Final Four Images-- Manipulated

We were asked to produce four images and then to manipulate them to look in a different way, could be funny,unusual,strange.This first picture was taken on a very bright day when I saw two jet planes were flying at the same time but in different directions.The white smoke behind the jet plane tailing is really a contrast behind the blue sky

This is the same picture manipulated using Photo shop Elements 9.I used the cropping tool and isolated the jet plane and then used the edit copy and paste options and pasted the part of the previous image on to the second image and the used the move tool to keep it in the desired place.I repeated this procedure several times to give the present appearance.Now the image looks as if so many jets are flying at the same time. Crowded sky ? Something for the green revolutionaries to think about in future.

This is the second image of a lane in a park.I like the lane,  with trees on either side.

This is a picture of a tower in Oxford and I used my mobile phone camera to take this image. The tower was too tall and I could capture the whole image by taking it on a slanting format.

.This is the final result of combining the first two images.The image appears as if the tower has fallen onto the lane.Again I used the Photo shop elements 9.First I used magnetic lasso tool and isolated the tower and then used edit, copy and pasted the isolated part of the image on to the second image and then moved it right in the middle of the lane.

This is the third image, the Oxford tower.

This is the library building at Harrogate.

Again I used the Photo shop elements 9. I used the magnetic lasso tool to isolate the tower and the pasted on to the second image.Then I adjusted the tilt and the size of the tower so as  to give an impression as if the tower is leaning over the building.

This is the final image  that of a light house.I liked the black and white contrasting colour.

This is the manipulated image.Here I used the magnetic lasso tool and isolated the light house and pasted on to the second image and repeated the procedure several times so as to give an image of several light houses of different heights at the same place.I am quite pleased with the resultant image.

These final images have been chosen by me in relation to my interest in landscape photography which includes landscape,sunrise, river,unusual objects of interest. I have been using Photoshop elements 9 which I have one.I have also tried the Photo shop CS5 at Burton College, which I have found much easier, but very expensive to own one.These are my own pictures and there should not be any legal implications.Also it will not affect any people in the society.

Final Images

This is the second of the final six images.This image was taken with Nikon D5000 with a lens 18-105.Time aws in the evening.The sky is clear and blue.The dark blue colour of the sky is due to the circular polarising filter which I had used.

This is the same image manipulated with the help of Photo shop CS5.You can see the part of the boat both in the sea and on the sand are missing.It was done by using crop tool to cover the area, that is the boat and then use the edit option, then fill and finally selected the content aware option and click OK.Also I used the colour contrast which has made the sea water more greener.

I took this picture at the perfect time of the day when the sun was setting slowly.I waited for several minutes to get the perfect level over the sea.I included few rocks in the foreground to give a sense of depth and the distance.Looking back I should have used a tripod with a longer exposure time.May be next time.

This is the above image manipulated.I used more colour to give an orange tinge to the sky, and now the sun is more clear.I really like this image.

This is the photo of the Westminster Abbey in London.Again it was in the evening.I like the composotion which included the trees in the foreground.Again the ske is very clear and blue.May be one or two small clouds would have made it more pleasant.

This is the manipulated image.Nice and sharp.Note the crane is missing which was an eye sore.i removed it with the help of Photo shop CS5, using the crop tool and edited and the using the content aware option.The sky is more blue, again because of the circular polarising filter.

This picture ws taken actually at night when the lights were on over and around the dam.The picture has come out very well despite not using a tripod.But it would have been even more dramatic had I used a tripod.I actually leaned over a lamp pole to steady the camera and it worked well.The picture is sharp as I had used the smallest aperture 22.

This is the manipulated image.Even more pleasant.Using Photo shop CS5 , firstly made the image straight and my tutor helped me to make the sky more blue and uniform.Note that it was a little grainy in the original image.

This is one of my most favorite photo.Because it was taken in the morning when the sky was clear and blue, but the temperature was -10 degree centigrade.It was one of those cold and frosty winter days and I had to go out and get some pictures.Incidentally two weeks prior to this I had attended famous land scape photographer, Joe Cornish, who had high lighted that one can get excellent pictures during rain,snow and frosty days.How true he was.This image is really beautiful, but I experimented by converting it into black and white using Photo shop CS5.it is even more beautiful.I erased a yellow truck on the bridge and a bench under the tree.This picture can be used for post card 

Presentation of final images.

These final images cane be presented in various ways.1.Photo prints.these are easy way of presentation.prints can be done from various photography shops, either from shops or online.Advantages are they are easy to display. Disadvantages are they tend to fade and have finger marks, bulky to carry and take lot of space to store. 2.CD presentation.Easy to carry and almost permanent. Disadvantage being one needs to have a computer with proper software. And collecting and editing takes time.3.Slide show, with the help of memory stick or memory card.These are very easy to carry and to display.But the disadvantage is that one has to have a computer or a projector and a screen to display.M y presentation was through CD and slide show.

Final images

we are asked to produce six final images in the project.This is the first image.This picture was taken with my Nikon D5000 camera with the lens 18-105.Using aperture priority with aperture at 22mm.There is a good depth of field, good coverage of land and sea.

This is the same image manipulated with the help of Photo Shop Elements 9.I have changed the contrast and the colour, and made the image a bit sharp as well.Doing this the sea colour has also increased and looks more greener like natural.

Research artist--- Lewis Baltz

This second picture by Lewis Baltz showing the interior of a telecommunication laboratory.It shows so many intricate instruments symmetrical and parallel all in one room.I like the symmetrical areas of bright and dark areas

This is a picture by Lewis Baltz showing a vast land where people made it into storage houses.The buildings are irregular without any plan and concentrated.The picture actually shows the real vastness of the wasted land.

 Lewis Baltz was born in California in 1945. He was a visual artist but then later he became a photographer. He was graduated from San Fransisco Art Institute. He became interested in the nature where human beings destroyed the landscape.He photographed mainly human landscapes like offices, factories and parking lots.He was also concerned that people are wasting the precious land for constructing for parking cars and storage places,instead he would suggest that the land should be used to help the community, especially to produce food or manufacture materials. He also wrote many books on photography.Baltz moved to Europe in 1980s and there he started to produce large colour prints. He became the professor of photography at European Graduate school. He now lives in Paris and Venice.

Research artist ------Paul Seawright

This is a picture by Paul Seawright showing a disused corridor. The corridor is full of leaves and other dirt.The windows are uncleaned and some weeds growing on them.I like this picture which shows the depth of field and like a 3D appearance.This second image is an Italian beach, showing the typical beach, where diffrent people doing different things, like some people are swimming, sun bathing eating and drinking.

 Paul Seawright was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland in 1965. He was mainly interested in photographing in conflict and war zones. He photographed in NI during the conflict.He took lots of photos of people who were injured, and the buildings, and vehicles those were destroyed or burnt down. Most of his pictures were really emotionally moving and touching. Seeing his work Imperial war museum sent him to Afghanistan to take pictures, at the end of the war in 2002 against Russia. later he lived in Wales for 13 years. He also started taking photos of places where lot of people are gathered, like beach,shopping centres, and festivals. His works were exhibited in many countries especially in San Francisco museum of arts. He is the professor of photography at University of Ulster in Belfast.

Research artist-- Lynn Silverman

Lynn Silverman was born in New York USA in 1952. she graduated in photography from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. after graduating she left for Australia and was fascinated with the deserts there. She stayed there for six years. Then she moved to England where she spent 16 years. she photographed table tops, light bulbs, windows, clouds etc. While photographing windows she highlighted the contrast between inside and outside of the window. She also highlighted the curtains, blinds in the windows.
The above picture is of a tungsten bulb. The beauty is the highlighted filament and the reflection of the other lights in the room. She also started taking pictures of buildings and rivers,which she never liked it much. She had held many exhibitions all over the USA

Research artist--- Willie Doherty

 Willie Doherty Was born in Northern Ireland in 1959.Asa child he witnessed Bloody Sunday in Derry which was a communal conflict between Catholics and Protestants.Most of his works and photographs were based on these conflict and he named them "Trouble".He became famous in 1980 when he published series of photos with titles, taken during the trouble in NI. He was nominated twice for Turner prize.He has exhibited his works in USA and Italy. He also made many video recordings of the conflict called "The Visitor". He also photographed many buildings,vehicles which were destroyed or burnt during the communal conflict in Northern Ireland. He would go out during such violent actions without fearing for his  safety. Some of his pictures became very emotional.

These are the two of many images he shot.The first picture is the destruction of a house with the furnitures burnt and destroyed. The second picture is the destruction of a car, burnt.One can see the extent of destruction in this picture, the glass and the body has been burnt.

Research artist--- Eugene Atget

 Eugene Atget was a French photographer born in Bordeaux.Early in life he became a sailor, then cabin boy and later an actor.none of these jobs made him happy and he could not continue with these jobs.He married a French actress and they both were associated with French dramatists.He became interested in photography and he could make a living out of that. He bought himself a camera, a  large wooden camera with bellows.he shot more than 10000 shots of people and various sights in Paris.His main interest was in buildings and nature.He held many exhibitions and galleries through out Europe.He gave lot of importance to the sharpness of the images he took which he could achieve using the large format camera using a tripod.It looks all landscape photographers use tripod routinely for all the images.

 I like this image which shows an alley between buildings and a canal.There are rows of trees besides the canal and a staircase to go down to the canal.This one image gives so many information.

This second image is of a lake.The water is still and so the reflection of trees is clear.The photographer must have taken this image early in the morning when no people around and must have waited for a long time for the right moment when the water is still.

Evaluation

I started this course to improve my photographic techniques and image manipulation using photo shop program.I am mainly interested in landscape photography, involving water, sunrise, sunset and trees and fields.Since I started the course my photographic techniques have improved very much.I now know framing  an image, what the image should contain,  lines, contrast, composition and the rule of thirds.
Light writing is a new thing which I have learnt. I will be practising this technique very often in future.
I have also learnt to do the blogging and publishing my work which I learnt during the course.I also look into other peoples blog and have picked up few good tips.
My most enjoyable part is the image manipulation using photo shop program. It was very frustrating initially because at Burton College Apple computer was being used with Photo shop CS5 and while practising at home it was different as I have Microsoft PC and Photo shop Elements 9.Now that I have purchased the manual for the program I am now confident of image manipulations.Next aim is to learn the layering technique for image manipulations.
I have a  Nikon D5000 camera with a lens 18-105 which I use regularly, but I also have a lens 70-200 which I use occasionally. one of the things I need to use is the tripod on a regular basis.I have learnt that while using a tripod one can use the smallest aperture without any camera shake and so can get a nice sharp and crisp photos with a good deal of depth. This is one of the essence of landscape photography. Also use of tripod helps taking pictures in dark and at nights.