Day at the Pond

The rest of my photos... :)

This one's edited...(above)

Lyrics

"and we'll put dirt from the earth in jars"

Which should I print?!

Black and White

Brooke

This is a portrait of my friend, Brooke. I love how her skin looks against the dark blue background. I darkened the picture a bit and color balanced it.

Grateful Dead

Colors

Jackers and Burt

This is Jack and Burt. They are best friend. Kind of cute, right?

Yellow Wallpaper

I'm pretty upset with how this picture turned out. I had a really great plan to take it of my friend Brooke playing the part of the woman, but Brooke ended up throwing up and going home... nice, right? So with about an hour left of the day I rushed to take this photo. The message of the woman in the story being locked in the room is shown pretty well by the closed door. I just put a screen over the photo and lightened it a little bit. The photo turned out fine but it could of been a lot stronger.

Relaxation

When I see the color blue, I see relaxation, sluggish-ness, and laziness. So for my blue picture I took a picture of the boyfriend relaxing on the couch. I like the look of the bright window in the background because it creates interest in the photo. The rule of thirds also applies in the picture because Jack is laying across the bottom "third" line. I color balanced the photo, changed the curve and also upped the blue a bit. I'm not crazy about how it turned out but it gets the message across.

Uninspired

This is the photo I plan on turning in... but the photo above this is the original that I also really like.

Thinking of colors, their meanings, and photos to represent them was hard for me. I was just feeling uninspired. While sitting in math class, I tried to think of some ideas (maybe that's why I'm sort of not doing so hot in that class...) but anyway, I was staring at a white board and noticing how boring it was. White board, white fluorescent lights, white wall. For me white equals boring. Because we can't take pictures at school I adapted this photo to work in a basement. The basement has a white wall, white fluorescent lights, and a white couch. I nicely asked/forced Jack to sit in the photo for me wearing a white T-shirt, just to make sure the "white" message was clear. I really like how it turned out. The colors look intense and not washed out and their is also good contrast between the shadows and the white. I color balanced the photo and upped the contrast a bit.

Fake Apples

Green... Greed...

I was inspired to take this photo while I was watching The Pacific with Jack. He has a bowl of fake apples sitting on his coffee table. Their bright Green color caught my eye and I figured I could think of a meaning behind the color. And it came to me! Greed! While the apple and greed might not have a connection right away my thought process went like this: Apples! Green! Green...money? People always want money... money runs the world... money=greed... greed is a feeling... green apples=greed! Yesss!!! End thought process. To help represent the greed feeling I reached out to the apple when I took the picture. I think it turned out really good. I color balance the photo and than darkened it a bit.

Attractive vs Repulsive

I consider this picture of wood repulsive. Instead of looking at what it is actually a picture of, which is seen as attractive, I saw more of how these trees had been cut down and took a more political view of this, deforestation. For this photo I color balanced it and than I put an overlay layer with a slight blur over it to bring out the colors.

This picture of the pond near my house I see as attractive. All the colors and the sunlight look beautiful. For this photo I just put an overlay layer over it with a slight blur to create what I hopped would look like sunlight.

This photo is of my aunts hand. At first it may seem repulsive because her hands are wrinkly but it really is beautiful. The lines in her hands show that shes been through life. Also her diamond wedding ring represent the love her and her husband have for each other. For this photo I blurred the background and brought the contrast up by playing around with the curve tool.

This first photo of my friend Emily I consider repulsive. Although the girl is beautiful, her face is covered in heavy makeup, hiding her natural beauty. Also her "dumb blonde" look she has on her face makes her seem stupid. While stupidity might not be what is repulsive, the fact that she has a dumb look on her face makes it seem like she is acting dumb which is repulsive. In this photo I clone stamped out some redness on Emily's face and whitened her teeth. I than color burned her lips and eyes to make her makeup look more heavy. I than put an luminosity layer over with a slight blur to soften up the whole photo.

Background Filter #2

This is a photo of my friend Jack at the Milwaukee Public Market. I originally took this photo because of the outside lighting but I ended up using a different one I'm pretty sure. I caught him looking down at the right moment and got this picture. Apparently guys don't like getting their picture taken in public. But anyway, I filtered out the background using cross hatch strokes to make Jack the focus of the photo. I think it turned out pretty well.

Soft Blur #2

I love love love this photo! It turned out so well! I randomly took this photo of my friend Abby Johnson's eye. She looks so beautiful. I originally wanted to do the Garrison blur for this photo to make the colors look more intense but her skin ended up looking really sicking. I'm not sure what went wrong so I played around with the soft blur and made her skin look really soft. But I wanted her eye to still be sharp so I used the art history tool to un-blur the area around her eye and her eye and than color burned it to make it more intense.

Neon Glow #2

I wanted to try doing two overlay layers with different color neon. The first was a gold orange color around the sun and the sun beams. The second was a dark blue around the ocean and the left corner of the sky. It turned out really sweet so I decided to put it up. This was a good picture to choose because I could use a lot of different neon colors and sizes and brightnesses to make different looks.

Garrisun Blur #2

At first I thought this would be a bad photo to do becuase of all the detail. The subject is my mom on the beach. I think if she was turned around so the viewer could only see her back it would have been better, but i played around with it anyway. When I first did the blur overlay the photo ended up with really intense colors but they were really dark so I lightened up the whole photo and than lgihtened up the sky to make it look "happier". The photo ended up looking pretty good.

Neon Glow #1

I chose this photo because the sky looked so bright and I thought that adding the neon glow would give it an even more intense look. The original photo has a purple splotch in the sky that happened when I took the photo. I'm not sure how it happened but to hopefully downplay it I used a neon glow color that was a blusih-green rather than a true blue that would pull the purple color. I than put the original over it at 50% opacity. The purple still ended up being visable but it looked alot better than in the original.

Garrisun Blur #1

In this photo I used the garrisun blur and 50% overlay technique. It turned out really well and the colors look so intense. I love how the slight blur to it makes the photo look like sunlight is streaming down in the photo. I chose to do this photo because the colors were already very vivid. Also because of the amount of detail in the photo. I figured that you would really be able to see the difference between the photos if I choose an original with detail.

Background Filter #1

This photo started out as a simple white flower. To make the flower pop more from the background I lassoed the flower from the background and made a copy so I could change just the background. I first filtered the background with sumi-e and set the contrast really low. Than I used the filter sprayed strokes. The flower looked too different from the background so I used the filter spatter on the flower just to give it a smilier look as the background but still have it stand out. I choose to do this picture of a flower because the focus of the photo is already the flower and the background is already set up where it can easily be filtered.

Soft Blur #1

In this photo I played around with the blur filter. I duplicated the layer and blurred the top layer. I than set the opacity at 74% so part of the bottom layer would be shown through to show some of the details of the dog, Burt, but still look soft. It turned out pretty well. Without me even knowing what I was doing the colors on Burt turned more intense which I think looks a lot better than the original. I chose this photo of Burt to practice filters on because he was such a good subject. Also I figured the close up of his face would look good if I softened it up a bit.

Ipod Ad

This was super hard to do. I didn't choose a good photo to start with though. My photo had alot going on in the background so cutting out the two people took alot of work. Otherwise the process was pretty simple. Drawing the ear phones was tough but once I got the hang of it, it was no problem. I think it turned out pretty well. It would of been better if I had a better photo to start with but for what I had it worked pretty well.

Day to Night Photo

This photo was hard to do. Figuring out the right colors and the right amount of darkness to add was tough. I also had issues with using the different tools the blog descrbied. I ended up using the paint brush and going over everything with black with a really low opacity. I than changed the curve and amount of blue in the photo. I don't think it turned out looking like a full moon night but it defintelty looks like night.

Alphabet

This was so hard! Finding the letters took forever. But it turned out looking really cool. Apart the pictures don't really look like letters but when you put them all together a clear alphabet can be seen. I took all of these at Nature Hill in Oconomowoc. While some of them are man made, most of the photos came directly from nature. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The only thing I would change is how visbale the letters are. In alot of the pcitures the letters are hard to see becuase of branches or other distractions in the background.

Space Montage

Enjoying a teaparty:)

I really like how this turned out. Everything has a good contrast from the background and the different scale of the objects make it look like it goes back far. I think it turned out well.

Tiny Planet

My original picture was taken in Florida a year ago. There is always large yacts driving past the beach my grandparents live on so we get some pretty cool pictures. This was taken at about 8 in the morning. Besides Kayla, the boat, and me, the beach was completly empty. It was so calm, i loved it!