Project #7 - Multiple Image Techniques

In this project, our class was tasked with manipulating the normal way we see a photo with multiple exposure, panoramas, and HDR. I decided to step my own path from that by having each kind of photo have a specific theme. The multiple exposure photos were a "glitch" in reality, the panoramas were the different ways the mind can see overwhelming situations, and the HDR photos were of finding beauty in small things. 

For this photo, I really wanted to play around with different textures. I started with a simple photo of a balcony and added a rough, geometric picture and a sharply contrasted picture of tree branches. Finally the clouds were included to add some smoothness to the ensemble.

Using a view of the city and Mount Hood as a background, I altered several photos to make a kind of floating modernistic city. The building comes from a photo I took from earlier in the school year and the birds were originally a statue picture, but were heavily edited. Out of all the photos of this project, this is by far my favorite.

In the editing process, I changed the colors so severely that only aqua, blue, and purple were visible in an originally green and yellow panorama. I love the frosted look it turned out to have along with its corresponding melancholy mood.

This panorama contrasts the first one both in mood and technique. I made the picture appear very realistic while also giving off a overwhelming wonderment. I did not necessarily intend to emphasize the use of lines in the picture, but it did make the photo turn out much better.

This flower caught my attention by its vibrancy and how it softly drooped towards the ground, so I knew I had to take a photo of it. Though I would have edited according to my own style, the HDR looks just as nice. After all, sometimes you have to go back into reality to see the beauty in things.

This photo of my cat had a really great source of light, so making it appear HDR was very easy. I enhanced the vibrancy (specifically in the yellows and blues) to give the picture more life the way I saw it. I also sharpened the image to show the detail in the fur.