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Enjoyed this website, but did have trouble cutting on paint.

Enjoyed this website, but did have a tough time cutting image on painter.

I played around with the Wadsworth Website and also with the Picasa collage maker and this is what I came up with. I call the first one "The Circle of Life" and the second one "Beauty".

A Try at Picassa Collage

I am not sure I did this the right way but attempted to create a collage using dog part shots. Here are 3 shots together in a collage. Can you see 2 ears and a paw?

I am posting an extra portrait shot..because Prof. Nevins suggest a simple task when taken my portait shots..put you should against the wall of the window, so as not to shoot into the light. I try this and my last five shots show a great improvement.

tired

Well, I have to say of all the assignments we have done this mod, this was by far, the most difficult for me. Looking back now at how I could have taken the shots, maybe I could have made it a little less difficult. I should have been standing closer to the window and shooting from the light at the subject but instead, I was standing either more to the side of the subjects or directly in front of them. Things to learn and continue to improve as time goes on (outside of this class, as this is the last series of photographs I will take for this class...sniff, sniff). I have to say, this was the best class I have taken at Albertus. I had so much fun taking photographs, learning how to take better shots, things to do and not do. I've always liked taking pictures; now I have to say, I love taking photographs. I find myself thinking more and pausing for a few seconds before just snapping a picture. I set myself up for a shot in a completely different way now and I set my subjects (people or otherwise) up in a different way now than I used to before taking this course. I have learned a lot about editing as well and I can't wait to continue using what I've learned (especially this June on my honeymoon in Antigua...!!!)


(her face was so cute here but really I should have had her further back in the light and should have been taking the shot from against the window looking out at her, but at any rate, isn't she adorable?)

Portraits

These first 2 are my favorite of the many that I took. Working with a child and a rambuncious dog are very difficuly.

This last picture is interesting. She turned her head as I took the shot and this is what happened.

Week 6-Digital Portrait

This wasn't the easiest assignment to do. First, not much sunlight and second, it's hard to keep a straight face! My boyfriend was nice enough to pose for me for this weeks assignment. I used picasa to sharpen and black and white the images.

Another Portrait

This is my 3 yr old nephew... I can't begin to describe the challenge of taking these shots.. the others were all deleted... there were many edits applied from Picassa

Hi all,

I found this assignment rather difficult. These are two women I work with who were gracious enough to let me photograph them. Even though one picture is not super clear I felt it captured the person as I see her. I did put heavy tissue paper on the window for the first picture. I was never sure in picasa if I should sharpen the portrait, I did however, do a lot of cropping and adding highlights.

Eileen P.

Week 7: How to proceed

Hi all,
Read the portion of the syllabus that discusses Week 7... You may post images created using the Atheneum's "Painter" or create your own overlays of images using the collage mode in Picasa. To recap from the syllabus how to save your picture from the Atheneum's site:

To save your creation.... From the Athenaeum site, bring up your image, hit the "print screen" key on your pc keyboard. (Use grabber on a Mac). Go to your image editing application (not picasa) and go to menu item FILE>NEW>ENTER then after the new blank file opens, EDIT>PASTE. Crop away all the parts you don't want and save the file as a .jpg and upload from there. All PC's come with a free image editor called Paint located in the Accessories submenu... PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>PAINT. Save the file as a jpeg (.jpg), not a .bmp.


Have fun with the composited project this week... don't think too hard about it... just play... edit down to your best work... remember to post one here and 6 or more on fotothing!

Week 7 Surrealist aesthetic

I call this one "A Glass of Apples." I used some of my favorite colors & earth tones to achieve a subtle look.

Surrealism

I call it, "Never the Status Quo"

I found doing portraits more interesting but I was not pleased with most of my shots. I THINK I WANT A BETTER CAMERA.

Portraits

I decided to take picutres of my brother; after all, I'm older than him, so I forced him into it. I had him play his guitar as I shot, which hopefully gave the pictures a more "natural", unforced look. None-the-less taking portraits is hard; I took a total of 66 shots, and I only found ten workable ones, which I edited and posted to my fotothing. I found that B&W really does make the shot. Here are my two favorite ones.

Not sure whether it would go under light and shadow or macro, but the reflection in the taillight is fairly clear.

Sorry for the tardiness, I was trying to get my scanner working (and failed), but my camera isn't best suited to macro shots (can't focus manually and auto focus doesn't work from less than a foot). These came out alright as well as some of the ones posted on fotonothing.

I took your advice and changed it to b & w and played with the highlights and shadows, I like it more now.

Week 7

This is a picture of my niece she looks as if she is in deep thought.

Week 7

This is a picture of my cousin by a window I used picasa to sharpen. I thought the picture showed good light

Sara's Pink flower

Another in the series, of let me show you....

Sara liked her bottom pink flower the best... I agree... look what a small tweak of light and saturation can do for it... Remember our language is light. Keep pushing for light... Nice job Sara...

Week 5-Macro

Well, I have to say this weeks assignment was both fun and difficult at the same time. I LOVE flowers, especially Gerber daisies so being able to get up close and personal with some Gerber daisies was great. From my left over bouquet of Valentine flowers, I also photographed some roses and other flowers (see series in fotothing) and found it difficult, even with the macro setting, to get a good focus on some of the flowers that close up. But I was able to come out with some good shots.


I played around with other things to photograph close up; paper clips, tacks, a mix of the two, q-tips (the q-tips were too white to get a good focus on). I liked how this pile of paper clips and tacks looked as a black and white image with a focal point on some of the colored tacks.

Macros

I think that these are my 2 best. I fixed the color on both of them with the auto color and I also sharpened the pictures.

Week 5: Macro

For this picture, I used the sharpen option in Picasa.

I used Picasa color contrast to fix the lighting in the picture.....

...and this one is my favorite! I used saturation for the flower. The flower is a brighter pink, but I love how the saturation brought this picture out!

All of my pictures can be seen on Fotothing!