Self Portraits

Self Portraits

  I took this photo just a close up of my face because I really liked it and I liked how I felt. I editing a few things like my eyes, face, and background but I think it enhanced the picture.

 I took this photo into the reflection of my microwave. I liked how i could actually see myself and everything behind me. I know its not a professional photo but I found it cool.

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I LOVE this photo because it's of my favourite shoes and I added the diamond because i thought it made the photo, almost better. I editing the picture to really enhance the highlights and shadows. But I took in black and white because it suited the photo more.

 I took this photo because I love being lit up and I don't know, I like Christmas. I thought it looked cool so I kept the photo. 

THIS IS MY CAT AND I LOVE HER SO THIS IS MY PHOTO. But no seriously I love this photo. It was taken awhile ago but I really enjoy it.

These photo's are better hence now I have & photo's. But i really like the contrast and brightness in both photos. I love my eyes and in the second photo i love my bright hat. 

Infrared Photohraphy

Infrared Photography

-Infrared photography?

Sir William Hershel was an amateur astronomer discovered infrared in the early 19^th century.

The first traces into IR photography, using certain film plates, began during WW1 so part of the 20^th century. Since it was during WW1 the type of photography seemed to be very valuable. The distinctions in the images were incredible, and making things such as rivers, streams, lakes, and other waterways more obvious. In the 1930’s and 1940’s a variety of special IR lenses were made for amateur photographers and Hollywood filmmakers. Certain lenses were also used in the war as advantages. Everything soon changed in the 1990’s with the digital camera, but the law enforcement officials rely and use IR photography to detect evidence that isn’t seen through normal eyesight.

-How?

William was familiar with Newton’s discovery that sunlight could be separated into its separate components through refraction through a glass prism. William passed sunlight through a glass prism to create a spectrum (the rainbow created when light is divided into its color components.) William measured the temperature of the violet, blue, green, yellow, orange and red light. He noticed that all the colors had temperatures higher, closer to the violet and red part of the spectrum. William now trying to understand this measured the temperature just beyond the red portion of the spectrum and found this part of the spectrum had the highest temperature of all and contained the most heat. What William discovered was a form of light beyond red light. William’s experiments lead to the discovery of infrared light

(http://photographylife.com/introduction-to-infrared-photography)

(http://www.biosmartsolutions.com/heaters/portable/history-infrared-infrared-technology) 

Other People's Self Portraits

Self Portraits

#1

                              I chose this photo because I really love heels, and its a different perspective of a typical self portrait. The photo has a really dark look to it but I think thats why I like it more.            

                                                                               #2

I chose this photo because I like the contrast of colours. From her red hair to the teal walls. I really like how it's different and not typical. This photo just kinda jumped out at me and that's why I chose it. 

                                                                            #3

I like this photo because not only is it a self portrait of the one girl but she's lying on a bunch of photos. It kinda seems like the photo is betraying memories she had. Maybe ones she's trying to forget. It kinda relates to me but I just really like the photo.

Erik Johansson Photography

Erik Johansson Photos:

#1 Twisted Seasons

 I chose this image because it really twists with your mind, seeing two seasons clashed into one setting. I presumed it was spring and winter. I like how the winter sections is flipped upside down as if the image isn't already backwards and abnormal. I just really like the picture and the unordinary of it.

                                                                         #2 Set them free  

 I chose this picture because it was visually appealing to me. I liked how it used the picture frame and it seemed as the water and boats were pouring into the ocean. I really like how in the picture its a nice and bright sunset with shining water but the actual water is dark and gloomy. I just thought it was a really cool photo.

                                                                       #3 Work at sea

I chose this particular photo because i really liked how it looked like the actual ocean but then it slowly faded into looking like boards. I like the contrast of colours how everything is black and white then the water is blue. It makes it really eye popping. 

Retouch a Bland Model Portrait in Photoshop

Portrait Photo #1

Portrait Photo #2

                                               
                                                                     Portrait Photo #3

Portrait #1 is of Tina Nguyen, portrait 2 is of Kelsey Joeseph and portrait #3 is of Mr. Simns.
I first started off with selecting the area i wanted to focus on hence her face and hair.
I had to get rid of the original background so the face would be a main focus. I then had to refine
the edges as best i could so they weren't so jagged. I started to touch up any of the skin flaw an blemishes they had with the spot healing tool. Going back on to the first layer I removed any bags they had underneath their eyes. Putting another layer over I then removed any hotspots there were with the patch tool. Step 8 is makeup. The fun part. I used the paint brush and created a layer for each area. (eg. eyes, hair, lips) I adjusted the opacity on the layers so it wasn't a dramatic. I didn't adjust the hair much but I did not do their eye colour .This is a brief overview of how I did my images.
                                 

Tilt Shift photography

                                                                         Tilt Shift #1

                                                                        Tilt Shift #2

                                                                      Tilt Shift #3

For my tilt shift photography the images may not seem very fascinating like others but I took these images because they all have good colour schemes and contrast. For my first image I stood at the top of the stairs outside and pointed the camera down. My second image I out the camera settings on macro for good detail. I kneeled on the ground and pointed the camera down to get a bird's eye view. My third image I stood by the end of the bench and pointed the camera down and to the side to get that effect. Once I uploaded them I put them in photoshop. First things first I had to double click on the layer that says background and make it unlocked and name it layer 0. I then pressed shift Q, which made it "quick mask." To blur the image I had to click the gradient tool to make the area I wanted to focus on red. After the area I wanted focused I pressed shift-Q to select the image. I then went to filter then blur to blur the image were I didn't want it focused. After that I pressed command-D to deselect it so I could adjust the hue and saturation. After adjusting the colour and effect I saved the images into my folder then handed them in! And that is how I did my tilt shift project!