Mosaic

This was my attempt at doing a mosaic which didn't turn out well. I think I used to many photos but I thought I would still post it because it was fun.

Photo Adjustments

 

For this photo, I changed the curve on this photo and it made it look darker almost like it is night. 

 

For this photo, I took out colors and simplified them. It left it only black and white. 

 

For this photo, I changed the background of the photo to a gradient of orange and yellow to look like a sunset in the snow picture. I thought it was very cool. 

Week 7

This week's assignment was very hard for me. I had a really hard time figuring out how to do the most simple things. It was very frustrating but I think my photos turned out pretty good. 

In this picture I just tried cropping the photo to go up close and focus on her pointing to the door. 

 

In this photo I blurred the background of the messy room and left the main focus to be my friend but added the touch of it being in an oval so it your focus of her sitting. 

In this photo I inverted the colors of the area around her but kept the part with her in it normal. I then also added a black border. I thought this picture was really fun.

 

Landscape Photos

           This week I had a lot of fun taking landscape photos. I had a hard time the first few days because it was really cloudy and snowing off and on. But this morning I woke up and had a blast because we got a big snow storm and everything looked gorgeous. Everything was covered in snow and was glistening in the early morning light. I got a lot of good shots right on my road and near my house. Unfortunately the snow melted faster than I wanted it to but it was still a lot of fun. I also had a lot of fun trying to find the perfect shot of Barre(where I am from)from the top of the hill. I have one picture that I really liked that I took but it was hard capturing the whole city looking down on it and capturing the real essence of what I was seeing. Although I had some difficulty, I had a blast trying to take as many good pictures as I could. These are a couple of my favorite photos that I took...I love the look of snow!

Framing Slideshow!

Assignment #2

The first thing that I did was find something to take a picture of on my campus. I chose this beautiful gazebo. I thought before I looked at the picture I would like the picture with the gazebo centered, I realized when I uploaded it I was wrong. I like the picture with the gazebo to the right side so that you get the entrance to the college building. It balances it out. I also like the picture with the gazebo to the side because the sky is brighter blue. This is because my picture wouldn't upload right so I had to retake it on a later time so it was a little darker. I think that some pictures look better with the object centered but some do not. This picture looks better with it off centered.

Compostion Techniques

A composition technique that I found that we did not learn about in the reading is patterns. You can take photos highlighting the patterns and you can take photos of patterns being broken.
Emphasizing the pattern by filling the frame will give the impression of size and large numbers. If you take a picture of bricks close up, it will make it look like the bricks will go on forever. You can also take a picture of a pattern that is interrupted. You should also pay attention to where in the picture the pattern is broken because it changes the emphasis of the picture and the objects in it. This is just one of the composition techniques that I found when researching.


These are the sites that I found the pattern research on--

http://digital-photography-school.com/5-elements-of-composition-in-photography

http://digital-photography-school.com/using-repetition-and-patterns-in-photography