More Filtering

ORIGINAL PHOTO

SKETCH -> WATER PAPER

Fiber Length: 3

Brightness: 61

Contrast: 67

Dodge/Burn Tool to lighten window

so dog would stand out more

A whole bunch of Filtering

ORIGINAL PHOTO

Taken Down South

SMUDGE STICK

Stroke Length: 0

Highlight Area: 14

Intensity: 10

SMART SHARPEN

500%

30.6 Pixel Radius

Remove Lens Blur

Shadow Fade Amount: 94%

INVERT

Image -> Adjustments -> Invert

(page 296 of our book)

DISTORT GLASS

Glass: Blocks

LIQUIFY

How fun is that??

(Check out the water and the clouds)

Dodge and Burn

ORIGINAL PHOTO

Rose Petals Found in a River Down South...

EDITED PHOTO

Process:

I followed the instructions on 

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/dodge-burn/

I especially focused on lightening the rose petals themselves and the rock. All in all though, I lightened up pretty much the entire picture. 

Edited with iPhoto...too much fun!

Before I even read about the dodge and burn tool, I went through a recent photo shoot and edited them on my iPhoto. Photoshopped photos to come soon! 

At first, I had a lot of trouble with the lighting and the clarity of the water. I played a lot with the lighting, matting, temperature and the sharpness of each photo. For most of them, I had very little idea as to what I was doing - I usually just press buttons until something happens haha. 

Slightly increased saturation

 Increased sharpness by 100% 

Increased the edge blur

Set fade color at 1

Set matte at 2 

Vignette at 6

Increased the shadows 

Slightly lowered the temperature 

Increased the sharpness

Set to Black and white 

Slightly over-exposed the photo 

Slightly increased the contrast 

Increased the shadows 

Increased the sharpness by 100%

This is one of my personal favorites. 

Very very slightly under-exposed the photo 

Increased the shadows 

Reduced the saturation of color 

Increased the temperature 

Increased the sharpness by 100% 

Reduced the noise by 39.8%

I liked how this photo appeared to go from black and white to slight color 

(if looked at from left to right) 

Increase the shadows by 99.2% 

Slightly decreased the saturation of color 

Increased the sharpness by 99%

This photo was taken with a macro lens

Increased the sharpness by 98%

Very slight over-exposure

Increased highlights

Increased saturation of color 

Slight increase in temperature. 

Adjustments for Week 8

Well, as I mentioned on the discussion board, my photoshop is currently not working. Hopefully, this problem will be fixed SOOOOOOOOOON. However, I have a few editing features directly on my iPhoto, so I played around quite a bit with the features. 

Photo 1

Cloud shot that I took on a hike while on vacation down south. To edit, I slightly over-exposed the photo, increased the contrast by 100%, set the highlights to zero, decreased the shadows and added 100% saturation of color. As a result, the lighting completely changed making this photo look like I took it during a sunset. 

Photo 2

 River shot I took also while on vacation. To edit, I slightly over-exposed the photo (a little more than photo 1), increased the contrast, increased the highlights by 100%, decreased the shadows, slightly saturated the colors, set the temperature at -41.5 and the tint at -45.5. I know it has one of those "obviously edited" looks to it, but I was having  a bit too much fun playing with the color... 

Crop

I really liked how the first one turned out crop - you can see the fisher much better, and I tried to place him more on the thirds.

Cropping the second photo completely changed the perspective of it - I liked that you could see almost the whole tree on the "un-cropped" version, but I also like how the cropped version cleans up the photo a little bit.

Auto-Enhance

Auto-enhancing these photo's made both of them much brighter and the colors more vibrant. I felt like the second photo's enhancement made the water less believable, but I liked the first one.

More Landscapes...Reflections mostly

Ah yes... Reflection shots. Went for a walk near a marsh pond and found this spot to take some photo's...

Landscape Shots

Picassa slideshow doesn't work on macs...

But here are my framed pictures:

More Thirds

Contrary to my first subject, this little statue proved to be much more interesting when placed on one of the thirds. The first photo, demonstrating the idea of placing a subject directly in the center, made it look like a very boring ad.

I liked the angle of this second photo - I feel like placing it on the left third of the photo almost demonstrated the statue's "expression". Willow Tree sculpts their statues in a way that shows quite a bit of emotion (love, family, friendship, etc.), and I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that the slight side-angle of this photo was able to capture that. 

I didn't like this photo as much, but I found it interesting to compare. I felt like I split the photo in half instead of thirds. The flower pot to the right almost serves as a second subject - like I was trying to equally capture both at once, which was not my intention. 

Third

My Mac! This is a full-shot of the front of my laptop. I know it's a bit of a random subject, but I felt like I was able to capture the difference between centering the photo and placing it on a third. Even though most of the time placing a photo in the center can make it "dull and boring", I almost feel for this photo it works better - it is a simple, clean view of the apple logo.