JFlah's Blunders

It's funny how people think differently about things - here are basic ideas I offered for this week's sermon title slide: And here's what Pastor countered with from a google image search: I loved the idea of the hand reaching out from the pile of wadded papers with a help sign - and he wasn't opposed to it, so I was off. This is the first time I've been bold enough to ask for someone to help me with source pictures. Pastor did a great job and sent me come pictures but they weren't quite what I wanted so I took a few too. Pastor and my boss were hand models - used the sleeve from pastor's pics and the hand from my boss's pics, replaced the paper with a picture I took of some crumpled paper, took pics of wadded up paper, worked on shadows and balances and other such and ended up with this:   That awesome "help" font is Befn - don't remember now where I got it - might've been one of those stellar Mon...

Last week I got to do a fun collage for the sermon title imagery. Title was "You Can Be Right and Still Be Wrong" - message was from 1 Corinthians 8 . Here's the final: Banana image borrowed from here . Foot/leg from here . Font: Headline Crack Background is a combination of two images - a concrete wall background and a wood background with some textured layers over the top and some perspective wizardry. The bit that was the most challenging was making the banana look like it was in the scene. As you can see the source image is on a white background and it was lit well. I had to make it look like it fit into the scene I'd created and make sure the shadows were enough to make it look realistic. That was the most fun I've had designing something for work in a while.

Saw the first one of these a while back and was spellbound - I've always liked to watch clouds. Love the way large masses of clouds move across the landscape so I was thrilled to see another of these time-lapse videos from Nicolaus Wegner . here are a few screen captures from the video.

Stumbled across this video a while back and one of these days, I'm going to actually study it and use the great tips it showcases. I've been chatting with my sister. She has a great camera. I think one day this summer we'll set something up and have a workshop. The video tutorial is a bit long if you're not interested, but it was fascinating to me. And I enjoyed listening to her accent.