Rhythm Assignment

For this photo, I combined six different pictures of my sister sledding down a hill into one. I just used the sports setting on the camera to get clear pictures while she was sledding. Then using photoshop, I used the picture of her closest to me as the background, then took the other pictures and used selection tools and layer masks to take just her body and the sled and drag it into the background picture to show her whole journey down the hill. Once I had the pictures in place and resized to look a little more realistic, I changed the opacity so her body became more opaque as she got farther down the hill and also enhanced the photo with basic editing techniques.
I really liked how this photo turned out with the different opacities and the different positions of her sledding down the hill. Using the selection tools and layer masks was a little challenging at first, but after a few times, it was quite easy.



For this photo, I stood in the same place while someone moved a tennis ball down the wall so that when I mashed all the original photos into one, it looks like the same ball is rolling down the wall. Again, I used the picture when the ball was closest to me as the background photo, then used selection tools and layer masks to select the tennis ball in the other photos and drag it into the background photo. Then I used resized the tennis balls, changed the opacity to add some interest/emphasis and then enhanced the photo with basic editing tools.
I was also really happy with how this photo turned out, especially the way the tennis balls look like they are rolling down the hill and also how the colors of the wall and balls stands out so much against the white snow. I was surprised at how simple this was to make once I got the hang of it.

Color Accent

I used selection tools to outline the frog and then changed that part to black and white, then edited the wall color behind the frog so that it would stand out more against the frog.

Again, I used selection tools to outline her bright pink sweater so that it would stand out against the rest of the photo which I made black and white.

Portraits

For this photo, the light source was to the left side, but not visible in the photo. I used more basic editing techniques such as curves, color balance, and dodging to enhance the photo a little bit. Then I added a lighting effect to make the side the sun was on brighter to emphasize where the light was coming from. Something I liked about this photo was how the lighting effect turned out and how it made the left side of the photo brighter and created a bigger contrast in the background. Something I think didn't go as well was that it was a little challenging to get Nash's face brighter without making the background too light.

This photo was taken with the light source coming from the front. Again, I used editing techniques such as curves, color balance, etc. to enhance the photo. On this photo I also used spot healing and surface blur in order to smooth out the face, and then painted over some areas with the black brush to enhance areas such as the eyes, hair, and mouth. I really liked how the colors turned out in this photo and how the surface blur turned out. I was surprised at how bright the colors turned out, especially the colors of the sweatshirt, because I thought the sun shining directly on them would maybe wash the colors out a little.

The light in this photo was coming from kind of a 3/4 angle. In addition to using curves, color balance, etc. I put a photo filter on this photo. The color of the filter was a warm orange-ish color to compliment the warm color of the wood and with the photo filter, I preserved the luminosity. Something I like about this photo is the lines of the wall/floor and how it leads to the subject. Something that was a little surprising was how the photo filter didn't make the photo as orange as I thought it would.