Food Shoot

For the food shoot, we organized everything and used a flash. For edits, I used exposure because the original photos were too dark, and this gave it some dramatic lighting. I also increased the shadows and the clarity and decreased the highlights.

AJA Project

Photoshop Tutorial: Puppet Warp

For puppet warp, I selected her arm using the Quick Selection Tool and used it  to make a layer channel. I put it on a new channel. I was able to use puppet warp to move her arm around. Then I deleted everything on the other layers so the puppet warp is the only thing visible.

Photoshop Tutorial: Exploding Fruit

For this tutorial, a lot of layers were necessary to create the exploding effect. The eraser tool was also necessary to change the shape of the shards. The smudge tool was to give the outer layer of the orange an exploding effect, and motion blur was added as a smart filter to the groups of layers. 

Repeating Flash

For this project, the camera was set to an ISO of 100 with an exposure of 2 seconds at f/9.0. The dice were thrown and the camera captured them tumbling across the backdrop. Lastly, I also used the clone stamp in Photoshop to get rid of an unsightly line in the center of the photo.

Stuff in my Backyard- part 2

This is the last post too, because its the last day of school!!!!!!

Only three more hours left….

Stuff in my Backyard- part 1

This is the last post of the year!! Or one of them. Enjoy :)

Photoshop Tutorial: Beams of Light

For this assignment I chose a photo that I took at Dinosaur Hill.

I began by selecting the gradient tool and choosing the Color Harmonies 2 option, then I applied it and selected the desaturation tool to remove the bright color. I made it 50% opaque and then used the perspective tool to finally start working on the beams of light. I added a Gaussian blur effect to the tools and then tinted the light a to a pale yellow. Using the custom shape tool I used a particular type of tile, applied it to the photo, stretched it out and then used blend mode and set the opacity to 25%. I blurred the atmosphere and erased all light streaks that were out of place. I created a light source at the top of the pic by painting the pic with the same color yellow as the light beams.

Tables

Just some place in downtown Martinez that I thought was really cool. I was going to use some of these for my final.

Extra Flower Pics

This one is clearly photoshopped, and most certainly not a flower.

AJA Project: Photo Essay Preview

Stephanie and I worked together to document the trash problem at College Park. 

Here are some examples of what is left right after lunch:

These photos show trash, and then what it looks like with it gone.

Extra Pics...Fun With Posterize!!

I like posterize because of the cool effects it gives a photo, and how easy it is to change that photo into something completely different.

This one was the original:

Flowers

This one is definitely my favorite. :)

I also liked how this one turned out too.

Pop Art: Photoshop Tutorial

For this project, I took an old photo of an apple and cropped it to a square shape. I then used an artistic filter to distort the image of the apple in a way. I used the magic want tool then to select the subject and copied and pasted it into a new level. Then I used the paint bucket tool for coloring the first one and then doubled the size of the canvas. Then I duplicated layers and lined up each layer as best as I could together. Using the hue/saturation tools, I slid the tool until it changed every one of the panels to another color. I like how bright each color is.

Underexposed Photos Tutorial

This is the underexposed photo that I took with a -2.0 exposure. I liked how dark and dramatic it looks.

This was the regular photo and it was edited to show more detail.

  

This was the photo taken with a -2.0 exposure and so it is darker with less detail. I liked the interesting subject.

This was the photo taken normally with a regular exposure. It was taken in direct sunlight.