Monday, March 16, 2015

New Assignment: 3 Flavors of Image Enhancement


Hello Students,
For this assignment you will take your favorite landscape and 2 portraits from your recent portrait projects and create 3 different post-processed versions of each of the images. The 3 techniques are cross-processing, tilt-shift and the Dragan effect, named for Andrzej Dragan.

Portrait Post Processing Assignment:
Pick 2 of your favorite portraits you have taken and create a version with the cross process effect and one with the dragan effect. Choose one of your landscape images or take a new image to use with the tilt-shift effect. Follow the links below and use the tutorials to complete your images. Post each of them with titles to your blog when complete.

Cross processing is an effect where the film is developed with the wrong mix of chemicals. Work through the tutorial to recreate this effect and make your photo look like it's source was film and not digital. The border around the film is called the "film rebate". Search for one on google images to use on yours.

Tilt shift photography is a technique where the lens angle is changed to create a focused center area. This tricks the brain into thinking it is seeing something very small. This is the effect we see when we squint our eyes at a small object.


Andrzej Dragan's photography is known for having an intensity in detail and tonal depth. Try to mimic his technique with photoshop by working through the video tutorial.
Prefer a plain tutorial? Check out this link: Dragan Effect in 5 steps

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