My Photostory

Here's my collection of manipulated photographs. I'm not sure why the slides are off-centered, I can't seem to change it even though my file that's saved doesn't view that way. The last slide's text is cut off, it reads "let yourself rest"

tools used starting with the first picture: crop, smudge, burn, patch 2nd: smudge, burn tool 3rd: airbrush, dodge tool 4th: burn tool, darkened brightness 5th: burn tool and used a filter 6th: airbrush, burn tool, text 7th: dodge and burn tool 8th: airbrush 9th: adjusted colors to bring out more red and blue, dodge tool 10th: airbrush and burn tool 11th: colorized, dodge, text 12th: increased red and magenta in sky, paintbrush

Portrait

 

Here are the portrait shots I got. I didn't want them all to be of the face, which you typically think of for a portrait shot. I really wanted to focus on the things my brother does with his time and that I think of when I think of him. The first is him with one of his birdhouses- he probably has 20+ that he's all hand painted. The second is of my brother in the front yard- one challenge I had was getting him to act normal- as soon as he knows he's in front of a camera it's instant awkward, so I just kept talking to him and pretended I wasn't taking any shots yet. The third is him holding (kind of framing) a sunflower. When I went outside he was actually watering these flowers, so it was perfect. A challenge was giving directions and capturing at the perfect moment to get a natural looking shot rather than a forced still shot.