Emily Gilmore- Crit 2|Topic: Passion/Color Recipe

For all photographs, I used an Iphone 5s, with 8.0.0 iOS since I do not have enough storage space to download the last two upgrades- too many darn photos!

Photograph #14 Recipe

This shot was taken with my smartphone angled at about thirty degrees, so it was horizontal intially. My face was basically against the glass of the book shelf while framing the composition. Afterwards, in the editing application, Afterlight, I rotated the photograph to make it vertical, and lowered the saturation and increased the sharpness. I added a thin black border, and then I reopened this image in the Google editing application, Snapseed. I increased the ambiance in the “tune image” function of the application and added the filter named “Drama”, and there you go! Simple.

Photograph # 6 Recipe

This photograph of the cityscape and sunset was taken through an eleventh floor window. My shooting strategy entailed angling the frame and positioning my body behind the camera in a way that I could catch the reflection in the glass of the skull design on my shirt. Afterwards, I opened the raw photograph in Snapseed first. I used the selective adjust function to bring out deeper shadows and brighter highlights in certain areas of the photograph that got either blown out by the strong natural light rays or were underexposed from shadowy background. Next, I increased the saturation (a decision I still feel uncertain about), and then reopened that image into Afterlight, and increased the clarity. I added the black border, as always, and fini!

Photograph # 2 Recipe

This shot was taken as the sun was setting just behind the tree on the right. I was able to capture just the silhouettes of the street poles, wires, and tree leaves by focusing the camera on the bright sky background. Afterwards, I opened the photograph in Afterlight and the maximum clarity and bumped up the contrast, saturation, and the sharpness. I added a thin white border to compliment the whites in the sky.