Man what a year, This truly was a great class. Once I took digital photography 1, I knew that I wanted to learn more about how to use a camera and especially to become a master in photoshop, now I can offically say that I have completed both of those goals. I took a lot of great photos this year, here are some of my best photos. My favorite type of photoshop assignment that I took this year was HDR photos, I really liked the different details that were shown in each photo particularly the photo I took with the tree and the different colors that appeared on the bark.My favorite photo assignment this year was nature, I really enjoyed taking different photos of plants and landscape. What I really like in this class was the task of completing an assignment every week, what I didn't like was the amount of photoshop assignments we had to do, some were easy while most of them were harder.What I learned most from this class was photoshop, coming into this class I wanted to learn more about it, especially framing photos.
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For this assignment we were given the task of creating any photo or photoshop assignment that we learned this year, and so I decided to work on two photos and two photoshop tutorials. I really enjoyed this assignment, I really liked choosing photos that I enjoyed taking, in this case, I decided to do panoramic's and HDR for photos. And for photoshop tutorials, I did fruit water dispersion and cartoon photo illusion tutorials. These were my favorite assignments this year.
Here are the links to each of the photoshop tutorials... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwoQIqn4kgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi6-H5KgKEE For this assignment I decided to do black and white. I went through some of my photos to see which ones looked better without color, and here's what I found. This was a difficult assignment, not because I couldn't find good black and white photos, it was because of the weather. As you can tell from some of my photos, the lens had some water droplets on it making the photos blurry and not interesting, but once I got on photoshop I adjusted and cropped some of the most visible droplets.
For this photoshop assignment, we were told to find ads in a print publication that we would re-create in photoshop. Here are my best three! This was a great assignment, I really enjoyed taking photos that somewhat match the original ad. The first ad was a baby magazine and so I used my baby brother to take the photo, It was difficult to say the least. The next ad was a architecture designing magazine, so I went to Ann Arbor and looked for interesting buildings that caught my eye, and so this was the one.The next ad was a Vitamin Water ad, so I took a still picture of a bottle of vitamin water and adjusted the background in photoshop. It was really great to duplicate these ads.
For this assignment I decided to take photos of landscape all around Saline, mostly in Mill Pond Park I really had some fun taking these photos, I really like taking different images of landscape especially ones that involve nature and distance. My favorite one shows the still pond and its fading distance, I really liked this one because it showed more than just landscape.
For this assignment we were told to take photos at the Hornet Hub in the studio and photos not in the studio, here are some of my best. This assignment was really easy, I had a ton of fun taking pictures of my "friends," for the studio pics I tried to adjust my aperture and ISO to make it look clear and not so yellow, for the non studio I took pics of my little brother Jacob, I made sure to get a good shadow on his face and bring out the color.
For this photo assignment I decided to take macro photos, images which are close up and show more detail than the human eye can focus. This assignment was really interesting, I found some great flowers around the house and decided to look deeper into each plant by showing more detail in each of them. I ran into some plants that had some water on them and so I zoomed
in and took some great images. My favorite one was the dandelion, it showed a lot of detail and color. For this assignment we were supposed to take several self portraits, trying to capture who we were, are personalities, emotions, and moods. Then we were given the task of creating environmental portraits of people we know. Here are some of my best pics. For this project I tried to show my life in a different way. When I did my self portraits I tried to show my emotions through my face and other features such as covering my eyes, and blocking my face with a watermelon, the main reason I did this was to show my shyness and fear in many things that I face everyday. For Environmental, I took pics of my mom working in the garden which she likes to do in the summer time, I also took pics of my little brother wearing a work helmet to show his passion of building things.
For this assignment we were given the task of creating different tutorials that we found interesting. I decided to do a 3-D tutorial, a Mono with a Dash of Color tutorial and an instagram filter tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GsCU4wHdmg
https://digital-photography-school.com/mono-with-a-dash-of-colour-photoshop-cs2-tutorial/ http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-Instagram-Filters-in-Photoshop/ The tutorial process was quite difficult, but it was also very interesting to find new tools to use on photoshop. I've always had trouble using photoshop, especially using brushes and adding new layers, but after doing the 3D tutorial I learned to use layers upon layers. My favorite tutorial was the Mono with a Dash of Color tutorial, were I made Brad's golden hair stand out while the rest of the photo was black and white. For this photo assignment I decided to do people as my main subject, do I got some help from my little brothers. I really enjoyed this assignment, I had to work with my little brothers so that was kind of difficult but I tried my best. I asked my brothers Caleb, David, Jacob, and Jeremy to look at the camera, but most of the time they moved around and cried, but it was worth it. My favorite photo was the top one, showing Jeremy crying it came out perfect on photoshop.
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