Five of the six photos for this midterm portfolio were taken on my spring break these past few years. This was a particular challenge because these photos were not initially intended to be higher quality or corrected later on, and it's not like I can go back to Greece or Paris to capture more. In addition, it was a nice treat to use these images because at the time a had little control over the weather or lighting and this offers a chance for me to add a sense of perfection to the shot which may have been dim and off center previously. Perhaps my biggest challenge, especially with my background as a set designer, with correcting then became not to take it too far and make it seem unrealistic.
My goal is to focus on a particular technique which I have learned to apply during the course for each picture. Obviously there is overlap, but as a general overview, I applied color correction using the curves to an extremely dim church in Cordoba, I cropped a plaza in Paris to adhere to The Rule of Thirds, I corrected a shadow cast of my friend's face in the Bahamas, looked to erase signs of JPEG pixels and add a gradient from Delphi, and apply a composite of many structures and scenery from Greece. The reason I would not categorize this as a project with a common underlying theme is that my sixth was a complex composite of many images to create a scene from the Hunger Games books. However, I am very proud with its result and therefore it is part of the portfolio.
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