Project 6: Alternative Process Through Digital Means

Cyanotypes

I made these cyanotypes on photoshop by using different brushes to get the texture around the outside and then I changed the pictures themselves to have a bluish tint, creating a basic cyanotype.

Van Dyke

I researched how to make a Van Dyke and learned that I could use the same process I used with a cyanotype and then change the tint to a brownish tint instead of blue.

Bromoil Print

I looked up pictures of Bromoil Paints and noticed some characteristics. I noticed that they were grainy, that they were black and white, that they had high contrasts, and that they had a slight inverse vignette. I applied all of those characteristics to my picture of Venice to get a bromoil print.

Gum Bichromate

To get a gum bichromate I did what I did to get a cyanotype but then layered light colors over the picture, in the picture below I used a light yellow, pink, and blue. I then used different blending effects until I got the photo I wanted.

Daguerrotype

To get the daguerrotype below I first downloaded a few textures and a picture that had a frame I thought would go well with my landscape photo. I then changed the tint of my photo, added the textures and blended them together to my liking, and then added the frame by erasing the picture inside it, leaving just my picture.

Experimentation

I wanted to experiment a little with textures and colors so I took a landscape, added a few textures to it, and then played around with the colors and the brightness/contrast. I ended up with the picture below which fits with my aesthetics.

Pre-Work for Project 6

Pre-Work:

Photo made with my own brush (the hands)

Cyanotype

Gum Bichromate

Daguerreotype

Daguerreotype (wet plate): an early photographic process where an image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapor.

Cyanotype: a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print.

Gum Bichromate: a 19th century photographic printing process where an image is formed on a coating of sensitized gum that has a suitable color pigment and potassium or ammonium dichromate.

For more tutorials on other types of processes you can go to  http://www.alternativephotography.com.

Project 5: Multiple Image Techniques

HDR photos and edits

This is the original photo I took at a beach named Jaco in Costa Rica. I decided to use this photo because I believe that beach photos and the colors present in them make for interesting HDR photos.

This is the photo after I edited it by making it HDR, increasing it's saturation, and putting the oil painting filter on it.

This is the photo after I edited it by increasing the saturation and then changing the color of the saturation which made it pink and light blue,  and then decreasing the exposure.

This is the original photo of some mountains in the Alps that I thought would make for an interesting HDR photo due to the clouds and the different colors.

 This was the photo when I turned it to HDR with no further editing.

I edited the HDR photo further to get this effect. I added the light behind the clouds with a filter, changed the saturation color, and added a layer of light purple to give it a surreal effect.

With this HDR photo I took a picture of a mosque in Istanbul and when I made it HDR I added a filter to it to give it a surreal almost digital look.

Multiple Exposure

This multi exposure is of AnneMarie, In photoshop I added multiple pictures I took with her having moved slightly and combined them. After that I added a light pink filter and lowered the highlights and the saturation.

I took pictures of Berritt making different funny faces to get this multi exposure. So that you could see the individual expressions I cropped around the extra images of Berritt, added them to the background picture, and lowered the opacity of them as they moved to the right. After I got the placement I wanted I added a blue filter.

I took multiple pictures of Camilla in front of a world painting with just her arm having moved in the pictures to get almost a Buddha like picture. I had her arms at the top with the most opacity. and slightly lowered them as the arms went down. Then to get some interesting colors I added a soft light filter.

Panorama

To get a panorama I took around 7 pictures of the view from my house in Hood River, slightly overlapping each picture I took. I then merged them together in photoshop to get a panorama, added a sepia filter, and played around with exposure to try to get a slightly older looking photo.

This is an old pano that I took on my phone at Machu Picchu. I wanted to add it to show the contrast between a pano taken on a phone and a pano taken by adding multiple photos together in photoshop.