Stop Motion Test

This is my Stop Motion video

Special Effects in Post Production

This week's assignment was to take a panorama picture of a location and if we wanted, we were able to make that picture into a "planet"
To view the individual pictures used to make this image, click here

Panorama

Planet

Creative Portrait Series; The Evolution of Photography

These images were taken of my classmate Alex and I call this series The Evolution of Photography

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These are more pictures that I took that I really loved so I wanted to share!

Manipulate an Image

Heyy!!
The past two classes we have been learning how to retouch images on photoshop elements. Our assignment this week was to choose five photos and retouch them. Under each image, I will explain what changes I made to them. Enjoy :D

 This is an original image that I took during my last visit to New York City.

I wanted to put a lot of focus on Nick Jonas. I did this by blurring out the furthest background and then the background right behind his picture. Follow these steps and you'll be able to do the same thing!
File>Open>File#>open>polygonal lasso>select part of image>
select>inverse>edit>full>effects>blur>
surface blur x4>magnetic lasso>select part of image>select>inverse>blur more x4>quick selection tool>select part of image>enhance>auto contrast>

In this image, there are a lot of blemishes.

 I wanted to get rid of the blemishes so I did with the magical healing brush!

File>Open>File#>open>healing brush>enhance>adjust lighting>brightness/contrast>
Brightness:-1,Contrast:-11>

This is the band Marianas Trench's new slogo: Face The Music.
The website name for my blog is inspired by this :D

I played around with the different editing options and I found this one the coolest looking.
File>Open>File#>open>
edit>effects>stylize>glowing edges>

I took this picture of Dean Richards, the guitar player for The Artist Life, a few summers ago.

I love that I can see his vain coming out of his neck when he sings because it shows how passionate he is about his music. I wanted to outline Dean and enhance just him.
File>Open>File#>open>magnetic lasso>select>inverse>enhance>adjust color>remove color>quick selection tool>enhance>adjust color>remove color>enhance>adjust lighting >shadows/highlights>ok>

My cousin in Israel really can't skate.

Just wanted to have fun with this picture and I find this effect really awesome!
File>Open>File#>open>
edit>full>effects>all>quadrant colors>

Focal Length

Focal Length
Today in photography class we learnt about focal length. Here are a few pictures of different focal lengths!!

1. Your Camera's Lens
The focal length range of my camera's optical zoom lens is 5.0-20.0mm.

2.Angle of View

This picture is a telephoto picture of my group. Using the telephoto zoom, you can see the people very clearly. The color of the picture is also a little shadier.

This picture is a wide photo of my group. Using no zoom and just moving closer to the group, I am able to get the image of my group from the waist up. Not using zoom allows us to see the proper colors of the people.








3. Compression

This picture is a telephoto of my group. I lined them all up in order of height in order to compress them.You are able to tell that the picture is zoomed in because you only have their faces in the image.

This picture is a wide photo. They are lined up in order of height that way they can be compressed. You can tell that the picture is not zoomed in because you see most of the building behind the people.








For the telephoto picture, it looks like the people are closer together and for the wide photo it looks like they are a lot further apart.
For the telephoto everyone's heads in the picture looks the same size but in the wide photo, the girls head in the front looks a lot bigger then the boys head in the back.

4. Lens Choice

 This photo is a telephoto.

This photo is a wide photo.












Between the two pictures, I find the telephoto photo to be more flattering. With the wide photo, you see a lot more detail of the face and since it is a straight on picture not all features look nice.

Considering what I have observed in the 6 images, for a portrait, I find the telephoto focal length better because you can see the persons features nicely. For a landscape photo, wide photo focal length would be better because you are able to get everything that you might want and more.

How My Camera Sees Color in Light

In this blog, we're going to see how the camera sees color in light.
In the link below, there are photos that I took during my class and each caption explains what the the scenario is and what the camera does.
The caption explains the type of light in the scene, the camera's white balance setting, my observation of the result in terms of color balance and why I think these results came about.

The pictures are taken under four different types of light:
Daylight setting is Neutral
Tungsten setting is a blue setting
Fluorescent setting is a green setting
Auto White Balance is taking a guess at what to fix.

Check out our pictures here

Mixing Color In Light

Today in class we mixed color in light.

The three colors we used were magenta, cyan and yellow.

Magenta+Yellow= Red

Yellow+Cyan=Blue

Cyan+Magenta= Green

Magenta+Yellow+Cyan= Neutral Tone