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. 

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.