Double Exposed Portraits

Our new project consists of having a profile view picture of ourself and a couple landscape images that symbolize us. During the process of starting this project, we first learned what portrait photography is. It is photography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject. The focus of the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or context may be included. It can relate to profile view and silhouetting because the focus of a profile is also the persons face. So although it does not focus on the mood of the face, it is still used to show the outline of the face and some emotion.

Double exposures are created in Photoshop with a few simple steps. The first step is to get your images. You need one profile view and 2 or more pictures to put inside of you. Then you load it into Photoshop and make the area around your face completely white. When you are done with that, you can put one of your images on top of the profile view of you and change it to screen mode. Screen mode usually works really well, but if not you can try some of the other ones to see how well it is. Then you can add your other pictures and also make it screen so that it looks like the opacity is low. Then when you are done fitting all your pictures nicely, you can crop your image to exactly how you want, and save it. It's really interesting to make because of how original you can make it. You can put whatever it is you want in your head.

For my example, I used a picture of a small waterfall at Lumahai beach. I used that picture because of I love waterfalls and the beach, so that picture fit me perfectly. I also used a picture of a bunch of plumeria flowers. I used that picture not only because of the fact that I love flowers, but because of the color in it. The bright yellow in the flower kind of symbolizes how happy I am when I am with my family and friends. I loved the outcome of my work but to improve it, I could have added more effects to my images in my face.

Practice:

                                               

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HDR Photography

HDR is short for high dynamic range. In my opinion, using HDR photography is super interesting. You can turn your normal pictures into a beautiful, saturated image. HDR uses 2 or more images with each image at a different exposure. For this project we took 7 pictures starting a low exposure and took 7 pictures moving the exposure higher. We then imported the pictures and put them into photoshop, but you can also use other programs. After taking some time to edit my pictures, that is my final product. I'm actually very happy with my outcome. I love the sunrise landscape because it really looks like a painting. I think taking a landscape of the sunrise or sunset is really cool because they're are many colors. The only difficult thing is keeping the camera still and your horizon line straight. I also chose Lele to be my subject because of the color of her eyes. Her eyes have multiple colors in them just like my sunrise.