Week 14 Slideshow-"My Fabulous Friends" (final)

For my final project, I wanted to show all of the animal friends that I have had throughout my life, from childhood to now. I tried to accomplish this by showing myself in some pictures getting older and older. I tried to show the animals that had great impact on my life, but also I tried to keep in mind that this was a photography assignment. I was looking for certain aspects in the photographs or at least ones that I could manipulate. At first, I thought, oh this will not be hard. I cannot say it was actually hard, but I wanted to be thorough and then I became obsessed with wanting to get it just right. I'm hoping the captions will not take away from the slideshow. I kept adding a little bit more information to them as I continued to check the rubric. The hardest part of this whole assignment was really making the GIMP tools work for me. I would have this idea in my head as to what I wanted the pictures to look like, and then...it would not seem to come out right. I did a lot of adjusting and readjusting. This was a very gratifying assignment, as I looked back and remembered some very special moments with my fabulous friends.

Thanks,
Trina

Week #13-portraits

In this top photo, I took a picture of my oldest son looking out the window.  He has a very deep and thoughtful expression on his face, which is true to him nature. I did ask permission first, and he was very cooperative.  He was not aware of exactly when I was going to take the picture.  I chose this one because he is slightly out of focus.  Because he is slightly blurry, the trees in the background stick out more.  The part I liked best with the focus on the background is in between the trees you can see the orange in the sky beyond the trees.  Take a close look to see if you can catch the beautiful color in the sky; it's there.

 Here is a close up of one of my favorite people, my boyfriend.  In this photograph I gave him lots of room to look at something ahead of him.  I did ask his permission too, and he was more than willing.  At first, he was walking as I was photographing.  I thought that would be great because I could get some movement in my picture, but my camera was too slow in capturing the image.  I would snap a great shot when he was moving, and then look at the image, and I missed him completely.  So, I told him to stand still.  He is 6'5", so I decided to stand up on a rock to at least get even with his eye level.  Finally I got this shot, and liked it.  It does show that he he those "eagle eyes" and that is true.  I'm glad this picture picked that up.

This is my youngest son, and he is quite different from my oldest, and you can see that.  I, again, asked for permission first.  He agreed and he got so excited he put on quite a show for me.  I tried many different angles with him coming down my stairway.  I even turned my camera so that the stairway was diagonal in the background, but none of those came out with any satisfaction.  Finally, I remembered in the tutorial that maybe framing a face would be effective.  He's not in jail, but instead, stuck his face through the staircase railing.  I quick took this picture before he went goofy on me again.  This was a lot of fun--especially shooting this last one!  I did not manipulate any of these portraits either.

Week #10-text in picture

I labeled this picture using GIMP.  I just like the straight forwardness of the writing.  Being able to write information on the picture itself helps me as a viewer understand quickly what I'm looking at.

Week #10=paint brush

 The top photo is the one that I painted on.  I played around with different colors, but decided to go with the more black and white look.  I based that decision on the fact that the floor in the background was already black and white.  First, I cloned the floor to cover up the background edges that showed in the original.  Then, I found the galaxy (ap) brush, and clicked it all around my dog.  Then, I colored in his eyes with a brown round paint brush that fit very well to his eyes.  I like the shadows that were created as I used the galaxy.  It made the outline of my dog stand out. 

These are all just the originals.  I had trouble with my computer when I was selecting the pictures to put in here, and they did show up, but it took a very long time, and I thought they didn't.  Sorry.

Week #10-clone

 This is the photo that I used the cloning feature on.  I picked a round paintbrush and made the size around 3.75.  Then. I clicked on the part of the photo that I wanted cloned, and clicked all around the pumpkin.  I chose the round shape because I thought it matched the pumpkin's shape.  I purposely took the picture with the pumpkin off center because I wanted to see how the cloning would look around something that wasn't centered.  I just clicked the cloned part around in a circular motion until all the background was covered.

This is my original photo that I chose to clone.

Week #9 filters

 This original was taken one beautiful sunny morning, just as the sun was coming up.  I was slightly disappointed because the photo did not show the beauty of the sunrise.  So...I thought, this will be a good one to run through filters. 

 After trying many different filters, I simply fell in love with hitting just the Decor-Old Photo tabs.  That's it.  I know it still doesn't show the sunrise colors, like I thought I wanted to do.  In the end, I did almost the complete opposite of what I set out to do.

 This is the original for these photos.  I couldn't believe that both of my horse's eyes lit up because of the flash from my camera.  Again, I was slightly disappointed at my attempt to get a good picture, and decided to put this through the filters too.  I played around a lot with this one.

This is the process I used.  First, I added the "lens flare" and adjusted it to where I liked it.  Then, I added "fuzzy border.,"  then "despeckle." After that,  I couldn't get rid of his bright eyes, so I tried "oilfy."  Doing that took out the brightness in his eyes and made the fence wire disappear.  

Week 8

 Here is a close up of my goat.  I chose to photograph him because of all the white markings he has on his face.  I thought that he would be a good topic for this week's assignment.

 Here, I darkened all around my goat so much that even his leg in the lower left corner has mostly disappeared.  The colors have changed quite a bit--and now the image is slightly evil looking.  Appropriate for Halloween I'm thinking!

 This is the original photo of my horse.  She ended up with that bright eye from the flash on my camera.  I couldn't quite figure out how to perfectly color it in.  Once I zoomed in on her eye, I could see so many colors within the rest of her eye, I couldn't tell which color to choose.  I did finally choose a brown.  It almost works.  I also brightened up the image, and in fact, I think the second photo seems better than the original