Final Project - My Florida Vacation

Make a Smilebox slideshow

I used Smilebox to create my final project. All of the pictures that I have used are my own. These are all pictures that I have taken throughout the course of this semester. I hope you like what I've come up with!

Action Shots

These are some various action shots that I have taken. The first is one that I captured of a duck that was diving down for something appetizing that was obviously under the water.

The second picture is one that I was able to capture at Sea World during one of their many, many amazing shows.

The third picture is one that I took of a pelican as it was flying in for a water landing.

Last, but certainly not least, is a picture that I took of Jason Varitek, Red Sox catcher, as he was warming up in the bullpen before the game.

Portraits

This is a picture that I took of Jaba Chamberlain, a pitcher for the New York Yankees (yuck), when I went to the game in Boston. I really liked the intensity on his face, as he warmed up for the game that the Red Sox eventually won in the bottom of the eleventh!!

Adding text to pictures

The two pictures I have chosen to add text to are one that I took when I was on Miami Beach and one that I took of my 'little girl' Winnie. I though the Miami Beach picture looked a little bit like a postcard after I added the text to it. Pretty neat!

Clone stamp

As you can see in the bottom picture, there was an orange fence in the background and some shadows and lines in the foreground of this picture. When I first uploaded the modified picture, I had not taken out the shadows in front of the pelican's feet, or above him near his neck, but I went back to remove them because I thought it would look a lot better. I'm really happy with the way it came out. I think the picture looks so much cleaner and sharper after having the opportunity to go in and clean it up. This is by far my favorite tool that we have used thus far. I was a little nervous about using it at first, but now I think it's something that I will use more often!

Filters

The top image is the untouched one that I took of a tower at an amusement park in Orlando. For the bottom picture, I added a few different filters to it, playing with them until I found something that I thought looked pretty neat. I tried to layer a few different ones, but I'm not sure if it actually worked or if this is the result of one single filter. I'm still learning as I go along with Photoshop...

Dodge and Burn

The top picture is the original picture untouched, while the bottom picture has been altered using dodge and burn, among other things. I tried to lighten the top of the picture, where the leaves of the trees are, and the majority of the trunk that was originally covered in shadows.

I went on to darken the clouds and sky in the frame of the tree, and adjusted the overall brightness and contrast of the picture. I also tried to make the blue of the water stand out a bit more by brightening that up as well.