Week 7 Magazine Assignment

For this week’s assignment we had to make a fake magazine cover.  To do this I used a variety of tools within photoshop.  The base photo is a photo of a friend of mine holding a wooden hand.  I then edited this photo using the patch tool to make it look like the wooden hand is his hand.  Then all of the background scenery photos are stock location photos that I edited together.  When making the text I had to add a shadow and a glow to each photo using the blending options so that the text would show up on the dark background.  The fake magazine I made is a magazine about adventuring because I enjoy movies and video games about adventures and I thought that it would be funny to satire the genre a little.

Week 6 Assignment

Long Exposure Photos-

Edited Long Exposure Photos-

This week’s assignment had us taking long exposure photos.  I personally love these types of photographs because using long exposure you can create all sorts of cool and interesting effects.  For most of the regular long exposure shots I tried to take advantage of using light sources as either laser blasts or orbs of energy.  Using the lights in these ways produces really awesome looking light effects.  In the second set of photos I used photoshop to edit the photos in cool ways.  The first photo I attempted to make it look like a stained glass window because I thought the original photo looked angelic.  The second photo I tried to make it look even more dramatic than it was before. The final photo initially looked intimidating and ethereal so I tried to capitialize on that with photoshop.

Week 5 Assignment

Somewhat professional looking photos-

Highly Photoshopped photos-


Within portrait photos you can communicate identity through positioning and the background.  Different styles and positions show your creative side or emphasize different factors that you find important such as the artistic style, location, etc…   Photoshop is a powerful tool that allows you to fix any mistakes that were made during while taking the picture.  If there are any blemishes on the subject it’s fairly easy to remove them in photoshop.  Another thing you can do is remove things that are in the background that you don’t want in the background.  For example, In one of the photos above I had to manually remove the reflection in the window behind the subject.

Week 4

Closed:

Open:

Symmetrical:

Thirds:

For this week’s set of photographs I took pictures of places I travel to on a weekly basis.   First, my open shot is a photo of the stairs in Dreese Labs.  I have to climb three floors up this staircase every day to get to my software 1 class.  The next photo is a symmetrical shot of the hallway under Hitchcock.  I take a microeconomics class here twice a week, also many STEM Scholars events are held in the basement here.  My thirds shot is a picture of construction underneath Hitchcock.  This photo is here because there always seems to be some form of construction going on on campus, and it usually finds a way to impede my travel.   Finally, the closed photo is a shot of a rubber duck that sits on my desk everyday.