studio shoot

I added a yellowish tint to this photo because I wanted it to have a more sutler look so it wouldn't be so bright. 

I worked on this photo in photo shop and used different tools so the lights around her neck wouldn't be so bright. 

perspective and scale

Using photoshop: I combined two photos i took to create a believable humorous photo. This was my first time using photoshop to combine two images. 

Mergers: The car in the foreground interacts with the blurred cars in the background. I like that only the toy car is in focus because it is the main object. I didn't need to edit this photo.

Creating a story with toys: I used the Christmas lights to make the toys seem as if they were outside someplace and the props created a storyline. To edit I adjusted the brightness and contrast because the original was too bright.

Depth of Field: Low aperture allowed me to capture the statues and leave the buildings in the back blurred. Depth of field made my image look more believable because everything looks to scale. I made the browns come out in the photo so it had a older look. 

Diptych & Lily

This photo describes my cat's personality and creates a story, the silhouette of my cat makes her look big. I edited this photo in photoshop by making a grid and changing one photo's colors the opposite of its original. 

Shadowplay

Distortion: The leaves appear bigger against the wall than they really are, I transformed this photo to a simple black and white and cropped out some edges that did not belong.

Silhouette: I transformed this photo to B&W in lightroom and lowered the brightness so that the whites would not be too bright. This picture tells a story because the shadow makes my cat look powerful like a lion.

Pattern: This photo was transformed to black and white in lightroom and I upped the contrast to make the white and black pop. The pattern adds strong directional lighting and shows some texture on the wall.

Concentrated Color

Analogous: I enjoy the warm colors in this photo (orange, yellow, burgundy) they are very subtle and next to each other on the color wheel. This photo was also taken with no flash and minimum editing.

Dominant: The dominate color of this photo is red. I did not use flash in this photo and loved how the lighting turned out, this picture has no editing at all!

Complementary: The colors that complement each other in this photo are green and red, they are opposite on the color wheel and I think are displayed well through this shot.

Neutral: This neutral shot has "earth tones" such as brown, tan, and rust. I like the light reflecting on the side and how the shot is focused on one main lamp.

Color Grid

Purple and yellow; two contrast colors that compliment each other very well.

Color Testing

colorful ball in front of different backdrops. ISO 200, florescent lighting.

Historical Photoshoot

Old car in the small city of Crockett.

Windows on a building in downtown Martinez.

Pillars leading to the secret door way at San Francisco De Young art museum.