A shot of my son as he was running circles around the house, screaming and laughing. Warp speed ahead! Day 112 of 365 Copyright 2016 Scott Norris Photography www.scottnorrisphotography.com
There is a cool wall of convex mirrors at Discovery World along the lakefront in Milwaukee. I was there with the family (we have an annual pass, SO worth it). Anyway, the mirrorred wall. I'd love to set up my camera with a tripod and get a cool HDR pano of the whole thing (I need to ask about that). But I did have my cell phone. So I thought I'd try to get a quick reflection street-style shot / self-portrait. My aim was to get myself and the random folks behind me in the shot, but not the cell phone. This is the result. Shot with my Droid Turbo and then downloaded and processed in Photoshop. Day 95 of 365 Copyright 2016 Scott Norris Photography www.scottnorrisphotography.com
Today, while staring at a blank sheet of paper on my desk, trying to write out a to-do list and thoughts about future photo shoots, I had the idea of trying to create something reminiscent of M.C. Escher's work, "Drawing Hands". So much for the lists! It was a very simple setup. Actually, it wasn't really a "setup". Tripod in front of the desk and nothing but existing light. I was really only shooting some test frames to see if I could figure out a good way to proceed. Apparently, whatever I did was the way to do it! I won't bore you with all of the details on the processing for this, but basically I created a base background layer, a shadow later, and a foreground layer with the hands. I then combined all three into a separate layer, created the charcoal look in Topaz Impression, added the result to the background layer, and then lather, rinse and repeat! Day 106 of 365 Copyright 2016 Scott Norris Photography www.scottnorrisphotography.com
