Double Exposed Portraits

Hey guys! so our current project in GT is to create a Double Exposed Portrait. Portrait photography is photography of one person or multiple people showing emotion, personality, and mood of the subject. When taking portraiture the face is the main focus of the photograph, but other parts of the body may be added if necessary. The portrait photography is related to Silhouette because the profile image strongly depends on the main parts of the face (chin, nose, and forehead) these features make the image clear and understandable. When taking a portrait photograph you include the chin, forehead, and nose because those parts are part of the face which is how portraiture and profile view are related. It's related to profile view because both have a side view, outline, or represent some type of object.



This is an explanation on how double exposed portraits are created. First, take 3 amazing photos; 1 being the profile and 2 photos of anything you like or symbolizes you. For example you could capture shots of trees because you really like trees or you could take a picture of flowers, your favorite sport, beach, etc. Then, after taking those incredible photos you need to import them and open them in photoshop by first clicking on File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack. After all of your layers are there, there's a dodge tool icon on the left pallet the tool looks like a balloon with a straight stick coming out of it. When you click on that tool the brush icon should now be your mouse and you need to adjust it where it's either hard or soft big or small, but you really want to get around the edges so I would suggest using a small brush. After your done dodging your image you need to size and then crop your image. Once you've done that turn all of your layers to screen mode and after you've done that all images should be opaque.

The two symbols I used are soccer and a sunset. i used these symbols because I thought that these really symbolized what I do with my free time and what I love to do. I took a picture of me with a soccer ball and my cleats because soccer is only like my number one favorite sport ever!! i love soccer and when Mr. Sanderl said that we had to rake pictures of what we love to do Soccer is the first thing that came to head. I used a sunset that I took from my church because I thought that the way the trees blocked some of the sky kind of told how i'm shy when I first meet you and then when you get the inner me, you really know me, and you got your way through my barrier it's very bright and vibrant because i have a very enthusiastic personality and i'm just very colorful, but you can only find out if you get through to me. I just really liked these topics that i took pictures of.

I hope you enjoyed reading and looking at this weeks post I hope you read and view all of my other post and have an Amazing day!! See ya Later:))

HDR Photography

Our current project for GT is to take seven pictures of a landscape of our choice. HDR aka High Dynamic Range is a process that creates a clear scene to the eye by taking multiple contrast images. High Dynamic Range is used when your in the worst situation possible, you have the perfect shot and your at the golden hour of the day, but your camera sucks, and the balance of your colors are really uneven and the image looks extremely weird. I really like that instead of seeing really blurry and unbalanced photos the photos you've processed with HDR come out to be crystal clear and when you use HDR your photos turn out really detailed and amazing.

To create a final HDR image you need to follow these steps.
-Take 7 amazing photos from dark to light
-Import them to your device(make sure you have Photoshop)
-Go to Photoshop and click File>Automate>Merge to HDR Pro
-A pop up will come and you need to go to your folder and pick out the 7 photos
-Click ok, and Photoshop will do the rest
This is totally different from automatic HDR; when using auto HDR the device does all of the processing by itself you don't really have to do anything because the device is doing it for you. When you create an HDR image manually it feels like your actually learning something because you're going through the process of making the image, and not the device that uses auto HDR.

For my first photo, the HDR landscape, I knew I had a beautiful scene behind me, the sleeping giant, so I decided that since I have such a wonderful scene why not use this scenery to make an outstanding image. I really wanted a line that leads to somewhere (leading Lines) so, I thought of using my road as a line and I could get on the ground so that it would look like it was leading to my neighbors house. I also realized that by getting on the ground I would create sort of and unusual angle. I took my shots and thought they were really good so I kept them. For my other HDR image the HDR Experiment, I thought of getting my mom. I thought put my mom on the side of a vase with beautiful bright flowers to brighten up the portrait. I placed her in the rule of thirds, but I made the mistake of not giving her enough look room. I only realized that during Mr. Sanderls' class when he was critiquing my HDR Experiment.