I never thought I would have enjoyed this project as much as I did, but I really did. I didn't realize how much I enjoyed shooting portraits. For this project, we had to shoot 2 different shots, a window light photo and a studio portrait. We had groups of 3 and we had to try to take the best portrait we could. For my pictures, I used a classmate of mine named Aidan as the subject. Here is how it came out. The image on the left is the studio portrait, which came out very well. I had to make 0 adjustments to the image, even cropping. How the image is there is how I took it. I really like that one. The one on the right was the window light shot, which I personally think is outstanding, besides for the slight focusing issue. I think the vibe it gives off is really great and I think the background adds a bit to the image.
I did have to make edits to the window light image, as there were issues with it. These edits were done through camera raw and had these adjustments: WB changed to +9/+8, exposure lowered to -.65, contrast changed to +3, highlights lowered to -33, shadows lowered to -12, whites lowered to -27, and blacks were lowered to -36. I thought they made the image look far better and improve overall quality of my photographs. This project was definitely in my top 3 of projects so far and I hope to be able to shoot more portraits in the future, as I really enjoyed taking them. I may do portraits as the theme of my next shooting assignment due to this. I look forward to the next photoshop assignments we have coming up and how I can improve my ability to use this program, but also my ability to take images overall.
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I would like to start by saying this is my favorite assignment so far. I feel like I have learned a lot from this and this time to be able to learn things that I have been wanting to learn in Photoshop. I did multiple different tutorials, but the main one I want to focus on was my first one. I really wanted to learn how to make smoke effects in PS and this tutorial really helped me. The full resolution of the image that the tutorial used was unavailable, so I decided to use this image of Jabrill Peppers. I really followed the steps that this tutorial gave me and I thought the finished product came out extremely good. How I was able to create some of the smoke effect was by using different filters and stretching the image to be able to make it wavy and distorted. I looked forward to using Photoshop more in the future and continuing to improve my overall able to use the program.
As another week goes around, another shooting assignment is due. Due to my busy schedule this last week and me getting sick over president's weekend, I was unable to shoot, so all of these images came from today. I at least tried to take some and technically, these all are able to be used because I took them before this class period. So I decided to do macro, mainly because it is the easiest to be able to quick take pictures of. Out of all the images that I took, this one was my favorite. I took this at the EDGE during 2nd hour or the sales rack. I thought it looked unique and had a very nice depth of field in the image. The next 9 images are the best out of the 50+ photos I took. I wish I could have been able to shoot better images for this assignment, but being able to go out and shoot images is quite difficult for me. I look forward to doing a better job on my next assignment and trying to make something very unique.
Our 2nd photoshop assignment was definitely an interesting one as we looked attempt to retouch a photo. Our goal was to be able to make the image below look better. We were given a step-by-step tutorial on what we were supposed to do to make the image look good, as well as a demo image to try to replicate. Here is the demo image: This was a relatively simple project for me, as I have prior experience in using Photoshop. Majority of the tools that were taught in this lesson were not new to me. Here is my attempt at retouching this image:
Another photoshop project is here and it was a great one. In this lesson, Mr. Bush taught us how to shoot panoramic images. He gave us some tips and then he sent us on our way. The requirement was to shoot 5 panoramic images featuring 3 images each. Due to my busy schedule after school, my 5 panoramas only featured the school, but they came out great! Here they are. (Note: I have one more panoramic image that was too large for Weebly, despite being under 10 MB. This is on the photo server, but not on this blog post.) Overall, I really enjoyed completing this photoshop assignment. It was really fun and I look forward to taking more panoramic images in the future.
After missing the deadline for this blog post by 4 days, I finally am sharing my photos for the 4th photo assignment. I missed Monday, but nevertheless, here they are. For this assignment, I initially decided to do light painting, but after several failed attempts, I decided to do a black & white set instead. This was a really cool assignment to do as it taught me to really look for the element of contrast while taking an image. My best photo, shown below, was while I was still at my house. I used white Christmas lights for this image. I randomly chose one christmas light and focus solely on it, while the lights in the background added a lot of depth and contrast to the background, really causing for a cool shot. I will say that some inspiration for this image came from the cover of the song Paris by the Chainsmokers. This set really allowed me to work with the color modifier in the Camera Raw filter. After me taking 30 photos of the lights for this set, I realized I wasn't going to have enough photos that were unique, so I went out at 9pm on Sunday night to get some more, which most likely caused me to feel very sick Monday morning, but it was worth it. I took several image of the lights around Saline and I think they turned out very well. Some of the images I may have turned down the exposure a tad too much, but I really like the vibe they give off and the feelings the overall set portrays. I can't wait to shoot my next set and hopefully be as good as this one was.
In this assignment, we were to take a picture of the school and change the context of it. Basically, we were supposed to change how the image looks to show something that isn't at the high school, at the high school. Here is the image I took. This image was taken from near the auditorium exit during 4th hour. Someone happened to walk in front of the image right before I took it, but I thought it was an excellent addition to the shot. After 3 fun days with Photoshop, I ended up creating this. The only external help, excluding Mr. Bush, I received for this project was Ivy Gilmore's tutorial on how to make the center part of the portal. She lead to me the brush pack Glitter Photoshop & GIMP Brushes. I used those to create the portal effect, which ended up looking really good. I used Hue/Saturation changes, as well as changes to the Level of the photos to create this image.
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