AJA Project- Favorite Place on Campus

AJA Project- Favorite Place/Thing

This is my film camera, one of my favorite things.

This wagon is in my backyard, which is one of my favorite places.

Lines Project

This is one of my top 4 photos because I like how jumbled up the branches look.  There are all types of lines, from vertical to diagonal and even horizontal.  This pic is in the nature category.  When looking at this photo your eye moves all over because of the branches and leaves. For editing I tinted the color of the branches and made the pic 100% clearer. 

I chose this photo because of the subject matter, and how I like softball and baseball. This is a glove and ball belonging to my best friend. There are diagonal, horizontal lines in the mitts and also on the softball. Your eye follows the lines on the ball and how they curve. This is simplicity because of how the focus of the composition is mostly on the mitt. The edits I did were to darken the highlights (lowlights?) because it was easier to see the inside of the mitt. I also increased the shadows and made it clearer.

I like this photo because it is off center and focuses on the net. The lines of the net are diagonal and the backboard is vertical and horizontal too. This pic is in the sports category.  Your eye mostly follows the diagonal lines of the netting throughout the composition. For edits, I made the pic clearer and contrasted the net against the background of the sky. 

I like this picture because of how crisp and clear the lines are. It also reminds me of when I was younger and played hopscotch during recess at school. The lines are horizontal and vertical, and there are jagged lines on the pavement. This is in the everyday surroundings category, mostly because I don't know what else it would be considered.  Your eye focuses mostly on the way the hopscotch squares are set up, all because of simplicity. For edits I did highlights and got rid of all the shadows.

Photoshop Adjustment Layers

Black and White photo: I used b&w to make the photo more simple and dramatic. 

Photo Filter:

This makes the image change whatever color you prefer. In this photo's case, it turns it yellow. 

Layers: 

There are all kinds of different layers to this photo when it comes to the black and white aspects of it. 

Posterize:

This can really give your picture a different, cool, and contrasting image. It just depends on the black and white contrasts of the original image.

Levels:

These adjust the color and contrast and how the photo looks. It is useful because it creates a good focus and creates simplicity.

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Original:

Just basic Lightroom editing, highlighting, contrasting, the usual. Taken at Fair Oaks Elementary. 

Simplicity

Pre-photo:

This was just a simple, quick shot. There's nothing special about it, really, and I didn't put a lot of thought into it when I took it. 

Post-photo:

Simplicity is giving the subject of your picture the most visual attention possible. It usually holds a lot of detail because it is the only thing in the shot. Simplicity also uses simple background and lighting.

The tools I used in editing included changing the photo to black and white, and made the detail on the items sharper. I also played around a little with the shadows too. Now that simplicity has been used it makes all of the focus now on the items,  and nowhere else. 

Extra pics!

Well, I've finished all of my work in class, and we have a half hour left until freedom, so I guess I'll just upload extra pics. 

Like this content (not angry) bird:

And these really cool looking leaves.

1st digital photo shoot

I picked this picture because I like how pretty and opened up the flower looks. At a straight angle it looks more in bloom. This photo is a dominant element because of how the rose is almost entirely in the shot. In editing, I brightened the pink color of the rose significantly and toned down the background colors to focus mostly on the rose.

I chose this photo because it's ironic to me. The mural says "one people, one planet, one future," but there is litter scattered on the floor and the tables. I wanted to highlight this problem at my school. This photo is a type of dominant element because it is mostly of the mural and the tables. I mostly  highlighted the mural to make it look less faded.

A few things that I really like about this photo include the focus and the natural color. I think I got a really nice shot of this flower. It is a dominant element because of the main focus on the flower only. I brightened some of the color and darkened most of the background.