Week 12 - Final Project

Below is a breakdown of all of the edits to the photos in my Photostory of An Evening On the Lake.  I hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed making it!  

FYI...I had a little trouble figuring out how to make my photostory play on here as a slideshow.  I finally did it however I think it may play a little fast.  Sorry :)

#1  Scaled image down; burned green portion of VT license plate; cloned out the license plate number; smudged the license plate; filter-Old Photo

#2  Scaled image down; cloned out a warning sticker that was on the lower right portion of boat; smudged the cloned portion; used scissors on the tube then blurred it 3 times; color balanced the sky to Red 38; cropped the photo; filter-Apply Canvas

#3  Scaled image down; cropped the photo; used lighting effects; used colors/curves-freehand; filter-Light and Shadow

#4  Scaled image down; cropped the photo; filter-Bevel; filter-Round Corner; filter-Old Photo/Mottle

#5  Scaled image down; desaturated from a sepia color; used scissors on the sky and colorized it; used scissors on all of the bathing suit dots and colorized each of them; cropped the photo

#6  Scaled image down; cropped photo for more of a Rule of Thirds effect; used color select tool; background color change

#7  Scaled image down; filter-Sharpen; text tool; filter-Decor-Fuzzy Border

#8  Scaled image down; cloned a rope that was in the front of the boat; used scissors on all of the water, hills, and sky and used color balance to adjust all three of those colors; filter-Oilify

#9  Scaled image down; cloned out buildings in background; cloned out another boat on the water; desaturated image; filter-Softglow

#10  Scaled down image; quick mask and filled with a pattern, used gaussin blur and distorts/waves

#11  Scaled down image; cropped photo so exactly half of the boat was in the photo; cloned out a sailboat in background; desaturated photo; filter-Old Photo

#12  Scaled down image; color/hue saturation; filter-Sharpen  

Week 11 - Portrait Photography

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#4

For my portrait subjects, I used two members of my family.  My daughter is quite used to me taking pictures of her.  My husband, not so much.  I did not make him smile (as I usually would for pictures) because so much of portrait photography is about capturing real, raw, honest emotion and expressions.  So he got a pass this time.  

I thought the one of my daughter turned out perfectly and is unedited.  I took it using the black and white setting on my camera.  Adequate natural light is coming in through a window to her front/left.  Her emotion is that of "ho-hum, another picture."  I thanked her for humoring me.  

The next set of three is of my husband and again using the black and white camera setting.  All three are edited via GIMP in some way, shape, or form.  

In #1 I had to use the clone tool to edit out part of a lamp shade that was in the upper left hand corner of the photo.  In #2 I decided to posterize the photo. I thought this gave it a nice look.  In #3 I played with the brightness and contrast.  I changed them to different levels until I found one I liked.  It gives the photo a darker, more mysterious feeling.  At least I thought so.  

I ran into lighting trouble in the one with my husband due to taking them at night.  I wanted a color photo with the soft glow of a candle but with all of the other lights off, my photos all turned out too dark.  I then turned on two different lights, one being a lamp to his upper left and a hallway light to his upper right.  Changing it to B&W did not show the glow of the candle much but it did add some light to that side of his face as well as add another object in the photo besides him.