Week 9- Filters

The photo below is untouched and the photo above I used the sharpen edges filter. I played around with the different types of filters for a bit before I decided I liked this one. I also darkened him a little bit with the dodge and burn tools that we learned. This has been a lot of fun... This is Lincoln. He got his name because he was born on Abe Lincoln's birthday. He's my friends cat. He's wicked chill and he loves to sleep.

Week 9 - Dodge and Burn

The above picture is the original without adding the dodge and burn. This is my friend Jake. He plays the drums and is very good. He has been in many bands including his dads band "Intercept". The photo below is edited. I darkened the background behind him to make it so that he stood out more in the photo. I lightened the drum and the cymbals and his face and arms. I also lightened the drumsticks a bit. I like how it makes it look kinda like he is glowing in a way. Plus, now you can see his arm whereas before the editing you couldn't really see where it is because it blended in.

Photoshop wk-8 Color & Light Adjustments

So the above picture is the picture I chose for my second picture. This is actually a very old picture of me with a musician of a band that I really like. I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to have met a person that I look up to. I have met many people I thought I would never meet but I was proved otherwise and I'm thankful for that. His name is Jason (Jay) James and he is very nice and wicked funny.

This is my PS version of the same picture. I had to modify this thing A LOT to make it look like this. I played around with a bunch of the tools to see what it would do. I know we are only on color and stuff but I couldn't help myself. This program is getting to be so much fun now that I'm getting the hang of it. I added exposure, brightness and contrast, levels, then more brightness and contrast, and then hue/saturation, and vibrance and then more exposure. So there was a few different things I did to this photo to make it look like this. I also had to resize the picture quite a bit. It was at about 150 px's and then I changed it to 400 I believe. I was trying to make the picture a little bit bigger but after doing that I noticed that it made the photo blurry. I didn't know what to do from there.... Looks ok though.

Photo # 1 for the assignment.....
This is my photoshop version of the same picture. (as seen below) I changed the contrast and brightness. I messed around with the colors big time. I kept tweaking with the tools and trying to learn what each of them do while figuring out how to get this photo blue without his skin deep red or orange. It took me a bit to get it but I think it came out really good in the end. For the most part this is what I was going for. I also messed with the hue and saturation. That did the finishing touch. Just what I intened to do.

This is my original picture that I took with the lights from the spot light on the stage without using flash or anything. I did zoom in quite a bit when taking the photo. This is a picture of my favorite singer in the world. His name is Phil and he is good!

Photoshop wk- 7

So this is my first photoshop experiance ever. I kinda made my picture really small. Sorry as I said it's my first experiance. I liked messing with my pictures in ways I never knew I could. This is a picture I had to edit a lot. I cropped, and cut and messed with the color. I like the lighting from the spot lights though. I hightened it a little to make it look a little more intence. I took this picture in a dark show room. This is what I like to do in my free time. I actually have a lot of pictures I have taken at show's like this. It's of bands I know most of you have probably never heard of. I wasn't allowed to use my flash in this place so I'm surprised that my pictures I have came out as good as they did. The floor as they call it, is full of "metal-heads" aka- a bunch of crazy cool people who like to listen to heavy music and just have a good time. There was a band on stage but you can't really see them in this photo. I do however, have some awesome pictures of the bands that came out great that I will be using at a later date. The little picture I put in the right top corner as my layer on top is a sign of the festival on the outside of the building. They have these festivals every year in the spring in the city of Worcester, MA at a very old building that don't even have blueprints (as I've heard) it's called the Palladium. Pretty cool heh :)

Landscapes slideshow on way to NC

So I decided to use my picture's I took while riding down to North Carolina. There were many different picture's I missed out on due to the weather in the city area and what not but I got some really nice shot's of the sun and the southern sky the more south we went. In the beginning i used the kids and pets setting on my camera which is the best way to get motion shot's. Don't think they came out to bad. Then the later and clearer it got I tried using the landscapes setting. I think I didn't do to bad considering how fast we were going on the interstate and the windows were dirty and rolled-up. My favorite is the one of the sun setting over the horizon on the interstate where you can see all the cars on the road. There is just something about the way that photo came out to me that just screamed beauty! The taillights were on so i wanna say it was about 6-7pm or so down there. It was really cool to just watch the rain and the wintry mix vanish and the sunlight appear. It was nice to see no snow for the little bit that I did. I mean, I was sick so I didn't get to spend much time outside. I didn't do to well on that last picture but it was because we were going to fast for it to come out good I still like the colors of the clouds though. lol

I plan to start taking more picture's of outside when I'm back to full health so I will be adding to the landscape pics because I want to add some from my home land right here in VT.

Week 5- Slideshow

Week 5- Assignment 2- Rule of thirds

The above picture is the one that follows the "rule of thirds" out of these two photo's. I like how the couch is at that angle but I have this thing about things being centered so out of the two photo's I'd have to say I like the centered one (below) better. Plus it gives it the kind of home like story with the way it's set up with the couch being set between the windows and the little tables placed in front.

Week 5- Composition and Aesthetics in Photography

There were many sites I did my research on for photography composition and aesthetics. They all had a lot of different ways to put all of the same information, however, there was this one person Alex Yu that caught my eye. The information that he talked about was very helpful in learning things I did not know about photography and the way certain philosophers viewed it as. It's interesting how he put that and I quote him " a picture that is an amusement for one person may be art to another" I loved that. It reminded me about the times when I would go to an art museum and see something I personally liked that other people would think looked funny or weird and didn't see the beauty in the creation.

To read what I have read by Alex Yu go to - http://www.creative-wisdom.com/photography/photo_essay/aesthetics.html
"you might have to copy and paste the link for some reason my comp wouldn't let me post it correctly"
You guys should really read this article. I really liked what he had to say and I think you will too.

The meaning behind the word Aesthetics- The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of art and with judgments concerning beauty.(as stated on dictionary.com)

Week 4 - Lighting(top) & color(bottom)

Now I know we only needed to post 3 but I just had to show 4. In the above one here it was also taken at 7 pm but believe it or not I turned off the lights and set my camera to night snapshot and used the flash. The iso in this one was set to 250. Can you see a difference in the two?

The one above here was taken at 7 pm and I used the same settings so it looks the same for the most part except this one looks a little bit darker and somewhat clearer then the one below.

The above picture here was taken a minute after the one below with the same settings except I used the flash for this one.

The above picture was taking with the iso at 200 and set on auto at 1 pm. I liked how the light from the window is hitting it the way that it is. The flash wasn't used in this shot. It makes it so half of the photo is darker then the other.

This is a monochrome picture I took while we were driving over the Washington Bridge in New York. It was about 12pm or so. It was raining as you can see the rain drops on the window. It looked really cool. The timing was perfect too how I got the center of the land and river.