Week 13 Portraits

For this picture, it took a little bit to get since it was cold and that they were having fun playing around in the snow.  This portrait picture is a mixture of serious and candid.  My cousin noticed that I was taking a picture while my sister was busy picking up her cell out of the snow.

For this picture of the firefighter at a memorial ceremony, I had a difficult time getting the right picture simply because it was hard to move around and get the image I was looking to get.  Instead of getting an image of him looking into space, I got this image of him in a deep stare.

Week 10 Text Tool

The Original

I decided to use the text tool and the brush for this one, trying to make it look like an ad in a Porsche brochure. I downloaded a paintbrush of the Porsche logo.  And for the text, I actually took a picture of the model "Boxster" and spent an hour using masks to remove everything from the photo except the word. After all that I shrank it to size and colored it white.

Week 10 Brush Tool

The Original

In this photo I used the brush tool to fill in the Nike swoosh logo. I first went along the outer edge of the logo with a soft brush. Then, I used a hard brush to fill in the center.

Week 10 Clone Tool

The Original

I used the clone tool to add a few more penguins to the image. Instead of using full body clones I used the head as one and the body as another. I put the clones on a separate layer so I could fine tune the images by erasing everything except the animal.

Week 9 Filter Manipulation

 For the photo of the Porsche Boxster I used a filter named Poster Edges. I was looking to make the photo look like it was drawn and colored in.

 











  For the photo of The Nubble Lighthouse I tried for a watercolor/ painted look. To create this look I used three different filters: Cut Out, Median, and Dry Brush. I like how it came out.

Week 8 Lighting and Color Manipulation

 









For the first photo, I chose to go a little darker rather than lighten the image. After playing with the levels, I tweaked the hue/saturation and exposure. After that I added a color overlay. Once I decided to go darker I wanted to have it so the aerial was more of a silhouetted focal point in the image and at the same time keep the vibrant colors of the flag.

 For this photo my plan was to bring out the vibrant colors of the sky, water and the beach. I wanted to make the colors to be noticed. All I did in this one was a few level changes, a few curve changes, and hue/saturation changes.

For this photo I chose to do a couple different color overlays to create this image. I changed the levels to where I wanted them. Then, I did two gradient fill overlays. Then, played with the curves. And finally, I did a couple of tweaks to the hue/saturation and the color balance. This sort of gives it a sepia tone look but still keep some color to keep the eyes interested.

Week 7 Image Manipulation

In the above image I used the select tool to remove the cloudy sky and replace it with this beautiful sunset.

In this photo I used the select tool to remove the trees and lake from inside the windows. Then, I replaced the window openings with a picture of The Nubble Lighthouse. Also in this image I used quick mask mode to finely remove unwanted pixels.

For this image I used the select tool to change the color of the trees and the river to be in a black and white color scheme. After selecting everything below the sky I used a photo filter to change the color.

Week 6 Landscape Photos

                            

 I took this picture of The Gap or The Notch near Stowe, Vt. My focus was to capture the Gap between the mountains and some of the trees that have changed so far this fall.

 The focus of this photo was to capture the fall leaves that cover the rolling hills in the background of this vibrant green field.

 This photo was fun to take since I had to stand on a rock in the middle of the falls to capture the movement of the water through the rocks.

 For this photo I wanted to do a rule-of-thirds but the angle I had to take this picture just wouldn't work. I think having the small pine tree off-center works fairly well with the ocean in the background and the cliff-side more in the foreground. This was taken this past spring on the Cliff Walk in Newport, RI.

I took this panoramic photo of the valley and the mountains from the summit of Mount Mansfield. My intent was to capture a wide-angle shot from the summit, in hope of getting a majority of the surrounding area.

Week 5 Framing Slideshow

Week 4 Color Schemes

This photo has a monochromatic color scheme to it. Although it may all look simply green, there are different shades and tints of green in the image. 

This photo is an example of analogous. The colors of the sky go from yellow-orange to a pinkish-red to a purple-blue. All of these colors are relatively close to each other on the color wheel.

Week 3 ̴ Macro Collage

This week I took pictures of some plants that I planted at work and around my home. Along with a few mushrooms I found growing in my backyard. For most of the pictures I used the macro setting but for some I used a setting on my camera called Super Macro, which is for when you have your lens anywhere from less than an inch to 11.8 inches from your subject that your photographing. As for the software I used for the collage, I used Microsoft Research AutoCollage. It's a trial version software that you can download.  I like it a lot better than all the other collage software I've found, because it allows you choose which picture is the main focus and move outward from the center of the collage with the rest of your images. It has a few other features that are basic, but I really like how it blends the pictures together rather than having white framing around each image. The only downside is in the trial version you have a company watermark that takes up a little bit of space at the bottom.

Week 2

The photo above is my favorite of all the pictures I took of this rock tower someone had built in front of the small cave.  From the perspective of a low front angle, the rock tower looks larger than it really is and it also covers the large entrance into the cave.  I guess I'd have to call this "The Bug's Eye View", simply because to a bug this point-of-view makes it seem quite the climb to the top.

The second photo is from a side angle.  This angle didn't really capture an amazing image, but it gives you an idea of the actual size of the rock tower and a different view of the color of the rocks from the side compared to the front image at the beginning of this post.