Gimp Photo Editing Assignment

This week we continued to explore Gimp and learn more about the photo editing business. We used a photo taken by Noelle Jacobs and edited it using various tools. I had a lot of fun with this assignment!

Here is the original:

And here is the finished product:

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Assignment One: Nature Week

ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/640
Aperture: f/ 5.6


This week was all about nature! For this assignment, I took pictures of the nature and landscape around my neighborhood and am pleased with how most of them turned out. I chose my favorite picture to post on my blog and the others are in a slide show below. I did have some difficulty with a few of them due to the brightness of the sun, but by adjusting my aperture and exposure, along with the shutter speed, I was able to manipulate that sunlight.


Here's the link to the slideshow.

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Gimp - 'Creating an Andy Warhol-like Effect'

For this assignment, we learned what Gimp was about and how to use it. We created an Andy Warhol effect with a photo we had taken earlier. After editing the photo and following a few steps, this is what we have created....

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Composition Assignments One and Two

For these assignments we got a general feel for the cameras we were working with and we also learned about some of the elements of composition. The eleven that we learned about were The Rule of Thirds, Pattern, Symmetry, Texture, Depth of Field, Lines, Framing, Perspective, Space, Balance, and Color.

Lines - "The Auditorium Backstage"
Texture - "Green Plant"
Rule of Thirds - "Three Flags"
Pattern - "Lunch Tables"
Symmetry - "Long Hallway"
Depth of Field - "The Black Shoe"
Framing - "Hallway"
Perspective - "3rd Floor Balcony"
Space - "Juicy Juice"
Balance - "Sidewalk/Brick-walk"
Color - "Beach Time"

With these composition projects, I learned how to use my camera and I also learned what elements of composition are and how to take pictures of them.

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