Photo Montages

Self Portrait Task

Its hard taking a self portrait without your physical self, reflection or shadow being present. I guess its a way to think outside the square. After alot of thought, I decided to take a photograph of something that represents me and what I like. Butterflies are one of my favourite animals/insects and I like what they represent.

Butterflies Symbolise freedom, independence and transformation and these are some qualities that I believe I possess.

WEEK 4:

Last night I went into the city to take photographs to see the differences between the day and night in the city. I had trouble getting the correct photograph during the night, so I decided to try the manual setting because I knew it was one of the hardest settings to use. I was able to take some interesting photographs. I edited some of these in today's class by adjusting the curves and saturation etc.

Here are some edited examples:

My flickr account

This is my Flickr account:

• Photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicacauchi/
• Profile: http://www.flickr.com/people/jessicacauchi/

Editing Photographs

In the previous blog I stated that I wanted to edit my photos by having a black and white and colour contrast. I thought this technique was rather effective. I am thinking that this could be my underlying theme for my folio of photographs.

Here are some of my examples:

Werribee Open Range Zoo

As part of my Project Partnership today, I attended a PD on conservation and sustainability at the Werribee Zoo which gave me an opportunity to take photographs.

Here are my favourites (unedited):

I am going to play around on photoshop with them. I was thinking of making the background black and white and having the focal point or main object in normal colour.
I guess I'll try it and see!

Photographic Adventure

Over the weekend, my partner and I travelled around the city taking photographs of things that we are interested in such as the cityscapes, architecture, street art and nature. It was an overcast day so it was perfect to take photographs. Hosier lane was my favourite location because it is famous for its urban street graffiti (I advise anyone who is interested in street art to check out this laneway). The Botanical gardens however was an opposite scene to Hosier lane. Some other places we took photos in were Federation square, Flinders St station, ACCA and random photographs taken from the car.

Here are my favourite photographs from the day (unedited):

The next step will be editing and experimenting with them in Photoshop.

WEEK 3:

This week the class brainstormed a list of the design elements and principles and we had to choose five of them to focus on for our photo shoot. I chose to focus on Colour, Texture, Line, Pattern and Form.

I felt more confident using the camera today. I explored the different functions and was able to be more creative with my photographs. I mainly focassed on the brightly coloured flora that was around Victoria Universitys campus. I am hoping to go into the city this weekend to take some more photographs.

These are my favourite photographs which I have edited on photoshop:

This photograph is focusing on texture and pattern.
I zoomed into this plant to show the detail on the leaves and edited it on photoshop by changing the colour saturation and shadows.


This photograph is focussing on texture and pattern.
I edited this photograph by adjusting the saturation and colour balance to highlight the patterns within the plant.

This photograph is focussing on line and colour.
The detail in the leaves is very clear and the colour of it contrasts with the background.
I achieved this by zooming in on the leaf and in photoshop I changed the colour saturation.

This photograph focusses on form and colour.

I edited the photograph on photoshop by adjusting the hue and colour balance to show more detail on the leaves.

This photograph focusses on texture and colour.
I like this photograph because the texture on the leaves are so detailed due to it being a close up shot. I brightened the colour by changing the colour balance and hue on photoshop.


This photograph focusses on colour and contrast.

I edited this photograph on photoshop by highlighting the flowers against the dull background by using the colour saturation tool.

This photograph focusses on colour and form.
I edited the colour by brightening the photo and changing the colour saturation.

WEEK 2:

Here are my favourite photographs from todays class:

Extreme Closeup

Beautiful

Wide Angle



Drab

Mixed lighting


Surface

Blurry