Assignment 12

Assignment 11

Project 10

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

1. The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali

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The Elephant Celebes, Max Ernst

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By Matthieu Grymonprez

By Erick Johnson 

Project 7

Cyanotype 

Before

A Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. The process uses two chemicals: ammonium iron(III) citrate and potassium ferricyanide. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blue prints.

After

This image was created by selecting the texture of my photo as the background. Then I added multiple layers of texture. I added one layer that was plain but used my brush and brushed the sides black. I used the grass brush to give the sides a feeling of grass then switched to a different brush to cover the outer parts of the layer. After putting the layers together I had them all multiply so that it look like this.

 Daguerreotype

 Before 

A daguerreotype, was the first publicly announced photographic process and for nearly twenty years was the one most commonly used. It was invented by Louis Daguerre and introduced in 1839. To make a daguerreotype, the daguerreotypes polished a sheet of silver plated copper to a mirror finish; treated it with fumes that made its surface light-sensitive; exposed it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary, which could be as little as a few seconds for brightly sunlit subjects or much longer with less intense lighting; made the resulting latent image on it visible by fuming it with mercury vapor; removes its sensitivity to light by liquid chemical treatment; rinsed and dried it; then sealed the easily marred result behind glass in a protective
surface light-sensitive; exposed it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary, which could be as little as a few seconds for brightly sunlit subjects or much longer with less intense lighting; made the resulting latent image on it visible by fuming it with mercury vapor; removed its sensitivity to light by liquid chemical treatment; rinsed and dried it; then sealed the easily marred result behind glass in a protective enclosure.

After 

This image was created by creating 3 layers. One layer was the the actual image, another layer was a texture that I used to dissolve with the actual image. The texture I used was a haunting texture. I used it because its color is light brownish, which fit perfectly for a daguerreotype.

Gum Bichromate

Before 

A Gum Bichromate is a 19th century photographic printing process based on the light sensitivity of a cyanotype. It is capable of rendering painterly images from photographic negatives. Gum printing is a multi-layered printing process, but satisfactory results may be obtained from a single pass. Any color can be used for gum printing, so natural-color photographs are also possible by using this technique in layers. 

After

This image was created from a cyanotype. I added a layer that that tinted the image to a lighter blue. I really liked the frame that I created with the eraser. I did this by selecting the grass brush and started erasing with it. The next thing I did was I lowered the contrast and increased the brightness of the photo.

Project 7 pre work

Daguerreotype

By Daguerre

Gum Bichromate

By Hamish Stewart

Cyanotype

By Alexandra Hull

Project 6

HDR (High Dynamic Range)

 I created this image by taking multiple images of the same thing but with different exposure. I brought a tripod with me, to prevent a blur on the photo when it came to a very slow shutter speed. Once I have my shots I imported it into light room. I selected the images and merge to HDR in Photoshop. After merging it into an HDR I shifted the tone curve of the Image. As you can see in the picture above the middle left part of the image is darker than the other places. I did this on purpose to make the building stand out more. Same with the stairs on the building, they are brighter than its surroundings. This gives a very cool feeling of the image. I find this image a bit surreal.
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Panorama

This image was created by taking 6 portrait format pictures and merging them into Photoshop. I used a tripod for this image and a manual setting with a shutter speed of 1 second and aperture of 23. The ISO was around 200. I tried to overlap each image by 40% but sometimes I made mistakes which caused me to do it again. I chose a mode of spherical for the mode of my panorama. I then cropped the image cause there were white laps, but still didn't get rid of all of the white laps. I then used perspective wrap to achieve my goal to have no white spaces in the photo. And the final out come was this. The reason I didn't add any filters to this photo is because I like the original copy of it, and how it reminds us what reality is.
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Panorama

The first step to create this image was to pick a subject and I happened to choose the city landscape from the Hawthorn Bridge. Starting from the left I took 6 images that overlap each other. The images I took for this panorama were in landscape form. I was forced to go into manual because I have to have the exact same settings for each image, which is also one of the reasons why I used a tripod. Later on I imported this into light room and merged to panorama photoshop. I chose spherical for the template layout. At first the out come of this image wasn't very good, it was unevenly distributed at the top and bottom of the photo. This made me crop the image to get rid of most of the white spaces. The next step was that I went into perspective wrap to edit this photo. I adjusted the image so that it looks proportionally even. The final step of editing this photo was I added some contrast and saturation to it. I decreased the temperature so that it would give a colder mood.
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Multiple Exposure

This photo was created by taking 3 images and then combing them in Photoshop. One picture was of the city landscape which you can see the American flag on top of the building. The other photo was just a picture of the river and the third image is about the suburbs at the bottom. I combined this image in photoshop. I like this photo because its evenly distributed, how the dock matches the city and the suburbs.

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Multiple Exposure

This image was created by taking multiple picture and combing them together. I combined 3 photos, two pictures of the bridge and another one of the city. This image was created in Photoshop. At first it gave me a very bazaar look, so I tried fiddling with the tone of the image to make it better. I tried toning it green but it still didn't give me a satisfying look. Black and white was what made this image stand out.

Project 6 Pre Work

HDR

By Ken Karminesky

Panorama

By Caddymob

Multiple Exposures

By Flourian Imgrund

Semester Final Best 15 photos and Emulation

Project 5