Halloween Spread; Nov 5/2 2010

Rule of Thirds Quiz; Nov. 3/ 2010

In the first picture, the third picture and fourth image is a good demonstration of rule of thirds. Rule of thirds is when a picture shows more than one composition and two points of interest, making the eye have to focus on more than one spot on the image. Rule of thirds can also incorperate movement, leading lines, center of attention and balance.

The first picture the photographer shows good rule of third because the person who is standing on the posts is off-centered that is going through the top left and bottom left intersect. In the backround, you can see that the barn is to the right of the person, and draws attention in the middle-right intersect.

The third picture shows rule of thirds and movement. There are two main parts to the photo; the person that goes through the top and bottom left intersects, and the flying bird that is in the top right intersect, along with the people far in the distance through the entire picture.

The fouth picture also demonstrates a rule of thirds understanding and leading lines, because looking up from the ground to the sky and the tower, you find that the top of the tower draws your eye to the top right intersect of the photograph, which is also where all the lines from the tower meet in the middle. In the top of the picture you see the blue sky and clouds, which compliments the image.

Question

Why do you use photoshops channel mixer to change colour pictures to black and white?

Novel Cover; Oct 27/ 2010

Photoshop makeover; Oct. 19/ 2010

In this assignment Alyssa was photographed infront of a blank board backround using natural lighting and basic photoshop protocol editing. After using levels, colour balance, contrast, sharpening tool and channel mixer, adjustments were made with the lighting after turning the picture to a monotone and created a duplicated layer. On that duplicated layer the surface blur tool was used to make her skin looked softer, then her eyes, hair, mouth, nostrils and eyebrows to make the picture still look realistic. To finish it, the dodge tool was used to create a dramatic backround so that Alyssa was the main attention on the picture.

Fall Light; Oct. 8/ 2010

This assignment is aiming to get an " A criteria ". The purpose of the placement of shot was to get the long casted shadows that come out mid-afternoon, the picture was also taken off-centered to Jesse so that it would be considered a Rule of thirds spot and so that there was leading lines directed towards him on the path and throughout the grass. To get the colours and shading in the picture the basic protocols were used. First, levels, colour correction, then contrast, crop, sharpen and useage of the dodge and burn tool in a seperate layer to create a more dramatic, darker lighting in the afternoon forest walk.

Rule of Thirds; Oct. 6/ 2010

In this assignment we learned how to use rule of thirds. Rule of thirds makes a picture have more than one composition and two points of intrest, making the eye have a focus on more than one thing at a time.