Photostory Plan

For my photo story I was thinking I could kind of do a day in the life of a creemee stand employee.  I would take pictures throughout my day from my perspective.  I have some pictures so far, they may not be the ones I use, but these should give you an idea of what I'm going for.  I plan on doing a lot of editing with lighting color, compositions, etc...Let me know what you think!

Photo Edits Week 10

This week I used the same image I used last week for the burn and dodge assignment.  I wanted to eliminate my sister's shoulder (or maybe backpack, I'm not exactly sure what it is) from the image, it was the one part of the photo that was driving me wonky.  I used the clone tool to try to disguise the shoulder, and then I used the dodge and burn tools to try and make it look more natural.

Before:

After:

For the other two images this week, I applied text.  In the first one I created and applied a watermark.  In the second photo I played around with the text tool more and applied a quote to the image, I also put it in a box to give the text a better backdrop and make it easier to read.  

Here they are:

Dodge/Burn/Filters

For my dodge and burn image I used one of the photographs from when I went hiking a few weeks ago.  I thought the image was a bit to bright, so I was primarily using the burn tool.  I ended up using the dodge tool to redirect the light.

Altered:  

Original:

I also darkened the ground, mountains, and undersides of clouds to give more definition.  

Now here are my filtered images.  This was a lot of fun, I've always enjoyed playing with filters on a variety of programs and this was no different!  

With this one, I used the photocopy filter on Photoshop.  I love how it gives it a cartoon like appearance, but still managing to look incredibly realistic.  Plus, with this filter the image didn't lose it's sense of depth. 

This filter is the glowing edge filter.  I liked how this filter illuminates the sign, and each word within the sign; this looks like it belongs in a nightclub.  

Color Adjusted Photos

This week I used Photoshop to adjust the lighting and color of two photographs.  There are many tools throughout Photoshop that allow you to adjust the whole picture, or adjust parts.  I used the color selector tools to manipulate individual colors in my photographs.  The Hue/Saturation tool is one that I used frequently as well as the Selective Color Tool.

Here are my adjusted images.

Original:

Adjusted:

With this one, I was trying to make it darker, like later in the day.  I like how it almost has cartoon like appearance.  

Original:

Adjusted:

With this one I was trying to be more subtle.  I changed the counter top, making it green, and changed the lighting and shadows a bit using the Brightness/Contrast tool.  The image has more of a green hue.  

Photoshop

I decided to take a picture of my sister in a cave from a couple of weeks ago, and combine it with one of my landscape photographs from last week.  I am somewhat familiar with Photoshop, but I've never manipulated two images like this before.  It was a lot of fun!  I used the smudge tool to try and blend the two images together and make it more natural, it definitely helps.  Anyway, here it is!

And here are the originals: