Creative Photography

My images represent the message of a lost love.  In my two pictures, I was throwing away a picture of my ex and I that had "my love" written on it. I think this conveys it because throwing away old things is a normal thing to do after a breakup. I added the blue hue to somewhat give a sad feel to it since blue is known to be a color that represents sadness. For me this is more than just throwing a picture away because we've been broken up for 11 months, and I still haven't been able to move on; in fact I'm still not. So even though I got the picture back out of the trash after taking the photo, it was one of my first steps in trying to move on completely.

 

"Age a Photograph" This tutorial was fairly easy for me to do. The instructions were very clear and super easy to follow. I really liked the outcome of it as well. "Photo to Oil Painting" (a plus one to the oil painting) I tried to do a tutorial similar to this one, but it wouldn't work for me. This tutorial was a bit harder for me to follow than the first. There were parts that I had no idea how to do, things I didn't even know existed on photoshop. Once I figured out how to do it and I did the first image, it was easier to follow on the second image. Although I preferred the outcome on the initial tutorial I wanted to do, I still really liked how they turned out.

           The first semester of this class taught me how to do things on Photoshop that I never thought I'd be able to do. As the semester progressed, the quality of my images definitely improved. I think that the images I took improved over the semester, and I became more aware of the assignments and the subject of my images. Although I believe that the quality of my images progressed over the semester, I also think that the effort I put into the projects did the opposite. Towards the end of the semester, I still shot more than required, but I was not planning my photography as much as I could have. I did not really take any risks when it came to my project ideas. I tried to not give up when a specific shot became difficult, but I do think that at times I definitely did. In the first semester, I completed all of my work on time, but I could've put more effort in and start my projects when they were first given- I often procrastinated. In the first semeste...