Posts tagged: student

Photography

Photoshop and the White House

March 24, 2010 Today we had to turn in an image demonstrating our use of Photoshop techniques that we learned this week. Using the image I worked on earlier this week, I decided to composite a few more images using various masking techniques, clipped adjustment layers and an overlay blend for the sidewalk. Below you can see the image that I started out with and the final transformation. Before After Like my shoutout to the CDIA Boston campus?   Read On...

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Seeing Beyond the Object

March 22, 2010 Last Saturday was the start of Composition and Design class.  This course will explore how best to compose your photograph in a dynamic way.  I was excited to start the class and to bring my composition skills to the next level.  Our first exercise found us in the school's bathroom.  Yes, the bathroom.  I wasn't sure about this assignment, but my classmates really created some great shots.  The exercise was name Read On...

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Design and Composition

March 18, 2010 This week we had Design and Composition with Robert Severi. Throughout the week we shot everything from circles and squares, bathrooms and street scenes. For our final deliverable assignment we had to shoot 15 images on a list of 9 themes; Tell Me a Story (3 shots), Eye of the Beholder (1 shot), Look Ma, No Eyes1 (1 shot), Faceless Portrait (1 shot), Through a Glass, Darkly (1 shot), Stakeout (1 shot), A Shot Per Day, WET (1 shot), How Ironic! (1 Read On...

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Fine Art Printing for Photographers

March 17, 2010 This week we worked on fine art printing with David Sharpe as our instructor. For this module we selected up to six images that we've taken to process for a 13 x 19 luster or matte paper print made on an Epson 4800 printer. We did all our proof printing using 5 x 9 enhanced matte paper and Epson 3800 printers. The process to find the optimal print was very involved. For every change we made we had to make a print and compare it with the previous Read On...

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Photoshop I

March 2, 2010 Photoshop is an amazingly powerful tool to any photographer. After a week with Robert Rathe instructing our class, I feel like I can do almost anything with images and yet we've only scratched the surface of what Photoshop can do. Here are a few images that I've put together this week in Photoshop. This photo of Mikela, James and Alex was taken in my Intro to Light class. The lighting is coming from above using an umbrella. image by wi Read On...