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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - August 27:Gala Dinner at Scots College August 27, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ www.scotscollege.school.nz/)
Assignment 52 -- Bokeh -- my first experiment with shaped bokeh
I'd never done anything like this before, & did a lot of fooling around to get the right-sized stencil for my lens opening before anything worked at all. It was interesting to me, though, as it helped me understand more about aperture & light. I think I also made this more challenging for my initial attempt by choosing a complex shape, harder to make come out recognizably.
My expertise with photo editing is minimal, but I do have some experience. I used to edit a lot of my own pictures that I took when I was younger, but I would just use filters and such on photobucket. When I got into high school, I never took a photography class, or a class for Photoshop, but some of the classes I went through did touch on photo editing. Using Photoshop for me was really about trying new things and trying to create in Photoshop, as well as use a photo as the focus. I just did each tutorial that I thought I wanted to have the effect from. It took a while to go through tutorials, but I think it paid off!
For my Assignment Two, I used Photoshop CS6. Here are the steps that I took in creating my photograph.
1. Original Photo Manipulation
a. I Insert the SD card into laptop
b. Copy one image to a new working directory
c. Create a backup of the original image
d. In a new project, I created a canvas size the same size as my original image
e. In a new project, I opened the image I took
f. After selecting the magnetic lasso tool, I set the feather to 10px
g. I cropped the image by selecting everything that I am seeing through the window, besides the object in the photo, which was me in the side view mirror
h. And the objects through the rear window
i. The top of the door was over exposed from the reflection of the sun light so I used the magnetic lasso tool with more feather and selected the glare
j. I used the image adjustment exposure setting and decreased the exposure
2. Creating stars
a. On a new project and layer I used the filter->noise->add noise with white and black s
b. Using the image levels I adjusted the white noise out to reduce the white specs
c. On a new layer I used an X shaped feather brush shape, made it almost as small as the other stars to make larger stars
d. Changed the brush size a bit larger and added a few larger starts in a closer cluster
e. Added more variant with more sizes
3. Creating cloudy nebula
a. Created a new project with the same canvas size as the original photo
b. I changed my gradient settings to be radial from dark grey to black
c. On the background layer I used bucketed the gradient tool
d. I a new layer named clouds I used the render clouds
e. In the layer style I added a liner gradient overlay with red yellow blue and purple
f. Changed the style to screen
g. Changed the angle and did it again on another layer and this time the angle was 90 degrees from the previous angle
4. Created Planet rings
a. First created the rings in a new project by generating noise again and this time using the distort tool I added as much swirl as possible
b. Lasso tool with feather an oval shape close to the outside of a ring
c. Inverted selection and deleted everything else in that layer
d. Lassoed the center in an oval shape that matches the outer oval and deleted the center of the donut
e. Using the free transform tool I rotated to give an angle to the rings
f. Touched up the far left and right with the eraser to give them more ring shape
g. Layer style color overlay made it purple
5. Planet surface
a. In a new layer lassoed a circle about the size of the inner oval of the rings
b. I needed a texture of a rock for my brush tool so I took a picture of a rock I found out side and cropped a tiny piece of it for a pattern for my brush tool
c. Filled the circle completely with no repeating pattern
d. In a new layer, filled the same planet selection with all black
e. Added an outer glow to the planet as an atmosphere and an inner glow to use as a shadow feather to my planet texture
f. On a new layer I used the free transform tool to make the circle larger than the original planet to add a shadow effect. This created a more crescent moon shape
g. I added these layers to my texture layer and used the layer style that made the planet look like there is a shadow on it
h. Used the eraser tool with lots of feather to erase the dark side of the planet as a touch up
6. Combine pieces
a. Copied the stars layers from the stars project and
b. Copied the layers from the cloud project to the project with the original photo
c. Did the same with the planet but it was way to big so I had to resize it using the scale tool to fit it inside my rings
d. Then I had to erase the portion of the rings that go behind the planet with very low feathering
e. With the cloud layer selected took the eraser tool with high feathering to make the clouds only appear as a cloud in space
f. Dragged the images to place them in a visible pot once I unhide my original photo layer so you can see the objects I made through the window easily
7. Created a shooting star
a. On a new layer I took the paint brush tool with a circle no feathering and made a dot
b. In the effects I added a motion blur with very high distance in the angle that makes the shooting star shoot more across the sky
c. Then used the eraser tool with high feather to give the comet tail more of a point
d. Once the comet was positioned correctly saved a backup of the project then saved a copy with +the flattened layers image and exported it to JPEG
I think that the edits I made completely changed the look and meaning of the original photo. The first photo was just an average scene. It was just me through a side mirror of a car, which obviously isn’t very exciting. By changing it to be outerspace surrounding me, not only creates a really cool sci-fi effect, but also tells something about me; that I am super interested in space! I think that the edits are very dramatic, but I really had fun exploring and creating something I’m proud of in Photoshop. The meaning is completely different in this photo of a car flying through outerspace than it was in the original.
Thanks,
Madi
Active Assignment Weekly Feb. 11 - 18: The Colour of Beauty
WIT: This is my jewelry tree, upon which hangs only a small fraction of my earrings. In order to hang all my earrings up, I would need a jewelry forest, I'm afraid! I set it on one of my favourite scarves, as I was going for an "antique" colour palette. The light came from the window, which reflected well on the white branches of the tree, since there wasn't that much light coming in, as you can see by the darker background. In post, adjusted the colours just a little, and cropped to 8 by 10.
Assignment 52 -- Home Town Tourist Attractions -- World War I Memorial, in Scoville Park, Oak Park, IL, a few blocks south of the Hemingway Birthplace
When this monument was dedicated, in 1925, Hemingway was already in Paris, living the cafe expatriate life, married to his first wife Hadley Richardson, and working on his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, published the following year.
But his war experiences shaped much of his fiction and also his world view. He was hardly out of high school, when he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I. After he was severely wounded, he returned to Oak Park to recuperate. And decades later, during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, he worked as a journalist in combat zones.
Here are a few of the things he had to say about war:
--World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that had ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied. So the writers either wrote propaganda, or shut up, or fought.
--Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
--No catalogue of horrors ever kept man from war. Before the war, you always think that it's not you who will die... In modern war, there is nothing sweet or fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Tal Slemrod (center) conducts a workshop with the special education teacher assistants at Mill Street School in Orland in the School of Education Mobile Classroom on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 in Orland, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
Active Assignment Weekly
For this week's assignment you need to"Frame" your subject with something natural or staged...But..Not with Photoshop or one of those other funky programs.
Restriction: No imported frame.
Dare:Take the assignment literally.
Well I headed out to work on this assignment but my dogs were not cooperating. So I figured I'd make the pups model for me another day and try to combine the weekly and monthly assignments together.
I wanted it to look as though it was a picture hanging up and the glass being broken and liquefying.
WIT: I rotated it 90 degrees in Picasa and adjusted the lighting.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
The DREAM Act restores every student's right to finish her/his studies and to continue dreaming.
WRITE YOUR OPINION.
The first assignment I've received this year in my industrial location class was the architecture assignment.
Basically, we had to go out and find a building that had a majority of the windows lit and photograph it.
Interesting mini story:
Right after I finished photographing this, I fell knee deep into a sewer in downtown Toronto.
All in all, this was a good experience.
© Highly Amuising Photography
Swarali Photo Assignment (November, 2015)
Title:
People:
Place:Redmond
Date:2015:11:15 11:06:03
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I used Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 to edit my photos for this assignment. I do have some simple editing techniques with editing, but this assignment I went with what I could do best for the photo and just did simple editing to enhance the photos life with color. I just came back from Kauai about 3 days ago, and this was a beautiful water fall that I took a picture of. I felt the photo was too bright, didn't show enough of the blue sky and green that flourished in the plants. I messed and adjusted with the exposure, brightness, temperature, highlights, sharpness, and shadows. I feel bringing the highlights up more made the blue sky pop. The saturation made the color brighter with the sky and greenery. The sharpness helped show the formation of the trees better. The meaning of the photo is to sit back and relax and take in the green atmosphere.
Logan
Active Assignment Weekly - monthly assignment - manual
I took this using the 'colour sketch' effect, which I found on the camera. It's quite an interesting effect, I think!
WIT: As shot.
Off Queen St W, Toronto.
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From left to right, Isaac Brundage, Hardy Brown and Gayle Hutchinson read a passage from a book during “Victory In Unity” a MLK Unity Project celebrating Black History Month on Sunday, February 5, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
For my next Photoshop project, we have to create a narrative/theme in a series of 4-6 images. I wanted to use this assignment as an excuse to expand my levitation series. Typically, I make the person floating very apparent through a wide depth of field. With this project, I wanted to go in the polar opposite direction and make the floating person appear part of daily life -- make it ordinary. I wanted to cram the images with people/things in order for you to be overwhelmed by what you were processing and just haphazardly find someone whose feet weren't touching the ground. True, some images are more successful than others, but I feel like this project has made me exercise other options for my levitating theme.
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Strobist: desk lamp camera left, sb-28, snooted and gelled with a 1/2 CTO - camera right, above and behind subject.
IMO, it's not quite controlled enough for the assignment, but what the hey...
Didn't realize I was shooting at ISO 640 until I had taken down the setup, which accounts for the noise.
Assignment 52 -- Home Town Tourist Attractions -- The Write Inn & Hemmingway's Bistro, Oak Park, IL
Hemingway wrote: "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love," which seems like good advice, if traveling to Oak Park, or anywhere else.
I don't know what he thought about puns, or intentional misspellings, or if he would have wanted to try a flirtini martini. But I know what he wrote about oysters and about wine, so I'm sure he'd at least appreciate Hemmingway's wine list and oyster bar:
-- As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture...I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
--Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
And I think he must have had an appreciation of comfortable hotels also, as shown in this lovely passage:
--That night at the hotel, in our room with the long empty hall outside and our shoes outside the door, a thick carpet on the floor of the room, outside the windows the rain falling and in the room light and pleasant and cheerful, then the light out and it exciting with smooth sheets and the bed comfortable, feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone,waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away, all other things were unreal.
Photo shoot we had for our advertising assignment.
The advertisement is to promote Marc Jacob's perfume, Lola.
The ropes were cutting my wrists like so many knives, but all I could think about was that damn bat, coming down on me relentlessly like the rain that had been pounding the city for what seemed like years. I had to find a way out...
Strobist info: 530EXII on-camera, pointed at ceiling at 1/4ish to illuminate the doorframe a bit, 430EX at 1/8ish on a boom with a lamp cord inside the room.
First "On Assignment" I've done. This is totally my normal Sunday night routine.
Odd sort of exercise, but effective. Will try this on my class tomorrow night. (and might try to improve my handwriting too - it seems to be suffering from lack of practice) ... - read more on {site_name}}: botheredbybees.posterous.com/assignment
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The demolition derby is a huge event at our local fall fair. In this bizarre "sport" the drivers battle it out in the "bull pen" until only two cars are still running (if you catch on fire you're disqualified). These two cars then advance to the finals. Pictured here is #23, one of the survivors, along with her driver and pit crew waitng to return to battle with flags flying. Note the driver (in front of the car) has his headphone duct taped to his ear! - I guess it's rough out there.
WIT: It was late at night and the only light source was the the work lamp these fellows were using. With no tripod, I cranked up the ISO, used max AV, and hoped for the best :)
This is Ricky, Lucy and Chewy. They were waiting outside the pharmacy for someone and looked so happy to be sitting in the setting sun, I had to ask them for a portrait.
This is the second day of homework from the Lighten Up And Shoot seminar at CreativeLIVE.
I have been really struggling with this weeks assignment but I found this bit of old wasps nest at work today and figured that this would be a fairly cool submission.
My 12th photo for an assignment at IADT in my Photography class is supposed to be an evening shot. These shadows belong to Haley and her cousin, Devin.
Master of None
I always find a new interest every few months and I'd say I'm sort of like a jack of all trades, master of none. I've like many different things in my past and although I may no longer like them as much as I used to, they're all still a part of who I am. I think all the interests I've had have contributed to my personality and who I am today.