Portrait Assignment

Here is a portrait photograph of my niece. She generally is so "trained" to pose for pictures by saying "cheese" while doing her best fake smile! So the trouble I ran into with taking a portrait shot was trying to take one with a natural expression and not the fake "cheese". I had to take several shots to get this one natural look. And by several I mean many! I took many photos of smiles and goofy expressions until finally I caught this one. I think is her expression for "can you stop taking pictures of me now"! She was a really good sport about it. The other problem I had was that there was a lot of natural light. You can see that the right side of her face is getting a lot of light. I like the way the light is hitting her face but I think some may think it is too much light. Ethier way I like the overall effect of the close-up, her expression, and the light.

Clone Stamp Photo

This is my photo using the clone stamp tool. I made this image by selecting the clone stamp tool and selected multiply mode. I had the opacity at 28%. I also selected Aligned. I selected the image of Sully and put it behind the "real" Sully. I call this picture the "spirit of Sully". I can see after using this tool how people can make photos of "ghosts" seem real!

Patch Tool Photo

Here is my photo using a the patch tool. I selected the patch tool and selected "destination" under the patch tool. I also selected "transparent" under patch tool. I then chose parts of the tree I liked and used the patch tool to move transparent versions in the sky. My thought process was just to add a dream-like quality to the picture.

Photos Using Text

Here are my photos using text. I used the text tool and then typed it horizontally for Boston's photo and vertically for sully's photo. After I typed the text I highlighted and changed the color of the font. I then used "warp" to change the shape of the text. I used the flag warp setting. I watched the tutorial on watermarks but I didn't add one to my photos since I don't have a website or a copyright and I liked the idea of titling my dog photos.