The story of the cage and the cat

Portrait of a sleeping cat

 


So I admit I cheated just a bit taking a picture of a sleeping individual but some of the concepts are the same. If you were taking a portrait of a person you could tell them to do a certain thing to improve the photo, unless of course you were trying to take a picture of a child. I will compare the cat to a child, were as you can't tell them to do something. You have to make the best of what they give you or trick them into doing what you want. Or in certain circumstances it is just better to take a picture while they are sleeping...that way at least that way they won't move.

Assignment #1 - Adding Text

Here are my two photos that I added text to. In one I added a copyright and the other I just added some text stating the obvious.

Assignment #1 Cloning/Stamping

Here is my before and after picture. The power lines really took away from the picture so I removed them. It worked really well!

Assignment #1 - Week 9 - Filters

The filters turned out to be pretty interesting; here are my two photos:

Assignment #1 - Week 9 - Dodge and Burn

Here is a picture of scowling Jason Varitek. Basically I just tried to remove the shadow caused by the light and his helmet. I managed to lighten up the shadow but had a hard time hiding the line from where the transition had been. The tutorial makes it look much easier than it actually is.

Week 8 - Assignment 1 - Photo Adjustments

Here are a couple of photos that I modified. The first one I selected half the photo and adjusted the lighting and color to see what it would gain me...I have to say it looks quite a bit better. The second one I did the same thing with selecting half of the photo but this time I converted it to black and white. I don't think the conversion really added too much to the shot.