Levitation
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I have to say, creating a levation photo was way more fun than I thought it would be. It was also easier than I thought it would be. I simply used a tripod to take a photo of Brenna (above) lying on a bench, then kept my camera in the exact same spot on the tripod and took a photo of the room without Brenna or the bench. I erased the bench in photoshop and blended the two photographs. Voila! Levitation achieved.
Ghost
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The most fun I had during my Bannack Ghost Town trip was taking slow-shutter Ghost photographs. My group experimented with these types of photos several times during the day. We came up with some fun ideas and a lot of our photos turned out really spooky-looking.
Abstract
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I created the above abstract photo by blending several different Bannack Ghost Town photos. I started with a photo of old, peeling wallpaper and blended it with a photo of a large drill bit in a wooden box. After that, I added a shadow of a man (on the left) and an eye in a part of the wallpaper that made a perfect eye shape. Can you find the eye?
Commercial
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One of my class assignments was to create a commercial-style photograph. While in an old store, I shot some photographs of Sharing Size Peanut butter M&M’s. I shot these photos during a time when I did not realize my Auto-ISO was on. All of my commercial shots were at 6400 ISO, which made them difficult to work with but I think the above shot turned out alright.
I really loved the old counter (which looked like they must have served fresh meats or some sort of food). There was even old food wrapping paper there which made a perfect backdrop for commercial photographs.
Conceptual
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Before even leaving for Bannack, I thought of several concepts for photographs. I knew I wanted to shoot some ghost-style photographs in a long hallway and blend it with some sort of texture. When I was wandering around during some free time, I found a little house that had old newspapers on the walls (underneath some peeling wallpaper). When I saw the headline: Boys Coming, I knew it would be perfect for a ghost shot (I used photoshop to remove the “s” in the word, boys). My “ghost” friend, Will definitely looks like he’s coming for you in the photo above.
Creepy
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While photographing for my window series, I spied the above dresser through a window in a glass door. Suddenly I was really spooked when I saw a woman’s figure in the mirror above the dresser. I quickly realized I was seeing my own reflection and thought it would make a fun “creepy” ghost photo. What do you think? Is it creepy?