Evaluation (self reflection in blog with examples from shoot)

Evaluation (self reflection in blog with examples from shoot)

The photoshoot I did on HDR brought back memories, which I do enjoy doing. I enjoyed that I had to do different exposures because once I put all the exposures together it all came together and makes me realize that doing HDRs is a good trait to have.

Overall all I am pretty satisfied with the photos I took and submitted in this assignment. One photo that was my favorite in this photoshoot was a picture of a window. The reason being for this is because I like how the items were placed in front of the window. Another reason was that there was objects hanging as well. Which made the picture interesting and not bland. Of course doing this in HDR improved the quality of the picture

Another photo that I was content with making an HDR photo was this picture of a mirror. In my opinion it was just a unique way of taking a photo, using dynamic angle. In the mirror it has broken widow showing which to me is just showing texture in a different way. Also you can notice that it is from a car, since you can see the hood. Since I did this photo as an HDR the colors are very vibrant and sharp. The last thing is that you can see is the how clean and clear the mirror is. Which again show texture in the photo.

Displacement Tutorial

Displacement Tutorial

1) To start of a displacement map, you will want to have two photos. One will be an image of a face or hands, they work the best. Then the second picture will be what you want to put on your subject.

2) With the picture of the face or hand you will want to duplicate that image. 

        -- Go to layer > Duplicate Layer > Rename it "Displacement".

3) After duplicating the image, we want to desaturate it. 

        -- Click on Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. 

4) The last thing we will need to do with the Displacement Layer, is save it to your desktop. 

       -- Click File > Save as > Name it something you will remember.

5)  Now, we will go to the picture that we want to put on the subject. You want to drag the picture over to your subject (face or hand). 

6) You want to drag the image over your subjects hand or face. 

       

      --  A tip would be if you drop the opacity so you can get an exact placement. 

   

      -- You wil want to click Edit > Free Transform 

7) After placing your image on your subject you want to click Filter > Distort > Displace. 

8)  A  displacement widow will open.

     

     -- Horizontal Scale = 25

     -- Vertical Scale = 25

     -- Click on wrap around 

Another window will pop up, click the photo you named "Displacement" 

9)  To complete it you will want to click add vector mask. (Right button bar) Along with you want drop the opacity down to a point where you can see your subject and the displacement. 

10)  Click on the paint brush tool, erase the part of you displacement photo you do not want.

11) After erasing the things you did not need to use from your displacement. You can clean up your image and make it to a masterpiece.