THE TIME HAS COME!!
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It’s time for another photo in the current series.
First off, how has my week been?
WELL!
EXCITING THINGS!
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Ok, not really.
My mom got to come home a few days ago.
A quick recap, she had a pool of blood in her knee.
It was there long enough to get nice and….. thick.
So they had some issues draining it out, but they eventually did.
Her leg still hurt, there is still a hematoma in her leg.
But it’s slowly going away.
That’s it.
All is well, sort of.
The grandparents are doing ok.
My dad and I went down to Indy to see the grandfather.
He’s off of the chemotherapy for the leukemia.
He’s not happy about being down there.
He misses being home.
Other than that… all is well.
ONTO THE PHOTO!
This post is a day late.
I wanted it uploaded yesterday.
I had everything ready to go.
I just needed to type this post.
But I couldn’t build up the willpower to do it.
SO THIS PHOTO IS STILL RELEVANT.
The series continues.
I’m suddenly outside.
Everything around me is dull and boring.
WHAT WILL I DO!??!
TUNE IN NEXT WEEK!!
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Moving on.
This photo was technically the first one that I shot.
I’ve had this idea for a while.
Ever since I got the drone.
Just a simple top-down photo of me laying in the grass.
When I was thinking of this series of photos, I found a way to incorporate that idea.
I’m glad it all worked out.
I got to shot a photo that I’ve wanted to do and I ties in with a story I wanted to tell.
It’s perfect.
The only the that puzzled me was how much space I wanted around me.
Did I want a close shot so you could see me better, or did I want a shoot from up high to should the vastness of the area around me?
I settled on the second part.
I wanted to be a tiny blob in the middle because the photo isn’t about me, it’s about the area around me.
That’s where we are going.
Plus, I knew I wanted to have the space around me to be faded.
That will make up for me being small in the photo.
It gives room for the black and white area to show.
It’s very artistic.
As I said in the last post, I like to keep things simple and real.
But this series is going way past that into a new area.
ART!
Onto the editing.
The photo seemed simple when I shot it.
But as I was editing it, I keep doing more and more.
The big thing was to edit out the lines in the gas.
My dad just mowed and he left behind lines of chopped grass.
I wasn’t going to edit them out at first, but they just kept annoying me.
Once those were gone, the rest of the photo came together nicely.
All I had to do was make a copy of the photo that was black and white.
Then paint in a circle where that black and white part will show.
SIMPLE!
It originally was completely black and white in the middle.
But I decided to scale things back and have it be faded instead of full b/w.
It just blended together better in my eyes.
Why is it faded?
To connect to the photo from last week.
I’m outside, still sad.
The world around me is still bleh and boring.
But you start to see some color that’s past the dull area.
I even made the color area a little more saturated.
That’s the destination.
That’s the goal.
That’s where we need to go.
LET’S COMPARE!
Take a look at all the editing that I did to the photo.
Hover your mouse (the computer one) over the original picture to see the changes I did.
If you're on a touchscreen device, just tap on the picture. You may have to tap more than once.
ONTO THE VIDEO!
Yes.
There’s a video this week.
It covers What I’ve been doing over the past four months.
Then the next videos will show me thinking of this series and making it.
You can click here to watch the video or just watch it below…
THAT’S ALL!
I can’t wait to show where the series goes.
It’ll get better!
COME BACK NEXT WEEK!
Here's a note that I added just before publishing this post.
I mentioned that I was at the doc office with my mom.
Well, they said she should go to the ER.
So I typed up most of this post while in there with her.
A lot of waiting.
The x-rayed her knee to see how bad things were.
They tried to drain the pool of blood inside her knee, but the blood is too thick.
Then my dad showed up and I came home.
Don't know what's happening now.
We'll see how things are next week.
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