My Own Self Portraits

I chose this image, because I like how it's a side-view of my face. Usually in self portraits you see the entire face: I found this angle a bit more unique and different. While composing this photo I made sure I liked the background. I chose this back, because it's still a white background, but isn't as plain. One way to possible make this better, might be to get ride of the shadow, but I think it's still good with it.

I chose this picture, because I like how it appears that I am just part of the background. Although it isn't too difficult to notice me, because the pathway points towards me and the colour of my jacket helps stand out a bit. I had another image similar to this, but I chose this one, because in the other one I was standing in the sun versus this one where I'm in the shadow. I liked how more discreet I looked in this picture.

I like this image because the branches above created a natural archway over the path. I also like the sharpness around the tree's trunk and the colours seem slightly vibrant, but not overly so it still has a more mysterious feel.

I chose this one, because I you're able to see the sun's ray in the picture. It was fairly hard to capture the rays. The original image was very dark so I had to increase the brightness much more. I would like it if it was a bit more brighter so you could see the trees more, but I couldn't make the picture anymore brighter without my jacket changing colour and looking very odd. But I think it's alright with brightness it is currently at and compared to the original photo, this is very bright. And if I make it more bright you wouldn't be able to see the rays as easily. 

I chose this picture, because it expresses my personality. Most of the time you might be able to find me playing or running around. This is just one of the things I do.

Test Shots

Professional Self Portraits

Falling Off the Face of the Earth
By Ian Iott

I chose this photo because I think it is very unique. I love how the artist played with the orientation of the photo to make it appear that the subject is falling down an infinite hole. I also like the the orangey tinge to the photo. 

kevin dean & the 101 self portrait lying face down - IMG_7289_web

By Kevin Dean

I chose this photo because I also liked unique this image is. I thought it was very original of the artist to use the sign to bring attention towards the subject. 

Ya TAAHHHH!!!
By Josh Liba

I chose this final image, because I like that the artist isn't afraid to express their true selves. I also love how he played with the lighting in this photo. It is best viewed with a black background screen.

Infrared Photography

Impossible Project

In this project we are too trying to recreate one of Erik Johansson work as our own. In the first image I cropped out Steven's head from a picture I took. I also touched up some of his face to make his skin look more smooth. I then brought in the boardwalk and got rid everything so only the actually boardwalk remained. The space background is actually two images put together. I originally wanted to just have the nebula as the background, but Steven's head would block off most of it. To get the water walls, I used the polygonal lasso tool to cut the water at an angle to make it appear more as a wall. The fire took some time to do. I first used the quick select tool to select the majority of the fire, but it kept a lot of the edges. So I manually erased the background and shaped it to look more like hair. I also had to colour some of the tips to make it fit in more. The bird, fish, spirals, etc. were all done the same way with me just using the quick select tool to get rid of the background. After all that  I played with the saturation, lighting, sharpness, and more to get the final product.

I made this image in my spare time when I got bored with some of the other projects. To make this I simply got rid of the background using the quick select tool for most of the images. I had to manually touch up the lava because the quick select tool couldn't get in the fine area's in between some of the splurs. With the grass background I rotated it to try to give the image some movement and to make the the viewer think about it more. I finally played with the saturation, lighting, sharpness, and more once again to finalize the image.

Portraits Project

In this project we are to take images and refine them through photoshop. For this images I first:

-selected my subject using the quick select tool. I then inverted the selection and deleted the background. 

-Then I added a new blank layer to use as my background. I choose the orange background for some of images, because I had trouble getting ride of all the original background around his hair, and it originally had an orangey yellow background.

-After that I smoothed out his skin using the spot heal tool and the patch tool.

-finally added some colour to different parts of his face by selecting it with the quick select tool and played around with the hue and saturation

Tilt Shift Photography

Steps Through Editing For all Pictures

In photoshop I first selected an area by going under quick mask.

From there I went under Filters >Blur >Gaussian Blur

I then went under Image> Adjustments> Hue/Saturation and played around with the saturation.

After that I went under Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast and moved them around.

Lastly I went to Image> Adjustments> Curves and moved the line slightly near the top right.

I took this photo at a bird's eye view on top of some stairs and saturated this image a bit more than the others.

I took this photo also at a bird's eye view on top of some stairs. I blurred this image more than the other ones.

For this image i took at a first person's view. Unlike the other photos i made the focused area vertical instead of horizontal to focus on the red tree.