The House That Built Me Final Project

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Filtering

These pictures are of my son. I used the spikey warp filter to add some dimention to these pictures. I also used the clarify mode to make the picture a little clearer and pop a little more. I like how the filter is warping around the edges and not around his face.

portrait pictures

In these pictures I was at my nephews wedding. I had a hard time getting the color to be crisp and clear. They all seem to be a little yellow in color. Since the wedding was inside, maybe the lighting was the cause for this. Also, I noticed in a few of the pictures there is a shadow around thier faces. I learned in this class the way to avoid this is to move a little farther away from the wall and this will eliminate this. Kids are always distracted by something else in the room. So trying to get my great-niece to look at the camera, and not the commotion around the room was difficult. All in all I am OK with the pictures, but wish they were more professional looking.

Watermark

OK, now I'm starting to have fun. In the orginal picture, I just went off my Burn and Dodge picture. I decided to do a watermark. I choose to use another picture and apply it to the upper left corner of the picture. I was going to leave it really faint but decided to increase the opacity and make it a bit darker so that it was more visable. I also embossed the picture to add a little demention to the picture.

Burn and Dodge

Im trying to catch up, the GIMP doesn't work well with my operating system so I'm a little behind. As you can see in this picture I lightened their faces using the Dodge technicque and I darkened the water using the Burn technique. I think that it really makes thier faces pop out of the water.

Added Text

In this picture I did both cloning to get rid of a pickup truck in the background and I added text to the picture.

Clone Stamp and Patch

Here is a picture of my son at a firestation. As you can see my daughter is in the lower right hand corner of the picture. I cloned the orginal picture many times to eliminate her from the picture. Also there was a small stuffed teddy bear above my sons head that I also cloned out of the picture.

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Ok, here I go again. In the first picture I centered my niece and it is harder to see the beautiful background. In the second picture I used the rule of thirds and had her set to the left of the picture. As you can see, more of the background is visable.

Here is the same image of my niece, but instead of using the rule of thirds I centered her in the picture. Now you cannot see as much of the beautiful background. I used the portrait setting for this picture as well.

Here is a picture that I took of my niece last fall. Here you can see that I used the rule of thirds and you are able to see more of the background and she still is very clear in the image. I believe that I used the portrait setting.

I'm starting to get a little more comfortable with the Blog! I'm actually having more fun with it than I thought I would. Who knows I may continue this blog after class ends.

OK here goes! These pictures were taken at a pool that we often take our kids to. The picture of the four of them is closest the the outside door where most of the natural light comes through. I noticed that the natural light reflected off of the water in the hot tub, almost making it appear lighter and clearer. The Second photo is taken of my son "hamming it up". This photo was taken around the same time, but was taken at the point furthest away from the door with natural light. I noticed how the background is much darker.
This photo was taken in the middle of the the room. Half way between the door and the furthest wall. I can see more of the background, but still seems to appear dark. But my son is bright and cheery!


The last photo is of my daughter.

swimming

swimming at the pool
This picture was taken up close. I took this photo at the point that was furthest away from the natural light that came in from the glass doors. You can see how dark it was behind my son.

my collage, yeah for me, finally.

Here are a few of my kids favorite toys and things. I thought that I would add the words "live, laugh, love" just to be a little different. Let me know what you think. One thing that I noticed is that the picture in the upper left hand corner, was not taken vertically, it was taken horizontally. The picasa must have automatically corrected it.

payeur girls, Here are my two photos, I think that I need to pick another one as well.

OK, I'm trying to figure out how to get my photos from my computer to the blog. Man, this is no fun.

Digital Photography

I'm testing my new blog for Digital Photography.