Editing, Reshooting, and Reconfiguring

To continue the last post, the printer worked on Monday afternoon. I finally figure out the correct settings. I wasn't turning off the color management by the printer even though I had it set for Photoshop to manage colors. (rookie mistake, there's even a little reminder note telling users to do this). Anyway, I got that all set, and those three came out excellent.
However, my second attempt was not so successful. I loaded the paper into the printer. (This is plotter paper so the picture goes kind of like this: Me, maneuvering a roll of paper which is almost four feet long and heavy as hell out of its package and onto the pole that sits into the printer. Occasionally, big things get dropped) So I load the paper and feed it in and the printer just keeps beeping at me. Failure. The paper was loaded wrong each time. I got some help from an Archie but he said there was an adapter missing from the pole in the printer which we couldn't find. Nothing got printed.
I grumbled back to my room, paranoid because I now have to get these prints done the next morning but I'm supposed to be going home to fly to NOLA for Mardi Gras. Little did I know the night would get progressively worse as Southwest called to cancel my flight. After a few hours of struggle, there was no flight I could change to until Sunday, which was just not "vale la pena".
So now I'm bummed. My happiness ship is just absolutely sunk.

Cue snow day today. In the aftermath of last night's storm of disappointment, I'm thinking, "How am I going to get my NOLA picture?" The idea I'm working on tonight is to take a posterboard and draw a fleur de lis on it, then inside the fleur de lis collage together highlights of New Orleans. So I chose and re-sized all the pictures and put them on a 15x20 canvas in Photoshop to be printed tomorrow. That project will begin tomorrow night.

As far as the latest finished projects go,



The flour/texture shot begged to be redone. My professor pointed out that her makeup and earrings didn't do the idea justice, and he was 100% right. We reshot that night, Monday, and the result was perfection. I hadn't quite realized how off the first shot was until I took this one.











Some other feedback from Monday was that my mudslide shot wasn't up to par with the other photos I had taken. This makes sense as I am really a portrait photographer above anything but I had worked for hours and hours on that set and just didn't have the heart to redo it. I also was pretty pleased with that shot. He recommended playing with it in Photoshop so I toyed with this idea. Well, not toyed because I wasn't too happy about it. But I was thinking of some way to include a bunch of the different pictures and not sure what to do and just stressing over it a bit really. So feeling pretty happy tonight after my New Orleans idea, I opened it up and started playing around.





I tried almost all the filters, and found that I didn't like most of them. However, there were two that had promise liquify and one whose name I have forgotten. After some exploration, I settled on a combination of the two, and came up with this edit for the mudslide photo.