Save Mt.Diablo

I made very minimal edits to these photos to fit the requirements for the contest. Just played with the blacks, fill light, and recovery mostly. 

HDR

                           I added a black vignette to the picture and used a preset for the edits.

City Life

For this photo, I played with the fill light and black tool. I also added a cyanotype filter to give the photo an old/ cold tone to go with the antiquity of the theatre.

I cropped this picture slightly and changed the whole picture to be black and white. I enhanced the darks and blacks just a little to capture the bubble more clearly. 

Didn't crop this picture at all and actually played with the colors a little. I enhanced the yellow slightly to make some of the posters pop off of their blue background. I felt like this was one of my stronger photo's because it captures the student life on telegraph.

I used a sepia filter on this picture to enhance the emotions that I thought the man seemed to be displaying. Cropped the image slightly and enhanced the darks just a little bit.

For this photo, I changed the image to black and white and wanted to focus on just the little girl, so I cropped the image. I wanted to keep the softness of the photo, so I didnt want to hurt that by enhancing the darks. 

I enhanced the blacks/ darks and also cropped the image. I thought this photo best displayed the chill/ nomadic vibe that Berkley can give. 

I used the cyanotype filter again on this photo, but enhanced the lights in it instead of darkening it like the first image. This photo is my strongest one because it captures the young life and relaxed motion of Telegraph. 

I cropped and played with the color tools in this photo. I increased the blacks and darks in the picture to clearly display the lettering on the sign.

I edited this image very minimally and only boosted a few of the colors because the image is already so busy as it is. I wanted to use it though because I thought it captured the hippie scene Berkley is known for just perfectly. 

Surrealism

I used two images to create this photo by using overlay. The background image is of a piece of driftwood resting on the beach, and the top photo is of an old clock that I own. After I overlayed the pictures, I used the eraser tool to get rid of the image of the clock that was anywhere but on the driftwood. 

This picture was the most difficult one I had to create because I ran into a problem with the image of the  girl and the picture she was holding. There's a picture down below that shows the final one I ended up using with a frame around the picture. 

I used overlay and the eraser tool to create this image. The background image has a cyanotype filter and the top image has a lighter, feather-y feel to it. 

For this photo, I enhanced the yellows and increased the black in the picture. I also used the clone stamp tool to color in a few of the stars.

I enhanced the black and reds. 

I enhanced the blacks, yellows and reds in the photo and increased the light around her face and body.

Perspective Project

I enhanced the black in this photo. 

I tried to make this image warmer by enhancing the yellows and oranges. I also cropped the image so that the bear would be near the bottom left of the picture. I tweaked the blacks in the photo slightly too.

I enhanced the greens and yellows in this photo, and increased the shadows slightly.

I cropped the image and enhanced the orange and reds, then completely drained the image of its oranges. I tried to make it look like leaves were falling on the teddy bear.

Shadow Play

Shadow Play Project

For this project, I created synthetic shadows with the bottom two photos (with the eggs), but the top two photos were from natural lighting. I cropped every picture except for the top, and increased the black in the photos so the shadows seemed more prominant. I took these photos around my house.