Photo Midterm-Documentation 4

This was a picture in Cordoba Spain, in a church with considerably poor lighting (plus my crap camera). I'll take you through my layers of adjustments.

Original

Increasing the level of brightness and color saturation

Balancing the reds with increased blues and greens/ using sharpen tool and reducing noise

Photo Midterm- Documentation 2 and 3

This week I applied the Rule of Thirds to two different compositions, the first was a street in Paris in which the grid line mainly helped me crop the photo so the thing that looks like the Washington Monument and the sidewalk edge fell just right.

The next was a scene from one of the Hunger Games books haha. If you've read them you'll appreciate it. If not, it probably looks really strange. But every component came from a different picture of mine, its not supposed to look realistic, but a testament about how the proper selections and adjustments can create the fantastical scene that could never exist naturally.

recognize it?

ocean water that has been saturated

I also put a glass filter on the clock after selecting it

Photo Midterm-Documentation 5

So for my second try, I used pictures that I took in Greece three years ago. You may notice that these layer come from all over the country;  the edifices are from two different angles of the Erectheum in Athens. The hill top is from Delphi, and the background mountains and sky were taken while on a bus passing through Corinth.

First composits

This first one was a product of three abstract photographs we were asked to take: Here you see (or maybe not) a lamp, the inside of my printer, and a dusty fan.

 My idea was to composit them together to somehow make an industrial/futuristic sort of flower vase- I played with the color of the lamp, warped and inverted the printer, and played with the transparency and gray scale of the fan. It's pretty rough, but got me accustomed to selecting and layering!

Painting assignment

This photoshop painting was my first one, and I took 60 minutes making it. I wanted it to resemble a water color painting. I knew it wouldn't be flawless but it reminds me of impressionist art in which it comes into focus at a distance.

 This one took 30 minutes

And 15 minutes