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

Painting with Time- Light Painting Demonstrations

For this project, we worked with teams in a pitch black dark auditorium room to do some light painting. Using tripods and shutter speeds as slow as 20+ seconds, we created these light paintings by hand without any Photoshop or added effects.

Pixel Dispersion Effect

For this project, we experimented with brushes in Photoshop to duplicate layers and create custom masks that could make it look like our subject was appearing and disappearing from the frame.

Extrospection- Portraits On Location

After lots of practice doing portraits in the studio and outdoors, this project allowed us to shoot three or more portraits of two or more subjects 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. Thanks to Cokie for being my subject!

The Blockbuster- Movie Poster Redesign

For this project we recreated posters from famous movies starring ourselves and our classmates! We designed these as high quality documents using the full size billboard layouts. We had to create every element ourselves and could only import limited credited assets, so every layer of this design except for the actual ET character is original as a digital drawing or studio photograph.

Make It Move- Photoshop GIF Animation

To preview our upcoming studies in graphics and animation, we made GIF sequences in Photoshop using some photography and other graphics. Photoshop is perfect for making GIFs and cinemagraphs since you can create them like a video using a timeline! I liked this technique so much that I made three different GIF's combining photos and digital drawings!

Gray Studio Backdrop Lighting Demos

For this project, we showcased lighting mastery by using lights to make a middle gray backdrop look like it was gray, pure black, pure white, or a color. These are some photos my team shot to showcase this lighting control!

Levitation Effect

For this project we shot multiple frames of the same scene and used masking to create realistic effects with ourselves or other objects floating in the air.

Double Exposure Effect

For this project we used Photoshop to emulate a classic photography effect that came from vintage film photography when two images were shot on the same frame, using opacity to blend them. I combined a portrait and shot of a field of flowers to create this manipulation!

Attack Of The Clones

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 4 clones of myself in this edit!

Flash Flash- Studio Lighting Experiments

For this project we experimented with long exposure light effects. Once we darkened the studio, we used our flashes and tripods to create these effects in camera, such as a manual double exposure where we flashed the lights multiple times or light trails to paint in light over time!

Watercolor Effect

For this project we made our own watercolor art that we scanned in as high resolution layers. From there, we used Photoshop to mask and layer these paintings with photographs, making our own fusion of handmade and digital art!

Visually Clever- Prop Photo Effects

This project had an open-ended prompt to use props of any kind to create photo tricks, illusions, and interesting perspectives. Beyond thinking creatively about the props, we had to compose the photos to showcase clever concepts. I used lens balls as props to create these shots, and I made one manipulation with a coffee mug!

Seeing and Feeling- Texture Macro 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!

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!

3-2-1 Photo Walk

This was our first project getting into photography! To learn the basics of using our DSLR cameras, we went around campus to capture a series of basic photos including 3 macro shots, 2 portraits, and 1 portrait. These were some of my favorites from that photo shoot!

Sketch Effect

For this project, we learned how to use layer blend modes to create an effect that looked like we were being sketched by pencil or paint. Then, we used compositing techniques to combine this sketch with a real photo to create this surrealist effect!

Layers on Layers- Collage Design

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 TOADS!!!

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 my favorite YouTube'er Kurtis Conner.