Week 5

During this course I have been using my trusty iPhone 11 to take photos.  Unfortunately, the iPhone 11 does not have a macro mode.  I took some of my photos with a magnifying glass against the lens, which caused some warping and extra light around the edges.  It was difficult to get the camera to create a focal point at such close range, so most of my time in photoshop entailed creating focal points using the lasso and increasing brightness.  I again felt that this assignment provided a challenge in considering more than simply an object to capture.

  

My son loves toy cars, and there were plenty of them scattered in the driveway to work with.  Getting in close to these cars made it look like they were full size.  I attempted to increase brightness in the center and decrease brightness around the inverse to create a focal point of the cars.  I also lightened the hub cap of the red car to make it pop a bit more.  Over saturating the color gave the photos a bit of a surreal look.

I attempted to capture the condensation on this bottle of ginger beer.  The label, typically orange, was lassoed and lightened to give it more of a gold color.  

While shooting some flowers, I happened upon an ant crawling among them.  This photo was taken with a magnifying glass against the lens, which washed out and unfocused the image somewhat.  The ant is heavily desaturated and darkened to make it more visible against the flowers.  Vignetting helped to bring the little bug into focus as well.

 

 This photo of a bench was taken at Eisenhower Park in Milford.  The bench is coated in a kind of textured hard plastic that was accentuated by reducing contrast and darkening.  I also cropped this photo a bit to even out the rows of hole above and below the grass in the background.  Editing this picture made me forget that it is actually a bench as I focused on the pits and grooves of the material.