RHYTHM COMPOSITES

For my first photo i took five pictures of my friend moving across the sign that is in front of the high school. I stood in place the whole time to make sure that the pictures could be realistically put into one of the pictures. I used a lot of different techniques to try and get the best quality of "marching ants". I used the quick mask mode to go around the edges and just refine them. Her hands were probably the hardest part to do, just because i wanted to make sure that they didn't look like claws. i had to brighten one of the pictures because she was under a heavy shadow, so i brightened up one of the layers to makes sure that she looked like she "fit in" with the others. I also put a slight shadow under one of the pictures to make her body blend in better with the background photo.

For my second picture i initially tried to do all five of the pictures i had taken of her slowly eating a taco, but it ended up looking cluttered and more like one big blobby shadow. I deleted a few layers and kept three of them. I changed the blending modes on two of the layers to make it look like her hand was fading away, which i personally really liked the effect of.

Assignment 1

For my first image i overlayed a picture of my friend Gracie, and a picture of the dash of my car and the sunny outside (: For the second picture i overlayed a picture of my friend Hannah and a picture of my jeans that i took when i first got my camera. I reduced the opacity to 53% and used the "Lighter Color" mode for the colors. I really like this blending tool because it gives people a new edge for their photos.

COLOR SPLASH

For my first photo i used the Magnetic lasso tool to get the "marching ants" around my main subject (my dog) then select inverse to get the background colors in black and white.

For my second photo i also used the Magnetic lasso tool and then i had to edit in quick mode mask mode to make sure that the edges of my subject were in color instead of black and white. I put on a green filter for my black and white parts because i thought that it had some good contrast against the pop in my main subjects clothes and hair.

For our second assignment we were supposed to epirament with the white balance opation on our cameras. I took a picture of my keyboard at home at an angel to make it more interesting. We were supposed to use the clone stamp tool in photoshop to try and put more focus on the main subject. I decided to stamp over the *Find and other random words on the sides of the keys. I thought that the picture looked more clear after i covered those up. I think that this picture lacked creativity but the strength of it was the clone stamp did not look fake, i thought i did a nice job at that.

A Day in the Life

For our first assignment i decided to do a Day in the Life of my five year old golden retriever Maddie. For this photo i brightened the picture up a little because everything in the background was fairly dark. I also decided to darken the shadows with the contrast tool. I really liked the fact that i had shown a strong understanding of the rule of thirds but i think that the picture could have been better if i brightened the colors more.