Jon Allyn

I was asked by my best friend's mother to take photographs at her husband's funeral. It was extremely emotional for everyone, including myself. I used an 8mm fish eye Russian lens on a Canon 20D. The 1.6 magnification factor of the chip cropped into the circular image leaving a rectangle with severe distortion. I corrected the distortion of the sailor, etc., in Photoshop and utilized selective color, also in Photoshop.

The image received a score of 100 at the Wisconsin Regional Print Competition and was accepted into the PPA Loan Collection.

Rick Avalos

This image is truly of a neighborhood barber. Lit with natural light, this gentleman and his surroundings are as natural and authentic as he is.

Brain Baer

David M. Deutsch

This image was created as a high school senior portrait. The multiple exposures were created using a Canon 5D at f6.3. Main light modifier was a Larson 4x6 soffbox. The images were easily extracted from the specially designed green muslin background and composited in using Photoshop. The image scored 95 and earned the CPP award in Michigan for the highest scoring image submitted by a Certified Professional Photographer.

Hanson Fong

Camera: 5D. lens 70-200 F4

Ambient light: 1/30 @ F11
Flash was one stop less

Profoto 600B portable flash on the left-hand side, coming from the same direction as the sun.

Kalen Henderson

Two images, shot a year apart, along with some Photoshop technique created this scene. The sky scene was photographed on 35mm slide film from the car window on I-35 in Kansas. The cross was photographed from the car window on U.S. 218 in Iowa. The slide was scanned and merged in Photoshop with the other image - a digital capture. A Photoshop brush was used to create the beams a light and a grain filter added for an effect.

Sarah Johnston

This image was created during her two-month portrait session. Once she fell asleep, she was placed in a bassinette and covered with material. I moved her so the light fell where I wanted it. I used a Canon 5D with a Canon 100mm, 2.8 macro lens set at 7.1.

Craig Kienast

This is a stich panorama of 12 photographs, Overly saturated and then painted in Corel painter using Dens' Oil brushes.

Michael Mowbray

Ralph Romaguera

"The image was shot on the Canon 1DMkIII with a 24mm lens. A 'Doug Box' softbox with a Quantum flash to give direction to the light on the face. The flash also was figured to match the key of the room and not to be totally blown out because of the ratio of indoors to outdoors.

The image is one of twenty five that I volunteer to do each year for a charitable organization."

Cindy Romano

This image inspired me when I had cancer and was going through treatments. It was an actual nightmare that I had. The first image, I photographed my daughter with a nylon over her face and told her to look up at me and scream. When I took the image the hair on my arms went up. I continued to photograph her screaming in different poses. I also photographed dead branches to use.

All images were photographed with a Canon 5D with a 75-200mm lens. I used a black background and put all the pieces together in Photoshop. The image was selected into the PPA Loan Collection in 2007.

Thom Rouse

Symbol Tree was created as a fine art piece for sales through galleries and art fairs. Along with the principle shot of the tree, several other textures were combined and blended in Adobe Photoshop to create the background. The face appearing in the windblown leaves (or kites) was an available light image in mixed tungsten and window light, yielding the right half of the model's face in a blue, daylight tint and the left half in a warmer tungsten light. The symbols were drawn onto each leaf by hand. The face was blended with the leaves in several layers and blending modes. Finally, the selection of the leaves was inverted and the face layers deleted leaving behind only the facial features that correspond with the leaves.

Aletha Speakar

Taken with a Canon 5D and a Canon 28-135 lens, it was captured in raw format, then opened in Photoshop CS3 and cropped. Using a Lucis Art plug-in, the details were enhanced, then the image taken back into Photoshop where the colors were enriched.

A simple scene but made more exciting.

Jessica Vogel

John Woodward

This photograph was created while on a trip with my family, circling Manhattan. My nephew attracted a cloud of seagulls with some crackers so I photographed them for stock. I took several slices of the Brooklyn Bridge from the back of the moving boat. Using Photoshop's merge abilities I put together four shots of the bridge and four different seagulls.