Landscape in a Bottle

HDR photography

-HDR photography: (high dynamic range photos) capturing greater range of tonal detail.
 Achieve successful results by: -taking at least three photos at different exposures of the same shot and merging them together. -using more traditional methods, such as many real-world scenes containing very bright, direct sunlight to extreme shade

-This image impressed me the most because of the contrast between the various leaves and the sky. The different colors pop out.

Abstract

original - texture with lines

original - shape with pattern

original - balance

 1. The flower is my favorite shot because the macro lens shows all the small details of it.
2. The flower shot shows the best use of the elements of art. The stems show a line path. The stems and petals also provide the shape.
3. The stems and petals are radially symmetric. The fact that they are both white gives unity. The stems are in the foreground and the petals in the background.
4. The filter on the shot of the building is my favorite because the lines emphasize the asymmetrical balance.

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Grand Landscapes

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1. In the third photo the rule of thirds is used. The sky is in the top third of the photo. The football field was emphasized due to this.

2. The photo is asymmetrically balanced. You can see the football field and bleachers are balanced but the photo was not taken from the center.

3. The photo was taken around 2pm. This was not the best time to take photos because it was very bright out which caused some shadows in photos I wanted to take.

4. The football field is in the foreground while the hills and sky are in the background.

Edge Burn

channel mixer

desaturation

gradient

Lab color

1. The channel mixer produced the best result. It has the most contrast.
2. The desaturation and channel mixer were the best methods to produce a large value range.

Landscape Blog Assignment

Tree Bark

Flower

Leaf

1. The macro lens was a little hard to use because you had to be really close to the subject for it to focus, and since it was windy outside the leaf and the flower were moving a lot so it was hard to get a clear picture of them

2. My favorite image is the one of the tree because the bark looks really detailed with the zoomed in lens

3. The shot that shows the best rule of thirds is the one of the yellow flower.

4. My favorite picture has good balance and emphasis.  I think there is also a lot of variety in the color of the tree bark.

Umbrella Cinemagraph

1. Our concept was to have the umbrella move while keeping my body still.  It worked, but it was hard because in order for my head not to be duplicated we had to move my head along with the image.
2.  I just posed for the video while Jennie filmed it.
3. I would've had more movement in the background so it was more obvious that only one thing was moving and the rest of the image was supposed to be still.
4. Photoshopping the umbrella was very difficult, I tried two other videos that we took and they were not working at all.  The tutorial itself was a little confusing too.

Photoshop Exercise