be rad…be foolish

The link is to a 30 second movie clip promoting Elon iMedia’s Digital Media Workshop.  It was one component of a four part final project we were required to complete.  The song is Take Five by Dave Brubek – a little cliche, but I like his stuff regardless.  I used video2mp3.net to rip the song.  Narrated by your’s truly.  We used the Canon 7Ds for the footage.  The footage was cut with Final Cut Pro.

I really enjoyed it.  Wasn’t thinking I would want to spend a good part of the upcoming year focusing on video editing/videography, but am considering it now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o6o8b6yUHA

As of today, I have been working with Photoshop for seven days.  Our professor assigned a website design project using only Photoshop.

The first photo is my ninth and last save and what I’ll likely submit to my professor.  The second photo is my first save; I like seeing how the project took shape.

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The instructor of our Flash workshop assigned us two exercises in Flash.  The first being the animation I posted just below.  This is the second assignment.  A simple stick figure animation.  I have been working on this for three hours.  About two hours and 15 minutes were spent trying to figure out how to hinge the legs and arms.  I’m excited to have it done, it wasn’t looking like it was going to happen for a while.

And maybe “sprint” wasn’t the best description of the animation.  Saunter or stroll may be better.

The iMedia program was split in three groups yesterday.  I was excited to be in the group learning Flash.  Below is my first bit of animation.  Go Heels!

Click in the white space above.

This post is of a photo I’ve heavily altered.  The final product is terrible.  The quality is horrible.

I want to be able to compare my abilities in ten months to what I was able to accomplish my first day using Photoshop.  This is my first attempt to make a photo more vibrant altering most of the image.

I bet I’ll learn less is more in the coming months.

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After:

Not too bad for my first day playing around with Photoshop.  I used the color range tool and changed the histograms for the sky and sides of the windmills.  Slightly grainy around the spokes on the windmills, but I’m pretty satisfied.  We haven’t covered any photo modification like this in class yet.  It’s all up from here!

The photo is from Greece in Spring of 2004.

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After:

We began learning about Adobe Photoshop today.  It was my first experience with Photoshop.  I couldn’t wait to start.  It’s about 5:30 in the evening after class and my head is still spinning; tonight’s going to be a long night with a lot of practice.  I’m hoping to produce some interesting work in the process though.

Our instructor spent about three minutes on the Cloning Stamp tool.  I had a photo from a couple nights ago that I’ve been excited to modify.  In two or three minutes I figured it out.  Here’s the result.

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After:

We were introduced to our new best friends today, the Canon EOS 7D.  Two assignments, some photos were a success and others not quite.  The first part of the first assignment was an exercise in close-up portraits.  The second part involved placing our partner in a visually interesting setting.  The  second assignment was gathering photos for a hypothetical bookstore website.

These are the highlights.

Me acting childish on the train tracks. Kristin Youngblood's photo.