portraits and people

Since I was unable to attend class on Monday, the portrait session, I decided to have a little photo-shoot myself with asking some friends to pose for me.

Thin line.

By following the instructions on the tutorial we listened to in class I managed to induce an artsy look to the photo. Basically, I've adjusted the hue and saturation of both the background and the foreground (after selecting it with the lasso tool) and used a 90 pixel water-brush to embellish the background.

I've used similar tools with the following photo, however I ended tributing Alexander Rochenko's synthetic cubism.

Plus one.

04.11.2010.

-recently taken in a bar in Pest.

-mildly adjusted contrast and saturation.

Photo_safari

An interesting experience at Szabasag ter.

At first I was not willing to engage in any creative process,

probably due to poor weather and lack of inspiration. 

However, I found that the autumn colours 

(found both in natural scenery and class-mates hair:)

had a unique quality attached to them. 

I don't know if its the variety of tones, 

the romantic melancholy the season offers, 

or the fact that I am born in September, 

that brings out the solemn majesty of nature.

I have also found the historical monuments rather interesting

although I was not very successful in capturing their essence.

For photo processing I have modified the saturation level, the curves and exposition in order to bring out the darker tones and texture. 

  

Monument, Szabasag ter

Leaves in fountain

World Press Photo 2010. Exibition. 5th of October.

If the purpose of this exhibition is to shock and provoke nausea then I can honestly say that it was a big success.

Although I can understand the need to raise awareness of the atrocities of war and the futility of violence I find it morbid and obscene to capture such scenes. 

It is not that I am not aware of the monstrosity of human nature, I am not delusional. 

It's the need to capture and the display those images that I find sadistic.  

Physically I could not bare to see all the photos and had to leave, although the psychological agony continued and gave me bad dreams. 

However, regardless of its horridness, there was this photo I found fascinating. 

(image below)

Morbid and endearing at the same time, the author managed to capture the heartbreaking scene of mother's unconditioned love though providing a gloomy atmosphere by desaturation. 

Outdoors and studio

The first class was rather introductory but nevertheless it provoked our interest. Personally I have never been that into photography due to a prejudice I held against the technical complexity it involved. However, I managed to produce a couple of nice shots with my amateur camera and succeeded in processing them in Adobe Photoshop using a few simple tools like sharpening, brightness and contrast. 

 Autumn. outdoors 1st class.

After further exploring the numerous possibilities that Bridge and Photoshop offer, we engaged ourselves in studio photography.  A "museum exhibit" was introduced as the subject of our class. We experimented with different angles and methods of taking photos as well as the position of the light beams. This gave interesting results, and the photos I took were versatile  in terms of composition even though they represented the same object. 

Afterwards, we undertook processing in adobe programs with which I got the best out of my work. 

Triumph. Studio 2nd class