Black and White

 I took a portrait of my younger sister, Kamryn, wearing her Santa Claus hat. I believe that by look at this photo you can see her inner age. Of course she appears to be a young girl, considering she is, but looking into her eyes you can see a maturity well beyond her years.

Beyond Her Years.

In digital photography class we had a silhouette project. I decided to edit a photo that my friend had taken on photoshop. I liked the volume of her hair, and wanted to excentrate it in the photo. To make the silhouette I used the adjustment threshold option on www.picnik.com, and online photo editor. I then used the doodle tool to finish making my friends profile black.

Do you think that silhouettes are a good way to express photography and artistic opinion?

This is a picture that I editted on Picnik using the adjustable threshhold setting. In order to get to this setting you go under the create tab, and then under the sandbox effects tab and then click adjustable threshold. Then above that I clicked the film grain setting, and I darkened the corners of the image. I felt like i wanted to add another kind of effect though, so I scrolled through all of the different effects, finally settling on adding the "fire" as seen in my picture.

This is a silhouette picture that I created on picnik. I took a self picture using a Mac and then uploaded it to picnik. Afterwards I used the adjustable threshold effect to give it the black and white feeling. Then I played around with each threshold until I got a desired result. I added a goofy effect as well to make it more fun looking. The doodle effect allowed me to white out certain parts so I could just get the outline of the head. Finally I added text and a border around my silhouette. I feel that this is a very neat and creative way to edit a photo and I plan to use in more in the future. The silhouette effect made it be very striking and bold.

This picture is meant to be in the perspective of a dog. It a picture of the  leg of my bed in black and white. I chose to make the picture that way because we know that dogs are color blind and I imagine them as color blind. 

Here, what I have done is photoshopped "smoke". With just a black background and a white streak down the middle, I was able to use tools and morph it to look like it does. We found an interesting site on the internet that had all these tips and tricks on how to use photoshop. I don't think that this looks exactly like smoke but if I experimented more with it I think that I could get it just about right.

I named this photo "Apparition" because it kind of looks like a ghost. this is another action photo.

I had to print this picture twice and have two test strips. I burned the rock right in front of the water the second time printing. When i printed the picture I printed it for 13 seconds then dodged the rock for 9 more. I didn't use any filters but dodging really helped chane the picture. Lines are shown throughtout the picture and the space is so well that it feels like your walking into the picture. I saw this thinking it would be a challenge to print witch I like. The picture is very peacful and it gives a calmly mood. I really like the space in this picture and how the water looks like it's still moving. I don't think there is anything i would change it turned out very well.