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.

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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%

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