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.

Portrait Three: Kayla

The biggest issue I think that I had with this picture was how bright the lighting was. In the process of taking portraits I learned that lighting is very important so that you don't catch bad features or even make the person shiney. The first thing I did to this picture was add a gaussian blur and erase Kayla to help her stick out. Next I used the dodge and burn tools in her eyes to help them look more bold, I also enhanced the hue/saturdation in her eyes a tiny bit. The last thing I did was apply a light gray neon glow to darken the picture.

Portrait Two: Justin

I also didn't like this picture that much either just because his hair is in his eyes, the footprint is really distracting, and the lighting isn't convayed well. What I did to this picture was added a gaussian blur and erased Justin to try to make him more of a focal point. I tried to bring out his eyes but since he has dark eyes, and the lighting was dark it was very hard to do. I also this I should of done something with his sweater so people aren't trying to read it.

Portrait One: Maggie& Adam

I don'd really like how this portrait turned out but I do like the idea I had behind it showing how much they care for eachother. The first thing I did to this picture was enhanced the hue/saturation on both Maggie and Adam to try to make them stand out more from the background. I also applied a gaussian blur to make them more the focal point. One thing I could of done to improve this picture is get rid of the red object in the background. Something I think I could do it use the same idea of their care for eachother but try taking differant angles and have more focus on one of their faces instead of the sides of both.

Look Lomo: Train

Even though when I first started doing this I didn'd like how it was turning out, in the end I liked it. Besides doing all the steps I also clone stamped the top of the building because there were bars and another wall above it which were distracting to the picture. I also added a black rounded border

Story Interpretation

I used this picture for Interpreation of the Yellow Wall Paper because I think that in the story the womans sanity seemed to just dissapear. I used the fact of her sanity dissapearing because i made it seem like her past, or sanity (the other side of the brigde) is just fading as shes looking back at it. I also took the picture as the bridge's greatness fading because white is usually a color of innocence but it is rusting away and shes loosing crip of it. The other side of the bridge (her past) is also full of beautiful white innocence when the side she is going to now seems to only have small peices and its melting away.

Color on the Couch(4) Yellow/ Black (contrast)

The first thing I did when I edited this picture was make the background more black and white, and blured it. I also sharpened the cat and used the dodge tool to help the yellow in the eyes stick out more. When I took this picture I liked how much the lack contrated with the yellow once I looked up the differant meaning for the colors together I was happy with what the picture itself can stand for .Many people associate yellow with happiness but yellowcan also be the color of deceit and the contrast of black with yellow gives this picture a very strong feel because of the differant things that black associate with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery which I think can be looked at in this picture depending on how you see it.

Color on the couch(3) Brown/ Orange

This picture was taken in the morning when the frost was still on all the trees and it was really foggy out. When I took this picture I wanted more of a natural look, therefore I brought out the browns. I also croped the picture so that all the signs from the road wouldnt be distracting. Brown is a warm neutral color that can stimulate the appetite which I thought was intresting because the birdfeeder is a main source of food for birds durring all times of the year. I dont like the random branches in the image, I think that it can distract a persons eye easily but at the same time it can cause a person to look at the image longer when trying to figure out what it is.

Color on the Couch (2): orange/ blue

When I took this picture I look it from the opposite side of the road so the first thing I did to the picture was crop out the road itself because it made the picture look so dull. the next thing I did was increase the hue/ saturation of the sunset and the refelctions of it in the water.

I also added the texture tool to the pictuer which I think help brings out the scenery. The Two colors that I focused on in this picture are orand and blue which help to set more of a relaxing tone. orange is known to promote happiness and blue is relaxing. I think the mixture of the two together really is what makes the sunset complete in itself.

Color on the Couch(1): Blue

This picture was taken on a really dark day so what i first did was take the background from another picture and crop it ino this one. it looked good in photoshop but now that im looking at it on here it doesnt look that great. I also blured the background (everything but the cars) and Changed the hue/ saturdation of the cars themselves. Blue is meant to be a relaxting color and I think that it brought out in the differant shades of blue that are in the sky and cars.

repulsive#2

At first glance I think this picture looks attractive because of the bright colors and differant things going on but once I looked at it I started noticing more and more things that can make it repulsive. The first I noticed was all the exaust coming from the red car, even though it looks cool and adds to the picture its so bland and also isnt good for the environment. another thing that I think looks attractive at first glance is all the bright colors like the green neons around the gas station, the vaccumm tops, and the stop lights. they can be attractive because they're naturally so bright but on thr otherhand they just seem fake and artificial and can sort of leave you with an uneasy feeling since everything else is calm.

Attractive#2

When the first took this picture I wasn't taking it for this project but once I worked with it I liked how it was turning out. First I had to crop the right side of the picture because the crab was in the dead center and I also to rid of some of the bottom of the picture where you could see the fish tank glue. First I enhanced the hue/ saturation of the overall picture and then after that enhanced the hue/ saturation of just the rocks to make them more red. I think its normally something people think would be unattractive because the crab is just an ugly thing, and also a bottom feeder but once I brought out the colors it made it look attractive

Repulsive

The reason why I chose this as a repulsive picture is because people always view flowers as such a beautiful thing but they die so fast that it makes them not so great. What I did is warmed the picture up but I did it twice. the first time i used an orange color which worked well with the background but made the flower look way too bright and kind of fake so I warmed it again with a green and I think it helped bring out the true loss of color the dead flower is having. The warming tool also really helped bring out the texture more and helped to show the wrinkles.

7:00 am Attractive

I took this picture at 7 in the morning before I started working and liked it so much because of how the shadow is refelcted onto the brick wall. I chose to use this for an attractive image because tons of people walk past the brick wall daily but never really notice the bright color and contrasts in the differant colors in the bricks

Family tree/ importance

I was hopeing better for my importance montage but I don't really think that I did too much better. I do like how the carving blends in with the background and the idea of a tree with all the important things to me in it

1. Tree & Coulds: I chose the Tree and clouds/ forest background in the first place because nature is very important to me.

2. old family portraits: I chose these because I believe that the past makes you who you are today and also family is one of the most important things in my life.

3. carving: it also symbolizes importance of family because a family member in Montana carved it

4. friends: I also have pictures of friends mixed in my tree because even though in the future you might not see them as much they helped shape you into the person that you are.

5. pets: I put a few pictures on my pets in because I love animals and I'm thinking of persuing something with animals in my future

6. Logo: Lastly I put my work logo in because I think it made me a more responsible person and its a big part of my life at this time because I work so often.

Work Motage

This montage is focused on Martinizing Dry Cleaners. The main reason I chose to do it on Martinizing is because in the time period we had to take pictures I worked everyday accept for one, so I figured why not. Another reason is because I spend a lot of time there and even though I dont enjoy working so much I'm happy that I do have a job. Once I started taking picture I started realizing more and more that there weren't many options in what I could do since the store that I work at isn't too intresting. I don't really like this montage much because even though all of my items are realted I feel like they just don't fit well in the image together. I'm hoping that my next montage will look better than this one due to the fact that my next one is going to be on important things in my life.

Blur Overlay

When I first took this picutre I wasnt intending to use it for class but I really liked it and it turned out to be a great photo to work with. After duplicating the layer I applied a gaussian blur and then set the image to soft light (the packet suggested overlay or vivid light but I just prefer soft light). I'm happy with the way the picture turned out and the lighting and coulds were prefect.

Easy Blur

Even though this picture is from Christmas break in Florida right when I read what we were going to do and was looking through pictures this one seemed perfect. At first I played with it because I wanted to see what it would look like but once i got done applying the gaussion blur I loved it. I used an opacity of around 40 and I think that it really helped make the birds seem dreamy and like the moving bird is in slow motion.

Filtered Background

In this picture I first used to lasso tool and roughly selected around the person (after duplicating the layor). When I got to the brush strokes I used crosshatch because I liked how it made the background look more like a painting but not too noticably.

Neon Glow

I am very happy with the outcome of this picture. im not sure if its because i liked the picture already before it was edited but when i used a yellow neon glow and applied soft light i like it even more.

Ipod Add

When we started working on this photo project I was excited to see what I could do with it. Even though I didn't find this project too hard there were areas that I think I can improve in, for instance the right hand (not holding the Ipod) looks slightly deformed since they were bent differantly in the picture. when I tried imporoving this it didn't go too well and it looked fake so I decided to leave it natural.

House Day to Night

When changing this photo from day to night I thought it would work out pretty well since I thought my day time photo was taken pretty well. Once I started working with the image I realized it wasn't going too well because of how bright the lighting was in the sky, on the snow, and against parts of the house. Overall I'm not too happy with the results that I got but I do plan on working on my techniques and improving the editing in the future.

Alphabet

Imagine

When I first started creating this college I had a few ideas in mind and thought it wouldn't look too good. Now that I'm done and look at it I'm actually pretty impressed with the outcome since I've never used photoshop before. The reason why I added all of the differant things to the image is because I honestly just thought it would look creative all together.