Make not Take
Have you ever made a photo? Not taken one but made one? That’s what this latest project was about.
Our driving question for this project and to be explored in this blog was
‘How do we communicate through photographs?’
In this blog I will explain how we learned to use photo editor, Snapseed, and Pixelmator to improve the quality of photographs and their aesthetics. Using these apps you can take your image from a boring low resolution image of your cat to an award winning piece of art. So sit down, listen and learn!
In the first few sessions we learned about the different types of photographs we could take and learned about the rule of thirds. You can take panorama, bursts, and Live Photos. Here is an example of a pano.
The rule of thirds superimposes a 3×3 grid over your camera screen, which is used to help format where the focus of your picture should be. The focus should not be the middle. For a great photo you should place the main focus of your picture on one of the thirds to the side.
Here is an example of where I didn’t use the rule of thirds and then one where I did, can you spot the difference? Which do you think is better?
Not using the rule of thirds Using the rule of thirds
The next milestone was to create a photo that we had made already from the past so Sister Dearest explained how to use tic tac and we created this tic tac of me from the past being dumb and me also in the past but not as far back being dumb.
Just kidding we made this.
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The next stage of our learning was looking at how we can create mood in a picture. The emotion I received was “amused.” This was quite tricky at first as I didn’t understand what amused meant. Was it funny or was it doing something fun? But Mother Dearest explained it, and I took this photo considering composition of the background and foreground elements.
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This is my first photo. Then I used the editing softwares Snapseed and Pixelmator photo editor to create mood, change the light effects and to alter areas of focus. -
This was how it turned out.
I am very proud of this picture because I like the dark edges that are blurred in contrast with the bright colours and the comedy of the emoji.
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Next we created another collage that was about us and a way of showing who we are through a photo. I recently moved from England to Canada so my photo contains me jumping from England to Canada this was a big risk but I was willing to embrace the challenge and persist in the face of setbacks. I have included a lot of English thing and a lot of Canadian things. I also made the background pokemon because I love pokemon and they are epic.
This collage was also a part of the very same blog page that was mentioned before.
And finally we created gifs. These gifs were supposed to explain who we are as a person. Mine makes not much sense just like everything I do. And I know what you must be thinking: where are these absolutely amazing and awesome and creative and fascinating and creative collages and gifs? Well all will be revealed when you click this button.
Did you go.
Did you love it.
Amazing I know.
No, no hold your applause.
OK you can applaud.
I’m assuming you clapped very loudly
Thank you for reading my blog post. I hope you liked it and overall I had fun in this project and learned a lot I learned about editing taking and cleaning up photo to make it the best i can. This is me sighning off PEACE!