My Photo Story
by
Karen A. Wilson
Created for Digital Photography
V14SU ART-1310-VO02
August 2014

My Photo Story - The Hike

My final Digital Photography project is a Photo Story. I have chosen pictures from a hike I took with my daughter Amanda and my two granddaughters, Kali and Reis. At the beginning of the hike, Reis found a heart shaped rock. At the end of the hike, her mom let her take the rock home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adjustments: hues/saturation; color balance; clone to remove other people; text



Adjustments: black & white; bright/contrast; color balance; exposure; levels

Adjustments: bright/contrast; clone

Adjustments: bright/contrast; levels; hues/saturation

Adjustments: crop; hues/saturation; levels; blur

Adjustments: crop; paint; levels; hues/saturation

Adjustments: vibrance; color balance; hues/saturation; sharpness

Adjustments: levels; crop; blur; hue/saturation

Adjustments: hue/saturation; levels; layers

Adjustments: hue/saturation; levels

Adjustments: crop; hue/saturation; brightness; color adjust

Adjustments: level; color balance; hue; clone to remove Amanda; dodge & burn; blur

Portraits

My Girls
This picture was taken after my daughter Heather's New England Youth Theatre performance. My daughter Amanda worked with her in rehearsals and on stage the day of the performance.
I have been watching videos and working on manipulating my portraits for the past few days without getting the effects I was looking for. I think once I have more time to perfect the art of photo manipulation, it will be much better.
I cropped, changed the hues and contrast and removed the red eye.

My Girls before

These four pictures are of my cousins grandson Elliot. He had just gotten up from a nap and was contemplating the kiddie pool.
I tried a couple of different things with this picture.
Using the black and white feature in Photoshop and then manipulating the tone to make it almost a sepia and cropping out the background. Still need to figure out how to smooth the edges.
Then I converted it to a black and white drawing.
Lastly a black and white photo.
For all of the portraits I manipulated the hues and contrast to accent the features.

 

My Wallace Nutting Collection-Referenced In Term Paper

Photo Story Rev 2-The Hike

Below are the original pictures used to create my final Photo Story.

 

 

Clone Text & Paint

 

 

Okay, I think I've finally gotten the hang of the clone tool. At least I feel a little more comfortable.

Text is okay and paint needs some work! I think I need to find another tutorial LOL!



Before with the bright sun spot.



After using the clone tool



I used this photo when I was experimenting with dodge and burn tools.

 

 





I had saved the other copy to my desktop at work and one of the guys thought it was cool.

He said it would be even better if it had "Anderson & Empey F.D." on the door.

So, here it is! I used the clone tool first to wash out the name that was on the door before.

Then I chose the font, size, added the arc and changed the VA to 50.



Before using the clone tool there were telephone poles and wires in the photo.

After using the clone tool and replacing a couple of trees, much better.

Probably shouldn't have added the text to this one ...

Cheers!

This was a warm summer afternoon and my daughters and I had taken the girls and a friend for ice cream.



Okay, this is fun, but I definitely still need to do some work with the paintbrush!

 

 

 

 

 

Filters and Dodge & Burn

Below are three different pictures that I modified using Photoshop.

Rte 142 Trucks - Before

Rte 142 Trucks - After the "burn" tool was used. I also reduced the brightness and increased the contrast.

Before- Kali & Reis at the beach



After - Cropped their bucket and added the "glowing edges" filter

Before - Campfire at Kenolie

After - Using the same Glowing Edges and modifying the color and tones