STOP MOTION FINAL PROJECT~

SONG CITATION: Audio Blocks. "Carolina Rag." MP3. Audio Blocks. Unknown Date. 15 Dec. 2014. .

STILL LIFE~

Rolling Stone Magazine - Lana Del Rey Issue: I love Lana Del Rey and this is the only relic I have that represents her, I should really buy a CD/record or something.

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins: I love The Hunger Games trilogy and Catching is my favorite book out of the three.

Suburban Scum Tape: I was sick over the summer and missed when Suburban Scum, Harm's Way, and Expire wen to the triple nickel, so I gave Donyell money to get me something and this is what she got me.

Depeche Mode Tape: I got this at Independent for a couple bucks, I love Depeche Mode but unfortunately this tape stopped working after a few plays (it was used), so I keep it to remind myself to get a new one.

Nirvana/Nevermind Tape: I go this the same day I got the Depeche Mode tape at Independent Records, it works perfectly and I'm so happy because I love Nirvana and this tape is hard to come by.

Flat Blue Crystal: I can't remember the story behind this one, because I've had it for as long as I can remember but I think I got it at Territory Days when I was young. And I love crystals/metaphysical therapy.

Amethyst Geode: Now this one I definitely can't remember the story behind this one, but again I love crystals and geodes.

Tea-Lite Candles: I love candles and these ones were light and non-breakable.

Pearl Branch: I have a lot of random small relics from forever ago, I think I bought it from a Mexican restaurant in Barstow, CA when I was really young.

Stormtrooper Pez: I love Star Wars and candy.


12/4/14

APERTURE AND DEPTH OF FIELD~

^SHALLOW DEPTH OF FIELD^

Exposure: 1/60 sec; f/3.5 ISO 800

Manual; Matrix metering

^MEDIUM DEPTH OF FIELD^

Exposure: 1/50 sec; f/7.1; ISO 3200

Manual; Matrix metering

^DEEP DEPTH OF FIELD^

Exposure: 1/20 sec; f/16; ISO 3200

Manual; Matrix metering

DOVE EVOLUTION WRITING~

     In this video, there shows a time lapse of model being make-upped and made-up in a photo enhancing software similar to photoshop. The models eyes were transformed to be larger, her neck was elongated, her round face was made into more of an oval shape, her eyes were brightened, her blemishes were removed, and this is a short list of what was enhanced on the model. This sends a message that women have to meet impossible standards set in order to be considered beautiful, when there are many different forms of beauty in the world.

12/4/14

PHOTOSHOP EFFECT~

     I've never really thought about labeling a photoshopped image, or banning the use of the tool to beautify individuals before. I've recognized the unattainable beauty standards set for people, women in particular. But now that I'd read that article and watched that video, I think highly retouched photos should be labeled, maybe throw in a "not actual size" on the bottom of the photo or something. Just so it can be brought to the public's attention about how often they;re being deceived by false beauty. I wouldn't go so far as to ban the use of photoshop entirely, because it's extremely helpful. For example, if you had a giant pimple on your face the day you took your senior photos, you'd want it to be digitally removed, because that's not how you want your peers to remember you.

     Comparing atletes using steroids to models who are photoshopped can be a fair comparison, however I don't view it the same way. Steroids are considered cheating in an athletes world, whereas every model is photoshopped, so it's not technically cheating. But it is causing a lot of insecurity for folks who don't meet up to these impossible standards. Photoshop or not, these models are beautiful people and people are always going to blame other people for their insecurities, when they should learn to overcome them. However, I have mixed feelings on this subject.

12/4/14

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE~

The first photo is the original photo of the Japanese garden I found on Google, the second picture is the edited version I made with 20 "spot the differences" and the third photo is the circled differences on the original photo, basically the "answer key". I used multiple tools to complete this effect and it was really fun!

11/25/14

COLOR WHEEL SHOOT~

Whoa look I finally finished this project! I seriously took these photos on September 30th, and I just now edited them together and I apologize for that, especially because this is a relatively easy project. I used a rainbow gradient for the background and multiple layers to place the different colored pictures on the background. I also cropped some of these photos to make the colors in them more prominent! Woooo!

11/25/14

TRIPOD LESSON~

TRIPOD LESSON

     My apologies for some of the pictures being blurry, I didn't take them myself and they looked sharp on the camera so there wasn't much I could do about, unless I re-took the pictures for a third time. Also, I wish I could've made this funny but we were running out of time and I was only thinking of getting this finished, so here various versions of myself in different being very cool.

10/10/14

PHOTOMONTAGE~

SANCTUARY

AMERICAN FOOTBALL FIELD

PHOTOMONTAGE 1 & 2

     I made two tiny photomontages because I didn't take enough photographs for the entire picture, but I took many overlapping photos that I had to scrap. If I could re-do this project, I would make sure that the lighting matches every photo (specifically the exposure differences in the first one and the colors of the sky in the second one). It took me a while to get the hang of this, I love this concept. It takes a while to learn batch conversions to scale the photos down to size but after that was done it was easy to assort the photos in the order they needed to go into to create this effect. 

Photos taken for sanctuary: 9/3/14

Photos taken for american football field: 9/15/14

Finished editing for both: 9/30/14

BECCI MANSON Q'S~

BECCI MANSON TED TALK QUESTIONS:

1. Why did Becci Manson start this project?
1. fres
2. How did she organize people to help with this cause?
1. fnnfjkfkjnd
3. How can you use your photo skills to help people you know?
1. eeeeeee
4. Is her work important? Why or why not?
1. ghrehgrher

RESTRATION PROJECT~

                    BEFORE                                                                                              AFTER


















                                                                                                                                                                                 

THIS IS REALLY BAD BUT WHATEVER

RESTORATION PROJECT

     To create a restored version of the photo on the right I use a variety of tools such as the healing brush, spot healing brush, patch tool, blur, dust & scratches, add noise, clone stamp, rectangular marquee tool, and transformation tools. I gave him a cool mustache and weird eyes and after a point there was no fixing it to make it look better and it would just waste more time so here ya go!

9/25/14

FIRST ROLL SHOOT~

 ANGLE DOWN
To edit my "angle down" photo, I used the curves tool to fix the exposure/contrast to the way I'd like them to be, I boosted the yellow and green hints to the photo to make the flowers pop, lowered the red levels, and blurred around the outside of the picture to make the flowers stand put even more.









 ANGLE UP
For my "angle up" photograph, I played around in the curves tool to edit the exposure to be a bit lower as well as the brightness, and I made the shadows darker with raising the contrast slightly, and I blurred out the background to make Zac the main focus.

BACKLIGHTING
My backlighting picture feature Joe, looking all suave, sitting in the lunch room (where it's easy to take a photo showing a good example of backlighting). I boosted the contrast and lowered the exposure for this picture so make Joe's shadow darker and more contrasted against the light coming through the windows, which I edited all in the curves tool. I also lowered the saturation, and boosted the blue and green hints in this photo.

FRAME WITHIN A FRAME
Originally, I was going to use this photo as my rule of third picture, because the window panes represented the grid that pops up when using rule of thirds, but I decided it would make a nice "frame within a frame" photo. I boosted the colors outside, making the window darker, and I desaturated the photo a little bit. I also wen in and used the color stamp tool to fix the reflection in the window on the bricks.

 PATTERN
I took this photo outside of the art room, showing various patterns painted on the cement from the outlines of a few spray paint projects. I boosted the blue hues in this photo, to make it darker and not as saturated (I also lowered the saturation), and I raised the contrast and lowered the exposure to give the photo some softer elements, even with so much color.

PERSPECTIVE
I shot this photo, making sure to have Zac and Joe jumping far away, showing the perspective of the sidewalk and themselves. I cropped this photo so there wouldn't be any outside distractions from the main focus. I also darkened the colors by lowering the exposure and slightly boosting the contrast, saturating the picture a little bit.

 RULE OF THIRDS
This photo represents rule of thirds by placing the tree in the front across one of the lines of the grid, and placing the top edge of the mountains across the bottom horizontal line of the grid. I lowered the saturation, took out some of the red hues so that the blues and greens could be more prominent. I also cropped this photo so that the tree would be alone a line in the rule of thirds.

 SHADOW
I had Zac and Dezeray pose in a xKOOLxKIDxHXCx stance against the light, showing a sort of backlighting example, but mainly a shadow one since their shadows are the most noticeable. I cropped the photo to make Zac, Dezeray, and their shadows the main focus. I also lowered the exposure and saturation, boosted the contrast a bit, and made the blue tones the most prominent.

 SIDE-LIGHTING
The no smoking sign against this pillar showed a good example of side-lighting, since half of the pillar is lit by the sunlight and the other side is shadowed. I lowered the exposure and boosted the contrast, and I added a bit of saturation.

TEXTURE
This photo wasn't originally the photo I took for my example of texture, but since the other one I took was blurry, I used this one instead. The dirt is a great example of texture, because it looks like ground beef and it's a kind of texture you can see in the picture, and the weeds add a good effect to that. I lowered the reds and amped up the greens and yellows, lowered the exposure and saturation, and boosted the contrast. I also think I cropped out the blurry background of this picture.





8/18/14-8/20/14-8/26/14

POP ART PROJECT~

      

I used three separate photos of me, Zac, and Dezeray to create this pop art, Andy Warhol type landscape photo for my project. I started with Zac's photo and cut out his face and used multiple copies of layers to cover half of the blank canvas. Once that was done I cut out the photo of me crossing my arms and enlarged it to show a xHARDCOREx effect, as if I was standing behind Zac's multiple heads. After that I cut out Dezeray's body to fill up some extra space on the top, kind of mimicking what I did to Zac's head, having her body upside-down and grow in size from left to right. Then I used the gradient tool on a new layer to create the black and white effect on the background. Then I changed the colors of each of us, making Zac and Dezeray look more animated and making the photo of me look more realistic, just a different color. I enjoy color and pink hues, but also neutral tones so I was sure to incorporate both. 8/14/14

CRYSTAL CASTLES FACE SWAP~

This was an easy face swap sue to Ethan and Alice's similar haircuts, and the fact that their heads are facing the same angle. What I did in order to complete this task was crete separate layers for Alice and Ethan, then I used the clone stamp tool on the background layer to capture the face I wanted to clone, then I painted it on whatever layer I needed to use, making sure to only paint around their cheekbones and right below their bangs. Once I had a separate face for Alice, I used the move tool to place her face on top of Ethan's body, and I did the same with Ethan's face on Alice's body. To clean up around the edge, I uses the magnifying glass to zoom into their faces, and then I used the eraser tool to clean up around the edge's of Ethan's beard and Alice's jaw line. 8/4/14-8/6/14

FACE SWAP NUMERO UNO~

This is the original and face swapped version of the rap/rave group Die Antwoord, Yolandi Visser and Ninja originated out of South Africa. I used the clone stamp tool, the smudge/blur tool, and various layers and transition tools to complete this transformation. 1/9/2014