Thursday, March 5, 2015



The image on the right is obviously the after and the one on the right is the before. I used a really cool new paintbrush I downloaded and used to give it the different boarder. I changed it to a darker bluish grey make it a cyanotype.
The image on the top is the before and the bottom is the after.I used a different brush i hadn’t used yet. I liked how it held the picture in this web like border. I changed it to a darker bluish grey make it a cyanotype.



Image on the left is the edited and the image on the right is the original. I gave this one a different tint cause I thought it would look cool as a daguerreotype. The border smooths out the corners and burns up in the bottom. It gives it an older look.



This one is my Gum Bichromate the first image is the original, the other to are the edited. This one was the hardest for me to make because the editing process was confusing and had lots of steps. I had to make all these different colors and then add a vector mask on each  of the channels. Then I painted them on and it looked okay. So I added tons of blending options till I got an image that looked really different and looked cartoon like. I flattened the image and fixed the overall brightness, exposure, gamma correction, and offset.




This one is my first Gum Bichromate. I decided to use one of my cyanotypes just to see what would happen. I had to make different color layers and then add a black vector mask on each  of the channels. Then I painted them on and it looked okay. So I added a few of blending options till I got an image that looked really different and weird.




Lastly my most complicated daguerreotype This one took lots of layers of rust and an old background of a canvas with lots of brownish tones. I took a picture of Paolo and mixed it with the rust, changed the opacity and, made it even. Then added the canvas. Flattened the image and it was done. The first time I messed up people's face and it looked really weird, after I redid it I looked better.

Thursday, February 19, 2015


In this project we learned lots of new techniques. Now I can HDR my images which gives hem a new unique look.I can also Add layers of different images which looks super cool. Lastly I can take pictures and stitch them together to make a panorama.




Multiple Exposure
This picture is of the hawthorn bridge. I made it looked older and layered a few images.
 The final product came out nicely.
Multiple Exposure
This one is also of the hawthorn bridge. I used more images and made it a little blue.
The blue gives it a cold gloomy feel. I thought it looked really unique.

HDR
Getting the lighting with all the different exposures was hard on this one.
I think it was because it was brighter and I wanted it to have the natural light. Once I got it, it
looked great.
HDR
Took this picture of my buddy charlie playing his electric fender guitar. I decided to try and HDR it.
When I did it looked really cool and the guitar had a nice glowing affect.

HDR
Took this picture in a hotel bathroom. It is a very weird picture and what better way to give it
a more weird look then HDR it. So I did and it looked great and super weird.

Panorama
This was 2 or 3 pictures I took a little while ago in Boise Idaho. At the time I didn't have panorama
so I decided to make it one. It looked awesome getting them all together.
It is a colorful unique place to take pictures.


Thursday, December 11, 2014

Kaleidoscopes

This one is of a street, and when you look at this kaleidoscopes it looks like 4 streets going off all opposite directions and you see an "X" in the middle.

This one is of a building, making it a kaleidoscopes makes it look like a futuristic space ship.
This one is the same image as above but zoomed in closer then made into another kaleidoscopes. So it looks really complex.

This one is really interesting like 2 worlds flipped. The trees in the middle don't even look real. The ground matches together and makes diamonds.


Contrast in images Including Diptychs and Tryptics

Contrast in Texture
I like all the detail in the wood with the smashed holes revealing the garbage behind it. Showing a change from smooth bottles of garbage to the rougher wood. The holes and the graffiti give it a different beat up look.
Contrast in texture
 When I first saw this wall  thought I knew it would be perfect, it had an abrupt contrast from smooth to rough. The sodden change was really unique and different. I really liked the style it gave the wall, and how it wold look as a picture.

Contrast in texture
This was from a window at Portland State and I thought it was interesting having the rough textured trees that looked old with the background being a smooth window that is new and modern.



Diptych
I like this one because it the same wall from different distances. Changing the distances changes the picture quite a bit. The color of the wall from the far away picture shows less texture but more color, and the one close up(left image) has less color more texture. Bringing the slightly different textures and colors together connected interestingly well. Also the leaf on the far right ads contrast in texture.
Diptych
At first it may look like a tryptic but the bar of rocks in the middle belongs to the image on the right. The image on the left connect well with the one on the right because of the rock/pebbles. The whole picture has similar colors and a nice fall mood 
Tryptic
This image at first looks like a cool rock poster thats how I think the images comes together. The image in the middle was taken off the side of a building. It popped out a lot on the back background, but I wanted something to surround it. So I put rough brick walls on both sides and I thought it looked pretty neat. I could deffinetly see this picture on an album cover.
Tryptic
The top and bottom pictures was originally a wall with  lot of red and wood colored circles. So I put them on the top and bottom and split it to put a close up on one of the holes. You see eli in the center of one of the holes that you wouldn't see unless you were zoomed in. So this tryptic aloud me to zoom in on it but still see some of the original picture.


Monday, December 1, 2014

Balance and Contrast Inspirations

Image that shows radial balance by: Maya Chavez
 I liked the swirling stairs creating really nice radical balance
Strong contrast in scale by: Taylor Jones
This one goes small to big, and young to old.
Strong contrast in color by: Rachel Newer
The leaf falling stand out well by using opposite colors.
Strong contrast of texture by: Jeff Lynch
 I thought it was really cool that they left the exposure open to create the smooth water with the rough rock holding it together.
Image that is symmetrically balanced by: Erich Schmid

Nice that you can split the image in half and both sides would almost be the exact same.