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Action Shots

Final Project

Portraits

I really enjoyed doing the portraits. This is always an area that needs improving. I love taking photos of people, especially my daughter.

Text tool

Here are the 2 photos I used to place text on. The first one I placed a copywright symbol on it.

Cloning and Patch Tool

I used the patch tool to make this photo. I selected a flower and moved it to several spots.
This is the original photo used for the patch tool

This is the original photo, I used for the clone tool

I used the clone tool to make this photo. I did it by adjusting the clone tool to -100 which makes a reflection of the image.

This is the original image I used to make the following image with the clone tool.

I used the clone tool and made it in to layers. Then I duplicated the image and rotated it to make a reflection.

Filters

I used the filter Stained Glass for this photo.

I used the filter colored pencil for this photo.

Dodge and Burn Week 9

The first photo is the original. I used Burn to darken the deers color and make the grass darker. Then I used the dodge to lighten the white areas and add highlight to the deers spots.

The first photo is the original. I used burn to brighter the trees in the foreground. I did this in the 3 stages adding shawdows, midtones and highlights. I also darkened areas of the mountain, to add more depth. Then I used dodge to bring out the highlights of the mountain.

I did the same effect to this photo. I had alot of fun using the dodge and burn tool. It is time consuming. I think I still prefer to adjust the light by using the curves and the levels.

Week 8 Photoshop color and contrast.

In this black and white photo I added color to the hat and boots.

In these 2 photos, I changed my daughters eye color and made her lips redder.

The 2 light photos are before I adjusted the lighting and contrast. The darker photos are with the adjustments.

Here is my photo mosiac. This was alot of fun. I used photos from my husband and my vacation to the Bahamas from last year.

Week 7 Photoshop

I figured out how to get rid of the line by using the clone stamp tool.
I did the same for this photo.

With this photo I merged a fall foliage with a winter snow mountain. I like how it looks but I need to learn how to blend it better so you can't see the line between the 2 photos.

I did the same for this photo.

With this photo I cut and pasted the bird into a sunset photo.

These are 2 of my favorite landscape photos I took this year. I love taking landscape photography.

Landscape photography is a section or portion of scenery from a single viewpoint

There are 3 styles of landscape photography - representational, impressionistic and abstract.

What I learned that helps is to keep the center of interest off center in accordance with the rule of thirds helps create an interesting photo.

Keep the rules of composition in mind when framing a scene. Lines, in particular, can be a strong factor in making an interesting landscape.
Landscape photography is often more horizontal than it is vertical, presenting the opportunity to shoot a panorama. If you are faced with a wide vista and your camera has a panorama mode, this is the time to select it. Cropping afterwards can achieve a similar purpose.

Here is my rule of thirds assignment. This tree is in my backyard. I loved how the sun was shinning on the tree. So I decided to use it for my assignment.

This is a castle in NY. I thought it was very interesting. So I decided to see how the rule of thirds would work on this photo.

Composistion

Researching Composistion I found this article which I thought was the perfect meaning of composistion. An effective image is one that commands attention and communicates some feeling to an audience. This requires alot of practice, experimentation and study.
A painter can position the elements where they want, whereas a photographer must search, find and organize visual elements within the camera viewfinder. Although a photographer can sometimes "arrange" objects in a natural environment such as leaves, this often results in a contrived looking picture. Nature is not perfect and variation within organization leads to greater interest. Effective composition of natural images is always a balance between arranging elements within the view finder and allowing a certain amount of disorder. The decision-making processes we make when taking a photograph starts first with being able to see possibilities. What we see depends on what we are interested in, what we are looking for and what our minds are prepared to show us. Seeing, in short, involves the mind and our memory as much as it does our eyes. Improving our visual sensitivity requires quieting our minds, relaxing, and preparing by learning as much as we can about our preferred subjects. Once we see things that are of interest, then we need to isolate parts of the scene, and organize the important visual elements within our viewfinder to effectively convey how we feel about them. This was from an article published by Robert Berdan.
http://photoinf.com/General/Robert_Berdan/Composition_and_the_Elements_of_Visual_Design.htm

Here are some rules I found for Nature Photography Composistion.
1. Clarify your message - you use lines, shapes, colors, tones, patterns, textures, balance, symmetry, depth, perspective, scale, and lighting to bring your images to life When taken the photo ask your self 2 questions: 1. What is the message of this photo? 2. What is the best way to communicate that message?
2. Keep it simple - take a "subtractive" approach to composition rather than an "additive" approach; instead of dwelling on what they can add to the composition, they focus on what can be removed in order to strengthen the composition.
3. Be patient - Good photo composition takes time; great photo composition cakes even more time
4.Fill the Frame-You can significantly strengthen many compositions by zooming in as much as your lenses allow or, if possible, getting closer to your subject. Photographic compositions are weakened when important subject matter is too small to see.
5. Consider Verticles-Consider whether a vertical or a horizontal composition will be most attractive in each situation. You can enliven your nature photography if you consciously take more verticals!
6.Find Lines- Horizontal and vertical lines characteristically have a static appearance in nature photos, whereas diagonal lines frequently arc where the action is. Diagonals are dynamic!
a. One type or diagonal line is known as a "leading line," A leading line may extend from the proximity of any of the four corners of a photo toward the middle of the image or toward a significant feature in the image.
b.Curved lines add aesthetic appeal to nature photos. In particular, S-curves frequently appear beautiful to the eye. S-curves in nature include winding rivers, curled tree branches, sinuous vines, swirling clouds, and slithering snakes
7. Place subject off center You can often produce a more interesting image by placing the main subject somewhere other than the center of the image. All easy way to keep this in mind is to use "the rule of thirds.

This photo was taken at 4pm on Saturday Feb 21. The lighting was natural.

This photo was taken at Noon on Saturday Feb 21. The lighting was natural.

This photo was taken Feb 23 at 6:30 am . Flash was used in this photo.