We had a lot of free range with this project. We had to first complete a tutorial that made one picture look like it was made up of several polaroid shots, and then we had to find three other tutorials of equal difficulty to complete. This tutorial was the one assigned. This tutorial was intended to make a smoke effect where it looked like the subject was dissolving into smoke. It involved downloading a brush set and messing around with special effects in photoshop. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GRUl4U8jik For this tutorial, I did a double exposure with a mountain range and the sky superimposed onto my friend's face. I used different pictures and slightly different colors than the tutorial did, but the end result was the same. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOYz669WNpU This tutorial was by far the most frustrating. My picture didn't align the way it should have, so the glitch effect looks like it was just staggered. I used a different color scheme, so instead of using the red-blue combo, I opted for the green-purple combo. At the very end, the video instructed on how to make a copy of the effect so that you could use it on any object, and when I did this, it erased my original image, which I was much happier with. Nonetheless, my final product still followed the tutorial. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bFQH7_dCiM The most frustrating part of this experience was when photoshop had changed the names of things in tutorials so I couldn't find them or when I needed to download extensions, like special brushes, that I didn't have. It was also somewhat difficult to find tutorials that walked me through things rather than just giving me fast-motion screen captures of what they were doing. Overall, I had a good time with this because it's not something we get to do, but it was much more stressful than necessary.
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For this photoshop assignment, we just had to compile images that represented us, either in the present or in the future. The first composite image we made was a practice with a couple pictures of flowers. After that, we had to use pictures that represented us to create a collage of our life now. Once we finished that, we made a collage of what we hoped our future would be like in ten years. The most difficult part of this assignment was definitely the fact that there weren't any instructions for us to follow, so I had to figure out what worked mostly on my own. It took me a while to figure out what worked best for me, which ended up being the eraser tool with a lowered opacity to blend the edges.
I chose to shoot pictures of a chess set for the still life. I set up a blanket to get a solid-colored background for my shoot and then positioned different pieces on the chess board. I used my brother's lamp to get direct lighting on the pieces and focused on the singular pieces rather than the whole board set up. My biggest issue with this shoot was that I took pictures in my basement, which is pretty dark. I was nervous that my pictures would end fuzzy as a result, but most of them ended up being clear. I really like this set of photos because I think it's really cool to see the intricate details of things, and this shoot displays the close ups of pieces of a board game that most people wouldn't think twice about beyond their function in the game.
This past weekend, I went to Georgia to visit my old friends. I thought it was the perfect opportunity to take pictures of my best friend who I was staying with, so we took portraits in her yard. For this assignment, we took pictures of a landscape scene from several different angles. I started out taking a panoramic style picture and then going back in with my camera titled to capture the sky and ground, as well as some of the edges of my finished product. Then, I used photoshop to lower the opacity, line up the subjects in the pictures, and create the panographics. I loved this assignment because creating the panographics felt like doing a puzzle. I used the computer to generate one of them. In my opinion, it looks cleaner and more professional than the others, but I liked the feeling of making art through my pictures. I struggled to find the scenes I wanted to photograph more than anything else, but I was pleasantly surprised to find myself having fun doing an assignment I previously dreaded based on my panoramic spinning-circle experience.
For this assignment, I set up a tripod and a scene in front of the camera, turned the lights off, and used my phone's flashlight to paint the scene, as well as adding some loops. Then, I edited the backgrounds of the pictures to enhance the shadows and blackness that was ruined by light leakage. When I did this assignment in Digital Photography 1 a couple years ago, I remembered it being harder than it was this time. The hardest part was not overexposing the subject by putting too much light on it, and I also showed up in several pictures because I forgot to move while painting the light in. I really loved the way the pictures looked in the dark, especially after I edited them. An ordinary picture of these would have looked boring, but these look almost magical.
For this assignment, we had to take pictures on and off campus of one person in several positions in order to mesh them all together. For the Multiple Me portion, the person would pose in front of the camera, but for the Chronomotion pictures, the person would do a continuous motion. I had my friend India model for the motion ones because she is a dancer, and I had a vision of her jump sequence across the screen. I thought the Chronomotion pictures were way cooler than the Multiple Me set. The main struggle was keeping the camera still enough and getting it to take pictures fast enough to capture the motion frozen instead of blurry. I really had a lot of fun with this assignment, even though it was freezing out when I took the motion pictures.
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