Photography ISU: A Family of Friends through Generations

Over the past few weeks we have been working on our final project. The following is the link to my ISU

Hue/Saturation Project

For our last little assignment our task was to take a picture that had some artistic elements (including composition, etc...) and in photoshop, adjust the hue/saturation. I chose to select one part of my photo and make it the only thing in colour to make it stand out. To do this I first made a duplicate layer, selected everything but the flower, and turned down the saturation of all the colours completely. Then, on the original layer I selected everything but the background and turned the saturation of all the colours slightly. Then, I took the opacity of the duplicate layer until I was satisfied with how it looked. The following photo is what I chose to do for this assignment:

Film Project

A few weeks ago we completed a film project and the goal was to take 10 photos, develop them and then we were to choose our 5 best photos from the ten that we took. When we had chosen our 5 best photos, we then edited them in photoshop to get rid of any dust or scratches on the film. The following photos are my 5 best photos from the film project we completed:

Journal 9: "Pareidolia"

This week's task for our journal was to find faces within inanimate objects, without changing the object (the face had to be existing). I had a harder time with this journal because I could't really see faces at first. I learned that you really need to look close to catch these little things that we don't see in our day to day life. I was able to find two photos that have faces, at least to me they do. This first photo is of a stove top, and I used two burners as the eyes and then a larger center burner for the mouth.

This is the second face I was able to find. This picture is of a tree trunk, but when I looked closer, I noticed that it had some holes in it that somewhat looked like a face. I used two smaller holes as the eyes, and one larger hole as a wide open mouth.

Journal 8: Textures

 

 

 

This week for our journal, we were to take two photos of contrasting textures, and create a diptych in photoshop. A diptych is when you put two photos side by side. We were told that it would be most effective if the pictures had different textures, but still had something in common such as the colour or lighting. I decided to take a picture of a leaf and then a picture of my dogs fur, as I felt these textures were contrasting, yet they had a similar colour to them although they are slightly different shades.

Journal 7: White on White, Black on Black

 

For this weeks journal we were to take 2 photos, one with a white object against a white background, and the other with a black object against a black background. Exposure was key with this project, as you didn't want the object to just disappear into the background. The following two photos are what I did for this journal.



 

 

 

 

 

Montage Project

This week we were working in photoshop, learning different tools and techniques we can use to manipulate photos. We first practiced this by editing a spongebob photo. We had to add some different images into the photo as well as play with textures and layers. The photo above is for the project related to the practice we did. We were to take photos of a person in one scene, and have them move around the scene instead of moving the camera. It was important to take all the photos at around the same time to ensure that the lighting didn't change. After taking the photos it was our job to edit them in photoshop, and add the person into one picture, making it look like there were multiple of one person in the photo.