Digital Assignment #17: Mimicking an Artist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I received this assignment I thought it would be cool to mimic photos of old Charlottesville, by recreating them with what Charlottesville is today. My father had photos from Ed Bradbury who had taken photos on the downtown mall when it was still a road. The first image I mimicked was one of Miller & Rhoads. Now that building is a Five Guys on the Downtown Mall. The second image the building, the Paramount, is still there just with a different scenery. Instead of cars in front of The Paramount there is now outside restaurant seating and a walking mall.

Digital Assignment #16: Split Toning

 

Paige

 

 

 

FDR Monument

 

 

Split toning digitally is a fairly simple thing. First, I convert the photo to a black ad white image. Then I added toning in, blue in the shadows, and a sepia for the highlights. Split toning a photo allows you to highlight the shadows and areas of light in a way that shocases both in a balanced way. Neither of these photos did I take with the purpose of making them split toned. After playing around with different photos, I decided that I really like the way these two turned out split toned, even thought that wasn't my intent when I took them.

Film Assignment #10: Impressionism

 

Contact Sheet

Aperture: f/5.6

Exposure: 5 seconds

 

 

 

Impressionistic Building

Aperture: f/8

Exposure: 12 seconds

Filter: #3

 

 

 

Impressionistic Trees

Aperture: f/8

Exposure: 15 seconds + 3 seconds on bottom left

Filter: #3

 

 

When I tried an impressionistic look with my digital photos I tried accomplishing the look by shooting through a glass with water prayed on it. This time when I tried the style with my film camera I took a different approach. Instead of taking the photo through glass with water on it I took photos just using water. I took pictures of items that were near a body of water and got the reflection of them in the moving water. The reflection combined with the water's movement created the soft, blurry look associated with impressionism. The first picture is a reflection of a hotel in a nearby lake, and the second is of trees reflecting into the pond they are near. In both images the wind was moving the water helping to create the style.