Monday, 26 May 2014

Macro Photo's

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 Odd Flower Out - Shape/ Balance

  I was drawn to take this photograph becaause even before it was photoshopped the red flower beside the two white flowers, stood out to me. The flowers were very appealing to me because it popped. Once I took this photo I knew exactly how I wanted to photoshop it. I wanted my focal point to be the red flower, to portray that I made a new layer for the flower and changed everything to black and white except for the red flower on a seperate layer. My focal point is a rule of thirds composition. I came to the conclusion that my photo is representing shape and balance. I think the two black and white flowers balance the red smaller flower. The photo is also representing shape because there's two different shapes in my photo. While photoshopping I decided to crop the photo tighter.

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Rocky Way - Texture

I wanted my second photo's concept to be texture. There was one rock that really stood out to me. To make thet rock the focal point of my photo, I cropped the original photo tighter surrounding my focal point. Next I made a seperate layer fothe rock that I wanted as my focal point. Once I did that I darkned the brightness so the rock would stand out more. Lastly, I sharpened the rocks in my photo so you could see more detial in the texture.


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Vibrant Pair - Shape / Balance

I took a photograph of this photo because I saw a lot of potential. Firstly the flowers have such a beautiful shape. The photograph is also balanced since there is another matching flower behind the more focused flower. Once I started to photoshop this photo I wanted to crop out everything that wasn't necessary. Once I cropped the photo how I wanted it, I adjusted the sharpness on the more focused flower because I wanted a viewer looking at my photo to be drawn to that flower right away. Next, I adjusted the hue and saturation on my photo to have more of a vibrant feel. Lastly, I played around with some effects and loved how the effect accented edges looked on my photo so I applied it. 



1 comment:

  1. Morgan, good work on meeting the deadline. I really like the rock image. I have a passion for rocks and your terra cotta coloured half moon in the wide landscape format is very effective. I think you also did a good job on adjusting photo number three. You cropped it tight enough but still left it balances. The hue change to magenta is very appealing. The first photo is the least effective in my opinion. the idea is good, but there is not enough of the red flower showing to make it work. It's nice and focused but is off balance. Good reflections.

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