Michael Wojcik Recipe 1: B&WMystery

iphone 4S/VSCOcam

This photo I felt worked the best for the aspect of not being able to tell what it is. To give it away, its the inside of a photo printer. As I was changing the ink I thought it would look interesting because I could only really see the right side of it where the light hits it. The dark creates a strange abyss that makes the photo work. The only editing was to make it B&W which I did with the B5 moody filter.

Kendel Seigler Recipe 1: B&W/Mystery

Phone: iPhone 5s

App used: Fotor

To create this photo, I used the natural light coming in from the blinds on a window. I took this photo when the sun was positioned perfectly to shine through. This was taken as a profile shot of my face, very closely to the blinds so the lines shone on my face. Since I couldn't see myself when I was taking this, I had to crop this photo so you couldn't see the window/blinds. If you could see the blinds, that would obviously take away from the mystery of the photo. I cropped it using the 'edit' feature in my phone's camera roll. I then used the Fotor app to convert this into black and white. This app is great because it creates really rich grayscale photos and has different B&W options depending upon the intensity you want, etc.

Apps used: Fotor, GorillaCam

My kitchen has a partition that blocks off the stairs and it is made out of thick glass blocks that have different patterns on them. I positioned my camera on one side of the glass and myself on the other so my face would be distorted by the pattern. I did this using the GorillaCam app because it allows you to put your camera on a timer. I then used the Fotor app to convert this into black and white. To create the effect of my face being multiplied, I had to stand quite far away from the glass, because if you get too close, your face fills up the block and it just looks a bit blurry.

Ian Watson Recipe 1: B&W Mystery

POW Recipe

Phone: LG G2
Model number: VS980 4G (Verizon)
OS: Android 4.4.2 (KitKat)
Captured in: Default Camera app
Edited in: VSCO cam, Instagram

The main technique I focused on when shooting the original image (which I have attached below this paragraph) was shooting directly into the harsh sunset. When I saw this scene, I was not ready to take the image at all, and rushed my phone out of my pocket to take the shot. I made sure that the angle I was shooting at let me capture a bit of the subject and the entirety of their shadow without including too many other outside details in the piece. To help with this, I also shot it vertically with intent to crop later, as I know that a horizontal shot would also be harder to shoot (I could barely see my screen due to the harsh light), as well as potentially including so many details that the phone's automatic ISO would adjust in such a way to compensate for all the light. Honestly, when I took it originally, I did not know if I would even submit it for the critique.

A day or so later, after editing other images I had taken specifically for the crit, I brought this picture into VSCO cam, to see if I could make something cool from it. From there, I selected filter B5/BW Moody (the deep, dark, rich toned black and white filter). I left it on +12 (the full filter effect), and then dropped the Exposure from 0 to -1. From there, I exported it to Instagram.

(I will have to upload this once my phone syncs with my online album, because I've tried for half an hour and gotten nowhere. I hate technology)

In Instagram, I cropped the image down to a nice square size, as to get rid of all the extra space when I first took the image. I did not add a filter, but I did click on the little sun icon (which I guess is exposure, but it does not work anything like exposure would on other programs) and clicked it up to 100 to make the image even more contrasty. I also straightened it so that the horizon line was a straight line across the screen. This resulted in the image 

Caitlin Serbin Recipe 1: B&W Mystery

Dynamic Lighting

Caitlin Serbin

 

Using:    Phone: Nokia Lumina 928 (Verizon)

App: Camera App

              Software: Windows Phone 8.0

              OS Version: 8.0.10517.150

 

The lighting in this image was created using several techniques and strategies. These include timing, placement, and focal point choice.

 

My recipe for this week to create dynamic lighting is as follows:

1.       Wait until the sun is sinking below the horizon. This is important timing as you need enough time to set up before taking the picture.

2.       Place your subject between you and the sun. This allows the subject to be backlit. (light colored subject matter helps here I.e., blond hair on the girl and a horse with a blonde mane and tail.)

 

3.   Play with the focal point until you finch a combination that fits. Here the focal point was the mountains, which were darker. This allowed the camera to bring the dark areas into focus, creating deep shadows that contrast with the light of the sky.

Garret Foster Topic 1 Recipes 1

The smartphone I use is a Verizon LG Lucid 2 4G LTE. The Os is Android 4.1. These are the camera specs: Resolution: 5+ megapixel, auto-focus, LED flash/ Time Catch, face tracking, panorama, HDR, scene modes, ISO control, and timer. For all of these pictures, I used the apps Photo Editor Pro and Snapseed. Photo Editor Pro has very good enhancement and filter effects. Also, the focus effect allows for a very shallow depth of field. Unfortunately, the app is overrun with advertisements to the point that it's inconvenient. Also, it has no "save to phone" feature, so I would have to share the photos via messaging and text it to myself to load it into Snapseed. 

For my POW, I first put the photo into the app Photo Editor Pro. I used the feature "Enhance: Illuminate" then "Effects: Clyde." Then I put the photo into Snapseed. I used the the "Black & White" feature with these adjustments: "Brightness: -50" and "Contrast: +10." Then I added the "Tilt Shift" effect (to make every thing but the gears in the foreground out of focus) with these adjustments: "Tilt Shift: +50" with "Blur Strength: +100."

This was my second highest voted photo. For this picture, I first put it into the Photo Editor Pro app. I applied the features "Enhance: HD" and "Effects: Clyde." I then added the "Focus" effect and selected the "Rectangle Shape" option and made it so the carving on the tree was in focus, the line between the tree and the background was the transition point from focus to out of focus, and the background was out of focus. Then I put the photo into Snapseed. I used the "Black & White" feature with these adjustments: "Brightness: -47" and "Contrast: +45."

This was my third highest voted photo. For this picture, I first put it into Photo Editor Pro. I applied the feature "Enhance: HD." Then I put the photo into Snapseed. I used the "Black & White" feature with these adjustments: "Brightness: -44" and "Contrast: +5." Then I used the "Straighten" feature and adjusted the picture like so: "Straighten: +1.69 degrees."

Dan Casarella Recipe 1

Device: Apple iPhone 5S iOS7
App: Noir

For my POW I was very compelled to capture the lights on the top of a building next to mine. I wanted to focus on the shape of the lights as well the direction they were going towards so I shot them from a high angle looking down upon them. Given my limited space, I couldn’t get as close to them as I wanted to so this was the best I could do.

For editing I used an app I had found called Noir. My biggest priority was to focus on the lights and take out anything in the background that wasn’t there. The app lets you put the focus of light where ever you’d like, so I put it in the sky because it would darked out everything else except the lights. I blacked out everything in the background then tried to back the lights contrast. Looking at the photo there are still some lights in the background, however I think those add to the atmosphere a bit.

Mariah Frazier Recipe 1

For this photo, I wanted to capture the feeling of the place I was in. I went to visit Fort Delaware, which is an abandoned war fort. You take a ferry over to the island, and you're free to explore the entire area on your own. While exploring, there was an area that had somehow either burnt down or fallen apart. It ended up leaving a door appearing to be floating in the middle of a wall that had once been on the second story. I set up the photo to get as much of an upwards angle as I could on it to really show the strangeness of the setting.
I shot the photo in Os 7 on my iPhone 5s and used the new "Be Funky" photo app.