Jahred T -HDR

This is one of the pictures I took for my HDR, I used the Photomatix 6 to edit it and make it into a HDR I guess. I took the picture with whatever Rigby camera name is 

Zach B. - Pretty Girl

This is Shiloh, a Siberian husky that I love very much. This black and white assignment was probably one of my most favorite assignments this year. I love that it required me to really get a photo filled with color that was also balanced which makes a perfect black and white. This photo I took with my Canon rebel T6i and a 50mm  F/1.4 lens. I used the detail extractor in the Nic collection to help the displacement of black and gray around the photo. I think the only problem that I have with this photo is the way the eyes are reflecting light. I do love the focus on her face; however, the intense blurriness around the photo was not most favored either.

Austin C. - Flower

Hello. This image of mine is entitled “Flower”. This photo was taken at a garden quite a long time ago. Probably about in August of 2018. It was taken with my Nikon D3300. I added some vibrance and raised the brightness and sharpened it up a little bit. I think it could be better if it was more in focus and taken in a better than the way it was.

Jacob T- AU Stadium Panorama

       I took this image with my Canon Rebel T6 and this image was taken at Auburn University. I took about 45 pictures for this panorama although I don’t think that it used all of them. I edited it by using a lot of color adjustment layers because after merging the pictures there was a lot of different colors that didn’t really match up. I think this was because it was cloudy outside and slightly rainy so every couple of pictures got different types of light. Even though I edited a lot of the different colors out I also tried to keep them relatively prominent in the picture. One thing that I wish I could have changed is turn the exposure up on some of the pictures before they where merged into a panorama. Theres a lot of color noise towards the top of the image that would have not been there if I turned the exposure up when taking or before merging.

Jasmine W - Bear

 This is a picture of my dog Bear. I took this during the say while he was laying down in the sun in my living room. I edited this picture by making the background essentially completely black. Before changing it to black and white I made his eyes more vibrant. After changing it to black and white, I turned down the brightness a little bit. And changed the contrast. I added a tint to him because I thought it looked better that way. It could look better if the right side of him looked more natural rather than it looking like I painted black on the background, which I did, but oh well.

Carmen V- Sunset

I took this picture at a park and it was in the afternoon and combined three picture one of the three was dark so it came a bit darker and well to combined them I used the photomatix and I decreased the brightness and add more saturation for the sun. I could had been better if the sun was at a different angel and probably less clouds.

Arzoo Q- Flower

This picture is called Flower and I took this picture inside my house and it is a show piece of 6 that we have hanging on the walls. What I did with the picture is that I went into photoshop and went in the black and white and basically played around with all the settings till I was happy or somewhat happy with what the outcome was. If I could fix anything I would take the picture from a different angle.

Hannah J- Water

This picture is named Water, and was taken at the Monterey Bay Aquarium over the summer. I took it with my Canon PowerShot, and edited the contrast and coloring. It might be better if everything was in focus.

Esther K- Waffle House

I named this picture “Waffle House.” I made this picture into an HDR. I was at Waffle House one morning and I remember that we had an HDR assignment and so I decided to take pictures of the sign from the parking lot.  I used Photomatix 6 to merge all the pictures together and create this picture. I tried to edit this picture a little bit after Photomatix did it’s thing.

Landon H - Worlds Collide

I took this photo March 4, 2019 out by Lake Wilborn, with my Canon EOS SL1, using a 50mm f/1.4. The f/1.4 really gave it the blown out background. I spent all of my time in photoshop using layer masks to color in the hands for the sunshine and stars. I then had to freehand/trace the hands to really make the hands pop and actually look like hands. I really enjoyed making this photo, it’s really out of my comfort zone and it was fun to draw the hands. The not thing I wish I could change about the photo would probably be the clarity of the stars & sunshine.

Annalisa P-Water Drops

This image was taken with my Canon t6 at my house. We have a plant room, its the only spot in our apartment that gets direct sunlight. I sprayed the green leaves with water and took free lens pictures to get very up close shots of the water droplets. I edited the image using photoshop, I sharpened the image and added a black & white filter.

Emily R- Coastal Paradise

This image is called Coastal Paradise. This was taken in St. Pete Beach Florida, last weekend. It was taken with my Cannon T6. All I did was clone people out of the water and the sand and turn up the colors and levels. I could mess around with it and try to make the palm tree straight.

Alexa S- Panorama

This image was taken outside the school on my Canon SL1. It is a total of 12 images put together to make a panorama. I used a gradient map to make the color pink and green/blue. I think this image could be better if I got more of the building to the right in it.

Dalton Crain - Tanks

The title of this image is “Tanks”, it was taken at Sloss Furnaces in December. I took it with my Canon Rebel T1I. I edited by turning it black and white and increasing the contrast and grain. I think it could’ve been taken at a little bit better angle, but overall I’m pretty happy with this image.

Heath M- Morning Sunrise

This picture is titled “Morning Sunrise.” I took this picture with my Canon EOS 80D after a morning run with a buddy when we ended up by an empty pool as the sun rose. I cleaned it up a bit and made him a bit dark and made the pool sides a tad cleaner. Overall, I liked the picture and though it turned out good.

Mia R - Grace Anne

I took this a few weeks ago in the studio here. I used my Canon camera. I messed with the contrast and the shadows and highlights.

Macy M - Click

This photo is called “Click.” I took it in the studio here at school. I used a Canon Rebel T6 to capture this photo. I sharpened the camera, used the dodge and burn tools on the shutter, made it black and white, and added a vignette. I could have cleaned up some of the dust spots. Please give your opinions.

Alicia U- Green Plant

I took this picture on a Monday when I was visiting my Godmother and Godfather last year. I went to their backyard and since they have many plants and flowers I decide to take serval pictures. I took this picture with a Canon STL1. After I took serval pictures of their plants I decide to choose the best one and make into a kaleidoscope picture. I did the contrast higher and as well the brightness but lowering it a little. I also played around the levels to so it would focus on the plant. I decide to make the color green of the plant pop a little more. I made the background black and white so it would only focus on the plant. I like how it turned out and to change the picture I would make the background black so the green plant would only be the major focus.

Mollie E- "Mighty Roar"

The title of this image is “Mighty Roar” because I got it as the lion pictured was roaring. I took this image at the Birmingham Zoo on March 2. I took it with my Nikon d3400 camera. I edited this image in Photoshop by bumping up the contrast a lot so the glass wouldn’t be as foggy. I wish I had done a little bit more editing to this picture but other than that I like this one a lot.

Braxton S- Drip or Drown

The title of this image is “Drip or Drown”. It was taken at a creek by the high school a couple of weeks ago just before dark. I had my friend throw rocks into the creek so that I could take pictures of the splashes. I took it with my Canon 50D. I edited the picture by turning the photo black and white. I darkened the image by raising the highlights, lowing the shadows, raising the brightness, contrast, and black point.

Olivia H - Snickerdoodle

This is a picture of some snickerdoodle cookies I took at my house for my concentration. I took this with my cannon T-6 camera. For the I did basic edits so far for this picture, I darkened the image and they brighten and darkened different parts. I sharpened it and upped the contrast. Im not done editing yet because I think it could be better. Im not sure I like it yet either. I wish the cookies were sharper and the lighting was better.

Alex H - Seventy-Five Cents

I chose this picture because I like the simplicity of it. I was never planning using because I didn’t like it but I think the black and white looks good. I titled it Seventy five cents because its from a laundry mat  and thats what it makes me think of. I edited it by using a filter on Silver Fx Pro and then I changed it up some like making the machines lighter and the background darker and just tweaked it a little. I don’t know what I would change about it.

Raven H ~ Strangled By Society

This image is titled Strangled by Society because of society’s concept of comparing a woman’s worth and beauty to the size of her waist. I chose to do an assignment reflecting on my personal viewpoints of the world and photograph things that mean a lot to me. The subject is my friend Grace and I took this image in a makeshift studio at my house a few weeks ago. Overall I’m really happy with how this picture turned out and how it captures something I am passionate about.

Abby W- Lexie

This is an image I took in the studio of Hoover High School of Lexie. To edit it, I turned the image to black and white and smoothed the skin by adding a gaussian blur. I then added a mask layer to the blur and erased the eyes, mouth, around the nose, and hair. I then cropped slightly. I then used the paintbrush tool to outline around her face and main facial features to create a emerging face. I liked the simpleness of the design yet interesting lines that draw one through the image.

Jahren T- Flower Aliens

I don’t have much to say about to this picture, Its a pigeon and a flower put together to make this photo, didn’t edit much just changed the colors and put the flower on the bird. Nothing special

Mia R - Grace

I took this last week in a school bathroom. It’s of my friend Grace. I used my Canon EOS Rebel SL1. I made the picture slightly sharper and gave it a bit of a green tint.

Michelle A.- My First HDR

   This is one of the photos I am doing for a project called HDR. This is the first HDR I’ve taken because I was testing to see if I set it up right. This was in my car at a lake in hoover next to the Hoover Library. I just added a little bit of filter, not too noticeable because I wanted it to look natural.

Raven H- Zach

I took this image downtown on some railroad tracks of my friend Zach. He is starting a music career and asked me to take some pictures for him and I really loved how this one turned out. All I did to edit this was to add a filter and swirl his facial area. I’m really proud of this shoot went and I decided to branch out of my comfort zone and try something new with the swirl. I’m really glad I did this shoot.

Mollie E- "Downtown"

The title of this image is “Downtown” because that is where I took this picture. I took this for the HDR assignment so I took a high-key picture, a normal picture, and a low-key picture and then merged them together in Photomatix. After I was finished using that, I used the basic adjustments in Photoshop to get rid of some of the shadows. I love the way this image turned out and I don’t think I would have changed anything.