Paige's Blog

Intro   For my magazine spread I have decided to do " Who is Professor Danley" This week we did not have time to meet out of class so I only could capture some quick images of her. She is my China Reveled professor and she is an immigrant from China so I thought that her story would be interesting. To get started I read the "14 Composition Techniques that Will Instantly Improve Your Photos" and "10 Top Photography Composition Rules." They really help me understand what composition was and what techniques I could use to help me capture great images. Photo #1: Viewpoint  I decided to take a photo of the globe because Professor Danley is from a different part of the world. I  took many different shots of the globe at different viewpoints some may say I was working the shot and I think that this shot from a bottom angled viewpoint was my best one. Photo #2 Layering  When I first saw these flags I wanted to capture negative space with them b...

Photo Progression Tools The tools I used were the quick selection tool, adjustment layers ( Color balance, hue/saturation, vibrance, brightness/contrast) and the mask tools. Videos/ Readings -Limiting adjustment layers with masks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvZ5yFn1dCY - Organizing layers into layer group https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/photoshop-reduce-chaos-layer-groups.html What I did The first thing I did was I used the quick selection tool to select the people out of the photo. I did not want the background so I used the quick selection tool to select what I wanted and if it selected things I did not want I would click option/alt and click what I wanted to get rid of. After I made the selection, I made it into a smart object so I could make resize the image without losing any pixels. Then I duplicated the layer into my movie poster psd. Once I placed it i...