Final Photomontages

These are my two final photo montages inspired by David Hockney. Photo montages were created to make an illusion of an unreal subject. To make these, we first took multiple pictures of an inspirational place from two different perspectives. Then we batch edited the photos in Adobe Bridge Raw. After that we out the photos together in Photoshop. You need to put thought in these kinda things. Lastly we applied black or white backgrounds.

Practice Story Reflection

During our practice story session, my team did okay. The only thing we could've worked on more was teamwork. We didn't communicate well together and we were just doing our own thing. This is why we were behind on things. We looked around the room and saw the other groups working together, and getting their videos in on time. Then something happened, we spoke up and we told each other "hey, we need to work together to get this done."

I actually knew we weren't necessarily gonna get things on time. When we started our interview session we were fooling around and not really on track. Then when we started on the B-Roll session we only got one clip. When we started editing in Final Cut Pro we saw that we were lacking with B-Roll and by the time we found out that we needed more it was already to late.

So when the last thirty minutes came, we communicated with each other, we worked together and most importantly we did teamwork. Kirklyn Nishida and Ian Kimura edited the video in final cut pro while Mia Lopez and I were working on our transcription sheet. When Mr. Sanderl said that we had to start exporting, we weren't even close to finishing. But that didn't stop us from getting it done.  Although we didn't really get things in on time, we finished it as a team!

Polar Panoramas

These are my two finished Polar Panoramas. I made these two images here in Kapaa Middle School in G.T class. To make polar panos, you first have to find a good place to take the pictures. I took my pictures in front of my house and at Lidgate park. Polar panos are very similar to spherical panos, the difference is that their looked at different perspectives.

I first edited the pictures I took (in front of my house and at Lidgate park) in Adobe Bridge to make the pictures have more clarity, brighter and look more real. In photoshop, I merged the photos together and warped the ends so the sides wouldn't be uneven. Then I resized the image into the shape of a square, rotated into 180 degree angle and applied the polar filter.

To add my portrait picture above, we first took a portrait session. After we took the pictures, we chose the pictures we wanted to use and edited them in Adobe Bridge to make them brighter and with more clarity. I then used the Quick Selection Tool to cut myself. I also refined the edges and resized the portrait so it could fit perfectly onto the polar pano. The last step was to make a shadow  effect by copying, inverting and wrapping my portrait layer and decreasing the exposure down to black and adjusting the opacity to around 50 to 40 percent.