Digital photography experiments
This is a picture of my legs. I like the strange colors the glass caused in the stone to my left. And also the glow of the lights that was present without a flash. ~Lori
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This is a picture of my friend Megan. I think the vantage point is particularly interesting because I'm above her at an angle looking down. I experimented a lot with contrast in this picture and I found that greater contrast accentuated her freckles and eyelashes. I also desaturated and darkened the picture, as well as heightened the shadows.
"The magic of photography is metaphysical. What you see in the photograph isn't what you saw at the time. The real skill of photography is organized visual lying." Terence Donovan (b. 1936), British photographer. Guardian (London, 19 Nov. 1983)
Bench in Paris
This is a picture of my brother and sister in law on a bench. At the time it was just a nice picture, but looking back on it i find entirely different emotions and responses than I did at the time. Now looking at the picture, after a month, i feel i captured something more evident than just a kiss, without using photo shop (though i will experiment later). The cars going by in the background make the kiss pop out even more and show how i captured a moment in time that will pass bye. The placement of her hand is crucial, in that it shows how they must stop even themselves for a moment; to sit, to smile, to kiss.
Two Hats
I was just playing around with the camera and two hats sitting our kitchen table. I like the shadows coming towards the viewer, and the angles created by the position of the hats. I adjusted the picture in various manners, but none of them drastically. I warmed the image using the warming layer, I softened the image using the Gaussian filter, sharpened only the edges, and also darkened the yellows in the image to soften the glow of the table. I also like that most of the red hat is in focus, but only one strip of the plaid shows up perfectly clear. ~Lori
This was a sign post w/orange hunting tape that I found. I really liked how clear the tape came out, and the fuzzy nature of the background. I changed the levels of the picture to make it seem to be a brighter day. I also changed the tape color to seem more red, because red and green are opposite on the color wheel. ~Lori
This is a leaf underwater in a stream just outside of Carlisle. I was intrigued by the air bubbles trapped on the leaf, even though I would have epxected them to pop. I also enjoyed the way there is a flicker of light on the waters surface as well making it difficult to discern the space involved. I cut out the background to leave the photo up to the viewers imagination. ~ Lori
