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Week 13 Portraits

This picture is of my son, Cameron.  I decided to take a full length picture of him as he leaned against the railing.

I tried a closer shot of Cameron than the last one.  I tried getting closer to his face, but thought that it made it lose something.  I chose this spot because the light was in the background.

This one I tried to frame his face in the branches of the white birch.  It gives his face a different look.  I also played with different angles on where I stood.  This angle seemed to be the best with less glare on his face.

Week 10 Paint

This is the original picture of the angel that sits on my porch railing.

I decided to use the paint brush and add a little color to the flowers and vine on it's head.  I also thought a little color on the lips would be nice as well.  This was fun to try.  It took a little work and steady hand on my laptop to make the lines come out the way I wanted them to.

Week 10 Text Tool

This is the original photograph of my son meeting the driver of his favorite Monster truck.

I chose viner handwriting for the font and put it on size 48.  I chose the purple to go with the truck itself.

  

Week 10 Cloning

I cloned the bottom leaf.  I found this feature to be pretty easy to use.  I had to play with the size of the brush to get the right size so that it didn't take too long and was fairly precise. 

Week 9 Filters

This is the original photo of my sister-in-law on her wedding day

I removed the noise out of this picture.  It softens the picture making it look a little more vintage.  I like the it makes the picture look.

This is the original picture of my sweet peas that I grew in my garden.

In this picture, I chose the the fresco option under the artistic button.  I think it adds more character to the flowers, it shows the veins a bit more.  It also blurs the back ground a bit.  I also like the colors that it took on.

Week 8: Light & Color

I added light to this picture to change the color of the orange.  It seems that it changed the whole outlook on the mushrooms.

 

This is the original picture, taken in the late afternoon.

I darkened the picture a bit to get more color out of the barn boards and the green grass.  I didn't change it a lot, but just enough to make things pop out a little more.

This is the original photo of the tractor.  The brightness of the sun seems to bleach out some of the natural colors of the grass and the barn boards.

Week 7: Photo Editing

This is the original picture with the road and tree on the left hand side with no leaves

I cropped the picture so that the bare tree and road are no longer in it.  The beautiful red maple trees are more the focus now.

This is the original picture with the opposing team on the field.

I took and cropped the opposing team out of the picture so that you have a better view of Lyndon Institute and the flowers that spell out LYNDON.

Week 6 Landscaping Pictures

I was trying to frame the pond with the trees that surrounded it.  The colors would have been much prettier last week with the color of the leaves.

This picture I was trying to show varieties of lines in this distant picture.  The colors of the what was left on the trees was kind of muted by the gloomy day.

I tried to show a frame around the farm with the trees below and the line of the field below it.  I think that Burke Mountain and Kirby Mountain help frame it in as well.

I wanted to show the elegant lines of the wind towers.  This photo doesn't even begin to show how gigantic these things really are.  I liked the line of the mountain under the towers as well.

I was looking at the line that the farm on the horizon was creating.  It has a gradual slope to the right.  I also tried to put the farm in the lower right third of the picture.

I like the different lines that this photo has, it has to be one of my favorites.  I love the color of the maple trees against the green grass and the brown fence.

Week 5 Slideshow

Week 5 Reading

"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. "  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche


Aesthetics is a part of philosophy that has to do with the nature of beauty, art, and taste and creation and appreciation of beauty.  It is a study of sensory or sensori-emotional values.

I read the article on http://photoinf.com/General/NAVY/Photographic_composition_Balance.htm.  I guess I never really stopped to think about all the different characteristics that go into a great photo.  You rarely capture a perfect picture on a whim.  Most are staged and prepared to come out the way that you want it to.  I think that we often forget about the beauty around us because we see it all day, by stopping and taking pictures of things around us, we can forever appreciate it, even if it's not there some day.

Week 4 Photos

   I chose this picture for my complementary photo.  I think the colors blend well together and give your eye multiple things to view.

     I chose this lily as my analogous photo.  The orange and yellow are close on the color wheel and blend well together.  I like the texture in this flower as well.
 Thought I would try my complimentary picture again.  The pink is accented by the green of the stems.

Week 3 Collage

I had fun this week looking for objects to take up close pictures of.  I have to admit, I had no idea that my computer had the macro function.  I had seen the little flower symbol before but never really knew what it did.  I love the outdoors and the beautiful things it has to offer.  A lot of my photos are of flowers that are around my house. 

Week 2 Photos

I chose this angle of my pink flamingo because it shows the detail in the tail feathers and how long its legs are.  This is what I see when I lay on the ground next to my flower garden.  My mom and step-dad made these for me for Christmas one year, and I love how they look in my garden!

This picture is an up close shot from the side of the flamingo.  It shows the detail of the paint job on the face.  I love the different colors in the face.  From a distance, it almost looks like the real thing.