The Fair As a Toy World

I received my new Olympus EPL-1 this week, and have been having fun with the "Diorama" "Art Filter" (more often known as "tilt-shift effect," after the "tilt-shift" lens used to invent and create many of the images). The effect, for me, is done digitally in camera and is a fun way to play with the effect without buying the extremely expensive lenses, or spend long hours, or at least minutes, tweaking images in Photoshop. When used really well it will make real life look like a miniature model. In a sense the Fair is, really, a miniature world of fun and games. And I took these photos to highlight that perspective on the fair.

I'm still learning how to effectively create this effect, but I had fun and thought I'd submit my efforts for the assignment this week.

A higher vantage point seems especially necessary

I think daytime worked better than night, but both are interesting, and have a kind of magical feel to them.

And another photo of the fun and games, below, but without any art filters... Pippi the clown and her Pterodactyl friend were sufficiently colorful and fun-loving to carry the message.

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Also...I am starting my own photography blog outside of this one, if you would like to check it out... http://cinnamonphotogray.blogspot.com/

So I did the assignment...I decided to take pictures of people interacting with animals although I did get some of just people.... here is one of those, plus one of a little girl petting a cow... I'm not sure whether or not I like the one on the left........ Please let me know what you think about that one! By the way, I edited these on picnik... I changed the exposure on the second two by using 'advanced' on exposure in edit mode... I darkened the shadows and lightened the higlights for a contrast... I used ortonish, faded a bit, on both, along with cross process and and a few other things. This first picture has nothing to do with my topic but I liked it...I used HDR-ish and a little bit of ortonish, both mostly faded, on that one. I think orton-ish on picnik is my favorite tool...sadly, my computer is reeeaaally slow right now and could crash any day... so I couldn't upload Picasa- there is too much room being taken up on the computer right now. I'm actually using my sister's laptop for this.....oh well. Please comment! :) -Audrey S

Fair 2010

Everyone keeping busy at the fair! In the photo of the Snow Cones booth I used the AV setting on my camera and adjusted the light to brighten it up. In the photo of the rides, I used Picnik to focus the color of the picture in the center and to dull the outer-edges so that the ball of light would stand out:)

My Photo Blog

Here is the link to my blog:

http://shannasdarkroom.blogspot.com/

I apparently had the invite to the blog all along and simply didn't know what to do with it. I feel rather technologically silly now. Thanks for your patience!

Street scene

A scene within a scene.

Street Photography Assignment

Here's the another shot, I didn't post at first. Let me know what you think. I almost like it.

Ran out of time to do this one right.