My favorite of all my pictures. Godzilla versus the alien invaders!
What a bright sunny day, a perfect day for starting high school! Or is it?
Sometimes the unusual paths are the most fun.
A beautiful view from a beautiful lighthouse on a beautiful day.
Innocence is a beautiful thing, it's a shame to lose it. *evil grin*
We are such good friends. Me and this handsome devil have known each other for as long as I can remember.
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110 Midterm
Proposal:
The
portfolio that I have composed for the midterm consists of many different
pictures that I’ve edited, changed, and otherwise altered. From color
corrections to adding in pictures, they are all changed in some way.
Production
Log:
Godzilla:
This was a picture that I took from
atop a lighthouse from my family’s stay in Washington DC. The view was
beautiful and, in my opinion, it would have been a crime to not photograph the
beautiful scenery. Once given the task of adding pictures I thought to myself,
“What would be the best way to enhance this picture?” The answer was obvious of
course; I’m going to add Godzilla and a UFO of course! I pasted in Godzilla and
the UFO keeping in mind the rule of thirds. I added motion blur to the UFO to
give the static image some movement and a bit of story to add to it. Godzilla
was pasted in as well, but I erased his feet and added a color corrected ripple
at his feet for a sort of reflection. I wanted it to look like they were trying
to fight one another.
Brother Color
Correction:
A picture of my brother before his
first day of high school. This is a cute little picture of my poor little
brother before he has to endure the environment that is Hillsborough High
School. Alas, the colors needed some work. So I added in some white balance,
color enhancement, and some manual color editing. I even went in with the dodge
and burn tool and corrected some of the highlights and shadows on his face and
neck. He has such an innocent, yet almost pained look on his face; like he is
regretting what is to come.
Mask Bros:
This was a picture I made in which I
took two different pictures of myself in my dorm room and combined them with
the mask tool in order to make it look like me, myself, and I are really good
friends. We get along so well together!
Some dodging and burning was needed to make it a little more realistic
though. The best friend you could really have is yourself.
Mask Roomies:
This is a picture of my roommate that
I have ever so smoothly have crept into. I attempted to color correct him to
meet halfway to myself when combining the two pictures with the mask tool, but
it didn’t turn out quite how I wanted it to. I also attempted to alter the
color of myself with hue and saturation as well as adding highlights and with
the additional use of the dodge and burn tool, but it still didn’t turn out
exactly how I wanted it to. Oh how innocence can be so easily tainted by the
sly, mischievous friend, does he even know what is to come?
Rooftops:
This was a simple picture where I
took a picture of the student center and added three people, two being the same
person. They were cropped out of their original pictures and put into the
picture of the student center. They were all resized, properly blurred, and
shadows added in order to make them look like they are in the background. I
should have desaturated the people on the roof however. Sometimes people take
some interesting routes to class.
Ocean:
This is another picture that I had
taken from my family’s trip to Washington DC.
The view from that lighthouse was absolutely breathtaking. In order to
correct the colors, I first white balanced them and then color enhanced the
picture. To finish it off and add an entire different view to the slightly
gloomy day, I gave the entire picture a nice blue tone to it. The blue almost
seems to make the entire scene appear more calming and inviting.
Self-Evaluation:
I think I have made some significant
progress in my knowledge of photo editing since I have been in this class.
Mostly considering that I had absolutely no knowledge of photo editing prior to
this class. My skill needs work and I will need a lot of practice as well as
learning a lot techniques and elements of the program. But I will learn. In the
future I would like to be able to properly color correct pictures like “Mask
Roomies”. I will need a lot of work in the future in order to be able to make
convincing photo edits, but I am more than willing to learn and I enjoy it a lot.
I am fairly happy with my work
however. I like the way that most of them have turned out and I am fairly
satisfied with their outcome. My favorite by far is definitely the Godzilla
picture. That one is by far the best in my opinion. I enjoy editing pictures
and the outcome is always pleasing.
