This week something happened that is forcing me to change my concentration idea slightly. I got a severe stress fracture at my first track meet of the season and am out for three months. Because of this, I am going to change my concentration to a look at the process that I went through to get to this point. I will include pictures about training for running, pictures of competing, and pictures that portray my injury and what it is like to live with it.

Here are pictures that I took at the track meet before I broke my leg. They will be part of the competition section of my series. What do you think of the tilt shift blur effect in the sprinting photo? I want to figure out a way to blur more of the background. Does anyone have any tips?

 

 

Here is another image of turf that I like. Does anyone have an idea of how I could use it?

 

Concentration Change and Resulting Pictures

This week I changed my concentration series idea to Running, and the emotions that stem from the hard work required to succeed at it. I am also adding an element of the different ways that people use running in their lives.

I woke up the other morning and saw the beautiful fog and knew that I had to take pictures. The resulting photos are of a man running in the early morning fog. The fog gives a dreamlike quality to the pictures. It highlights the way that running can be used in a zen way when people go out by themselves.

What do you think of the editing in these pictures? Would the triptych be better as a layered image? Is the layered image too cheesy looking? What are your opinions?

Here are some more pictures that I took the same morning. What are your thoughts on them? I took several pictures of trees in fog also. I could maybe use them in a diptych to show more the zen state that one goes into when running by themselves.

I realized this week that I do not feel a strong connection to my concentration series idea. I brainstormed possible alternatives and practiced photoshop techniques that I found tutorials for online.
-Track/ Running
-Adrenaline
               I could link this to running and add pictures of other extreme sports and places that cause adrenaline and excitement. I could link this to photoshop techniques that create this feeling as well.
-Le Grand Vitesse de la Vie

http://digital-photography-school.com/4-easy-photoshop-techniques-to-make-your-pictures-pop

After trying to use these techniques, I realized that the school's Photoshop program doesn't have the effects that this website required. It was interesting to see the potential of photoshop though.

Here are several pictures that I had from last week that I experimented with layering:

Even though I am changing my concentration idea, it was still fun to see the way you can change the mood of a picture simply by changing the effects.