week ten.

The bridge picture, is a picture that I messed around with on my Photoshop. I think that it really works. I burned the edges of the bridge, because I wanted to lead the eye down the bridge to the end. 

This week right when I arrived at the studio for my meeting with Dan, Dan asked me if it was ok if we went into Anchorage to Kaladi Bros. to see Shalem Mathew's pictures. When we got there, Shalem Mathew's pictures were all around the shop. We started at the beginning and gradually made our way to the end. My favorite picture was one of a model dressed up to look like a pilot (like Amelia Earhart) and the flying goggles were pulled up and there was a goggle mark around her eyes. The rest of her face was covered in soot, and there was one teardrop coming from her eye. I don't know how he came up with the idea to do that, but it's pretty cool. After we we finished looking at the pictures, we drove over to Barnes and Noble to get a book on my Photoshop Elements 8 that I got for Christmas. I finally picked a book called: "Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac OS X". It's a great book that shows me how to work Photoshop. Now I can mess around with my own pictures even after my mentorship is over.
Finally, we drove back to the studio to look over my pictures. Last week, I drove out to Wasilla/Palmer to take some different pictures. As we were looking at my pictures, Dan saw that if I cropped some of the pictures I took, it would make them look more appealing to the eye than it would with everything in the picture.
My homework for the week is to think of what I really want to take pictures of, and not just go out randomly and take a few pictures.