Jamie's Final Photo Story

Week 13-Portraits

This first photo is one of me.  It was when I was at a wedding last summer.

This is a portrait that I took of a bear last summer on one the roads we go camping on.  He stood there for quite some time so I was able to get a great shot of him.

This is one of my all time favorite shots of my son, I just love this little guy.  I tried to take most of the red eye out without messing with the rest of the eye.

This one is of my step-son, husband, and son.  Now that I look at it I guess I should have messed with the color more, but I love this one of them.

Clone, text, brush

So my first set of pictures is representing the clone tool.  I loved this picture of a palm tree that I just took, but the power lines were in the background.  I didn't mess with the color at all because I liked it, but I cloned different colors of the sky to match and took out the power lines.
 

My second set of photos is my paintbrust photos.  I guess I didn't do what everybody else did, instead I had a little fun with this photo and you will have to zoom in to see what I did.  The first thing I did was to take some of the light out of the color, and then I adjusted the color levels by chosing the auto setting, then I painted the squirrels toes and gave her some eye shadow.  And then wrote on the tree to represent Sally Squirrel and Henry Squirrels love for each other.  Too funny.



My last set of photos are my text photos. I started off by cropping the photo.  Then I wrote on the photo of where and whent he picture was taken.  I embossed the letters and chose a color for them and resized the font as well as picking a different font.

Filters-Week 9

I had a lot of fun with these pictures.  I tried so many different things that I can't list them all.  So the first picture I went into Artistic-Cubism-tile size 10.0, tile saturation 3.0, filter 1.  I just thought it was neat what it did to the photo, and kept the detail, but yet it still looked like the original.

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With this one I had a lot of fun.  So the first thing that I did with this one was to crop it.  And then I played around with the cartoon settings, and changing hue and saturation, which I did a little bit and decided not to do the cartoon, but instread I went to the Light and Shadows-Neon-radius 5.00, amount 030, and I really liked how it made the snow man look like it was going to get the kids.

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Burn and Doge-Week 9

So I like the burn and dodge, except I couldn't get it to do what I had envisioned, but that is okay.  Is what I did was to darken up some of the moutains in the background, and darkened up a lot of the foreground picture.  I went over some of the shadows on the structure to lighten them up a bit, and then I made the farm equipment stand out a little more.

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Week 8: Color and Light

Now that I have worked more with GIMP I am starting to enjoy it a little more.  My big aha moment was to remember that I had to undo something before I went on to something else.  The first time I don't know how many times I had to reload the picture because I had messed it up. I chose a couple of my favorite pics.  In the one below I took away some of the lightness and Hue, and added some contrast.  I lowered the color lever and the color curve.

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The picture below I adjusted the lightness, contrast, and adjusted the color levels.  It made the rocks and flowers stand out a little bit more.  I was going to do more cool stuff with this one, but when I got done with this part of it I was happy with what I had.

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Photoshop/GIMP

So I feel like I am completely iliterate to these programs.  I have been at it since 2pm this afternoon and it is now 10:30pm and am finally going to just post some pictures that I manipulated in different ways, but it was not the cropping and moving like we were suppost to.  I tried and tried and I could select and copy and from there is where I had the trouble and I couldn't load the tutorials, I don't know why.  So I still have yet to over come this and I am sorry these photos aren't what they are supposed to be.

So for this first photo I used enhance sharpen for the color and Rendor ensflare.  It made the spottiness of the photo more clear and brightened it up.

For this picture I did a color enhance and tried doing a Xach-effect for a 3D look, but it didn't really have the effect that I thought it would.  But the colors are much deeper and brighter now.

Landscape photos-week 6

For this first picture I chose a bridge that was downt he street from my house.  I chose this one just because of all of the different things going on in the picture, and especially that you could see the river flowing underneath it.

This picture I took a picture of the river because I love water and included a little framing in the landscape as well.

I love this one because of all of it layers.  You have the road and the snowbanks, and then the trees, and then the mountains, and then the two different shades of sky.

This picture I thought was cool becasue it is kind of deceptive.  It was such a nice day today that our driveway had a lot of water in it, but you almost can't tell that it is a drive way.

This picture I chose because of the brightness.  I like how the closer trees are lighter and get darker as they go.  In all of my pictures I was just trying to show the nature and scenary around my house.

Week 5 Aha moment

So my Aha moment for this week was regarding contrast.  The part that explained contrast the most to me was "High contrast conveys a sense of hardness, characteristics of strength and power.  Low contrast conveys a sense of softness, characteristics of  gentleness and mildness."  In previous parts of reading about contrast I thought it was just the opposite.  Could have been just me confused.  I had thought that low contrast was more bold.

Slideshow

Two of these photos are old, but I really liked them for this assignment.  I really liked the framing assignment this week.  I took a lot of photos, but I ended up picking my favorite ones.  Obviously the palm tree one is an old one, and the pond picture is an old one.

Week 4

                                                
The first picture I chose represents the Analogous color scheme with the orange, red and yellows in it.  This was with a Macro setting and no flash.

The second picture I chose of my son and I was not a very good picture, but it represent the Monochromatic color scheme with red and green being on opposite sides of the color wheel, as well as the picture below of the trees and the moonlight, and the dark sky.

Macro Photo's week 3

So the hardest part of this assignement was only picking 20 pictures to post.  So I chose some random ones but they all have to do with my daily life.  I have a sunglass fetish, my son of course, stupid batteries that I have to keep changing in my camera, lol, work stuff, animals, my sons, toys, stuff around my house, and time of course (never enough of it).  I took so many pictures of the things that were important to me and this is what I came up with.  Except one random one on the bottom left which was just a shadow on the wall that I thought was cool.  I tried to get all different angles of stuff.  I hope that you enjoy.

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The pictures I chose to use are my Jade plant at home.  They are not the greatest pictures I have taken, but they give the most comparison between them.  The other ones were of my son, and I am sure you will all be sick of looking at him, lol.  This this is the side view of my Jade plant, and it shows that it is fairly tall, but does not look that big.  I do think I used too much flash now that I am looking at it here.

This is a shot from underneath the plants (don't look at the spider webs, this is my back room).  From the first shot you cannot tell that this plant is as wide as it is.  I think it shows a totally different color and perception of the plant.