a day in the life

technique description

During the assignment "A Day in the Life" we learned about how different ISO's affect your picture, and took different pictures from an average day in the life of a person or an object of your choice. My assignment was of pictures taken from a day in the life of myself (an average sophomore), showing all the different things I do throughout the day. These pictures in the collage were all taken with different ISO's to balance out the light and edited in photoshop to bring out the best qualities about them.

In photoshop under "Image" on the menu I used auto tone, color and contrast and also under "adjustments" I used vibrance, hue/saturation, brightness/contrast and levels. When I used all these adjustments I was trying to brighten the whites and get rid of blue or yellow toned whites and also brighten up the highlights in order to make the photo still look realistic but with stronger highlights and qualities. Using the vibrance, contrast, and saturation tools were my favorite because I feel they brightened up the colors and made the pictures look so much better and alive. Something that was a little frustrating was that when my original photo started off really dark with a lot of shadows, it was hard to brighten it up really well without losing the quality of colors in it. I noticed that the colors would start to drain and that was a little frustrating at times.