Ian Watson: Crit 3 and 4 recipes

For some reason, it doesn't look like my third crit recipe is on here, even though I'm pretty sure I posted it. Oh well. This week, I'll be doing a double recipe to make up for it.

CRIT 3: THE LONG EXPOSURE

Phone: LG G3
Model number: VS985 4G (Verizon)
OS: Android 4.4.2 (KitKat)
Captured in: Camera FV-5 Lite
Edited in: VSCOcam

I was actually playing with doing long exposures while hanging with a few friends at lunch. I managed to capture my one friend freaking out over something while people were biking and walking by. I was holding the phone incredibly still while using the table as a base.

After, I loaded it into VSCOcam and did minimal editing to exposure and contrast, to make it a tiny bit darker.

CRIT 4: THE SELF PORTRAIT

Phone: LG G3
Model number: VS985 4G (Verizon)
OS: Android 4.4.2 (KitKat)
Captured in: Vignette
Edited in: Vignette

This photo was a bit of a fluke, truth be told. I was in the strangest bathroom in the basement of a very fancy hotel in NYC. Since I hadn't ever seen a bathroom as nice, I decided to take a strange, almost surreal photo in Vignette in the mirror. I used the Holga style Vignette filter as it took the image, which resulted in the shot you see above. I did no editing in post, and for the life of me I could not get another image from that shoot to come out in a way that I thought was as good as this.

Chi Hwan Moon- Crit. 4: Memory/Vintage Recipe

I used an Iphone 5s to capture this photo. I wanted to capture a familiar moment that would evoke a memory from the past for my audience.  In the world we live in today, it's hard to see people just drinking coffee. We either see them engaged with their devices or with a computer in front of them. Sitting down for a coffee without any devices is rare to see and I felt that sitting down to think about where we are heading and how we are living our lives is an important activity from the past

I used VSCO cam to edit this photo. I used the black and white filter, faded the photo and lowered the contrast. I was against using filter that were overused in instagram so I wanted to use subtle methods to imply the vintage/memory theme of the photo.

Garrett Foster- Crit. 4: Memory/Vintage Recipe

The smartphone I use is a Verizon LG Lucid 2 4G LTE.

My picture of the week did not take that much editing this go around. I upload the photo into Snapseed and applied the Retrolux filter. I then hit the scroll effect button until I found a filter that I liked. I then adjusted the filter settings as follows: Brightness: +32, Saturation: +1, Contrast: +75, Style Strength: +90, Scratches: +100, and Light Leaks: +75. As I explained in my self evaluation, I wanted to center the barrel but also frame it in a way the showed the rusted out hole in the other side.

Veronica Miller Crit 4

Iphone 5s- VSCO Camera App

Both of these photos tied as my photo of the week, which I'm actually pretty surprised about. I guess you guys picked up the nostalgic feels I was trying to capture this critique. :) VSCO is no doubt the best camera app! It allows you to not only add a great assortment of filters to give your photos an added feel, in this case vintage, as well as control the brightness, contrast, highlight and shadows of your photos. If you haven't downloaded it yet, do it-it's free and offers additional free filters! I also used whitagram app to frame the second picture and give it a more vintage frame.

Kendel Seigler: Crit 4, Memory/Vintage

iPhone 5s iOS 8.1

apps used: iPhone editor, Fotor version 5.2.0.388

What I really enjoyed about taking this photos were the elements surrounding the main subject. The vintage bike is positioned in front of a wall that mirrors the "vintage" them and the dirty crate + cone represent "trash" that denotes this might be a forgotten area. The neglected foliage also adds to this. To capture this image, I focused on the immediate area and chose not to include a wider frame because there's a newer construction right outside of the frame that would have taken away from the tone. I did have to crop a bit using the iPhone editor to make sure I only included the essential elements. To make the photo look more vintage without adding a campy filter, I desaturated the photo in Fotor. I didn't make it completely black and white because the complimentary colors are important. Both the bike and brick wall are red. The foliage, cone, and crate are all green. So even though this is still a color photo, it can be seen a quite "duo chrome."

Michael Wojcik Crit 4 Memory/Vintage

iPhone 4s
apps- Google Snapseed, Polamatic

This week the Polamatic app came in handy. It will be able to take any photo from your phone and turn it into a digital polaroid. What impressed me the most about this app was how old you can make photos actually look. All the way down to scribbling text and the multiple polaroid borders there are to choose from. The top photo is my POW and the others are some that got some votes as well.

Michael Bergin Critique 4 vintage/memory

For this weeks POW I knew that it was the perfect shot for the theme of vintage because the subject is immaculate. For editing the picture I added a vintage filter that added a shading of purple to the picture because I wanted the darkness in the upper right corner to not be so bland and boring. This technique I have seen in many vintage photographs and it dates the image significantly because in pictures of old many times during the development process the intense portions of black in the photo would fade and become tinted just as I recreated in this photo. I then increased the contrast by 22% to bring out the edges of the photo which also in conjunction with the filter added an ever so faint glow around the subject which was Nice.

All images were taken on my Samsung Galaxy S4 4.4.2 KitKat and edited using the PixlrExpress app version 1.6.1 and Camera FV-5 Lite.