Photography and Photo Manipulation by Devin

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Scroll down below to see some selections of my work from this unit. My favorites are generally at the top!

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Photography has proven to be far more open-ended than I ever imagined. With anything, you get as much as you put into it, so it is very rewarding when you land a good shot or can edit something just the way you want to.

I’ve learned a good bit about composition -- gotten a deeper understanding of why they’re really important and to apply them in photography and photo manipulation has been incredibly exciting.

I’ve discovered that I enjoy discovering new tools in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Digital photo manipulation has been something I’ve touched the surface of for many years now and it is really exciting to learn new tricks. Editing images together is far more familiar to me than manually trying to get the shot.

That’s just the thing, though! The entire unit we have been encouraged to try everything and get out there with ideas. The biggest thing I want to work on in the future is to stop waiting for the perfect shot and just shoot. Get out of my comfort zone and start spontaneously adventuring with a camera. This sounds a little silly, but kind of just let go a little bit to move forward in photography.

The Blockbuster - Movie Poster Design

As a wrap-up project for this unit, we combined our photography and graphic-design skills into one epic movie poster based on influential movies. To nobody's surprise, I decided to go with Star Wars: A New Hope. By far one of my most favorite projects.

Make It Move - Photoshop GIF Animation

We used video timelines in Photoshop to create a GIF with some of our photos and other artistic ideas. It was a fairly simple process, yet incredibly fun and satisfying!

Extrospection- Portraits On Location

After lots of practice doing portraits in the studio and outdoors, this project allowed us to shoot portraits in any location, style, and mood of our choosing. The most important elements of this shoot was to capture a sensitive depth of field, edit with portrait retouching techniques, and showcase our subjects in their best light! These were a few favorites from the portraits I shot.

Exposure and Light Painting Explorations

Across multiple projects, we experimented with exposure times and light to achieve some amazing effects. These included double exposures, amazing light trails, and more!

Gray Studio Backdrop Portrait Demos

In this project we used a completely medium gray backdrop to experiment with lighting. We were tasked to make the background perfectly gray, perfectly black, perfectly light, as well as throw some color in there!

Watercolor Clipping Effect

In this project, we created our own watercolors and brought them into Photoshop to create a vibrant mask for a beautiful watercolor effect in combination with a portrait photograph.

Levitation Effect

We used multiple shots of one scene and to learn the essentials of masking, eventually granting us the power to levitate.

The Sketch Effect

This project was a simple yet effective way to turn ourselves into sketches on pieces of paper using layer modes, layer manipulation, and compositing for the final product.

Bringing the Past Back to Life- Photo Restorations

For this project we were given pictures that were worn by time and the elements to repair using Photoshop's advanced healing tools with the additional challenge of trying to give them some life with color. I've learned that skin tones are, by far, one of the most difficult colors to add.

Studio Lighting Compositions

For this project we worked as a team to shoot four traditional lighting setups, including the butterfly (an intense single light above our subject), a 45/Rembrandt (lighting from a 45 degree angle to cast shadows on our subjects face), a split (intense light from 90 degrees), a split with fill, and a final experimental lighting shot. These are our team’s products!

Attack of the Clones Effect

This was our first project in a “Photoshop Magic” series learning about photo manipulation. This effect was aimed at making “clones” of ourselves through photography and photo manipulation using layering and masking. I made five clones of myself in this edit! Inspiration was definitely taken from Rogue One.

Studio Lighting Exploration

This was our first project using the studio with professional flashes and color gels to get some ultimately awesome looks. I couldn't help myself in making a comic-esque edit to one of the shots.

Seasons Through the Lens- Four Seasons Photo Shoot

For this project we did a final studio portrait session where we shot portrait photos of a classmate themed on the four seasons in Vermont. We used outfits, props, sprays, gels, and advanced lighting setups to capture these looks. We also used portrait retouching techniques in Photoshop and Lightroom to edit and refine each portrait. This was my favorite from that series with Eli as my subject doing "Winter."

Layers On Layers - Collage Edit

This was our first project in Adobe Photoshop to learn about masking and layering. Using selection and masking techniques, we created our own collages with dozens of photos. My collage is all about Star Wars.

Seeing and Feeling - Texture Photography

For this project, we practiced manual camera control and exposure triangle settings as we shot our own macro photos. These photos were supposed to show texture through close up abstract frames with lighting to support the overall feeling. These are some of my favorite macros from this project!

Shining Through- Text Clipping Mask Effect

For this project, we learned about clipping masks to create our own text art by making images “shine” through typography. My text art is about Star Wars, of course!

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