Final Project

Portraits

Fisherman at market.

Portraits

Ahhh, the innocence of young children. Caught him in and "I can do it!" moment.

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Cloning

I took this photo on Darling Hill and I couldn't help but think that it would look better without the power lines. Abbrakadabrah! They're gone. I also used filters sharpen, reduce noise and then played with exposure, color and saturation. So much better, don't you think?

Ordinary Filters

In this photo I merely reduced noise from noise filter and smart sharpen. It really brightened this photo.

Filter: Artistic/Mosaic

In this photo I used the shadow and highlight feature. Then I dodged the leaves in the background to bring out their color. I also cloned the bright spot from Donald's beak. I used the artistic/mosaic filter.

Dodge/Burn

I was very disappointed when my granddaughter's first birthday photo came out so bad--it's a great picture of the cake, not so great of her. Although I have made her more visible, I have made the cake pink and the photo seems grainy. Any suggestions on how I could improve it even more?

Color, Hue and Saturation

Okay, so I guess there is no longer any such thing as a bad picture, only bad editing. I could be guilty of both...lol. Here is a Hindu shrine although you would never know it from the picture on the left, so I selected the barred area using the rectangular marquee tool, lightened and bumped up hue and saturation, added red and some blue. Then I had to make the grass green again so I selected it using the polygonal lasso, selected green from the popdown menu and voila the grass is green again. I also cropped out the chain link fence. At least now you can tell what it is!

Color, Hue and Saturation

This is a picture of a mustard field I took in Bangladesh. I have always loved the analogous colors in this photo but felt they were dull to poor light from so much smog. This was my attempt to correct it. I tried auto correct first, then bumped up the green, yellow and blue colors. I enhanced the hue and saturation next giving it more light. I then cropped the branches in the upper left as I found them distracting. I think it's definitely better, but more practice could make it much better.

Ta-Dah!!!!

It still seems harder than it should be!

Struggling with Photoshop

So, my classmates are doing some amazing things and making Photoshop look easy. I, on the otherhand, have been struggling. Cropping was easy, the rest was a challenge. I finally succeeded in giving my granddaughter a Mickey Mouse nose. I wanted to also give her Mickey's shoes but gave up. Is there a key or tool that copies an object without having to outline it? And after you select it, do you need to fill it with a color or is there a tool that picks up the color too? Help!!!

More Landscape

Although I do not do this area justice with my amateur photography, I was reminded during this assignment of the beauty of my surroundings. I am indeed fortunate.

Darling Hill

Again, Darling Hill

My favorite, Willoughby Lake
from a lookout on Mt. Hor

I like this one too however my photography does not begin to capture the beauty of this sunset.

Landscape

The school bell on the Burke Town Offices:
Finally a day with blue skies!

Victorian Era houses on Park St. in Lyndonville

The Darling Mansion

Willoughby Gap from Darling Hill

Framing Photos (hopefully!)

Composition

As I was researching photo composition for this week's assignment, I found infromation on using lines in the photo subject to draw your eye to the main subject you are capturing. The internet resource spoke about the Rule of Thirds and the Golden Ratio and went on to elaborate how you could use lines in the photo as part of your composition.

In the first photo, I used the rule of thirds to capture a woodpile in a sugar woods. When I turned the corner, I saw the fence which I zoomed in on and used it to draw your eye to the woodpile. another helpful method I think...

Change in Light

I took these three photos at different times of the day on my "bright snow scene" setting. I kept the setting the same throughout so I could make light the only variable. I was facing East in all three photos. The first one was taken at 8:00 AM; the second at 12:00 PM with a little wind: and the third at 5:30 PM. I think my camera did a good job of adjusting for the variable light. The motion in the second one definitely affected clarity. Again, as for the rest of the week, the day was gray. The change in light at dusk gave the photo a blueish tint and seemed to make the flag have less definition against the background. I think in this instance, morning light was best.

Color Theory

Monochromatic





















Close to monochromatic but the green makes it complementary.

Work in Progress

Wow! That was easy! I love this class. These sites are awesome. This is a quilt in progress. If you look closely, you can see pins, batting and threads.

Compare and Contrast, Week 2

Okay, bloggers--I could use some lessons here. Hopefully this will get easier. I put these in here three times, saved them each time, checked edit and then what am I supposed to do? Anyway, the third time must be the charm! I was amazed at the difference in color in these two photos and how much more visible and lighter the door alcove was in the photo on the right. A stunning difference just by moving from one side of the building to the other. Now I just need to learn how you could predict this before taking the picture.