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Photo by Nathan Kaczmerak

For this assignment I was able to look through some of my older photos and find a more interesting from the ground up shot then the ones that I took. As soon as I saw this photo I knew that I wanted to pull the colors out of the lava lamps and keep everything else in black and white. So some easy photoshping turned out to be a pretty cool photo in my opinion.

Photo by: Brittany Baker

For this week, I took a picture of a windchime that my teacher made from computer parts. It's hanging outside the door, and it was a sunny day. The original picture was too dark to tell what any of those were, so I adjusted the levels to make the dark parts black. And make the lighter parts darker a little also. I put a filter on it i think to make the colors cooler. I really like how this picture turned out.

Afternoon In the Park

Photo Chris Gaul

I took this photo at blue park downtown Puyallup while I was sitting in the kiddy pool while it was empty. I’m most proud of the way I captured the grass and the sky because those two colors go great together. I did get some lens flare in the tree which is what the purple dot is, but I think the photo is really good and the problem was I only took one picture of it. I did go into photo shop and saturate the photo a little just to add a bit more color.

Photo by Kyndra Jones

I took this picture in Seattle, obviously since it's of the Space Needle. It was in the middle of the night so I had to use the flash on my camera and took several shots. I didn't do any editing to it except add the words to make it look like a postcard.

Photo by: Brittany Baker

For this assignment we were to take pictures of "still life". I believe this was the best shot of all the ones that I had. I took many different shots, and I am most proud of this one. The original I think was in color, but I think it looked better as a black and white picture. I zoomed in because I thought that it looked better if you didn't see the whole plate of fruit. I especially like how there is an apple and a pear in focus in front. And how the other pieces are in the background. The only thing that I don't like is how the pear's stem is so prominent.

Photo by Kyndra Jones

I took this picture for my still life assignment. I like how in focus it is, and I think it looks better black and white rather than in color. I took a variety of pictures but ended up liking this one best.

Photo by Rachel Jones

We had a fences theme, so I have this garden in my yard with an old fence around it. I tried different angles and I liked this one the best. I really like how it’s a fence theme, but it has some sky in it. Overall I’m happy with it.

Photo by Danielle Jack
This is actually an old photo from last year that I was experimenting with. I used one of those Photoshop add-on frames and changed the hue and saturation to give it a weird film look. I love it but it could be better with a different photo.

Photo by Nathan Kaczmarek

When I took this photo I had no theme that I was trying to capture but this one turned out best of the bunch. Unfortunately, this was an action shot so I couldn't take a lot of photos with different points in focus like I would have liked to. The original picture was a little bland so I adjusted the lighting and saturation to get a more vibrant color, I then sharpened the hair that was in focus to make it stand out a bit more.

Technicolor Transition

Photo by Chris Gaul

I took this photo in class during a demonstration. I took the photo into Photoshop and auto-leveled it and auto-colored it. Then I de-saturated the whole photo and used the history brush tool to bring back the color of one of the apples and the two sides of the green mat the plate was on. The two of the apples that I didn’t bring the color back in are out of focus and I wish I could have gotten them in focus. Overall I think this photo came out alright.

Photo by Nathan Kaczmarek

I decided to find the highest hill I could find in Bellevue one day and was able to come up with this shot. I did do some work with it in photo shop how ever. I messed with the colors a lot and gave it a kinda of green tint to it, I also sharpened the edges to bring the city out more. Other than that all I really did was crop it to get the excess sky and ground out of the shot.

Photo by Tyler Twaites
For this shot I used my little brother's cards that I knocked over. I thought that it would make a good shot. I really like the way I got the lines in this shot. And I like how just the front of the stack of cards are in focus and it gets blurrier as it gets further back.

Photo by Tyler Twaites
For this picture I used a 15 second shutter speed. I really like this shot but I wish that I could have made the background a little less cluttered. When I was in Photoshop I starting changing the different levels of exposure and light to get the final shot that you see here.

Photo by Kyndra Jones

I took this photo in hopes of trying to make him mad, but as you can tell, it did the exact opposite. I like the fact that part of his head is out of the picture because I think it makes it more interesting to look at. Mainly all I did was change the picture to black and white and then mess with the shadows. Enjoy.

Photo by: Brittany Baker

I took this picture at Alder Lake on a drive to the mountains. This one stood out to me though. I was using the Auto setting but it looks almost like a black and white picture. I didn’t do anything with this in Photoshop, it’s all original. It’s a simple picture, in an isolated area.

Shout Out

Photo by Nathan Kaczmarek

I took this picture when I was driving around downtown Bellevue. The original picture wasn’t as good as I would have like it to be, so Mr. Photoshop and I messed with it a bit. The tower and statue weren’t completely vertical. I messed with that to get it straight. Then I cropped the photo a couple of times to get everything lined up how I wanted it, after that I removed the shadow off of the statue’s left side to bring more attention to it. And finally I finished it off with the saturation to get a nice color for the sky. Overall I am satisfied with how this picture turned out.

Welcome To...

Photo by Chris Gaul

This is a photo of a pin that I got from my dad. It is from the era of Guns and Roses and I like the band so I thought this would be a good photo. I set it up with differently lighting and I finally got this shot. I am really proud of the way it came out because all i had to do was use auto color and auto levels and do a little saturating in Photoshop to help make the colors "pop". There is a little fuzziness at the bottom at the pin and all I would have to have done to fix it is move the camera down a little and re-focus the lens.

Photo by Danielle Jack

I chose to put this picture on the blog because I think it’s unique, I did some work on it in Photoshop obviously, but I accidentally lost the original copy so all I had to work with was my black and white copy but I think it turned out ok. I like the look the black and white gives it but I also like the extra something that the lights give it.

Wheel In The Sky

Photo by Danielle Jack
I took this picture in my school parking lot, I ran out of things to take pictures of then I saw these shiny rims. The assignment is called “from the ground up”. I think this is a great photo and has a cool view of perspective.

Photo by Rachel Jones

I took this picture out of my window. I thought the sky looked amazing so I grabbed the camera and started snapping some pictures. I especially like the how you can see the tree line at the bottom.

Vitamin P

Photo by Nathan Kaczmarek

I took this photo around Christmas time when I came down with strep throat. I needed a photo for my close up assignment, so I set a few things up to get a good foreground, middle ground and back ground. I applied the rule of thirds and didn’t do anything in Photoshop, and I am happy with how it turned out.

Lead The Way

Chris Gaul

I took this photo one day while I was walking around Bradley Park. I saw this area and thought it would be a great shot; I manually focused the camera on the closest vertical post to me to get the background out of focus and the foreground a little out of focus. Overall I think this photo came out pretty good, I used Photoshop to saturate the trees because there was some washout in the top.

Fenced In

Photo by Nathan Kaczmarek

I took this photo for the fence assignment and liked it only for it's simplicity. I am a fan of open space and not many distraction in photos. I did a few things with photo shop to get the photo how it is. I removed a stick that was hanging in the fence and I messed with the levels to get a little bit different color. I believe that the three main colors in the background - red, white and green balance each other nicely.

Shadow of Me

Photo by Tyler Twaites

I really like this picture because I haven’t messed with it at all. Everything you see was done with the camera. For this picture I used a long shutter speed and jumped in and out of the picture to give me that see through effect. I really wish I would have moved a little to the side though, because I don’t really like the door going down my face. But over all I really like the way this picture turned out.

Photo by Tyler Twaites

I like this picture because I am a fan of macro/close-up shots. I tried to get the main focus on the barb on the fence. This is the original picture. I have not messed with it at all. I really like the way the color turned out. You almost have to double check to see if it is black and white or color.

Photo by Rachel Jones

I took this picture on a nice day in June. I was in the yard just taking pictures of different things. I thought these flowers would be cool to photograph. I like this one; I chose not to crop it or anything. Because, I was trying to get the flowers to be symmetrical to each other, that’s why the flowers are in the center.

Photo by Danielle Jack

I absolutely love this picture because of the reflection of the car in the water, and the extra work I did on it in Photoshop. There was a light pole in the picture and in the reflection, but I used the clone tool to remove it, and I think it improved the photo a lot. I also turned it B&W and used the history brush to bring back the blue in the car and the reflection.

Photo by Kyndra Jones

I took this picture in October around the corner from my house. My brother had just gotten off of the bus and was walking with me while I was taking pictures. He kept picking up leaves so I decided to take a picture of him picking one up and well, this was the result. I edited it in photoshop by changing the color to a more golden/sepia tone, other than that it’s my original photo.

Photo by: Brittany Baker

I took this picture one day when I was walking around taking pictures for our Autumn Theme’s assignment. Since I haven’t really been satisfied with many pictures I’ve taken lately, I went through my old folders to find one to post. I forgot I had taken this one and decided to use it. I made some adjustments in Photoshop but not much. I just used the auto levels and played with the brightness and contrast, rotated it to make it straight and cropped it. It’s not my best but I’m satisfied.

The Worn Out Wheelbarrow

Chris Gaul

This is a photo of an old wheel barrow at my dad’s house. I thought this looked like an interesting shot, so I decided to take it. It had just started to snow so there wasn’t much snow on the ground and the shadow from the house and the bushes made it seem more vivid. I used Photoshop and saturated the photo to bring out the colors a little more. As I look back on the photo, I wish that I could have gotten more in it. Altogether though, I think that it came out really good.

Photo by Nathan Kaczmarek

I took this photo on the first snow day of the year. Luckily the sun was able to come out for a short while and I was able to get this shot. The only things that I did with photoshop were crop the picture and auto levels to get the sky a little more blue. I am happy with how it turned out and how the rule of thirds applies.

Photo b Kyndra Jones

I took this photo over Memorial Day weekend last year. This is of Tylor skating in the bowl at the Orting skate park. I really like how in focus this picture is and how I got a shot of him right in the middle of the trick. I also really like how the background looks.