Breanne's Portfolio

Weekend Snapshots

Breanne — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:45:21 +0000

I am using “weekend” liberally here. But these things really did happen.

01- Very eager tomato plant

02- Delicious eats at Süp

03- Chin fur love

04- Hanging out with cute friends

05- Roses on campus

06- Sweet new fenders on my bike

07- Awesome painting by our friend Andrew Nixon

The Real Life Models

Breanne — Wed, 22 May 2013 23:13:07 +0000

In her Real Life Models series 19-year-old Hungarian photographer Flora Borsi imagines what the models of contorted and skewed abstract paintings must have looked like if they were distorted in real life. Some pretty funny photo manipulation makes for some interesting viewing. I dig it.

{images from here}

Black and White Underwater Photography

Breanne — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:08:49 +0000

These black and white photographs by Indonesian photographer Hengki Koentjoro are amazing. Taking away the recognizable bright blue from the ocean makes for a startling effect. Under the ocean is always a whole different world, but you take out the color and it becomes even more alien.

You can check out more of his amazing work on Flickr or 500px {images from here}

Instagram Photo Canvas

Breanne — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:32:10 +0000

Remember that giant photo magnet I had a hard time cutting up? I could not let it go. I liked the way it looked so much that I decided to make my own photo canvases.

I had some old 12×12 canvases hanging around so I used those, but you could really do any size that is feasible for you.

I put my photos into Photoshop and arranged them in to 12×12 document.

Once they were all printed I carefully adhered them to the canvases with some Mod Podge.

So easy! Ready to hang! It was a super quick project that came out really nice. I recommend you give it a try.

DIY Instagram Magnets

Breanne — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:44:04 +0000

I have been seeing a lot of tutorials online for making your own Instragram magnets, but a lot of them seem overly complicated. I thought I could simplify the process a little bit, so I did.

Let’s do this! It will be simple, I promise.

First step is to order some magnet sheeting-I got this one

-Next you will want to lay out the photos you want to use in a photo editing software. I used Photoshop but Gimp is a nice free alternative.

1) In Photoshop or a similar program, create a document that is 6 x 4 inches at 300 dpi.

2) Open your Instagram photos in Photoshop one at a time and resize them so that they’re 2 x 2 inches at 300 dpi. In Photoshop, this can be done by selecting Image >> Image Size and adjusting the numbers within the “Document Size” dialogue box.

3) Copy your Instagram photos and paste them into your 6 x 4 document so there are six images total — three across and two down. Save your document as a .jpg file.

4) Take them to get printed at your favorite photo place or print them out at home if you are fancy. A word of warning here: I ordered my prints online and had them sent to me but they did end up cropping my photos a little bit so not all of them were perfect 2×2 squares. You can account for this in your original layout and make your Instagram photos 1.8 inches or something or just go for it and face the fact that they won’t be perfect.

5) Once you have your perfect (or not so perfect prints) careful adhere the photos to your magnet sheet. Now you will have a giant photo magnet! This is pretty cool, it was hard for me to cut mine up…but I had to! A giant photo magnet is not what this blog post is about!

6) If you can get over cutting your awesome giant poster scissors or an exacto knife work great for cutting out the little magnets.

7) Attach to your refrigerator or any magnetic surface and now your Instagram photos are even cooler than before! Hard to believe, but it is the truth.