Collage/Photo Montage

This is a collage of the band the Foo Fighters. This is my all time favorite band. With they're riffs, bridges and lyrics their sound is truly individual and really stands out. When i first saw the objective for this assignment i knew exactly what i wanted to do for this project. I took the majority of the photos from google, and a few from their myspace. Overall i used about 93 layers consisting of the pictures, texts, and shadowing effects. I really enjoyed doing this project from start to finish. I had an idea in my head of what it would look like and when i was finished it was better than i had imagine it would be.

Picturing the "other"

This is Kirk Albachten. He is a senior at North Medford High School. I met him through myspace when he asked if i could shoot him for his senior pictures. He really liked some of the stuff that was on my profile so he wanted me to be his photographer. Kirk is really into playing the trumpet for his high school's wind ensemble and jazz band. I wanted to be able to use some of that talent of his in his pictures. I thought over all the shoot went great and i learned alot about him just through taking pictures.

Alphabet Soup

This image reprsents the letter "O." I really enjoyed working with this picture. I found that the possiblites could be endless, just like the shape of the letter O. I cropped out the hands of my friend and put it behind a space background, that i found on the internet, then added an image of the earth that i found of the internet as well. When i was looking at the picture with all the layers in place, the earth looked a little awkward because of the shadowing with the hands. I then just took a soft edge brush and darkened the outlining areas to make it look more realistic.

I am very proud of this picture, i found that photoshop is a very powerful tool and the possibilities are endless with it.

This picture is of a coat hanger in a bathroom. To me it resembled the letter J. I cropped out the hanger and used it as a top layer while i used the gradient tool with a rainbow effect. I thought that the rainbow effect would add a nice contrast to it since the hanger is silver. 

This image is of a lock that looks like the letter U when turned upside down. This image was a little harder to decide how edit it. I used the contrast and brightness tool and almost maxed out the contrast. i thought that it made the image look more striking to the eye. I then made a new layer and cropped out a circle in the middle and darkened the area behind it. This made it seem as if a flash light was focused on it. 

I really enjoyed how this pictures turned out. I started not having any ideas to creating somthing artistic.

Is picture was of the tile wall in the bathroom with a crack in the sealing. I thought it looked like the letter L. When i shot this image i already new what i wanted to do with it. I thought of a Bob Marley poster my friend has that used red, yellow, green, and black. I thought the colors really flowed yet had a lot of contrast together. I think with this picture i showed exactly how the colors can do just that.

For this image i shot a dresser handle that had a shadow of a C. This was a little hard to edit because the image was pretty blury. I was a little absent minded when doing this picture as well so i just kind of messed around with the gradient tool untill i got something i liked. I then took a soft edge brush and darkened the shadow of the handle to really make it pop.

scratch assignment

This is my first assignment for my Digital Media Class. The idea was to use flat colors to create an image. When i was thinking about what to do for my assignment, i saw a commercial for an Apple  iPod, i was really inspired by the way they used the flat color technique. Using a picture I took of a snowboarder on Mt. Ashland, I cropped him out from the background of the ski run, then cropped out his snowboard and filled in both images with flat black and white. I then later took bright contrasting color and filled in the background to really make the snowboarder stand out. I wasn't very satisfied with just one bright image, so i decided to use multiple bright colors and post them together.