Introduction to Photography - Editing Exercise

11th of April ( Week 9)
Niew Seen Ying (0317961)
Introduction to Photography
Editing Exercise

Lecture
For today's class, Mr. Vinod wanted us to came out with an abstract self portrait and post it as our Facebook profile picture. He gave us a duration of 30 minutes to take our photos and come out with an idea.

He also brief us with some of the photoshop features such as how to convert a colour picture into black and white, adjusting the levels, stamp tool, burn and dodge tool and blur effect.


Instructions

• Take an experimentative profile of yourself (using what you have learned; exposure, zone system, composition & editing) with your camera phone and your dslr. Write your ePorfolio, and PRINT your hardcopy.

• Replace your existing FB profile pic. Screen shoot results (likes after a day or two) and screen shoot home page with new profile. Upload to ePortfolio.

• Post your topic and rationale and possible visual example.

Before Editing:

After Editing:

Proof:

Results

Feedback
 Very nice work. Would have been better if it is shot against a white wall as oppose to the window.

Reflection
When Mr. Vinod asked us to take a potrait of ourself within the school compound, I actually struggled to take the photos as I don't have my camera with me. Since I'm very bad at taking selfies, I actually retook the photos for uncountable times until i got frustrated. After some hesitation i made some temporary decisions on the photos I wanted to edit. I'm actually quite lucky as I don't need to go through the consequences of downloading photoshop as my brother has it. However, I've had no idea how to use it although Mr. Vinod gave us some explanations. I tried putting the pictures together to put layers and it just doesn't seem to work the same way as what Mr. Vinod taught us as I had a different version. I used 2 days just to figure out the buttons and tools of photoshop and even till now I'm still quite blur about what is the tabs and buttons are all about. After I got a slight hint of the tools since I watched some tutorials on youtube, I started to edit my portrait and it turned out quite badly and i decided to redo it. I took a new photo and edit it again. I add some layer mask and adjust the exposure of the photo. The tones are also edited using the layer option. After that I went through some old photos and decided to combine the photos of a scenery with my photo to make it more attracting as it seems dull. After some effort, I finally finished editing. To be honest, I'm not satisfied as I over smudge some parts and it doesn't seems to fix no matter how many undo i clicked. After i posted the profile pic as my profile picture, one of my friend actually said that it looks like a grandma looking outside the window. I need to admit that my course mates did a better job and photoshop is actually quite interesting as it is a fresh thing to me.

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