Girl/Boy

The Album Leaf-Original

I love the coloring of the two beginning images. I took a selection I made in class for an exercise (photo of leaves) and combined it with a photo I found on the web a few years ago. I believe the second image, the one with the squares, is a photo of a painting. When I began combining the two images, I thought the photo with the squares looked like an album cover. That made me think of the band called the Album Leaf, which is where most of my inspiration came from for this image. Their music is very soothing and harmonious. What makes this photo stand out to me are the adjustments I made with the opacity. For the final touch I changed the top layer's blending mode to linear dodge (add).

The Album Leaf

This image is a alteration of the original image I made called the Album Leaf. Again, the opacity plays a major part of the appearance of the final image. The main difference, however is that I changed the top layer's blending mode to dissolve. I love that by doing this it gave the image an appearance of texture. I had to adjust the sizes of the original images because one was significantly larger than the other.

City Life

This final image is comprised of three different images I took at different times. The main image was taken of downtown Indy. The image of the dance club was taken in Panama City Beach over Spring Break, and the last image was take on Mass. Ave. I made two different layer masks beginning with bringing in the club photo. I took this layer's opacity down. I also lowered the opacity of tree layer.

The Sun Sets

I took this photo while on the way to Florida. I thought the sun setting looked gorgeous, but the car was moving when I captured the image. To try to take some of the blur out, I sharpened the image a little. I also changed the layer blend mode to color burn. I was not sure where else to go after making these adjustments or what else to add.

Life's a Beach

For this image I began by using the patch tool to remove the backpack and the person lying on the beach. I adjusted the layer blend mode to hard light. I also adjusted the levels of this photo to make the light and dark colors contrast more. Finally I lowered the opacity to about 80 on the copy of the first layer. I chose this image to serve as my image evoking emotion. When I look at this I see peacefulness and tranquility. It is a positive image; the light being the main focus surrounded by darkness.

Fireworks

This image is the same photo used three different times, just rotated. I did this by making two different layer masks. I also changed the layer blend mode to overlay on the top layer.