Double Exposed Portraits

Our latest project for Mr. Sanderl's GT class is Portrait Photography. Portrait Photography is when you take a photo of someone else and it expresses their feelings, most times the main part of the portrait is their face. When you take portrait photography you get a image that only shows the side or half of their face. Portrait photography relates to profile view and Silhouetting because when you are taking the photo you are taking a picture of a person. Not only that but, when you take the photo you can still tell who the person is even if the image is all black. You can tell by the side of their face, just by seeing the outline of their nose, mouth, eyes, chin, and their neck.

Double exposures are created in photoshop by going to File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack, you want to select "load files into stack" because you need all three of your images to create a double exposure. Make sure you have a profile image and two images that are textures, something that symbolizes you, or other creative images that you can use. Then, you want to rotate, resize, and crop by holding down shift and sizing it to 8.5 x 11”by 300 px/in. Make sure you hold down shift or else your gonna make the person look like they ate too much burritos or your gonna make like they need to eat more burritos! Then just blend it my going into blending mode and and then color tone. Lastly, save you awesome looking double exposure picture! Try to avoid "happy accidents"! I would want to make a double exposure image because double exposures let yourself be creative and you also have lots of options to make it look unique! Double exposures can also represent you!

In my double exposure photo there are two images that symbolize me. One is of my soccer ball, I chose to take a picture of my soccer ball because soccer is something that I love to do and its something that makes me happy! My second images is of the beach, I chose to take a picture of the beach because the beach is one of my favorite places to go! I tried to the best I could to get a good quality. I think one thing that could be improved for my quality is that I should've took my time more so that I could get a better picture. Another thing that could of been improved is the color of it, I think it would look better if it had more saturation and bright abstract colors. Overall, I think I did a good job creating a double exposure image for the very first time!

HDR Photography

The past couple weeks Mr. Sanderls GT class has been working on HDR photography. HDR photography is a High Dynamic Range. HDR photography is used to make different pictures look better and unique. One thing that I don't like about HDR is that it is really complicated to do. Although, there are some things that I love about it, like how it makes different photos look "one of a kind"and it make your original photo look way better.

Creating an HDR image is not the easiest thing to do in my opinion. First, you need to take all the pictures that you are going to use to create an HDR image. You have to take seven of the same photos but with different exposure compensation. Then upload all your photos on photoshop. Next, go to File > Automate > and Merge to HDR. Then you are given different options to make your HDR image, such as saturation, detail, exposure, vibrance, shadow, and many more. Then just press okay and save your image! This is different then automatic HDR functions because when we take the HDR photo we do it step-by-step and if we did it automatically we wouldn't have to change the exposures at all.

The thought process behind my "experiment" or portrait image was to get the rule of thirds, make look room, and to get a perfect angle. I also wanted to create a "surrealistic" look when making it to a HDR photo. My thought process behind my landscape image was to also get the rule of thirds, make the horizon line straight, and to angle and adjust the camera so that the horizon line is not in the center of the image. During the process of creating this HDR image was a little frustrating to do. Although, it was one of my favorite projects because it was very fun and you got to be very creative.