Series Draft I

In this new series, I am continuing to emulate Eugene Atget's style. However, this time, I am shooting antiquated buildings, streets, and signs, and nature in color. I will be challenging myself to recreate the same nostalgic, dreamy, and "remnants of humanity" feeling. With our high-tech cameras, it is difficult to shoot blurry and dreamy pictures, so I have used the Soften effect on Picmonkey. My images feature leading lines, repetition, and depth staging to create depth. In addition, the whole scene is shown and not cropped to give the full story in my pictures.

Filters

In this assignment, we tested out the different filters and effects on Picmonkey and Photoshop. The goal is to allow us to explore the different ways we can alter our pictures and hopefully choose an effect or combination of filters that we like and use in a series.

 

Filter used: Chrome in Photoshop

Filters used: Glowing edges, Diffuse glow, and Cutout in Photoshop

Filters used: Cutout and Glowing edges in Photoshop

Filters used: Glowing edges and Ink outlines in Photoshop

 

Filters used: Neon glow in Photoshop

 Filters used: Ombre in Picmonkey, Changed brightness in Picmonkey, Cutout in Photoshop

Design

 

 

 

 

In this assignment, we designed movie posters, advertisements, album covers, magazine covers, and book covers. We added text and put thought into the layout of our design to "sell" the product or attract attention.

Motion 2

After working with low shutter speeds, we took pictures using high shutter speeds to freeze motion. I took pictures of objects in mid-air and of people jumping to create the effect of levitation. It was quite difficult to photograph the model jumping and finding the exact time to press the shutter before the model finished the jump. Also, modeling for another person was stressful since the feet needed to be flat while jumping, to look natural.

Motion

We had the chance to experiment with motion in our pictures. Last semester, we focused on getting sharp and crisp images, but this time, we did the opposite. To capture motion, we slowed down our shutter speeds to about 1/8s. Although we wanted some blur in our pictures by shaking, zooming, and rotating the camera, we hoped to create some interesting shapes and dynamic in the images.

Silhouettes

We have started the new year with this assignment of taking pictures against the light to create silhouettes of our subjects. It was quite difficult finding the right spot in taking the pictures so that the light would be behind the subjects and also not blind ourselves from the sunlight. By changing the exposure level on our cameras and editing the shadows on "PicMonkey", we could create the silhouette affect.

Eugene Atget: Final Edit