Photography project ideas
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Mezmerize19
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tis called a mosaic
But seriously, i dont know where you live but go into the woods. around here you can find some really cool stuff
But seriously, i dont know where you live but go into the woods. around here you can find some really cool stuff
cab509
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One of my concentrations in AP art was "fences" so that could work.
some other ideas would be pick a word and then take pictures that were centerd, or gave the feeling around that word
for ex. if the word was organic. you could have pics of fruit, waves, earth, organic architecture, etc.
just some ideas
some other ideas would be pick a word and then take pictures that were centerd, or gave the feeling around that word
for ex. if the word was organic. you could have pics of fruit, waves, earth, organic architecture, etc.
just some ideas
SEABURN
Active member
do a bunch of double exposures of contrasting images or a few sets of 2 prints mounted on the same page, it could be called "contrasting harmony" or something like that.
or
I did a project about following motion, and it was all really long exposures, sequences and stop motion. that was a fun one.
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I did a project about following motion, and it was all really long exposures, sequences and stop motion. that was a fun one.
Pippin
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FROM MY NS BLOG:http://https://www.newschoolers.com/web/content/readblog/member_id/91259/
Alright NS, I’ve done a couple of this style of Photoshop
technique and have been asked how to do it so I’ll do a tutorial for you guys.
So for all you photoshoppers I have a simple, yet great effect for you to learn to day.
Level of difficulty: beginner-intermediate
If you’ve done this manipulation effect before, you know the
power and endless possibilities with this technique. If you have yet to attempt
it give it a go.
Goal: To Photoshop a picture to make it look as if it is a
miniature model
Ex) model town, plane building etc…
Basically to start off you want to have a picture,
preferable of landscape. Macro shots and nighttime shots, do not work as well
with this technique as focal points of the image are important and are harder
to contrast from unfocused parts of an image in nighttime shots. Don’t worry
Newschoolers if you don’t understand now, just read on and follow the steps,
and you will catch on.
If you personally don’t have a landscape photo, simple save
and open my original image (IMAGE) and try it out. Image above
For the tutorial you will need to understand the concept of
quick mask mode in photoshop ( Windows/Mac: q). Basically what quick mask mode
allows you to do is select a portion of the image by “painting” on a mask by
painting an area of the image you would like to have selected. This allows for
more specific and precise selection of an image rather than using the Lasso,
Polygonal, Magnetic tools or any of the marquee tools.
When your image is open you are going to want to open quick
mask mode by pressing the Q letter. Confirmation of this action can be seen at
the top of the Photoshop window beside the name of your open image, it should
read (Quick Mask…) Next set the colours to the default black and white by
pressing the D letter, then switch them around by clicking on the double-headed
arrow next to the colour chips.
Then select the gradient tool from your tools pallet. See picture below:
Now right underneath options on the pull down bars such as
“filter”, “select” and “view” there should appear several small rectangles with
different sports of black and white. Select the fourth rectangle from the left,
called “Reflected Gradient” which looks like a white line with black borders on
the top and bottom.
This is where a bit of choice and judgment come into play.
Choose where you want the focal point of the photo to be – usually about
halfway between top and bottom – and click and hold at that point. Drag
the line of the gradient tool upwards, then release it towards the top of the
frame; it doesn't hurt to be a little off the pure vertical. Press Q again to
switch back from Quick Mask mode.
Now your page should have a selected area with the moving
dotted line, showing where your selection was made. Next click on the “Filter”
drop down menu at the top and select “blur” then select “lens blur” and a
window should pop up. Play around with the sliders until you are satisfied with
the results. See picture below:
“The Iris section controls the shape of the virtual iris in
the lens; a hexagonal iris is most normal, and you could try rounding out the
sharp corners of the geometric shape using Blade Curvature. Rotation controls
the angle of the hexagon. The Specular Highlights section adds little glints to
bright areas, but it's usually not a good idea to drop the value of the
Threshold much below 250”
Your almost done newschoolers just one more step. Although
this step is not necessarily needed it is highly recommended to give you photo
that plastic fake model feel to it. To do this go to the “Image” drop down bar
at the top left of the window and select “adjustments”, then “curves”. (See picture below) Drag
from a point about a third from the top of the line upwards about a full
square, and voila! You are done, not so bad eh newschoolers.
Of course if you want you can further do colour correction
of the image to make it look oh so much better.
This was my first Photoshop tutorial, and hopefully you
were all successful….post up let me see what you were able to achieve….show me
where I went wrong…I love to learn.
Here is what the final copy turn out as:
Some other photos i have applied the same technique to:
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Alright NS, I’ve done a couple of this style of Photoshop
technique and have been asked how to do it so I’ll do a tutorial for you guys.
So for all you photoshoppers I have a simple, yet great effect for you to learn to day.
Level of difficulty: beginner-intermediate
If you’ve done this manipulation effect before, you know the
power and endless possibilities with this technique. If you have yet to attempt
it give it a go.
Goal: To Photoshop a picture to make it look as if it is a
miniature model
Ex) model town, plane building etc…
Basically to start off you want to have a picture,
preferable of landscape. Macro shots and nighttime shots, do not work as well
with this technique as focal points of the image are important and are harder
to contrast from unfocused parts of an image in nighttime shots. Don’t worry
Newschoolers if you don’t understand now, just read on and follow the steps,
and you will catch on.
If you personally don’t have a landscape photo, simple save
and open my original image (IMAGE) and try it out. Image above
For the tutorial you will need to understand the concept of
quick mask mode in photoshop ( Windows/Mac: q). Basically what quick mask mode
allows you to do is select a portion of the image by “painting” on a mask by
painting an area of the image you would like to have selected. This allows for
more specific and precise selection of an image rather than using the Lasso,
Polygonal, Magnetic tools or any of the marquee tools.
When your image is open you are going to want to open quick
mask mode by pressing the Q letter. Confirmation of this action can be seen at
the top of the Photoshop window beside the name of your open image, it should
read (Quick Mask…) Next set the colours to the default black and white by
pressing the D letter, then switch them around by clicking on the double-headed
arrow next to the colour chips.
Then select the gradient tool from your tools pallet. See picture below:
Now right underneath options on the pull down bars such as
“filter”, “select” and “view” there should appear several small rectangles with
different sports of black and white. Select the fourth rectangle from the left,
called “Reflected Gradient” which looks like a white line with black borders on
the top and bottom.
This is where a bit of choice and judgment come into play.
Choose where you want the focal point of the photo to be – usually about
halfway between top and bottom – and click and hold at that point. Drag
the line of the gradient tool upwards, then release it towards the top of the
frame; it doesn't hurt to be a little off the pure vertical. Press Q again to
switch back from Quick Mask mode.
Now your page should have a selected area with the moving
dotted line, showing where your selection was made. Next click on the “Filter”
drop down menu at the top and select “blur” then select “lens blur” and a
window should pop up. Play around with the sliders until you are satisfied with
the results. See picture below:
“The Iris section controls the shape of the virtual iris in
the lens; a hexagonal iris is most normal, and you could try rounding out the
sharp corners of the geometric shape using Blade Curvature. Rotation controls
the angle of the hexagon. The Specular Highlights section adds little glints to
bright areas, but it's usually not a good idea to drop the value of the
Threshold much below 250”
Your almost done newschoolers just one more step. Although
this step is not necessarily needed it is highly recommended to give you photo
that plastic fake model feel to it. To do this go to the “Image” drop down bar
at the top left of the window and select “adjustments”, then “curves”. (See picture below) Drag
from a point about a third from the top of the line upwards about a full
square, and voila! You are done, not so bad eh newschoolers.
Of course if you want you can further do colour correction
of the image to make it look oh so much better.
This was my first Photoshop tutorial, and hopefully you
were all successful….post up let me see what you were able to achieve….show me
where I went wrong…I love to learn.
Here is what the final copy turn out as:
Some other photos i have applied the same technique to:
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Bangor
Active member
Portraits never go out of style......
Find a group of people (can be loosely related; as long as you can talk about it it'll work) who have a common thread. Skiers, for example? Fast food workers? Carnies (sp?) at the fair?
Find some way to do something very conventional, with a twist.
Find a group of people (can be loosely related; as long as you can talk about it it'll work) who have a common thread. Skiers, for example? Fast food workers? Carnies (sp?) at the fair?
Find some way to do something very conventional, with a twist.
foxy_brown
Member
i know what you mean, i love darkroom experiments, get solarizing and some photograms done of random objects then when they are developed take pics of them so you are abstracting upon abstract and its still photography because original medium should be a photograph.
ever explored medium format?
ever explored medium format?
leckett1
Active member
If you have it in your area I love taking pictures of water. Dew on grass, waterfalls, lakes at dusk, that sort of stuff. It's easy to manipulate in PS and is just great composition. Also with waterfalls doing long exposures with a really large aperture looks amazing. The water looks like silk
It looks really cool, and I dont know if you care, but it's already been done by a lot of people, including a very famous artist by the name of David Hockney:
If I were you, I would look into a few things:
either using good materials and expirementing with different filters and weird glass for lenses, or otherwise modifying lenses
Darkroom techniques... think of strange things you can do in the darkroom, perfect a process or several similar processes
Building your own camera bodies and/or films. both sounds daunting but are do-able if you research it.
Being an art major, I know that programs are looking for several things. They want to see a personal drive, original ideas, and a PROCESS above anything else. They want to see you thinking things through for yourself, making mistakes and developing yourself and your methods.
Pay attention to your materials... what I mean is that a painter will paint on either wood or canvas and make changes based on that, or will paint really wet and smooth in washes, or thick and dry.
You are a photographer, so think about everything between your subject and the final image on paper. That includes film choice, film grain, paper choice, and the glass you shoot through.
If I were you, I would look into a few things:
either using good materials and expirementing with different filters and weird glass for lenses, or otherwise modifying lenses
Darkroom techniques... think of strange things you can do in the darkroom, perfect a process or several similar processes
Building your own camera bodies and/or films. both sounds daunting but are do-able if you research it.
Being an art major, I know that programs are looking for several things. They want to see a personal drive, original ideas, and a PROCESS above anything else. They want to see you thinking things through for yourself, making mistakes and developing yourself and your methods.
Pay attention to your materials... what I mean is that a painter will paint on either wood or canvas and make changes based on that, or will paint really wet and smooth in washes, or thick and dry.
You are a photographer, so think about everything between your subject and the final image on paper. That includes film choice, film grain, paper choice, and the glass you shoot through.
well... I don't shoot in camera black and white. But some pictures look better in black and white, so I convert them in photoshop
I can't tell if you were being sarcastic or not. I'm not trying to claim if that's what you are getting at, just trying to verify that I know what i'm talking about, because she is asking about it in an academic sense
I can't tell if you were being sarcastic or not. I'm not trying to claim if that's what you are getting at, just trying to verify that I know what i'm talking about, because she is asking about it in an academic sense
Pippin
Active member
no, no, not at all. Everyone has a different technique to getting their b/w's from colour through different methods as their are many (not talking about on camera but in PS and LR) just wondering what your technique was to get certain rough touches ( ex. that grisly looks on an old wrinkled beard wearing man) give depth to the tones to make it pop, not just a quick desaturate
Oh word... I'm sorry I couldn't tell haha.
When I go to B&W I start out with a desaturate. The nicest thing about going to black and white from color is that it's a lot harder to blow out your highlights. Color photos are always prone to clouds blowing out really quickly, and it's really obvious because the blues in the clouds become defined as pixels because they lighten much slower. Because digital black and white is so much more flexible, I'll lower the contrast on the color photo before I de-saturate it.
after that, I almost never touch brightness/contrast. I use levels almost exclusively, and sometimes curves for really strange situations, although curves generally confuse me.
after levels, I dodge and burn where needed. I almost always have the tools set for highlights or shadows, not midtones. I have the exposure set to around 10 percent, and I just push and pull with the dodge and burn tools till I have the contrast between lights and darks that I want. It takes a while, but it makes the photo look less edited, more natural.
If you were talking about trying to get a real grizzly effect on a beard, you could use real small brush sizes with the dodge and burn tools. I have a tablet which helps with that.. but you could still easily do it with the mouse.
Besides the levels, I have a general rule that I don't do anything in photoshop that I can't do in a darkroom.
I just got CS3 last december, and I know there is a really nice B&W conversion tool panel, it works really well. I'm just a creature of habit so I end up taking the long way around.
some digis I have turned B&W
When I go to B&W I start out with a desaturate. The nicest thing about going to black and white from color is that it's a lot harder to blow out your highlights. Color photos are always prone to clouds blowing out really quickly, and it's really obvious because the blues in the clouds become defined as pixels because they lighten much slower. Because digital black and white is so much more flexible, I'll lower the contrast on the color photo before I de-saturate it.
after that, I almost never touch brightness/contrast. I use levels almost exclusively, and sometimes curves for really strange situations, although curves generally confuse me.
after levels, I dodge and burn where needed. I almost always have the tools set for highlights or shadows, not midtones. I have the exposure set to around 10 percent, and I just push and pull with the dodge and burn tools till I have the contrast between lights and darks that I want. It takes a while, but it makes the photo look less edited, more natural.
If you were talking about trying to get a real grizzly effect on a beard, you could use real small brush sizes with the dodge and burn tools. I have a tablet which helps with that.. but you could still easily do it with the mouse.
Besides the levels, I have a general rule that I don't do anything in photoshop that I can't do in a darkroom.
I just got CS3 last december, and I know there is a really nice B&W conversion tool panel, it works really well. I'm just a creature of habit so I end up taking the long way around.
some digis I have turned B&W
