Experimentation With Line

This was a project that we were instructed to take pictures of lines for. They could be of any lines that we saw. These are two examples of pictures I took and edited.

To the first picture, I set it onto another project with a white background and used lasso tools and stamp tools to give the lines the effect of dragging out past the original picture. However, to keep the photo from looking overdone, I only extended a few lines.

For the second picture I edited, I used a picture that represented perspective and cut and pasted the section of the photo that had the perspective and drug it out to make it stand out and seem larger.

Exploring Photography

Some types of photography that i am interested in using for this shooting assignment are Animal/Pet, Artistic, Black and White, Night, and People. These are examples of those particular categories:

Animal/Pet

Artistic

Black and White

Night

People

And now for my take on five different types of photography!

The first I did was sports instead of portrait. This picture was taken at my brother's hockey tournament in Washington D.C. I then edited it in camera raw to make it more realistic and more vibrant.

The second picture I took and edited was during the night. I took a picture of a lantern on the wall in my kitchen while it was illuminated. Then I altered the settings only a little bit to make it stand out a little better.

Next, I did a picture that was in black and white. Originally the picture was taken in color, but in Adobe Camera Raw I changed it to be black and white because I thought that setting looked best with the specific picture.

For my fourth picture that I did, I chose to do something artistic. So, I took a picture of the stove in my kitchen, and to make it a little more bright, I turned on the gas so that you could see the bright flame. Then, in Adobe Camera Raw, I turned up the vibrancy and saturation so that all the reds and oranges were brighter.

Lastly, I took a picture that couold be considered Macro Photography. Macro Photography is the art of shooting images up close without being blurry. In this case I took a picture of a dress frame that held jewelry. Then, in Adobe Camera Raw, I edited the picture so that the background would be a little bit more blurry in order to draw the focus to the main part of the picture.

Balance Collages

The first collage that I did was a symetrical collage about myself. I scanned in pictures from my past in all different locations; vacation, field trips and park trips with my cousin. Also, I used a map of the east coast as my background because that is where i've lived my whole life. I put a star on Philadelphia because I grew up there and had a dotted line going from Philadelphia to Charlottesville because that is where we moved to.

The second collage I did was a collage that showed asymmetry and represents something that inspired me. In this case, it was vintage/old fashioned things that sparked me. So to do the collage I imported pictures off of google, including numerous pictures of lace and jewelry, mirrors, and portraits that reminded me of my subject.

The next collage that I designed for this project was one of radial symmetry for an advertisement. I have always admired the powerful simplicity of Nike ads, so to mimic those characteristics I picked a single photo of a powerful athlete, a boxer, and used their slogan: JUST DO IT, then let my Photoshop skills do the rest. I made a halo effect around his glove to emphasize that particular part of the picture. Then, around that I made what look to be glowing lights by using the pen tool and setting the outer glow color to really draw attention.

iStock Photo Collage

For this project we added pictures from iStock and used our imaginations to create a collage with a minimum of ten pictures used.