Hey Beth,
I know you were expecting me to do a whole project full of my photography and nothing else. I know, I was expecting the same thing. Seeing that I'm a huge procrastinator, and something like the ideas I had for photographs would need planning for models (at least the route I was going to take). I didn't balance my time and never got the ball rolling. So I just went ahead and put some other things together that I could. Thanks for the wonderful second experience in your class. I really wish I showed you my photography a LONG time ago. Now that I have, you will definitely be seeing a lot of me over the years in your office showing you my new work and asking you questions. So, I will be seeing you soon! I hope to get enrolled in your RAW class. Anyway, don't be too harsh on me with the grading. I wish I could have impressed you with some awesome new photography. That shall happen anyway, just not right now. Haha. See ya!
- Austin Stovall
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Feather Light
Category #1: Feather Light
This photo was used in my portfolio. The edit was more of a orange tint. It was a very warm photo. This photo is a re-do as I try to make it the opposite a little bit. I wanted to try to cool down the photo. The photo on the left is the actual original photo straight from the camera, no edit. I took this photo with my DSLR.
I turned down the temperature down to a cooler tone. I turned down the exposure a bit, bumped up the contrast a bit, and played around with the levels. I messed with the levels of saturation for each individual color including the blue, green, orange, purple, and magenta, which I raised in different variations. I then created a layer, turned it into a smart object and added a bit of noise to the photo.
Club Black
Category #4: Club Black (not a real club to my knowledge)
Not a real story behind this, I just wanted to make some cool typography with a black theme.
This was made all from scratch except the font. I used the layer styles to make it more 3D, Bevel and Emboss. Used the pen tool to make the blue stroke inside the letters. I used the dodge tool for the highlights.
Wasted
Category #2: Wasted
I took this on my iPhone last year. My friend looked dead basically. So this photo is basically a blatantly obvious image of what "Wasted" looks like.
I used "wasted" and turned it into a clipping mask of my friend wasted. I duplicated the layer and added the Gaussian blur on the original photo. I used the gradient tool and a new layer, used the radial gradient, black to transparent. I then used a brush called rising sun which gives off the sun ray effect. Lastly, I added a photo filter.
Minimalist Batman Poster
Category #9: Minimalist Batman Poster
Started out with the all black background, and created a new layer. Created filter render clouds. I used the lasso tool to make the beam of light that goes up in the sky. I used the ellipse tool to make the circle. Used a stencil like brush called skyline to make the buildings. The bat man symbol was cut out of the picture on the left from: http://www.highsnobiety.com/files/2012/12/the-evolution-of-the-batman-logo-2.jpg
Masculinity
Category #11: Masculinity
I think this is a very masculine photo. Men go to barbers to get their hair cut. That's always a very manly activity where you talk about manly things with other men. Taken by myself on my iPhone.
Duplicated the layer and added the Gaussian blur, masked him out of the blur to make the shallow depth of field. Used a brown photo filter, adjusted the levels and curves to adjust the shadows and highlights.
Feminina
Category #12: Feminina
Disney princesses showing their feminine side. This photo was taken by myself on my iPhone.
I duplicated the layer, added Gaussian blur. I masked out the dolls, the remote, and the arm of the couch to create the shallow depth of field effect. I used plastic wrap from the filter gallery, used photo filters to change the colors of the shadows, midtones, and the highlights to make them look more appealing.
DMC
Category #15: DMC
This is for a local stylist and soon to be designer Desmon Keeton. Since this is for his future collection, I thought this would be perfect for the "selling" category. I took the photo, but I did not do the touch up on her face.
The original picture was really brown so I used the adjustment layers to make the whole thing a blueish white. I then masked her skin out to not make her skin blue. I wrote the words out using a downloaded font. I went to paragraph and used kerning to bring the letters together.
Bueno!
Category #14: Bueno!
A random guy I named Bueno! I used the ellipse tool to make his body. I used the pen tool to make the mouth. I made the rings around the eye with the ellipse tool. For the iris, I used the pathfinder tool and used trim to get rid of most of the black. From there, copied it from illustrator and saved it as a smart object in photoshop and duplicated that layer. Made the image a little bit bigger. Added a motion blur, switched the layers around so the original layer was above the motion blur. Then added the text at the bottom.
Purples
Category #8: Purples
This is what purples would like if oranges never existed. They seem pretty delicious.
The picture of the oranges can be found here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Ambersweet_oranges.jpg
I duplicated the layer and desaturated it. Made a new layer. Switched the blend mode to color. Then colored over it with the brush tool using the purple color in my swatches.
Bella
Category #13: Bella
I was over my cousins' house and got the pleasure of watching her cook me some dinner with her Dora oven, using her spiderman glove. Such a lovely contradiction. I took this photo on my iPhone.
I used the motion blur, then masked out the motion blur on her. I used photo filters to make it more pink. I then duplicated the layers and desaturated one of them to create the b&w at the bottom of the image. Used the stroke around the edge, set it to “inside” because instead of it being a color stroke it’s a gradient stroke.
Birds by Max Ernst
Category #10: an enhancement of the original work named "Birds" by German artist Max Ernst
Ernst has always been an inspiration to me with his somewhat odd view of the world. I find it beautifully interesting.
I duplicated the layer, added a motion blur, added a purple photo filter, added a layer mask on top of the photo filter. I then used the mask to mask out the photo filter over the scarecrow, the snake, the dog or bull, the fish, the bottle. I did this because there is already so much emphasis on the birds in the original artwork that I wanted to showcase the surrounding elements a bit more. I also messed with the levels and curves a bit.
Money Over Going To The Beach
Category #4: Money Over Going To The Beach
A possible future t-shirt design for a friend.
Character I created called The Butler in Illustrator and copied it into Photoshop. I made 3 clipping masks for each word and for the diamond in his eye. I had to try and line up the picture the same way as perfectly as I could.
Take Her Clothes Off
Category #7: Take Her Clothes Off
I was looking at this photo I took of my friend's ex-girlfriend, and got the random idea of making an attempt to make her look naked.
In this photo I used the stamp tool and patch tool to get rid of all her clothes.
Timeless
Category #4: Timeless
This I made for a local stylist as an advertisement.
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