Assignment 3 - Photo Manipulation

The following photographs were edited and changed from its original state,i will show you the original photo and the edited one.
The first photo is a landscape portrait taken in the city of Braga, Portugal from the top of a mountain at a famous church called "Bon Jesus" .

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For this photograph i didn't do to much editing, i used exposure editing tool to make a dark contrast. The reason why i choose to do that was because i wanted to give the olusion that it was taken at night instead of the day. It does contrast with reality which i find a little humorous because in reality the sky do not look like that at night. At night you don't see so many clouds as you do at day time, the detail of the clouds at night is something that doesn't happen. Another observation is that n the editing version the sky is lighter than the land which is unrealistic but at first glance most people would be fooled to think this photo was truly taken at night. This city in particular has alot of forestry, this photograph was taken at a high peak mountain in the city and i think the edited version really shows you how much of the city really is covered by forestry. The contrast you see in the dark shows that their is very little building and lights in this city.

The second photograph was a portrait taken of my niece one afternoon, as you can she she was striking a pose.
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For this photograph i did a few editing changes, the first was an editing tool called Focal b&w which lets you focus on one part of the picture in terms of color. I choose to highlight her headband because of the bright color. The second editing tool i used was called focal soften which lets you pick a part of the photo that you want a clear focus on while the rest of the photo is softened up. I choose to make the focus on her face while the rest of the picture has the olusion of a soft hazy feeling. The reason unlike the first photograph was not to confuse people but it was to show the beauty of a portrait. I chose the headband as a focus point because like the picture of a child it represents childhood. The headband is a Hannah Montana a popular children television show and a poster child for the children. This picture is fun, the child is happy and this picture represents children and their childhood. In this generation that means having fun posing for a photograph and wear everything Hannah Montana.

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Both photographs where taken my me, Amanda Azeredo
editing was done my me, Amanda Azeredo