This picture is titled ‘Waterfront at Dusk,’ and it was taken at the Carlsbad State Beach near the Encina Power Plant. This image features the compositional rule of leading line, which is present in the traffic lights streaking across the frame. To take this photograph, I used a Canon EOS Rebel T6i with the 18-55mm kit lens. The image was taken with a 25 second shutter speed, and I retouched the coloring and detail sharpness in Photoshop CS6.
This image works in the color division because of the harmonious shades of deep blue and the red streaks. It was printed on Epson Glossy Photo Paper on the Epson P800 digital printer.
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David Hockney was born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, England. He started out with painting California homes. As his career went on, he photographed more and more, and he fused photography and technology in the 1980s. My image is in his style because he started a new style in the 1980s where he put take polaroid prints and layer them on top of each other to make a new image. My images have a similar approach, as they have multiple different photos that overlap to form bigger image.
To create this image, I found the settings I desired and took 10+ photos of the many parts of the overall subject. I wasn't too concerned about movement that might take place between shots because I thought it would add to the variation of the final product. I then loaded the images into a Photoshop project and resized and aligned them as I desired. One of the most important parts was choosing where each image would be placed (i.e. what frames it would be behind or in front of). I liked the idea of not having them perfectly line up, as I liked the way the varied image appeared. I chose to use the Time magazine cover because I felt that the formal look of the photograph matched the theme of Time magazine well. I like how Time covers that are centered around a portrait have minimal text and distractions and focus on the subject of the cover, which I felt was fitting for Tommy's portrait. To emulate the style of Time, I kept the overall aesthetic simple and clean with the portrait being the focus. I also put Tommy's head over the Time logo, a style that is typical to Time magazine covers.
The title was a .png using the exact Time logo with its font and proportion, and the subtitle used Myriad Pro Italic with a size of 20 pt. For the color, I inverted the portrait of Tommy and made it a clipping mask over the text, so in that area it is slightly off-white. In the setup of the photograph, I had a gray fabric backdrop with Tommy seated on a stool. There was a gold reflector to the left and strobe light in a softbox on the right. I then cropped this image in the Photoshop project so it was a closeup. A strobe light is a powerful flash that is synced to the camera so that it strobes when the shutter is released. You would use it to provide strong studio lighting, and it would be paired with other sources of light. A modeling light is a secondary light source in a studio shoot that allows for a balance in lighting to eliminate shadows and create even exposure. It would be used with a strobe light, generally placed on the opposite side of the subject in order to balance the light. A soft box is a cover placed over a strobe light and guide the light. It is used to channel the light from the strobe and soften it so that the resulting light is diffused cleanly. It also directs the light straight to the subject. A reflector is a flat panel of varying shapes and sizes, but usually circular. They can be either white, silvery, or gold. They are used to reflect light from the light source in order to eliminate shadows or create even and balanced lighting. A grey card is a physical panel with a white, gray, and black strip that is held by the subject in test photos. It is used to allow the photographer to find the perfect exposure so that the gray on the photograph perfectly matches the gray on the real panel. A radio trigger system is a system of transmitters that are attached to the camera and any light sources, especially strobe lights. It is used to allow for wireless connectivity between the camera and light sources so that the flash from the lights is synced to the shutter release in the camera, and it allows the photographer to be more mobile due to the lack of a cord. B&W TONED COLOR
Beings by Madeon Fall in the hands of a greater unknown Let me be there And tell me if you need time to prepare All we'll demand is the world In making this image, I started with the concept of train tracks running into a cave that would have an entrance to a portal to outer space or some other dimension. It was all centered around the idea of submitting yourself to a greater destiny and moving onto greater things. I started with a base image to serve as the background, which was the train tracks picture which was taken in Encinitas. I grayscaled it and added a Cutout filter from the filter gallery in Photoshop. Then I added the rocky image to resemble a mountainside, and I used a layermask tool to carve out the shape of a cave. I added the Cutout filter to this as well. Then I inserted a photo of stars that I got online, and made it have a blue hue. I applied a light Cutout filter, then decided to use a spin blur to make it resemble a portal. Next, I used a photograph of Enzo for the main subject. I used a layer mask to trim out his body, then applied the Cutout filter and grayscaled the image. I added a glow and outline in the blending options for that layer. I duplicated the layer and transformed it, and made it all black, so that it would resemble a shadow on the floor behind him. I blurred it slightly so it would be less rough around the edges. Next, I added my photograph of flowers (grayscaled) and applied them at the base of the mountainside image. The last image I added was part of a picture of clouds I photographed (grayscaled). I felt this was necessary because the top of the image looked too empty. Lastly, to add some color to the image, I put a gradient that transitioned from pink to blue on top of all the other layers. I then set the opacity to around 15% so that everything else was visible beneath it. The hardest part was probably making the train tracks appear to run within the portal section and make them fade out into the distance; I honestly don't even remember how I did it.
To me, mandala means repeated a pie-shaped selection of an image and duplicating it until a circle is filled with the repeated shape, with all sides being symmetrical. To create the mandalas, I loaded the original photographs I took and used a pie shaped selection from the template to copy a segment of the image. I then pasted this selection into the template; I duplicated and flipped the layers accordingly until they were symmetrical and filled the template in the shape of a circle. I enjoyed how a selection of an image could be used to create something new that is almost always unrecognizable from the original photograph. My favorite image is the last one with the rings, because the texture from the wall makes the mandala appear as if it was drawn or painted. I struggled with finding selections from the photos I took that would look good in a mandala. If I had to do it over again, I would pay more attention to the photographs I am taking and try to envision the final product of the mandala it would make.
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