Myth Two; Aphrodite, Kayla

Aphrodite was the goddess of love. The reason why I took the picture on the beach was because this is where she was first born from sea foam. Aphrodite is portrayed as a beautiful yet promiscuous. Because of her beauty she was forced to marry an unattractive man of which she had to interest, so she looked for love elsewhere behind his back. Even though her actions didn't seem right I think that truly she was just a lonely person looking for love in all the wrong places. The first thing I did in this picture was enhanced the hue of the water, the reason why is because it looked so dark and not much like he sea at all. I tried to make the water look slightly red because the sea foam Aphrodite came from was from blood but it made the picture look too unrealistic. I also enhanced the hue of the sky just to make it look more heavenly. I also brightened the color of the sand so that it would look more pure and like a tranquil beach. Since I wasn't about to take pictures of my friend naked I put her in a white sheet, the reason why white is because I wanted to show the innocence and purity that she started with. The last thing I did was brighten Kayla herself up, the sheet and then burned some of the sheet so that the shadowing was more predominate.

Myth one; Demeter (Emma)

Demeter is the Goddess of cro growth, life and death, and season change. It is told that seasons first came about because of Demeters loss of her daughter Persephone. Demeter's brother Hade's took Persephone because he fell in love with her and this send Demeter into a depression as she searched for her daughter. Durring this time all the crops started to die and man kind itself was at risk. to save man kind Zeus made a deal with Demeter that she could have her daughter back durring a certain time of the year and Hade's had her the other times. This is how the differant seasons came about. I choose Emma for my model because she has a natural beauty and she also fits in better with the scene I was looking for. The reason I choose a dead looking scene is because I was trying to focus on the time when Demeter was depressed, looking for her daughter and everything was dying. The first thing I did to this picture was enhance the color of the water so it was more blue, I did this because I sort of was looking at the water as a way into the underworld and the blue really sticks out and contrats with the dullness of her surroundings. The next time I did was burned everything but Emma and the water. I did this because the picture was so bright in the beggining. The last thing I did was added a differant pictures sky into the background of the sky in this image. I did this because I thought it made it look more misty and it also helped make the bright blue sky not so bright.

Unzipping an Apple

I thought that it was fun to explore differant ideas and learn something new. when I first started this I thought that it would be a hard process but it actually wasn't that hard after I followed all the steps. I got these images from google; the apple, zipper, and world. Even though I think I did an ok job on this I think I could of tried differant things to make it look more realiztic. I also think that the zipper turned more pixalized as soon as I liquified it so I could of done something do make the zipper not fade o ut of the picture.

Wittle Planet

I really liked this assignment because of how versitile it was. I think that it's cool that this could be done because I always wondered how people did it. the only thing I did to change this picture is smudging some of the sky and clone stamping te endge of one of the trees so that you couldnt see the line.

Portrait two: Kassie

This picture is also of Kassie and I really think that it helps create motion, the only thing I would of change is the way that she was looking. I didn't do much to edit this picture but I did burn and dodge her eyes and blur everything but her.

Portait One: Kassie

This picture is of Kassie, and I took it right in front of the lake so thats the white of her shirt would go with the snow and blue in her eyes with the blue sky. The first thing I did to this picture was clone stamped out a bar that was right on the side of her head. I also applied a light blue neon glow which I think helped the shows in her face stand out more. I burned her pupils and dodged her eyes to make them stand out more. I also dodged some of her hair to make certain strands stick out more. I applied who gassian blurs, and first one was of just the background. The second one I applied I only erased her eyes, lips, and some of her hair.

Portrait Four: Willie

The reason I took this picture was because Willie is really shy when around people but when he's around people he knows he is crazy. First I changed the hue/ saturation of the background so that it wouldn't stand out so much and I also gassian blured the image and erased the background. I also used the burn too on his eye to make it stick out more but it wasn't too hard to do because his eyes are so bright green. An issue that I probably could easily fix is taking the picture in a more natural light and not have the bar from the stairs in the background.