Saturday, October 9, 2010

Assignment 3 Photo Manipulation

As people know, the widespread use of digital media and social networking plays an important role in today. For example, social networking users such as Facebook enjoy uploading their pictures on their own homepage and checking comments under the picture. Therefore, today photo is a kind of friend.
As the digital camera industry has been developed rapidly, photography also incredibly developed due to the design application such as Adobe Photoshop CS4 as well as various of camera functions. As a result, photo manipulation is an art because you can create and use a skill to make an unique photo. In addition, from the lecture I found something that photographers always try to find the new way to express and create a unique picture. Manipulation is one of the key that allows you create, design and fix your photo. That is why someone says that "photo manipulation is an ever evolving collaboration between photography and graphic design," because the manipulation of a photo gives a realistic view of an unreal picture. Here is some examples.

As you see, you cannot say these photos are realistic picture, but it is an art.
Here is another example. I was not good at taking photo and using a photoshop program even if I have a DSRL camera and a photoshop because I thought everything seemed to be complicative. However, after using that, I realized that taking and making a unique picture is fun and easy. Especially, with the photoshop this can be done very easily.



I took these pictures when I went to New York. It was beautiful and clear day so I could take many beautiful pictures. However, I wanted to make this picture to be antique. I used the photoshop application. It was very fun and simple to change. I just found a black and white function and clicked. Finally, I got an antique picture.
In conclusion, the photo manipulation is a great sources of inspiration. People can re/create, re/produce and design their pictures. So I think anyone can be a great photo designer once they know the photo manipulation.
Cited
http://www.instantshift.com/2009/07/20/80-excellent-examples-of-photo-manipulation-art/

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