A Pile of Pots

This is one of the shots that I featured on my short "before and after" video last week. I really like the texture and colors on the wall...the "before" shot is below. I was telling the students in my workshop to keep an eye out for color and texture to add to their photos later. The "before" shot is a cool pile of old plant pots, but it lacked the really colorful wall that was just around the corner...so, why not combine the two to create more "pop" to that pile of pots??

Before and After Photoshop

This past weekend, I ran a photography workshop for thirty High School Students from our sister schools (IASAS) from Bangkok, Singapore, Taipei, Manila and Kuala Lumpur. We took the kids up to the Bogor Botanical Gardens and they rotated through three stations doing water color painting, painting on mixed media, and my station, Photography. The next morning (yesterday), I ran a Photoshop workshop showing the kids how to create a nice HDR photo, use textures, and a few other tricks to make their photos look better and more artistic...

Below is my first attempt at using Vimeo to show some of my work. I wanted to show the "Before" and "After" shots, and have the photos merge from the "Before" into the "After". So, I loaded up the before and after shots into Lightroom, and created a slide show...and then exported the slide show as an HD movie which I uploaded to Vimeo...I like the way it came out, and I also like that I could re-size the video to fit my blog with no loss in quality. I don't think you can do that with YouTube...can you? So, give the video a look, and let me know what you think...these are six of my favorite shots that I took during the workshop...

Before and After Photoshop from Scotty Graham on Vimeo.