Second Assignment - Editing in Adobe Bridge

"Editing in Bridge"

For the first assignment I chose to photograph a trophy because it provided a lot

of different, interesting angles I could play with. I chose this image to edit becaus

e I thought it was my best one, but also one that with a little brightening and added contrast could look even better. The lighting at the time

of the shot was very dull and I wanted to see what I could do in Bridge to make the photo seem more vibrant, without over doing it.

The first edit I made was with the white balance. My white balance was set to Auto while I was shooting, but when I clicked the auto white balance in the camera raw edits through Bridge it lessened the warm tones in my photo and brought out cooler, blue tones, which in my opinion looks nicer. I then brightened the picture slightly by adjusting the exposure by +0.50. I also wanted to provide some contrast and I first

started this edit by bringing out the black in the creases of the angel's wings. I adjusted "blacks" by +10. This also made her wings look more golden. I then moved the contrast bar from +8 to +16 to add a tiny bit more "pop". I cropped the image slightly. I wanted to keep a little bit of the sparkly post on the left in the image to frame her, but I didn't want the brightness of the sparkles to overshadow the subject.

1st Assignment.

Why am I taking this course?

I signed up for ARTST 119 for two reasons. The first reason is I need it for my Integrated Media major and my Photography minor. The second reason being I don't know very much about Photoshop/Bridge, but I am aware that both programs provide a wide range of editing options that I am interested in learning about and becoming competent in. I hope this class helps me better understand how I can use Photoshop to excel my photography without feeling like I'm "cheating" or "over-editing" or in other words how to use the program for good, not evil.

It's hard for me to decide on just one "photographic hero" as I am constantly amazed by others work and find inspiration in multiple photographers. I really like adventure photography and nice black and white portraits. For this class I've decided on Joey Lawrence to be my photographic hero. I chose him because I find a lot of his portraits to be stunning and I can tell he is a very talented photographer and does a very good job at showing the emotion in his subjects through his photographs. He obviously is a talented photographer and knows how to use photoshop to produce inspirational images. I think his work will help me reach my goals of using photoshop to make really nice, clean images rather than overprocessing them.