ASSIGMENT 108 DIGITAL IMAGE MANIPULATION

For this part of assignment I had to provide evidence of digital image manipulation skills in creating images that have been substantially modified for visual effect.

My Photo Shop skills is not the best...in this area I consider myself on a level 0, but anyway using all my basic knowledge about layers, filters and Image adjustments I manage to create 4 images, which been manipulated with necessary standards in order to pass this task.

D I F F E R E N T   S K Y

/Raindrops/

This is probably one of the first and simplest images, what I created....which beautifully presents our Midlands Weather - Rain....I just added a bit of sunshine which is so rare in this part of England.

Originally formed from two different images using Layer tool in Photo Shop:

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 /Manulal, F 8, 1/40 sec, ISO 200, WB Manual/

/It was taken Monday 25.October, - last day of sunshine, when I went for a walk with my children to Outwoods Park in Burton. That time I still getting know my camera Nikon D3000, I was experimenting with different aperture and shutter speeds and this, for me is one of my favorite images so far./

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/Aperture Priority, F 11, 1/80 sec, ISO 100, WB Auto/

  

/This images was taken in one of the rainy days of November, when heavy rain shower leave me with a beautiful raindrops all over my window...I didn't have think twice, I garbed my camera and make couple pictures...that is one of them./

I put both together with help of Photo Shop Layer Tool, choosing Darker Color setting I came up with above manipulated image.

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 /Angel/

Same as first one is created just adding two photographs together using Layer tool in Photo Shop creating,  in my opinion, very powerful image.

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/Both wast taken using Auto mode - same day in same location - near college. We was sent out during the lesson to practice in Composition - make different images using different angles, tones etc./

I put both together in Photo Shop - experimenting with various layers, I choose to go for Darken setting. After I crop off some bushes and wire on the right corner to create more specific feel as a Angel really coming down from the sky. 

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/Cherubs/

This image presents baby angels looking down from the sky....I used Photo Shop Layer Tool to put together 2 images....adjusting color balance, brightness and contrast and in the end using Diffuse Glow filter to make my image look grainy as it was some part of old ceiling painting.

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/Manulal, F 5.6, 1/5 sec, ISO 100, WB Flurescent, 300mm lens/

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/Manulal, F 22, 1/50 sec, ISO 100, WB Manual/

/Both images was taken by me, for first one I changed my usual Wide angle camera lens for telephoto 300mm lens, using Macro option to make subject appear bigger than original size./

Mu tutor wasn't very pleased with it, but I liked, maybe if I had more knowledge about Photo Shop result will be more satisfied, but still I don't think is too bad.

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 /Face/

This is my favorite...and probably the one that took me a lot more time to create. I used picture of myself taken by me and one of my first images ever taken bu by Nikon D3000. 

/Portrait mode/

Good pictures of me can take only me like I always say...I didn't know my camera so well that time so I used a portrait mode, when camera automatically adjusts the colors to give natural-looking skin tone./

This was original image, but to produce above manipulated image I had to change it, so I use Image Adjustments to make it Black&White and than with Help of History brush tool I bring back some color.

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/This second images what I use, was my one of the first taken by my camera ...that time I don't know nothing about aperture or shutter speeds, so everything is Auto mode, but anyway I love this one. This is a view to still sleepy Burton taken not far from where I live around 6am in September./

Inspired by Helen Sear I wanted to create my own original "Inside a view".  I put both together choosing Linear Light Layer option.

....and to make it more stand out I used one of Artistic Filters - Poster Edges...unfortunately I realized that I didn't make a screen grab for that, but trust me on this one...and I hope everyone like it.