KelbyOne Studio Shoot

After looking up countless tutorials on Kelby One, I finally decided on doing the Senior Portrait tutorial. The majority of the tutorial was pretty much on lighting and I really wanted to create a warm effect with my model. I feel like i was pretty successful with my subject and did no edits so that the lighting could be the main subject of picture. I think the pictures came out really well and I used two lightboxes and a reflector to create the desired effects. 

Photoshop Tutorial

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AJA Quote

In this picture, I wanted to capture what school can feel like. Sometimes, school seems never ending and we are just waiting to get out and start living. I hoped to communicate that with my quote and image, by putting the picture in black and white and by using a quote that hints at the feeling, but also leads one towards thinking about the hope of what has yet to happen.

Light Final

Quote: "We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine." -Dwight L. Moody

My "lighthouse"is my brother. He has always been there for me and I wanted to show how much of a friend and wonderful brother he has been to me. He shines his light by listening and being there for me. In order to show the strong sibling relationship have, I took an old picture of my brother and I and projected the image on to my brother.I did very minimal edits to these pictures since the projector had a very rich color and I didn't want to over saturate the pictures. At most, I enhanced the shadows and tweaked with contrast.

Textpost Image

I took this image and chose this quote because I have a passion for tea. It calms me down and puts me in a peaceful place, and I feel like the atmosphere where you drink tea also helps to relax the body and mind, which is why I lit candles and placed them all around the tea pot to give it a calm/dreamy affect.

Least Favorite Place on Campus

My least favorite place is the hallways at school. The first picture is oddly vacant, which gives me a serene feeling. However, most of the time it is busy, crowded, and is usually very irritating to navigate through. The second picture describes how I feel about the hallway. I found a "No Parking" sign on a nearby fence, and the "No" was perfect because I feel so impatient and anxious in the hallways that all I am really thinking is "No, I don't want to be here".

Gratitude

For this project, I originally had completely different captures and was planning on taking this on a completely different direction. However, my vacation to NYC changed all that. This vacation would be the last one I'd take with my family, and I wanted to capture moments I will never forget. I made only minor edits to each of these pictures because I didn't want to "tamper" with my moment. The edits I made were essentially just on contrast and highlights. 

Favorite Place on Campus

For this project, I took a picture of where my friends and I hang out the most. Through all the years we've been in high school together, we formed a little family. And the bench may seem pretty insignificant, but it is where we have made memories- both the good and the bad. To sit at that spot makes me feel safe and happy. 

Warm up to AJA project

 Each photo I have taken represents a memory or favorite place of mine that has made me into the person I am today. Not all of them may make sense, but they hold a special place in my heart, for the symbolize my past.

Hands and Feet

For this project, I roamed around Embarcadero in San Francisco, as well as Angle Island, to find some interesting captures. All the photos were captured without manipulating any of my subjects or directing them in any certain way. The first photo I caught while my brother and his girlfriend clasped hands out of endearment. The second photo was taken right after the couple let go of each other, and I found the girlfriend trying to keep her hands busy while watching my brother walk away. The third photo was trying to capture three friends hiking up a stairway at Angel Island. And finally, the last photo was when I was walking around near Ghiradelli Square in San Francisco, and found a little girl sitting on some stairs, her mouth and nose covered with chocolate. After asking her mom if I may take a picture of her, she tightened the teddy bear to her chest and gave me this photo of her.  

I wanted to keep these photos looking as organic as possible, so I made very minor changes to shadows, the clarity of the image, its highlights, and manipulated the amount of in the photos. 

Historical Houses

I took my photos at the Catholic Cemetery and Amtrak Station in Martinez, as well as Rogers Ranch in Pleasant Hill. My first photo was a double exposure as well as an appropriate indoor exposure in an indoor setting, which meets both of the asked requirements for the project. The rest of the photos I took in a late afternoon lighting and followed a family of deer for the majority of my shoot in the cemetery. 

Sense Of Place: College Park

For this sense of place project, I wanted to capture the essence of College Park. I like the locker and pool image because they show some great detail and I really tried to get some good angles. I like the hallway image because the edits I made give it an eerie, almost hospital like look. I edited all these pictures in photoshop by playing with the contrast tools in the black and white setting, as well as erasing some of the black and white layer in the pool photo to give the picture a bit of pop.

AJA Project: The Effects of Stress

For my AJA project, I wanted to capture how teenagers can only take on so much stress until they break. I used tools, on Photoshop and Lightroom, like blur, cool tone, black and white layers, and also played with the brightness and contrast tools a lot. I have two of the same images up with different effects on both because I did not know which one I preferred more, so I shall leave that decision up to you.

Nice To Meet You

Color Efex Pro

BEFORE

AFTER

The edits I made for this photo include the following: 

First layer is Film Efex Modern with the shadows decreased to approximately 36% with highlights set to 11%. The second filter used was Ink: Color Set 8 with the strength boosted to 68% and highlights pumped to 67%. My final filter was a type 12 image border with reduced size of -2%, spread set to 78% and grunge set to 77%

Business Card

Silver Efex

BEFORE

AFTER

While editing this photo in Silver Efex, I changed the brightness -18%. The filter I used was full dynamic harsh, and I changed the contrast to 34%. The structure was changed to 100%. For the final touches, I put an All Edges 1 burn and added a type 13 Image border. 

Night Scape

 I took these photos at the Santa Barbara pier and put these images in black and white in lightroom. I also played with the shadows, light and exposure in my editing process to get the effect I wanted. I also cropped the top and bottom pictures.