Origami

I photographed these at The Pod about a month ago. Marco created the origami pieces and of course was the creative genius behind this advertisement. The Pod developed this for Sustainable Tallahassee. These were for an event they hosted to encourage sustainability. I helped arrange the models and took these photos. Marco and Mar edited mostly. Super proud of how they turned out!

PeasMotion

I created another blog post for the company I am interning for. At The Pod Advertising, we are called The Peas and we even have cute little Peas in a Pod hanging (see what I did there) around the office. Kris came up with the idea to test out the new Google+ features (see the blog post below for more information) and we tested out the Motion aspect. Of course, we also created our own that is way cooler. But, ya know, Google tried. Check it out below. Also, check out my PeasMotion blog post on The Pod's website.

Google+ has announced several new features including one called Auto-Awesome for photos, which presents users with options for animation, enhancement, creating a panorama, smile, and HDR. They seem to have a lot of potential, and we were intrigued.

We wanted to try this new social feature, particularly the auto-animate aspect that creates an animated .gif from a series of five photos or more. Because the interwebs is so inundated with content, .gifs are resurfacing as a quick way to get an idea across. Users have gone from sharing comments and photos to animated .gifs that are often funny, clever, and to the point.

We took twenty-one photos and uploaded them into an album on our Google+ page. Google+ capitalizes on the fact that it auto-recognizes pictures from a series of photos as long as the background doesn’t change. After uploading the photo, Google analyzes and determines if it can use any of the Auto-Awesome elements. Google did auto-recognize our series of photos and created an animated .gif. However, the .gif produced from our album only used ten of the photos. Testing it even further, we created a new album with only ten photos, that still managed to tell a complete story, from the original set of twenty-one and Google+ only used six  of those photos for the animated .gif. 

  

As amazing (or awesome) as it sounds, unfortunately, it doesn’t give you complete control. For the average hobbyist it might be a fun way to share images and ideas, but for a company, it isn’t guaranteed to work accurately. Knowing Google, I am sure there will be plenty of updates in the near future and it will be a more friendly and accessible feature. In the meantime, we created our own awesome .gif shown below! We wanted to compare our animated .gif with that of the product from Google+. Taking it a step further, we added sound effects and titles! Producing our own allowed us total creative control over the product, and this showcases our company’s talents, which is a win-win situation for our advertising business.

Depending on the social media you use for your company, these new Auto-Awesome features might take your brand to a whole new level. If you’ve tried any of these features we would love to hear how they worked out for you.

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Some of my favorites!

Happy Friday!

the girl behind the grave

I am so excited about these next couple of posts! I've had this concept shoot in my head for a couple months now and was so excited for it to pan out! There is an epic graveyard right in the center of Tallahassee, it has tons of history and was so cool to shoot. Plus the gorgeous weather and lighting - it was a dream. Check back in tomorrow for more photos plus (maybe) the color versions of the photos above! Let me know what you think :)

CAME{RAW} photoshop Tutorial

Happy October 1st! For us Floridians, it is often one of our favorite months. It's perfect weather - not too hot nor cold (yet)! Todays tutorial is on this lovely photo of a leaf. Granted, Tallahassee does get changing leaves - I didn't find very many. So I settled with a brown one.

Final photo:

If you liked this post, please share with friends and feel free to Pin on Pinterest! :)

Happy Tuesday and see you next week with another Tutorial Tuesday!

hashtag update

Sorry I was off my regular posting schedule last week. This week I believe things should be back to normal - cross your fingers. The first wave of exams just hit and I finally started my job. More on that later this week. Last Friday I had my first assignment at The Pod Advertising. I went to take pictures of an appreciation day that a company we work for sponsored. So that was half of Friday - the other half was building huge letters and stapling money to them (more on that later this week). Anyhow, right in the middle of editing the photos from Friday!

Happy Monday :)

Tutorial Tuesday part 3

Hi! So glad you could stop by today. I made another tutorial in Photoshop about using the Pen Tool. This tool is extremely handy but takes a little practice to get the hang of it. As you can see, I changed the color of the image and I did this all by using the Pen Tool to select different parts of my image. If you have any questions, need clarification, or any suggestions for tutorials please comment below. Thanks for following along! Also, please share by pinning my image!

Disclaimer: Using the Pen Tool is just one of many different ways to edit this photo and any other photo for that matter. I am not saying this is the best way, just one way.

Final Product:

PS that gorgeous bracelet can be found HERE

Tutorial Tuesday part Two

I am so sorry for the (extremely) late post today! Things just weren't technologically working for me these past couple of days. However, I still managed to get it done. That is the important part!

This tutorial is a basic tutorial in the sense that I show you the basics of how I edit portrait photos. Again, these are just the basics! This tutorial covers the healing brush tool, the stamp tool, brightening eyes, and a basic vignette. Check out last weeks Tutorial Tuesday. The photo I edited is of my roommate Samantha, tomorrow you will see more of the lovely photos I took for her!

Tutorial Tuesday

As many of you know, I have an internship at The Pod Advertising. At this internship I am learning even more about photography and photoshop. So, I am thinking about doing a tutorial every week on something I've learned in Photoshop. This week will be Selective Coloring. This is such a handy tool! 

Let me know what you think in the comments below! If anyone has specific photoshop tutorials they want done please comment below and I will try my best to make it happen.

Thanks for following along!