Madeline V.- Untitled

I don’t have a name for this picture because I don’t know what to call it, but I took it at the beginning of the school year for the story illustration assignment in my neighborhood with my D3200. I edited it by adding a few layers of brightness and contrast and messing with them some. This picture could be a lot better if the trees were a little bit shaper, but I otherwise think its perfect:)

Matthew O- Bird

This photo is called “Bird’. I took it in Huntsville Alabama with a 75-300 lens. Its a bird, and it’s eating some food. I thought it was cute so I whipped out my camera and zoomed in and snapped it a couple times. It took me about ten minutes to get this shot. I edited this in Photoshop by adding a glow effect and changing the saturation and hue.  I could have tried a better exposure.

Alex D- Tree

The title of my image is close up of the tree. It was taken in my backyard on October 19, 2015 at 4:06 PM. It was taken with my Nikon D3100. I didn’t edit the image. I like how close I got to it and some part of the image focused and the other part is not focused.

Justin H- Portrait

So this photo was taken around 4pm to help get the really nice and soft lighting. Very little was done to this photo. I added a slight warming filter and bumped up the exposure a hair. This was taken with my D2x and a 50mm prime.

Grace C- Dizzy Dancer

This picture was taken at Tremaine Dance Competition in Atlanta, GA. ISO was set to 800 due to the lighting that was used, f/5.6, and a shutter speed of 1/160. To edit, I used the paint tool to make the area to the left black (it was red due to another dancer). I drained the reds and yellows, and used the healing brush to fix stray hairs and a strap. I then brightened the image slightly, and finished by sharpening it just a bit.

Zoey E.- Autumn

This is an image I took for the circles assignment. I just gathered a bunch of yellowish leaves and arranged them in a circle on the sidewalk. As for editing, I adjusted the vibrancy and the offset. I took this image between 3:00- 5:00pm on Sunday. I really like this photo, but feel like something is missing.

Zohra P- Water

This picture was taken for the water assignment, with my sony camera. I used vibrance, brightness and, exposure. I wish the water droplets were larger and, the background a little clear.

Jeremy L - On Top of the World

     I took “On Top of the World” on Veteran’s Day, a couple of weeks ago. I used by d5100 and f/1.8 lens, and I originally took a picture of both my iPhone screen and the landscape, alone, behind it. I photoshopped the landscape into my iPhone screen. That’s about it, I was pretty happy with it.

Congratulations to Bella M, John Michael A & Matthew O

These images were juried into the 2016 Biennial Southeastern Regional High School Artists Competition at Birmingham-Southern College

This biennial visual arts competition is hosted by the Art & Art History Department and Admissions Office at Birmingham-Southern College. The purpose of this competition is the recognition and promotion of talented rising artists in the Southeastern United States.

The winning artists will be listed in the Sunday 10th January publication of The News (previously The Birmingham News). All winners and finalists will receive a certificate suitable for framing.

Bella M- Stresses

John Michael A- Lunar Warmth

Matthew O- Cliff

Davis D- "A Southern Original"

This photo is called “A Southern Original”. I took this photo last week on top of a skyscraper in Downtown Birmingham. It was taken right after the sun went down around five o’clock. It was taken with a Canon 7D Mrk ii with a 135mm L lens. I shot this at ISO 400, f/2.2, and at 1/60 in manual mode. When I edited this I used the Brightness/Contrast Tool to bump the lighting and contrast. Overall this photo came out nicely.

Kristin S- Picnic anyone?

I took this picture with my cannon rebel xs. I took it while shooting for the leaves assignment. I upped the saturation and lowered the vibrance. And I darkened around the edges.

Crossan R- Water

I took this photo last week for the water assignment with my Nikon d60. I didn’t do much editing either than messing with the curves and bumping up the contrast a little. I like the idea of the shot, but my execution could have been better. It would be nice if the quality was better, but because there was not much lighting it was difficult to get the outcome i wanted.

Grace H- Dark Flower

My favorite image I took for this assignment is tilted “Dark Flower”. I took this photo in late October in Atlanta. For this photo I used the AV mode on my canon t3i and edited using photoshop. The photo was originally very noisy so I reduced the red in the photo to help reduce the noise. I wanted my photo to be dark so I lowered the exposure vibrance, and saturation. Then I used the overlay tool and darkened the background and lightened the flower petals. Overall this image was not that hard to take because outside it was not very bright outside so my subject wasn’t washed out.

Justin C- Leaves

I took this photo with my Nikon 3300. I edited it by lowering the vibrance and slightly raising the saturation. I burned the background a good bit in order to bring out the leaves.

Madeline V.- Glass

The title of the image is “Glass” because I couldn’t think of anything more creative. I took the picture for the water assignment on my back porch at sunset. I edited this picture by adding a neon filter, then messing with that some, the I messed with the hue/saturation some. The picture could be much better if I could get more of an outline of the glass, but otherwise, I like it.

Kate M.-Under the Willow Tree

This picture is called Under the Willow Tree because I took it of my friend while we were both in the branches of a Weeping Willow. I took this picture at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens a few weeks ago. I took this with my canon rebel t3. To edit this I added more contrast and adjusted the color of the leaves to make them more green and vibrant. This picture could be better if there wasn’t so much out of focus leaves right in front of the lens.

Ben D- Mountain View

The title of this photo is “Mountain View.” I took this a few weeks ago at an overlook off of some random road. I added some saturation and fade, as well as some shadows adjustments.

Chris C - Gargoyle

I’m going to call this photo ‘Gargoyle’ because it remind me of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. This i a composite i made using photo i took for the architecture assignment and some older photos i had taken. I blended the photos and then adjusted some coloration and added a slight matte effect. I think this could be better if I used some more texture photos in the composite.

Amber S- Freeze

The title of this image is Freeze. I took this picture in the courtyard last year. I took the picture with my digital camera. I added some saturation to this picture and also decreased the green color in the grass. I colored her hair slightly to make it more brown and whitened her shirt to make it brighter. I think it could be better at a different angle and it could have included more of her hair and body.

Sabrina S- Untitled

I didn’t know what to call this picture so I just left it as untitled. I took this last year in my front yard, darkened the edges and made my model almost white with a little saturation in bed hair and in the leafs.