Portraits

This is a photo I took of my friend Katie for the portrait project. One of the techniques I read about was getting really close to the subject, almost too close. I think this is a really interesting angle to shoot from and I might use it more often.

Another technique was movement, which is basically capturing the person doing something, which makes them very blurry. I didn't want to have the whole picture blurry and hard to see so I pared the movement picture up with another photo of Katie before she jumped.

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Yellow Wallpaper

This is my yellow wallpaper picture. I took it in my room, and I hung up a bunch of pictures from magazines. The Yellow Wallpaper was all about how this lady kept seeing faces in her wallpaper. I thought that the faces I hung up represented this story well. In Photoshop I made the photos have a yellow tint to them, and used the clone stamp to cover the whole wall with faces.
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Color's of the Wind :D

Hahaha I love that song.

Blue

"Blue is a popular choice for favorite color and it’s a top pick for creating harmonious, open spaces—the right shades conjure images of vast blue oceans and skies. It emphasizes quiet moods and contemplation, but it’s also connected with depression (“feeling blue,” “got the blues,” etc.). A study published in the February 2009 issue of Science found that people explore their creative sides more when exposed to blue. Participants shown ads with blue backgrounds preferred ads that emphasized aesthetics, such as pretty or unique images of a product, over the product’s technical details."

In this description blue is said to be a depressing color. I used this photo because my model, Katie, does look sad. I brightened her shirt and I saturated the background and her skin a little bit to really make the blue stand out.

Green

"There’s something both refreshing and relaxing about the color green. Culturally, it suggests wealth and prosperity, but it also inspires renewal, openness, and peace. In a 2004 survey published in College Student Journal, participants were asked about their responses to certain colors. Most found that green increased their comfort and positivity levels because of green’s association with the environment and natural states. People also see green and think of lime flavor—one experiment showed that people given a cherry-flavored drink colored green thought it was lime."

Green is a very natural color that is found almost every where in nature. Because of this I had Katie lay on the grass. Green is also a relaxing color, and my model does look super relaxed and at peace in this photograph. In Photoshop I brightened the grass a bit, and made her shirt less blue because it was distracting.

Yellow

"Yellow is an energetic color representing sunshine, vitality, and happiness. Researchers at a university in Amsterdam found that it was a mood lifter for many participants, though some believe a yellow room encourages aggression in people. It might also improve brain functions like memorization. In 2007, researchers in New York City worked with paint specialists to analyze how people behaved at cocktail parties hosted in yellow, red, and blue rooms. Those in the yellow room were more lively and boisterous compared to partiers in the other rooms and they ended up eating twice as much as anyone else."

This is my brother's dog, Tucker. I think this photo represents yellow because it is a very happy and energetic color, and Tucker looks really excited in this picture. Once again I brightened the bandanna and just cropped the picture a little.
 
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My Profile Picture...Now with a Lomo affect!

Here is my profile picture now with a Lomo affect on it.

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Repulsive

For this half of the assignment we had to take pictures of generally pretty things and make them gross and ugly. Flowers are normally very pretty objects. The day before I took this photo it had just rained really hard, so these flowers had lost all of their petals and they looked really withered. like they were dieing. In photoshop I played with the saturation to make them look browner and dead looking. I also cropped the photo to make it look more dramatic, and have it more interesting to look at.

My car is kind of old, and it has been used by other people, so it does have some rusty spots on it. Cars are seen as very attractive things to look at normally. My car doesn't look so good in some places, so I took a picture of one of its rusted areas. When I put this photo in photoshop I played with the hues and saturation of the car. I used Gaussian Blur to make the car look darker and have the rust look more vibrant.
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Attractive

In my photo class we had to take photos of things that are normally repulsive and really gross and then make them attractive. I found this spiderweb on my car and took a picture of it. I view spiderwebs as really gross things. You usually see spiderwebs in dusty rooms or places that have not been cleaned in awhile. I am also very afraid of spiders and think they are also repulsive, so that's why I used this picture. I then used photoshop to make the photo look even more attractive. I used Gaussian Blur to make the web pop even more, and I also messed around with the saturation of the photo. I then used the clone stamp to make the car more of a solid color, and used the blur tool to get rid of some of the distracting rain drops on the car.

This photo I took in the park by my house. Trash is seen as a really disgusting item that people try to get rid of. They don't want to touch it, smell it, or look at it, so they ship it off to a landfill some where away from them. I got really lucky with how the sky looked that day. Even though the trashcan is really gross, and I wouldn't want to touch it, the sky makes it look pretty and turns this normally repulsive picture into a beautiful one. All I did in photoshop was make the trash can a little bit lighter.

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Lomo

This is a lomo photo that I created by following some steps on this Website.
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Libby

Just messing around with filters and lighting.

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Tree!

More filter fun with pictures I have.

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