For my independent project, I decided to focus on how things in nature looked really close up. I was inspired by basically all of the amazing photos that I've seen this past year within my photography class. To get all these photos, I walked around my school and a nearby farm and took pictures as close as I could to all the things that I found beautiful or interesting. To almost all of my photos, I bumped up the contrast and turned down the brightness in order to boost the color. In one of my photos, I made a color splash of all the flowers in the photo. For a few of my pictures, I used a tilt shift or an iris blur in order to draw the focus towards the main part of the photo. I really enjoyed this project and all the editing that I had to do, it really helped with my understanding of photoshop.
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For this project, we had to do a lot of experimentation in Photoshop. The first image shown is my best attempt out of all the images I created. We followed tutorials, created new layers, changed the colors of the images, and overall changed a lot in order to make the images what they appear as.
Throughout the course of this week, we began exploring the concept of light painting, which involves holding the shutter open on a camera and moving light around in a dark space. At the start of this project, everything was a little shaky, nobody knew how to do anything or they couldn't accurately portray what they wanted to do. We started out on the first day just doodling and attempting to write our names, which of course we needed to make backwards in order to have it turn out correctly. This is shown in the first photo. In the second photo, I tried tracing someone sitting down in a chair to try and make them look like the thinking man. This was also a little hard because we were still working everything out. In the next few photos, we were experimenting with the stage light and the kinds of shadows those passed. This was a lot of fun to experiment with. In the sixth photo, I was able to almost successfully draw two people playing catch with one another. From this day forth, I can say that we almost mastered the process of light painting. In the seventh and eighth photo, my friend Julia had the idea to hold up an iPad with a heart on it and go from there. In the last photo, I am sitting in a chair, and Julia went around my head as the shutter of the camera remained open and tried to illuminate my body as well as draw around my head. The last photo was one of my favorites from the whole week.
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