This first photo is from a stone wall with a "porthole"in it on the Yestermorrow campus in Warren. Unfortunately, there's really nothing interesting lined up with the hole, so I put some sy begind it from one of my lake photos from last week. While I was playing with positioning I revealed a stripe of the lake at the bottom and decided to keep it that way - I liked the earth/air/water theme. It makes makes the whole think very vexillographic (For readers who aren't as geeky as me - vexillography is the art and practice of designing flags.)
I also like how old-school collagey this ended it. It looks like something I would have done as a teenager in the 90s cutting pictures out of a National Geographic.
This next picture is an experiment with the Adjustment Brush selection tools in Adobe Lightroom. I've used Photoshop for years and am pretty used to how to do things there, but am really trying to explore Lightroom for this class. This is an attempt to adjust the exposure/levels for the background and subject independently. In this case, I used this technique to abstract the background while leaving the subject alone. (The subject is the goat that lives in the pasture across the road from our house. My son and I visit him whenever we get the mail.)
Do you have to select the subject and then use the software tools to make the changes? Or does the software assist in choosing what is relevant?
ReplyDeleteA bit of each. In the adjustment brush selection process there is an "Auto mask" option that makes it sort of like the magic wand in Photoshop - It selects everything (within a given radius - not necessarily contiguous) that it thins is part of the same "object". You can make multiple selections assigned to an Adjustment brush. Once you have areas selected you can make any of the normal Lightroom parametric adjustments: dodge/burn , exposure, tint, white balance, saturation, etc. to the selected area independent of the settings for the photo as a whole.
DeleteDoes that clarify it at all?
- Michael
You did a great job on both of these photos! I like the earth/air/water theme about your first photo, as well. My favorite is the second photo with the goat! The goat is so cute, and the shadowing in the background is great. With the background lighter, it really brings the focus to the goat.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jami, the earth/water/air theme in that first picture is really cool. Maybe including the water in that layer would be a little better but it still came out pretty well. Also nice job "fuzzying" out the photo with the goat.
ReplyDeleteI actually do like the edge of the lake at the bottom of your first picture. It looks awesome. The second photo is just as good as the top photo but the top photo seems more realistic to me. Great job.
ReplyDeleteNice job! Both photos are good but I really like the goat and how you altered it to stand out.
ReplyDeleteLovely goat photo! The change to the background is just subtle enough that you don't immediately notice it, it brings the focus right onto the goat. Nice!
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