Day 135

I found my dad's old softball glove and thought it would make a good subject for today's post. There were so many interesting areas to photograph, with a bunch of different textures and looks. To give this photo an older look, I applied a slight Dusk effect and then a faded sepia to decrease some of the shine and bright colors my lighting gave it.

Day 45

Here's another photo from the gymnastics championship. Tomorrow I'll try to post something different, but today I wanted to share at least one more gymnast picture.  It makes me dizzy just watching the gymnasts do fancy flips like this while on the narrow balance beam, but I suppose it must be fun or they wouldn't be doing it right? I used the focal soften, focal B&W, and the dark edges effects on this photo.

Day 44

Here is another photo from the championship. I used the focal soften effect on this photo.

Day 43

Here's another photo in my gymnastics championship series. Shown here is the Oklahoma team congratulating one of their gymnasts after a successful uneven bars routine. Oklahoma did manage to squeeze out the win with Iowa State a close second.

Day 42

On Saturday I had an interview in Ames on the Iowa State University campus. After my interview my dad took me to watch the Big 12 Gymnastics Championship being held in the
Hilton Coliseum.  I took over 200 photos, so I'll probably be posting more. This is my favorite one so far. I used the Focal Soften and the Focal B&W on picmonkey.com to make the gymnast the focal point of the photo.

Day 15

Happy Valentines Day! I was about to give up on taking a themed photo today, then my brother started asking who wanted to play cards. So, this is what I came up with. In retrospect, I wish I would have used a black background to add drama, but I'll just have to try that next time.