Assignment DescriptionFor this assignment I took some pictures of three of my cats. This proved to be difficult because cats are living creatures and naturally, they move a lot. I ended up taking well over 150 photos and probably less than half were usable for the end-result. For my best photo, I wanted to focus in on the side profile of my cat, she's very pretty and has really nice features. The black and white was a personal choice, I think it highlights the contrast between the fur on her that is black and what us a lighter brown.
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Assignment DescriptionI had yet to do an open photo assignment yet and I was lacking inspiration for the other topics. Since it has been really cold and rainy here, I haven't had much motivation or desire to shoot photos outside so I decided to take them indoors in my chamber orchestra class. In photoshop, I made the violin that the person is holding more of a rich color to add depth. I made the violin look rustic by adjusting the levels slider, which also brought out the black shadows on the instrument. I blurred and cropped out a large majority of the background because it was distracting to the eye to look at. I also cropped out the hand so the focus was just on the violin. ReflectionI am very proud of this weeks photo. It excited me that I got to shoot an open assignment of one of best parts of my day- playing music. I would love to take some pictures of some band instruments for even more of a cool "portfolio" of pictures.
For this assignment I created two more multiple me edits like I did last trimester in photo I. This assignment is fairly simple but really fun to do. I decided to add one more person to mine to make it more complex and interesting. (I did 6 subjects instead of 5.) This is a really simple project and does not take much longer than a few minutes but the results are fun and cool to look at. For the chronomotion assignments, we had to take pictures of a subject doing some sort of fluid motion and repeat the same techniques of selecting and making layer masks like we did for the multiple me's. ReflectionI really like both of my multiple me's. If I were to do this one more time I'd add even more subjects and possibly some more dynamic poses or movements, (like jumping.) I enjoyed this much more the second time around because I am now really comfortable with creating layer masks and using the select tools. The chronomotion pictures were fairly easy to do but I would love to retry it with more dynamic movements. I had an idea to shoot some of my brother on his skateboard but unfortunately, he wasn't available when the sun was up. Chrono-motion |