As my last Photo assignment I took some pictures of marbles. I have to admit, this week my motivation to take pictures wasn't the greatest. So I went trough the house = tying to find something good to take pictures of. I found some marbles which were actually perfect for the assignment. Depending on the lightening, the had really cool shadows and reflections. I was lucky I found them. So I ended up having some acceptable pictures. Really important with still life pictures is the lighting. It really made a difference! My edits: turn it black and white. Clarity up a little bit. Contrast up, exposure up.
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I really liked this assignment. I always wanted to be able to take good pictures of people. You can't just take the camera and shoot some pictures of people, sometimes there is a little bit more behind it. Composition, keeping the model smile and more. I thought it was interesting that we needed a white sheet to take the picture on the window. We needed it to reflect it so that the face is good lighted. In photoshop we made the pictures a lot smaller, created a frame and background and done was it!
It is getting warmer outside, so I decided to take some pictures from nature. I love flowers they always remind me of spring and the sun. The sunset pictures are pictures I took over winter break in Florida. The sunset at the beach was beautiful and so colorful and also kind of match the colors of the flowers that I took pictures of. My edits: I turned up the exposure and the contrast up a little bit. I also cropped the image.
From warm to winterIn this assignment we could do whatever we wanted to do in Photoshop. So I went online and looked for a tutorial that I would like to do. Very fast I found a tutorial which tells you how to add snow in a picture. After I was done with that, I decided to add some snow in the background and make the whole picture look a little cooler. I learned a lot while I did this project and I slowly start getting into Photoshop. Thank you to Tiffany for being my model :)
My tutorial: The snow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP7qiZIuTA0 The background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itq_FRz1u_A As our next Photoshop assignment we did panoramic pictures. I really liked that assignment because we could actually make a panorama. Normally we always take them with the phone and we don't know what actually has to be done to take a quality panorama. The photoshop work is not that hard, because it almost does everything for you, but the settings of the camera and staying in the same position is a little challenging.
A funny thing happened while I took the tree picture. The sun came out in one picture and hide behind a cloud in the next picture. That's why it has this shadow and light in the picture. I could have fixed it in photoshop, but I thought that it looks kind of interesting. Since the beginning of the year I was super excited to me able to do this. I mean, being able to paint with just a little flashlight is pretty impressive, don't you think so ? It took quiet a while to take these pictures though. First we had to come up with an idea. Being creative is the first hard thing. Once we had some ideas, we had to find the right camera settings. After all this was done, we were ready to go. It was really interesting how each of the pictures turned out. Since the room had to be completely dark to take the picture, we started in the night and finished at 1am. I really was tired in the next morning, bit it was worth it! My edits: I didn't do very much on this picture. I liked the way the green color came out. I painted some black over some reflections and cropped it and done was the picture!
For my fourth assignment I chose to do an open assignment. This Saturday I went to a Polar Jump at lake Heron. My exchange organization took us all up there. Together with about twenty other exchange students we jumped in the frozen lake. It was extremely cold, thats also how the picture below came about. Even the thought of jumping in the frozen lake gave us goose bumps, but we did it! It was a lot of fun, but I don't think I would do it again :) Our feet were frozen and our nose was running, but at the end of the day everybody was happy that we did it, it defiantly was worth the experience. The only bad thing that happened was that my camera didn't work after I took some pictures because it was so cold. That is why I don't have so many different pictures. My edits: I turned the exposure up a little bit and turned the picture black and white. Than I cropped the picture so it would not be too much white around it.
Our third Photoshop assignment was the school context assignment. We took a picture of the school and added some themes and characters to it. My picture was originally a boring picture of the stairs but I turned it into a Disney hallway with Rapunzel and Nemo. The prince is about to fall in the water in which Nemo is swimming.
I learned a lot while doing this project. All the different tools suddenly had a meaning and reason to be there. I still don't understand everything from Photoshop but I would say I now know better how to use it. We learned how to do shadows and how to change the perspective of a picture that it looks good at the end. |