Computational Photography Image Portfolio

 

Three Channel Color Photography

This was a really cool way to start working with color! I ended up really stretching the "Take 3 photos from a relatively fixed a position, although this is up for interpretation" instruction with this composition, but I think it turned out looking really cool and demonstrated the principle of color channels well. I took these three photos from a similar "position", as in, I took them from a street view looking upward at the tops of buildings. I thought that by putting these images together it might create an interesting image full of lines and color. I started by importing all three images into photoshop and overlaying them on top of one another. Then, I desaturated each of them based upon the color channel that I assigned for each of them to represent. Because they were images taken on the same day with the same light, the colors were complimentary and the composite image looked very similar in color to each of the individual images. I also decided to rotate one of the images by 180 degrees because I thought it made a better composition. Overall, I am pleased with how it turned out (and I hope I didn't stretch the prompt for this assignment too far).

Face Average

I wanted to create an image that was a composite of as many people as I could take photos of as possible. I decided to take these photos following my church service since I knew that I could likely gather ample volunteers. I was able to shoot about 10 or so individuals in the same spot and from the same position relative to each person's height. I directed them to maintain neutral expressions. I decided to go with the approach of using smart object layers in photoshop and creating a median stack image. I think that this was an interesting subject matter to shoot because this composite image speaks to some degree to the unity that is hoped and strove for among members of the church. It was interesting to see all of the unique and diverse individuals brought together in this piece of media in such a well-blended way.

World Fabrics

The way that different bodies of water can be colored in such extreme and vivid colors naturally has always been fascinating to me. I thought that it would be cool to hunt down some interesting looking bodies of water and piece them together in an image quilt. I pieced them together in a way that I thought would look nice and then I added a psychedelic background of the Australian coastline using luminosity and subtraction layers just to make the whole thing pop.

City Fabrics

This is an abstract composition using images of the Vatican City in Rome, Italy. The reason that I chose this subject matter was simple: it's a powerful, provocative, and evoking of emotions. I have visited this location once before and found it to be fascinating. My goal with this composition was to create a variety of perspectives through which someone could choose to look at this place.

I spent a lot of time simply experimenting. After capturing the images in Google Earth Pro and importing them into photoshop, I used the Camera RAW smart object filter and a variety of layer types in order to create the different looking images.

Digital “Joiners” Portrait

This is a self-portrait that I made using my mirrorless camera, a tripod, a shutter controller, and a whole bunch of hats and jackets. I set up the camera inside my house and found a backdrop that would be simple (I knew that the edit was going to be busy enough). I then took the photos with the remote shutter controller standing in the same place and swapping articles of clothing in order to get some variety. After I had captured enough images I imported them into photoshop and started lining things up, applying layer masks, and cutting the images in what I thought would be interesting ways. I played around with some of the color adjustments and other effects until I like what I had created.

3D Photography

I created this composition using Display.land, Unity, & Photoshop. This was a fun project to make because of the interesting renderings that I got out of the 3D scan. I had played around with this technology in the past but had yet to scan an entire room. I got the help of my wife to do the scan so that I could be in it. I put the obj & jpg files together in Unity, took screenshots, and then put them together in one image using Photoshop.