George Wang Photography

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Monday, May 4, 2015

I took this picture and decided to highlight the words by erasing some of the colors and having it only display white. The next step I did was I used the stamp and fill tool to get rid of the words that were at the bottom. Those words sort of ruined the picture because it just didn't really fit my magazine cover.

I took this picture with a very high aperture which causes the whole picture to be super clear. And given the fact that I shot in raw also made it a bonus when editing. Some edits I made with this picture was that I applied a layer mask and I sort of highlighted the clouds and tried to make them look more visible instead of just a big blob of white. This edit causes the sky and clouds to appear more lively.

I took this picture with a close up, I think I over saturated this picture to an extent to make it look somewhat abstract. As you can see this shows contrast with the red flowers and the green leaves. Causing the viewers to automatically trace their eyes to the flowers.

I took this picture with a friend because I wanted to make my magazine vary, and not just have only flowers and fountains, so I decided to ask one of my friend to be in this picture. By editing this picture I decided to add warm feel to it, and by doing so I saturated it then tinted it to a warm color and then added the a warm temperature. I decided to fiddle around with the tone curve causing certain light shifts.

I edited this picture by adding a warm temperature to it. I used the same technic as before to apply a warmish mood. This picture was shot with a high aperture which is why the only thing that is focused is the tree and leaves while the bushes int eh back are blurry.

I really liked this picture because of capturing the water while still having the focus on everything else. I edited this picture by applying more green to it. I then used the stamp tool to get rid of the word below the Garden of Solace.

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Project 9

Fine Art

This picture was taken with Paolo standing right next to a wall. After taking this picture I imported this picture into light room I darkened the photo to have it preserve a theme or mood. This picture has Paolo with his hand over his chin as if he was pondering away. I captured this photo with a low f stop. The reason I did his is because its a portray, therefore we want the viewer to be looking at the actual person instead of the background. So having my camera focus on Paolo's face will put into effect of the viewers noticing his face. Therefore the background doesn't get to distracting so that Paolo's faces wound't be put into consideration. This is a fine art portrait because it delivers a mood. What I see is that the mode seems to be deep in thought symbolizing wry smile. As you can see Paolo is somewhat smiling in this picture while placing his hand over his chin. Looks kind of evil. As of the editing I copied the background with a layer just in case I i made any mistakes. Then I created a layer mask for this, so I could darken the background of this picture this way that the person will pop out. The next thing I did was that I used a black brush and painted the background black, I then adjusted the opacity so that the background wouldn't be completely dark. The next edit I did to this photo was I turned it into black and white, and then finally I adjusted the tone curve letting the background be darker and the face brighter.

Fine Art

This photo was taken at the parking lot underneath the central park. I took this picture by positioning John in a place where the light is shown on his face because I was shooting for a portrait. For Johns face to look somewhat smooth, I removed all his pimples b using the stamp tool. Replacing his pimples with skin from a different part of his face was very fascinating but it was with photoshop instead of an actual plastic surgery. The next step was to remove most of the red that was on his face. First off, I over saturated the face with red so that I knew which parts of his face contained red, then I de-saturated it and and the color blue to get rid of red. I adjusted the tone curve a bit so the balance between light and dark would be more obvious. I do agree that this picture is a bit to bright, I should of darkened it a little bit.

Commercial Magazine

I like his picture because of the red background it presents. This red background causes the viewers to immediately notice Paolo's face. This was edited by me adding a template and changing the opacity so that this picture contains red in it. Then by adjusting the tone curve to be darkened, the red changed to a darker red, which matches his t-shirt.
Commercial Magazine

I like this picture because it has a certain type of feeling towards it. As you can see, Paolo is a deep thinker, and I captured this image when we were having a discussion about IB Chem, he sort of just went into a pose of ponder, with the mention of how gas laws are related to stoicheometry. I edited this picture by collaborating layers that would shade in the background so that Paolos face and hand would make a better resemblance of him being deep in thought.

Project 9 Pre Work

Fine Art Portrait Photography

By Alessio Albi
This is a fine art because this picture creates a mood because of the black and white. You notice that the background of this picture is much darker than the face of this portrait. This is because it is a fine art, which means that the face of the person being shot should appear more than the background. The Background should be plain so it makes the face stand out. What I like about this photo is that you can see a shinning at a straight line across this person's face.

Fine Art Photography

By Aleksandr Munaev

What I like about fine arts is that fine art are very abstract in a sense that they seem to be very interesting. The way its edited is very unique and abstract, the surface of her face seems very soft and smooth. Then you start to notice everything around her face is blurry and it is only the face that is clear. Again this is a portrait, therefore focusing on the face so that the face appears to the viewers instead of the background.

Commercial Portrait Magazine Cover

I like this commercial because the content fits the picture for example the "step-by-step", Javeir is actually taking a step. This magazine is simple and easy to read which makes it very appealing towards the eyes of consumers.

Commercial Portrait Magazine Cover

Same thing with this one, this is a sporting magazine and that the background matches the runners outfit. I like how the runners head is in front of the font, which looks better.

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Surrealism Project 8

I created this image by taking multiple picture of my brother's arm and a picture of his face. I believe I took a total of 10 pictures including the face pic. Even though this image only expresses the texture of the arm, I had to go through a lot of editing to cut the arm out from the background of the picture, and by doing so I used the magnetic tool and carefully trimmed each arm out of its background. I then applied a layer mask for all of the arms that I managed to cut out. By applying a layer mask, it prevented me from making mistake with brushes and erasing. I stacked the arms one on top of each other, while having the background being set as Franklin's face. After moving each layer on to the background, I had to adjust the order of how the arms are arranged because it affects which arm overlaps the other arm. After this I erased parts of the arm so that the features of the face would appear out of his arm. I wanted to apply a feeling that the eyes, nose, and mouth were growing out of his arms. The final step was to have a lens blur on the arm, some arms were shot with different apertures, which exhibits a difference in clearance. The final image was this and to be honest this image that I edited did not go so well, it did not appear to how I imaged it would have.

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Project 8 pre work

Surrealism is a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or non-rational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of change effects, unexpected juxtaposition.