Love

Love to me means Happiness....

For this assignment we were told to think about what love means to us and then take a picture to represent that. When I think about love the word happiness comes to my mind instantly. For me, love means happiness so I decided to take a picture of one of my close friends Ellen smiling.

I went on vacation with her and in Tennessee we find a bright graffiti wall and stopped and took pictures. After taking photos I thought this one would be the best because of how bright and outgoing the wall was behind her compared to all the other walls. After I chose the photo I first edited it with a photo app on my phone called VSCO and I just increased the contrast and exposure. Once I did that I went into the photoshop app and used the blur tool to make the background behind her all blurry. I then added a gradient map to the photo and that made the bottom of the photo blurry too. After that was done I edited the contrast and exposure in the photoshop just to clean the photo up.

One thing I like about this photo and how it came out was the wall behind her and how much it adds to the photo and how much it stands out once the contrast and exposure are sharper. But, I would change some edits I made if I could do it all over again. I wouldn't change a lot but I would want to learn how to use the color selection tool and make her body stand out way more than the background considering her smile is the most important thing in this photo. It still stands out and you can see but I would like for it to stand out more so her smile and face could be the main focus.