Painting With Light

The message I tried to convey through this picture is one of whimsy. I tried to create a very dream-like portrait with my friend looking out of frame of the photo. I tried to convey the image of dreaming and thinking of the future through this photo. To make this image happen, I made my friend sit in front of my garage door and hold as still as possible. Then, my friend's younger sister drew out the word "dream" above her head using finger lights. While this was happening, another friend of mine drew up and down with a regular flashlight on my friend's body, thus illuminating only her. To edit this picture, I used the brush tool in Lightroom to lower the exposure in the background and to raise it on my friend's body. I also reduced the noise and increased the sharpness of the image.

 

The message I tried to convey with this photo was that we often have very expressive and extensive thoughts despite our calm quiet exteriors. I wanted to show the excitement and energy of people's minds in contrast to a calm exterior. To make this image happen, I had my friend sit in front of my garage and told her to sit as still as possible and cover her face with her hands. Then, I told my friend's younger sister to create a "V" shape with a light wand and then do her best to color it in. I told my other friend to draw up and down on her body using a regular flashlight. To edit this picture, I used the brush tool in Lightroom to increase the exposure on just my friend. I also used it to even out the exposure on the background of the photo. I also increased the sharpness of the image. 

Music Project

This is my photo for my music project. As the Photoshopping I did for this project was very time consuming, I didn't complete the project as well as I wanted to. A small part of the trees in the picture are still overlaid by the second picture as well as some of the Photoshopped portions are lighter than the rest of the photograph. The first photo I used for this project was a photograph of some birds in a tree on the hill behind my house on a gray, cloudy day. The second picture was taken of the bright blue sky a few days later. I wanted to create a contrasting image of the bleakness of the first picture to the lightness of the second one, so I layered them on top of each other. I then began to Photoshop around the branches of the tree to create the image of an open, happy sky in the background. I chose to represent the  song, "The Great Escape" by Boys Like Girls. This song talks about leaving the past behind and going new places. I wanted to show this through the darkness of the birds and the trees representing the past and who you were with the bright sky representing the opportunities of tomorrow by being an escape for the birds sitting on the bracnhes.