Month: September 2016

This is my portrait that I enhanced and edited to make it more clean and professional. I had my friend Julia stand in a rocky cove near Mirror Lake  and the background allowed her to stand out, while also being interesting and pretty to look at. I cropped the picture, which originally had her centered, to make her face land in an intersection when placed in the rule of thirds grid. I traced around her body and brightened it up so she would stand out even more from the background. I then did the opposite and traced out the background and made it a bit greener and added some contrast. I did some basic spot removing on her face, though she didn’t need much at all and I also got rid of some stray hairs because they really stood out against her black shirt.

 

 

 

I had a much easier time editing this photo because it was supposed to be creative and exaggerated. I enjoyed not having to play by the rules of reality and found myself having a lot of fun with color. I made decided to play around with the color of her hair and decided on this pretty aqua color because it is both of our favorite colors! I tinted her shorts purple, and I made the grass very green. Before I did any of the color work I overexposed and brightened just her body to make her look very pale and almost ghostly. I enjoy this picture because it is fun, but I could’ve very easily gone the other way with it and made it look very clean and editorial. I like that with editing you have the power to make that decision, though.

I loved having the ability in photoshop to manipulate the colors. I love the way pictures look when only one subject matter is in color and the rest is in black and white, so I took this very busy photo that I took in Little Italy, NYC and decided that the stoplight would be my point of color. I noticed the stoplight and kind of wondered where the cars were, because the streets were filled with people. I figure that when people look at the edited photo, they will see the stoplight and wonder the same thing.

This is a picture of the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge in Cincinnati. I visited Cincinnati for a music festival, and it was very rainy and cloudy while I was there, so I enhanced the colors of the picture to make it look like a bright, beautiful day. I love a picture that captures multiple subjects at once, in this case the river, the bridge, and the city scape. I was able to capture this because this picture was taken from far away and from a sort of aerial point of view, as I was at a level above all of the subjects.

I took this picture while at Topsail Island beach over the summer. I noticed the vanishing point at the end of the pier and the lines that the posts created. I wanted to see if I could manipulate this picture to look more “perfect” and make the lines more vertical, but as I was playing around with the picture I found that stretching it vertically looked pretty cool. The edited picture gives me a feel that the picture was taken looking straight up from the ground, but also looking straight into the horizon.

 

 

Cool                                                        Normal                                                  Warm

Here is a picture from my prom. I felt that the colors and the feel of the photo could be changed with a “temperature” adjustment to the photo. The blue tones of the “cool” photo make the feel of the picture seem literally colder to me. The  weather was a bit bleak the day of prom, so even the “normal” picture seems to cool for my taste. The “warm” photo may be a bit too warm, but overall I think it is my favorite version of this picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Underexposed                                       Normal                                             Overexposed

I took this photo while laying in the middle of central park on a trip I took to NYC. The sun was shining through the trees and the sky was completely clear. It was a beautiful day and I feel that the “normal” version of this picture best captures the scene. The “underexposed” version makes the photo too dark and doesn’t capture the texture of the trees enough. On the other hand, the “overexposed” version brings too much brightness into the picture. You lose the peek at the sky and can’t make out the definition of the trees in the picture.

 

 

Open

Game day was a blast, and the day could not have been more beautiful. The stadium was packed, and I see this picture as open because the stands keep continuing on beyond the edges of the picture.

Thirds

Spotted Afroduck on Mirror Lake, and as he floated away he became off-center in the picture. If you create a grid the subject of the picture falls on the lines of the grid.

Closed

Bikes are very popular around campus (I wish I had one here), and these seemed like a perfect subject for a picture. They are the focal point of the picture so it is closed.

Symmetrical

Thompson William Oxley Statue is a classic here, as he looks across the oval. With the trees framing him on either side and the paths diverging in opposite directions, I see this photo as symmetrical.

Open

The reflection of Scott House in the window of the engineering building made a really cool picture, and the lines in the windows extending off the edges make this an open picture.

Closed, Thirds

Mason Hall of Fisher College of Business looked beautiful with the sun shining behind it. It may not be centered, but it is clearly the focal point of this picture, categorizing it as closed and thirds.