Monday, February 23, 2015

Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait Photography is a photo of a person or a group of people that shows the expression or personality of the subject. This can relate to profile view because its an outline of someones face as seen from one side. It can also relate to silhouetting because its an image of a person or object represented as a solid shape or singular color usually black and its edges match the outline of the subject.

Double Exposures are created in Photoshop by choosing one profile photo of someone and one or more "texture" images. Then go to Photoshop and upload the pictures by clicking on "file", "scripts", "load files into stack". Once the pictures are uploaded, start with the profile image and whiten the back round. You can create as many layers as you want by clicking on "layer", "new adjustment layer" and then you can choose different types of effects.I would want to make a double exposure because when the two pictures blend together it creates an amazing overall image.

 The symbolism in my two visual examples are boxing because it helps me to become stronger and have more self defense to protect myself. Boxing is also a fun outside of school activity to do. I also choose art because I love to draw in my free time and learn new art designs and techniques. Art teaches risk taking and learning to be creative in your drawings.
                      Practice Image                                                                                  Final

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

HDR Photography

 HDR Photography is a method that aims to add more of a dynamic range to photographs, which is the ratio of light to dark photos. HDR uses three photos, taken in different exposures. You can use an image editing software and put the images together to highlight the best parts of the photo. I like HDR Photography because you are able to see the different exposures after taking a picture.

The steps on how to create an HDR image is to take 7 pictures starting at a really low exposure to a high exposure compensation, then go to photoshop and press edit and merge to HDR pro, and upload your pictures. Automatic HDR is different because when you press HDR on a mobile device then you just press on the button and it will take one HDR picture but on a digital camera you can take many HDR pictures at different exposure compensation.

My thought process behind taking the landscape picture below was to find a good place that had a great view and not much movement in the photo. Then when I took the experiment profile picture I wanted to have a nice back round instead of taking the picture in front of a wall and find a person who could keep a straight face for 20 seconds.