Week 12: Photostory Slide Show :)

Week 11: Portraits

For this photo, I didn't have any difficulties capturing it. My cousin, who is in the photo, was playing with my brother, so I grabbed my camera and snapped a few pictures of him while he was being silly. and I liked this one the best...he's not posed or is he faking a smile or something like that. I don't even think he new I was taking his picture.





I absolutely love this portrait because it is completely natural, its easy to look at, but at the same time it's sweet. I think the best portrait photos are the ones that are completely unexpected and not forced.

Week 10: Clone Stamp & Text Photos

Before clone stamp...


After...it's not the best work, but it took quite awhile for me to get the hang of it. But as you can tell, I decided to take the wood out of the photo.


Text Photos

I wanted to add something different to the photos in regards to text, instead of just my name, so I ended up putting a quote for the first photo which I think fits perfectly with the picture, and for the second photo, I wanted something simple but meaningful to fit, which I think I achieved.

Dodge/Burn & Filters

Before...



After.....This is the photo I dodged and burned. To fix the photo, I not only played around with increasing the contrast a little, but I burned both the sky and the mountains, which made the pink/gold/yellow-ish colors of the sky stand out alot more than in the original photo. I also burned the mountains to be just about black because I liked how it looked against the colors in the sky.





This is the first filter fix I did. I used the soft glow filter, along with using the canvas filter setting. I also increased the contrast a little and decreased the brightness, giving the photo this outcome. I like the soft glow filter because it gives the photo a soft touch to it and doesn't make it unusual or harsh. This is one of my favorite photos so far this summer.




For this photo, I applied the canvas and ripple setting. Although it may be hard to tell that filters where applied to the photo, they in fact were. I wasn't a fan of very many of the filters in Gimp. A lot of them were crazy and unusal and didn't like how they looked when applied to my photos. Sometimes something simple is better!

Color Fix

This is one of my most favorite pictures I have because I think it's "calming" in a way. I babysit my friends daughter quite often and we went up to my family's camp recently and she just sat down on the dock for the longest time and watched the waves and the boats...it was the cutest thing ever. To fix the color of the photo, I increased the saturation and hue a little bit, but lightened it just a tad. By doing that, the colors in her shirt and crocs stand out alot more, more than they did in the original photo. Also, the water now has more of a blue-ish color to it, where as before, it had a charcol tint to it.

This is another favorite photo of mine. I used it on a previous assignment, but started playing around with fixing the colors and I loved the end result. I decreased the lightness and increased the saturation. I also increased the cyan color level and decreased the magenta color level a bit. The end result was that the rainbow was alot brighter and the clouds have a little more color to them and stand out more. You can also see a little of the blue sky within the clouds now.

Landscapesss

I had a lot of great landscape shots, however I've had the hardest time uploading them to blogger this week...thats why I'm posting these kind of late, and only three of them. My favorite of the three posted above is the one of the double rainbow. I was on my way home last Tuesday evening when one of my neices yelled "Look there's a rainbow!" So I pulled over and got a couple shots of it. Thought it was pretty neat!

Framing Slide Show--Week 5

I had a lot of fun taking pictures for this assignment. It made me really see how many things out there are framed or could be framed. Enjoy =)

Rule of Thirds

The first photo is of the flower centered and the second one is using the rule of thirds. I think both photos are really nice, however I like the second one better because both flowers aren't dead center, but follows the rule of thirds. After taking several photos and trying to decide which ones to use, it occurred to me that every object doesn't have to be in the center, and that by using the rule of thirds, photos may not only look better, but can also be more powerful and have a deeper meaning (I couldn't figure out how to keep them side-by-side....sorry!).

Week 5: Composition & Photography

www.amateursnapper.com/photography/10-top-photography-composition-rules

The address above it has many different examples of composition styles that can be used to help enhance a photo. My favorite two were leading lines and symmetry/patterns. The two photos that were givien as examples were powerful images and the composition style used really enhanced that quality of the photo. The different composition styles I learned are tools that I am going to take into consideration from this point on when taking photos for assignments.

Week 4 Continued: LiGhT pHoToS

This first of the three light photos was taken at 8:00 in the morning. Although it's a decent picture, there are really no exciting aspects of light in it, such as shadows or light shining on the grass of tress that impact the picture.




This picture was taken around 5:30 in the evening when the sun was in full mode. There are many shadowns of the trees and the light is shining on the trees, making them much more green in color than the first photo.




Lastly, this photo was taken after the sun went down for the night. I took this picture from a different angle---behind the tree instead. In this photo, you can see that the lack of light played a big role in the photo, making it appear much darker, especially the tree, and not so exciting. However, the hint of blue in the sky is a nice touch.

Week 4: Analogous & Complementary Photos

This is my analogous photo, with the yellow, yellow-green, green colors in it. Flowers seem to be a common theme for my assignments, but I'm getting alot of great shots by using them.

I couldn't decide if this was a complementary or monochrome photo, just because there was alot more of the red than green, I guess it could go either way? There is nothing too special about this picture, but I really liked how the light fell on the bench, I guess thats why I chose to use this one.

Week 3: Macro Collage

This week has been especially challenging trying to get this assignemnt done due to the rain and myself being on crutches due to a fractured foot and toe. Even tho I couldn't get some of the close ups and different angles I wanted, I did get a lot of great shots and am satisfied with the finished product!

For this assignment, I decided to use flowers from my moms garden. Out of the 9 or so pictures I took, the first one is my favorite. The color came out so well, I love the view/angle of the picture, and I was even able to capture the rain droplets on the flower without the picture being blurry. Not to mention, there are lots of fine details of the flower captured in the picture. Gotta love auto-focus!!








Although my focus was on capturing a different angle of the flower, which was achieved, I like this picture because the focus isn't soley on the flower anymore, but also whats in the background of the flower. I really didn't like this picture at first, but after looking at it for awhile, it definitely grew on me because of the upward angle of it I think and the background.