The Better Exectuion of..... I Am A Photographer

This is another way to show that i am a photographer. Mrs. Ellman suggested that I combine the photos in photoshop instead of just laying it on a background, like my last post. The picture is a combination of some of the pictures that i have taken. Most of them are self-portraits, but one is the one that i took of a ferris wheel at The State Fair. That picture is also the one I use as the picture that is under my header. This is aslo an expression of how I am a photographer because it shows some of my work, and it has the same basic principles as my last post the only difference is the execution. I personally feel this one executes better than the last post.

I Am A Photographer

I Am A Photographer........(maybe) :) ..... What's my story?..... Well, I don't know... I really love my photojournalism class and I absolutely love taking pictures, as you can see by my photo. The theme of the assignment was to tell that you are a photographer. So, I interpreted that by showing a couple of the photographs that I take and then adding myself add trying to depict the pictures as coming form me, or my mind..... but I don't think that you can really tell.

Me.... Only Better

We had a retouching project where we had to take a picture of ourselves or someone else then retouch it, and this is the outcome. The first picture is the Original photo. The second is the Editing Map, and the third is the Final outcome. I learned many thing while doing this project, many of them involve photoshop. I learned how to use many of the tools in photoshop like clone stamp, lasso, burn, brush, etc. you can make changes in photoshop that look very real, but it is so much easier to take the photo correctly in the first place. It was easy to change the background, but it was time consuming, which was the only hard thing about it. My experience with this assignment was, overall, good. I enjoyed working on it and I had fun messing with myself in photoshop. 

Brake Down of a Pool Table

I choose the subject that I did because I wanted to give my picture a different look than everyone else's photos. I was interested in this particular subject because it is my mother and she is "attempting" to play pool in our game room, that is why I choose it. She was a real good sport and she did a good job posing for this assignment. I am very happy with the results, because I think it looks cool, sort of.

Word Photo

My Word: Competitive 

My Quote: Competitive people are very driven people. The best competition is with one's self. When you are competitive with yourself you learn many things the you never knew. Competing with yourself helps build your character.   

In my opinion the photo-word combination overall gives the picture a finished look and a sense of wholeness.  It gives the picture more depth and adds personal emotion to the picture. I like the way that I wrote the word competitive, but I don't like the way I wrote the quote..... my handwriting is way to sloppy for this assignment. The quote looks so uneven to me. The picture makes me feel at ease, even though its soft and not sharp enough, says the ATPI judges. Although, I kind of like that about the picture. I think the softness adds to the emotion of the picture and makes you feel it as well. I do, however, like the fact that I'm looking down... because probably no one else is in their photos and it adds to the emotion. It looks like I'm either trying really hard to concentrate or am really SAD!..... Don't ask me which.

But...... I'll be honest I don't consider myself competitive.... at least not with other people.... only with myself. When I compete with others I don't really care wheather I win or lose. But with myself, I always want to out do myself and do better then I did before. ! :)

The After

This is a picture of the finished effect. I used my headboard as the texture in the back and i played with the hue saturation in order to get it to the blue color that it is now. I really like this picture because i worked really hard to make it and because i like how one of the layers is more bold than the other, and their for stands out more. This picture really seems to be all about the Jags eyes. I don't really now if you can tell but their are three jaguars in the picture two of them are faced-to-face and the other is toward the front. I like the finished look way better than i did with it before as just the two pictures together. 

The Before

This is the picture of the two Jag pics combined...... i don't know if i really like this picture. I like it better when its combined with the background picture. Right now it looks unpleasant to me, like its missing something, the texture.