Month: October 2017

For my self portrait, I actually chose a photo of myself. It is one of my senior pictures and probably one of my favorites. I decided to create my self portrait that represented myself, what I love and believe in. I chose to go with flowers because I absolutely love flowers, to me, they’ve always symbolized love, freedom and natural beauty and I’ve always tried to bring that out in my self. I believe that I am always changing and finding more of myself and there are so many different kinds of flowers that I can represent myself as. Flowers are always blooming and I feel like I am too. I identify myself with love; for myself, my family, friends, boyfriend, coworkers, etc. It is important to me to love myself and the people who I care about. I love freedom and I have always wanted more and more of it. I couldn’t wait to get my driver’s license and a car and couldn’t wait to go to college.

When creating this, I first started with my body and found a picture of a bunch of flowers. I used the clone stamp to go over the ones I wanted and stamped it over my body. When this picture was taken, I was actually standing in a covered bridge, and so I didn’t want this portrait to look very harsh. So, I found sunflowers and traced the beams. I then decided that I wanted more of a floating look, since I feel like I do tend to float sometimes in life, so I thought it would be appropriate. I was going to add swirls into the background with paint but decided it looked weird so I used the smudge tool and thought it looked really cool. I then blurred out the sunflowers to add more representation on my actual self. I increased the exposure to brighten it up, as well.

This is the original photo I worked from.

For this blog post, I had to create a magazine cover. This photo was taken by myself on a beautiful Saturday morning, in my apartment. Rachel strolls in, well, shamefully walks in in last night’s outfit, smeared makeup and heels, giggling and still slightly drunk. I made her stand in her messy room to make this magazine cover because she inspired me! “I’m glad my walk of shame inspires you to do your homework”, Rachel said, laughing, in the middle of this.

So, I brightened up this picture, added a few color levels, and added word texts to it. I figured it would be best to make it a college based, female style magazine. I added things about fashion and studying tips. I also added the date at the bottom. I used this font because it looked classy and added some fun!

 

 

I think that I’ve had the most fun so far with this blog post! My boyfriend, Nick, his brother and their roommate helped me with this, the majority of the help was just commentary, but still effective. They thought it was so cool and had endless ideas of what to do and create.

I had to have Nick make a heart because duh love! His reaction to seeing the picture was “uh I am not that small”, I laughed and said it was normal. In their kitchen they have a green back light that they put up above their cupboards so his brother turned out to see how it would like. The green really pops and I love how it looked.

 

Nick loves pineapples so he had to try to make one. It actually turned out surprisingly well and we were all pretty impressed! Again, the green background, still loving how it looks.

 

 

All three of the guys decided to make OSU with their phone lights and a flashlight. I really didn’t mind what they did, it was fun to do and watch! I filled in more of the “O” in OSU and erased some of the random lines in all the letters. I added vibrances and a fun filter that I thought related most to the picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nick was spinning around with a flashlight, just to see how it would turn out and this is one of my favorites. I really liked this one with the light spots that appeared from the light. I photoshopped it, put a higher exposure on it, added a higher vibrance level on it, and then put the stained glass filter on it. I thought the original picture had a ghostly look to it so I thought that the stained glass gave it the same effect with the uneven, swirly effects and the floating look, as well.