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Here are some of my favorite photographs taken so far, hope you enjoy!

 

 

Classy Camera Photography

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Architectural Phtography

    

Architectural photo's are so much fun to edit because it doesn't matter what it looks like. For those of you who dont know what abstract photos are, its a photograph that is unusual and modern. Its not supposed to be recognizable and its usually very colorful as well! You will first start out with a photo with very high contrast. It doesn't matter what the photo is just one that will allow you to create a dramatic change.

     Next you are going to invert your photo. This will create color that will allow you to use the paint bucket on it. Or if you are using a editing program you can pick the duo-tone option and it will do the same thing. After you invert the phot you will be able to pick any two colors to change your photo's image.

inverted:                                                                   duo-tone:

      Don't worry if you don't like the color of the photo you can always change it again. Next you will add contrast. For my photo it brought out the background of this particular image. It might not have the same effect on your image. Then for a personal touch i'm going to blur the edges of my photo just to make it look a little more abstract. You do not have to do this to your photo.

contrast:                                                                 personalized:

     Next you are going to add some texture to the photo. You can do this by spray painting the photograph lightly. I did this in photoshop by over leying the photograph. You do this by taking another photo and placing it underneath the original. They you take the opacity of the photo on time and minimize it slightly.

                                                        overley:

      Last finally you are going to either add higher contrat once again to bring out the textured photo, or you can change the color completely again. I wanted something that was lighter for the patter so I simply inverted the photo again. This is a really cool way to create personalized artwork. Most stores can blow up photos to bigger than most posters. So get it framed and have everyone ask you where you got that expensive painting.

Photo Journal

Hey everyone,

Please check out my new Photo Journal I put together! These are my favorite photographs from 2010-2012. Now I'll be able to start a new book and get some new excting photographs out there. :)

Thank you,
Jessie

Movement Helpful Hints

Antique

          This post is going to show you how to make a regular picture look old. Most people are thinking why would you want to make your pictures look old? Well, antique photographs are more of an art peice. These photos will be awesome to look at, and it will creat new editing techniques that you can use for the future!

starting photo:

          You can really pick any picture for this edit. Just be careful because something editing people with an antique finish can be a lot harder than just outside, or an object. First step will to add slight contrast and then secondly you will want to make your photo a dark sepia. You will want this sepia to be dark brown and not light brown because of the future edits to come.

                                            contrast:                                                sepia:

          Next you will want to make your photo look grainy. You will do this by darkening your photo and then adjusting the saturation. Next I decided to lighten the picture because most old photographs were not fully developed. It left copper in the photograph creating the look below. I also decided to round the edges to personalize the photo. You do not have to do this, but if you want to it is really easy to do in paint with the shape tool. Unless you have photoshop then there is an automatic edit.

                                               grain:                 personalization:

          The fifth step will be to wash out your photo by lowering contrast and lightening your photo yet again. You are probably wondering why did you add contrast at the beginning and now you are taking it away. Because the ordering of your edits it will make a difference on how your photo looks. Next I lowered the tempurature of the photo to make sure that the copper brown wasn't to present. If the photo is too brown it will look forced.

                                           wash out:              tempurature:

          The final step is a little advance so you do not have to do this step if its too complicated for you. This step you are going to crop your photo and then over lap and rotate those croppings. This edit is easiest in photoshop, but do-able in paint. Then you need to blur the overlaped peices and this will create the effect of the photo being bent or wore-down. This is the ultimate antique photograph and hope these steps helped you understand more about old photo's!



FINAL PHOTO:

People

          The next how to is over people. People are one of the hardest things to photograph! Its all about lighting and of course the editing. My sister is the ginny pig in this next how to. I will how to show you on how to make a indoor photograph of a person look like a professional portrait shot. Just like any photo I'm going to start by cropping it off center.

                                                                Cropped Off Center:

         Then you are going to take you photo and blur the background. You also might want to blend the face, but make sure while you do this to not blur the eyes, teeth, and hair.. this way the photo will look and not over touched. Most people tend to over touch photographs of people where it doesn't look like the person that started. No one wants that to happen!

Blurred:                                                                          Over-touched:

          Next you are going to add contrast and some saturation, this gives color and depth to the photograph. If you forgot how to do this refer yourself to the previous post over black and white photographs. Another helpful hint is use a solid color as your background like this photo. For beginners it gives the photo a more complete look. When you start to feel more comfortable editing you can take your photo's outside.

Contrast/Saturation:

         This step you are going to touch up. Here you will add white to the teeth, most people already do this. Just make sure not to make them fake looking. A helpful hint that no one really knows about is whitening the eyes as well. This makes eyes look brighter and enhances the persons look.

Touch Up:                                                                   Too Much:

          Last step you will brighten the photo! This you will lighten only slightly creating natural lighting even though you took the picture inside on a cold morning. Now you are good with editing people. Next blog post I will be able to help you out with moving people and people outdoors. This was just the first lesson on editing people!

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