Final Project Storybook

I decided to manipulate my photos from a hike I took to Camel's Hump this year. The photos do a better job of describing the phenomenal views once you reach the summit. There are also many neat things along the way. Enjoy!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Week 13 Homework

The kids were no where to be found so these are portrait photos of two fun colleagues and a couple of Boo Boo (my cat). Of course I have taken pictures of family, friends, etc. before, but it seemed strange asking to take someone's picture. Portrait photography is something I could get used to and have a lot of fun with. The only difficulty I found about taking Boo Boo's photo was keeping him still.

Week 10

These are my 2 text photos. I practiced with the watermark text and I did try to add the copyright symbol and am not sure why that did not work.

Week 10

I used the clone stamp tool and cloned the 3 leaves that are together. When you keep clicking it does appear darker, but it also takes away from the original unless I did something wrong. I do like how these came out; it kind of looks like reflections.

Week 9

I used the Dodge and Burn tool to darken everything around the pumpkin and make it stand out more.

Week 9

These are my filter manipulations. In the first one I used the radial blur zoom. It did come out darker than I wanted but I think it gives a nice affect. The second photo I used the sharpen tool with 120, 1 pixel, and 3 threshold.

Week 8 Homework

For the first photo I used the magic wand to select the sky and used the color fill to make it blue. Then using levels, manually adjusted color to brighten the photo a little. I used the same tools to change the sky in the second photo and used the saturation and lightness adjustments to brighten the colors.

Week 7 Homework

For the first photo I used the crop tool to take out the road and guard rail. I had a problem with layers and it is still confusing to me..so I used the select tool to duplicate the salamander; at least I think that is how it worked.

Landscape

Landscape photos are some of my favorite, especially in VT. There are many opportunities to get the natural scenery in a landscape photo- I like how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology website describes landscape as a process. It is true that processes create and change the landscape.

Week 5- Assignment #3

Week 5-Assignment 2

I was thinking that I had one more day to take photos and ran out of time so that is why there are 2 night photos. I included a couple of other ones I had saved that I believe follow our topic this week. The first photo is centered and the second one is more in the third line, and shows more back and foreground; even though they are just leaves it makes a better photo. With the third photo I tried to fit the building and sign into the picture by centering them. The next photo looks nicer at a different angle and gives a nice perspective of the tracks, too.

Week5- Assignment 1

Before this week’s assignment I always focused on the object of the photograph, not where to place it in the frame. Simply focusing on background settings can change the aesthetics of any photograph. This week I learned to look at the entire shot- sort of like cropping the picture prior to taking it. That is, look at the full frame not just the object. This site discusses the rule of thirds, and I found it helpful. http://www.geofflawrence.com/photography_tutorial_composition.php

Week 4 Homework

My first photo was taken at night and I like it because the pumpkin looks nice against the black background. It does seem a little blurry though and I think that is due to me being in a hurry to get back in the house in the dark. The second photo was in sunlight obvious from the shadow of the pumpkin and the third one is under a cloudy sky.

Week 4 Homework

The first photo is an example of the analogous color scheme with three different hues of blue. The second photo is an example of the complementary photo with red and green.

Week 3 Homework

Here is my collage homework for week 3. I took most of these while on a hike at White Rocks this weekend. I like how the macro setting works on the mushrooms.

Week 2 Photo Assignment

In the first photo I like the color of the sky and the background view, but I like the second photo better because attention is drawn more to the tree rather than the background and the color is nicer. I think the background with the darker green may have an effect on the red, too. The sun was setting to the right and that may be why the sky is so light on that side in the second one.

This is one of my favorite photos I have taken. I was driving on Route 100 towards Plymouth VT and took this photo for Digital Image Manipulation last semester. This is prior to any manipulations.