Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait photography a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraits, the focus of the photograph is usually the person's face. In this case we are taking a photo of the side of the face. It can relate to profiling because with a portrait, the face can be turned sideways and it will still be considered a portrait, of course. It can relate to silhouetting by the similar properties it can have in the photo, like a person, and/or a face.

Double exposures are created in photoshop by first compiling your files in a stack, so they're all on top of each other. Next you can put your layers in order (face on top) and use the dodge tool to white out the background. After, you can put that layer into blend mode so the background images stand out. You can also make adjustments on the layers on make your background images stand out on the silhouette of your/someone's face.  You can really make it pop by adjusting the blend mode and adding layer adjustments. I like making these, and you'd want to make one because they turn out amazing and look like artwork. I personally added three adjustment layers to make it really stand out, and have the photos blend together well.

For my multi exposure, I used books, the ocean, and converse (shoes). The requirement was two symbolic photos , but of course I had to use three. The books represent my love for reading, knowledge and how I love learning new things. The second image is the ocean and rocks. After school everyday, my friends and I walk down to the local library and sit where I took that picture, so it holds some sentimental value. It also ties in with my last photo, which is Leila's and I's converse, representing friendship. My quality can be improved upon by making it more clear in general.

HDR Photography

HDR stands for High-Dynamic-Range photography. HDR photography is when the camera captures the image you want in multiple exposure levels (how bright that is). Then, manually, or using a program, you can put the photos together to make a photo that has the darks and the lights that make it more appealing to the eye. I really like HDR photography because it makes beautiful images so much better. You could take a normal photo and some places could be over exposed or completely under exposed, but with a HDR it balances everything out in a photo.

If you want to make a HDR photo step by step, you manually make the image better with adjusting the exposure, the colors, and everything else to make it a better image with your own touch. It is completely different from automatic HDR images, in the way that you don't have as much of a personal touch to it. With the manual you can make it surrealistic or have different colors stand out, but with the automatic, it just makes it a better picture in general.

While I was making my HDR images, I really thought about how I could make it the best I ever could, even surrealistic. I wanted something that stood out, and that didn't look like everything else. I wanted my images to be original with my personal touch. With my landscape photo, I wanted something bright and colorful, so I upped the exposure and the saturation, making the colors stand out. With my "experiment" (a photo of a person) I wanted more of a darker feeling towards it, a feeling that made people think about what was happening. After I finished both of those images, I compiled them into one, and put my subject into my landscape photo. To make it have a... How would you say... A feeling that everything came together correctly. I brightened my subject up quite a bit and then added some warmth, to make it fit better to the background. Thus creating one image with both of my HDR images in it.