setting of Paula's combines. It was then that he told me he almost turned them into scrape metal last winter but Rod told him, "Teri will kick your butt if you get rid of those combines." So glad that I have friends watching my back while I am gone!

So as today's blog I present this year's iPhone image of my favorite combines thanks to Scott listening to Rod's advice!

ProHDR

Autostitch

Noir

ShockMyPic

Blender

fxPhotoStudio

Filterstorm

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Winter Wagon

Winter Wagon

Today I was giving private instruction on Lightroom here in Cle Elum at the clients home. When I arrived I saw two things I instantly wanted to capture with my iPhone. This wagon was one of them. The client wasn't an iPhoneographer and had never seen me at work with the iPhone. He was fascinated at the possibilities. I explained that I was capturing 13 images, would then autostitch them together and continue to process it all on the iPhone. Obviously he was amazed, as I still am!! 

This image was extensively processed using many apps and blending their results in Iris. I also used three different texture blends of items I had previously captured with me iPhone. It is common for me to capture concrete floors, peeling paint, rain on a window, etc. to be used later as textures in an image.

13 ProHDR images

Autostitch

TouchRetouch

Perfect Photo - sharpening

2 texture blends for sky only in Iris

1 texture blend of lower 2/3 in Iris

ArtistaOil with Vintage from PhotoStudio added

ShockMyPic

The above two blended in Iris

Exposure mask in Filterstorm

Frame in Filterstorm

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iGehry Building at MIT

Extensively smudged iPhone image

This image was captured at MIT in Boston and is one of Gehry's famous buildings. I used the ProHDR camera app on my iPhone4. I chose to process it using smudging in PhotoForge. When you smudge, you are using the 'paint' from the photograph. Smudging is like painting to me. I have the palette all full of colors and now I get to create my artistic piece. This process is done on my iPad with my finger.

I fell in love with this concept of painting my images at a PhotoShop World workshop. I loved the how you could use Corel Painter and a Wacom tablet to achieve this wonderful look. However I don't own Corel Painter or a Wacom Tablet, so I never painted my images. Besides who wants to sit in a desk chair at your computer and paint? Not me! So now I get to curl up in my favorite chair in front of a warm fire with my iPad and smudge to my hearts content. I hope an app for painting images with different brushes is coming soon. Anyone know of one?

As you see by the long list of processing techniques, it is really an involved image, very time consuming! Much patience is needed. I am very happy with the result! What do you think?

Smudged in PhotoForge
ShockMyPic
Artista Haiku for sky
Iris Blend
Smudged sky in PhotoForge
PhotoStudio for Vintage
Bad Camera blended in Iris
PhotoForge for selective sharpening

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