Assignment 5: Personal Project

For this assignment I wanted highlight all businesses that have closed over the last couple of years where I live. First of all I had a wander around town to look at places that have closed down and other things connected with a recession,this was without my camera. Over the next day or so I planned a route in my head and had a plan of what photo I wanted to take. Then I took my camera with me and walked around town paying attention to how I would take the photos. I am happy with the results I think and hope my photos communicate my theme clearly.

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

Photo 4

Photo 5

Photo 6

Photo 7

Photo 8

Photo 9

Photo 10

Exercise 25: A Web Gallery

For this exercise I had to make a web gallery to show off my photos. I have never made one before. I only print my photos sometimes, I mostly view my photos on my computer. . I think it is a really good way to show off your work.

My Portfolio

Exercise 24: Sharpening for Print

For this exercise I sharpened a number of photo for print. I did three versions of sharpening to different degrees.
I have never sharpened an image. So I needed to practise a good few times. This is a good photo to sharpen, because there is a lot of edge detail.

 Unsharpened Photo

1st Sharpened  Photo

I only sharpened this photo a little. There seems to be not much difference between screen and the printed version.

Sharpening setting:

Amount 78

Radius 0.6

Threshold 10

2nd Sharpened Photo

This photo has been sharpened a lot more than the first  photo. You could see it more in the printed version then in the first photo.
Sharpening setting:
Amount 105
Radius 2
Threshold 20

3rd Sharpened Photo

 I think this photo is over sharpened. I think the sharpening is about right in the first photo.
sharpening settings:
Amount 150
Radius 3.6
threshold 30

Assignment 4: Real or Fake

For this assignment I decided a cover of a holiday brochure. I made a banner to go on the main photo. The banner was made up of three photos. Then I added some text to the top and sides of the main photo. I did all this in Photoshop.

Exercise 23: Alteration

For this exercise I had to take a photo, then remove a distinct object form the photo using image editing software.

Original photo

Altered Photo

I remove the lamp post from this photo it was too distracting. I used Photoshop to do this, using the spot healing brush. There are so many different way to do the same job in Photoshop.

Exercise 21: Enhancement

For this exercise I was asked to lighten a portraits face using image editing software. Then make the eyes more brighter and more colourful.

Original photo

 

Enhanced Photo

To lighten the face I first selected the face with the magnetic lasso tool in Photoshop. Then I increased brightness and decreased the contrast a little. For the eyes I increased  the saturation, brightness and hue a little, this was to lighten the eye a bit.

Exercise 20: Improvement

For this exercise, I was asked to make local adjustments to an image to improve it's  appearance. I lightened the whites of a portrait's eyes.

Original photo

Improve photo

To lighten the portraits eyes, I selected each eye in the photoshop and then added a levels adjustment layer to make the adjustment.I think the bottom photo looks much better now.