For this picture many different things where done to it. This is actually a picture of the side of my house. My inspiration for this photo was our learning module from week three about Henry Pitch Robinson’s piece “Feading Away”. I used three different pieces of pictures onto one to create a scene. It is not as dramatic as Robinsons but I did completely change the time of day and surroundings. My first step was to duplicate the original photo that way I could change one layer and no effect the original. Then the next step was to find a tree that would fit into the picture and look relatively normal or common in Canadian surroundings. Once I found one I cropped it by taking out the surroundings and just leaving the three and added it between the original photo and the duplicate. Once I did that I took the eraser tool to carefully erase parts of the duplicate layer around the tree to sub it in. I noticed the tree had different lighting then the rest of the picture so I adjusted the duplicate layer to sit on top of the original layer with a “liner dodge” effect (meaning the photo becomes highly exposed to light). After that I found a picture of a valley and replaced the ally way with it. Lastly I added in the car and adjusted the entire picture to make sure everything had relatively the same light level. This was my final result

For this picture I did a self portrait of myself, I put my camera on a counter and snapped this photo. My inspiration for this photo was actually retro art. I enjoy art that comes from the 80’s and I really liked the picture that had the sharp finish to them. Its almost a rustic look to photos that was not intentional and was really just created because of the technology of cameras at that time. I wanted to try it with a current picture and see if I could manipulate it and make it look ten or more years older even thought my camera is a fairly high pixel resolution. There were many steps to get to the final photo i played around with this photo a lot. The first thing I did was duplicated the original photo again so it would be easy to go back to the original. I then adjusted the duplicate layer by changing it to “colour burn” (this takes the picture and saturates it with rich colour). The next step I took was to adjust the hue/saturation of the colours. The photo itself took on a tint of green and made it look old and distressed. I duplicated the original and changed the visibility of it so that the photo didn’t turn too green. Then I changed the light exposure and lowered the offset (create more shadow). The last step I took was to changing the brightness and sharpness of the photo. I really wanted to bring out the extreme detail in my jeans so I played around with sharpness and go that result.