No Claim to Fame; However...
Su-Jobi Web Design Now Offering Web Site Photography Services
Su-Jobi can take pictures for your web site!
I am the proud owner of a 24 Megapixel DSLR Camera, a Nikon D5300, with a AF-S DV NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR II Zoom lens and a TAMRON
SP 10-24mm 1:3.5-4.510-24mm wide angle lens.
Also have a Manfrotto MT294A3 tripod with a Manfrotto Basic Pan Tilt Head
(804RC2) with QuickLock.
My History with Photography
I grew up around photography, I guess you could say I was exposed to it most of my life (pun intended). My parents were both very advanced amateur photographers with a dark room and enlarger; they also did special affects.
I learned photography from my father using a Kodak Retina II he had purchased, used, in Germany while a Merchant Seaman in his early 20's. When I was 17, and using the Retina II, I took an amateur photography class - and loved it! My father wholeheartedly supported me offering unlimited B&W film and development until he felt I was ready to advance to color film. I still have the photo that inspired him to "graduate" me to color film.
When I married a military man and went off to Germany, my father would not let me take the Retina II with me, so I purchased a camera. I have been taking pictures ever since! (Years later, my father gave me the Retina II; I still have that camera, and I have to say: it still takes excellent pictures!!)
Photoshop & Advance Photoshop Classes
While taking Web Design at NGTC, Photoshop and Advance Photoshop were two of the required classes; I loved those classes and excelled in them, helping other students along the way. After completing the classes, I became the Student Assistant in the classes, sharing my love of photography and photo editing with many other students.
Some Samples
Here are before/after pictures of a photo merge (using Photoshop) I did for my sister Ann. The first two photos were taken from two different places and distances from the waterfall; the third is the merge. If you check out the first link below, you can compare my merge with a professional picture of the waterfall. You can also see that my sister takes very good pictures!
Photo by: Ann Humphries, June 13, 2013
...bottom of the falls
Photo by: Ann Humphries, June 13, 2013
...top of the falls
Merge by: Sue of Su-Jobi Web Design, June or July 2013
...entire falls
(Feel free to enlarge for better viewing)
For more information about Horsetail Falls:
http://www.portlandhikersfieldguide.org/wiki/Horsetail_Falls_Loop_Hike - professional photo
Now, here is an image I did in Photoshop for fun, with special affects (before and after.)
Unfortunately, this was not a good quality image;
I think I took it with an old cell phone camera or cam.
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I think I took it with an old cell phone camera or cam.
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You can see that I "posterized" myself in Photoshop,
which was fun!
Posterized - Specifies the number of tonal levels for
each color channel (Posterized is a Photoshop term.)
Here are two photos that Photoshop never touched; just the way they came out of the camera!
This one I took real early this morning (June 29, 2014) with the Nikon; it was just getting light outside.
It was taken without flash; I simply adjusted the aperture setting and shutter speed. I did not use a tripod. A tripod would have been good because I used a very slow shutter speed.
I love the soft look...
I was just out playing around with my new camera.
A beautiful fern
growing at the foot of a tree...
Point Being
While I am not a professional photographer, I can take some pretty good pictures, as well as edit them in Photoshop - cropping, enhancing, correcting, special affects, etc.
Leaving you with this --
If you love what you do, it's not work!! And I love what I do!!
