Grand Landscape Photoshop Tutorial

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Exploring Landscape

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Image 2

Image 3

Did you use the rule of thirds? What did you emphasize with it sky or land? (5/0)
My favorite image is the third one. I used the rule of thirds in the photo and used the sky to emphasize by having sky take the top third.

What Principles of design did you use and how? (5/0)
I used emphasis seen by the differences between the light poles and the trees and proportion with all the spacing in the photo. There is a variety of plants and random trash cans. There is repetition with the trees and light poles.

What time of day was your image taken? Was it a good time to shoot or not? Why?(5/0)
This was taken at 2 in the afternoon it was not a good time to shoot for many reasons the first being the lighting was too bright and it was hard to get a good picture and there was a class that kept walking through were I was trying to shoot.

How did you use the foreground/background relationship? (5/0) 
The images seen in the foreground are bigger and clearer with the small details about them being easier to see.

Edge Burning

Gradient 

Lab Color

Desaturation

Channel Mixer

Black and White Questions
 1. Which method do you think produced the best result for you?

I think the gradient effect created the best effect because it looks better and has a large range of value.
2. Did you achieve a large value range for each image? If not, which methods worked the best?

 They all have a decent range of value for each of them except for the lab color method because that is pretty much all one color.

Close up landscape

1. How was using the macro lens?

It was easy to put onto my phone but it was very difficult to get a picture that was focused and not blurry.

2. Which is your favorite shot and why?

I like my second shot because it shows cool details of the plant and it is clear and has good coloring on it.

 3. Which shot shows the best use of the rule of thirds?

The second shot shows the best use of the rule of thirds because it is slightly of centered while the other ones are in the middle.

4. What principles of design are used in your favorite image?
There are emphasis and proportion used in the second photo because there are interesting size differences in the different leaves and there is a clear leaf that is emphasized.

Video Questions

How can you view Cal High differently? 

You can plan out a shot using Cal to tell a story or think about what the most impressive aspects about it are.

How could you photograph it differently to make it look exciting and interesting?

You can try to take a lot of different pictures with different perspectives and angles to get the best possible shot.

Cinemagraph

1. Our Team's concept was to have bubbles shown moving without me making any movement at all, I would say that we were successful because you can only see movement by the bubbles and I am stuck in the same position the whole time.
2. I was most involved in the creative and technical part of the process as I help set up the scene as we wanted it and came up with the idea it as well as doing a lot of the photoshop process.
3.  I would have try to set up the camera settings and lighting to make the video a little more clear than it turned out to be.
4. This wasn't a particularly difficult project except for maybe making it clear the best camera settings to use.
5. We balanced the work really well between all of us, with everyone contributing something in each part of the project. So I would say we worked well as a team.

Shooting Water Droplets

Colored water no flash
F8 Shutter Speed: 1/500 s ISO:3200

1. It was very difficult to get a good shot because it was hard to focus on the right area and to be able to take an image that was light enough
2. I didn't like how difficult it was to set up the lights so that we could get enough light into the photo.

Shooting water in burst mode.

1. It was pretty difficult to get a good shot because it took a lot of time and patience to try and get a good shot.
2. I liked how easy it was to get  a lot of shots in burst mode and it was easier to focus the camera.


Burst mode colored water

1. It was difficult to get a good shot from the best angle to show of the colored water interacting with the droplet.
2. Our team tried a lot of different angles to get the best shot and best show the interaction between the water and the colored drop.

Shooting Water With Flash
F8 Shutter Speed: 1/500 s ISO:1600

1.  This was the easiest shot to get a good picture before because the flash allowed us to not have to worry as much about the lighting.
2. I liked that shooting with flash allowed us to not have to do as much lighting set-up and still be able to get a good focused picture.

vibrant colors