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.

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. 

Gerrrrrr........ JAG TIME!

The Jag Statue stands before the gates of Summit High School and now will be monumental in this, and Mrs. Ellman's other student's blogs. I focused more on his gazing eyes then i did last time, which is why i think they are better than last time. Those eyes are hypnotic and can stare into the soul of anyone passing by. The mouth that sits waiting to devour those poor Summit students........    (Man it sounds like I'm in love with this thing..... :) oh...well, I'm weird)

This is more pictures of the Jaguar Statue that i took for Mrs. Ellman's class. I choose to put them on top of each other so you could compare them. One is the original, only with crop, tone, caption, and save done to it. The second, below the original, is the ones that i altered other things in photoshop. I used things like charcoal, and stain glass, and glass to get them to look like that. I think that they are better than my first ones because i did a sort of before and after photoshop. I also like these better because they are taken closer and concentrate more on single parts instead of a unified whole.