Stillwell Art

These are some photos I took of some knives that were made by the guy who has been teaching me to forge knives. As a favor to him, I created a logo for him, set up an email address and took some glamour shots of a few of his finished products, edited in Photoshop of course. As far as photography goes, I used my 8 Megapixel camera on my phone and did all the post-processing in Photoshop CS4. I also created the logo and placed it on a blank background as a PNG file so that I can alter it's size and shape and overlay it on whatever image I want. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.

Sometimes an image can be used to try to illicit an emotional response .. much like a child can try to make you feel a certain way with a face.

Sometimes it's just nice when you can catch a moment.

This is a photo I took at Clearwater Beach, my nephew in the foreground. Played with the levels just a bit, but other than that, it's mostly nature making this photo so beautiful.

This is a photo i manipulated of my incredible Grandfather.He is the predominant male figure in my life and my personal Hero. I had to get rid of some of the background of this photo because it was taken at a family funeral and there were some folks and headstones in the background that took away from the focus of the subject. So I got rid of them. Using CS4 Photoshop, I eliminated the people in the back and blended in the background and added in a bit of color. Below is the original.

Playing around with some Photo editing. Decided my nephew made a good Hulk.

One of my favorite hobbies is going to Air Shows with my Grandfather. He is an encyclopedia of information. I love taking photographs of the various aircraft. I try my hardest to get the lighting and the time of day just right so that there is a minimum, if any need for alteration to the photographs. None of these were altered in any way. Taken with my Samsung Galaxy S II.

This is a photographic collage that I made for my art history class in college. I have lived next to this historic building for many many years and it has been through a lot of changes over those years. But just recently the new owners have been renovating it and they added or repaired the blue neon lights to the main sign. I wanted to show the variation of the building between night and day. It seems as if the building has two separate lives.