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Photography Special Project This is my special project for the photography class I'm taking this semester. It involves taking digital photographs and tweaking them to make them look better, different, or odd. I've included fairly detailed explanations on the steps I took to manipulate each image, so feel free to read along, or just look at the before and after comparisons. All pictures are thumbnails. Click on them if you want to see a bigger and better picture, under 1M. |
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This picture was taken at my neighbor's place in Pillager. There was some big, mean logging equipment on his property, and I thought it would make for good photographs. When I took the picture of this bulldozer, little did I know that the sun shining on it would make it look quite soft and cuddly. With a bulldozer, soft and cuddly just doesn't work, so I set out to fix that. | |
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I used levels and curves a bit to try and brighten up the yellow on the dozer, but it wasn't until I used Unsharp Mask to elimenate some of the soft lines that made it look so wimpy. I left the surroundings as they were, only sharpening the machinery to give it the edge over it's environment. After trying many different ways of sharpening, I realized that the main body didn't need very much sharpening, but the blade benefited greatly from it. I selected the blade, and sharpened it twice as much again as the rest of the picture, then used curves to add some cold blue to it, which also contributed to the meanness. |
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The result is a bulldozer with more of an attitude. In the future it would be fun to see how a change of the skyline behind the dozer might change the mood of the picture. The only difficulty in that is that the scene was decidedly taken while in full daylight, so a towering thunderhead wouldn't quite fit in. | |
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