week 5

This lesson I arrived late due to a dentist appointment, which gave me only enough time to work on my photos that focused on objects within school based on 'Control', because my old photos were accidentally deleted by another student, I borrowed a camera from CRAM and took some photos in my spare time at home and in school. Then during this lesson I started to edit them using Adobe photoshop.

I used a black and white effect on a picture of a path leading to one of the school's main entrance doors, and I tried to make the door and the pathway stand out in the picture by using a blur effect on everything but the path and door so that your eyes follow from the start of the path (at the bottom of the picture) to the door (at the top of the picture) which makes your eyes focus more on the door. I wanted to try out a 3-D effect on the path and door using red and blue colors to outline the picture, however I couldn't figure out how to perform these effects and the other students who had used such effects forgot how use them with photoshop.

Another picture I took of a pen but put the camera on the same table on the pen so that the angle was flat making the camera lens and the pen on the same height level, but I put the camera at one end of the pen so that the shadow of the pen could clearly be seen. I used a black and white effect on the picture because I thought that it made the pen look more plain and also to bring up the contrast of the shadow because it looks a lot better in a thick black then just a faded shadow. I made sure I used a flash when taking the picture because I wanted the pen to reflect a bit of light so that it's more eye catching instead of just a boring old pen with labels on it.

For my third photo I wanted to take a picture of a light but with a dark background, so I took one at night of a lamppost near school. Then when editing with photoshop I tried to darken the background by increasing the contrast and using a blur tool, I didn't aim to completely rid of the background just make it seem almost pitch black except for the parts that the lamppost helped to light up such as the bushes in the background. I made sure the only colors in the photo were black and orange by increasing the contrast of the lamppost's light and the darkness of the picture then increasing the orange color of the whole photo.

Once I was pleased with my pictures I moved on to thinking about my final pictures and what I should take pictures of, so i picked out three topics related to control and then looked at examples online and did research on fine art photography to do with 'Media', 'The human body' and 'Uncontrollable things' since those were my three chosen topics related to control for my final pictures.