My theme of my pictures is Noticing the Ignored. They are
pictures of things I walk by everyday and would have never noticed I had not
been looking for reflections. Since most of the photos were the reflections of
windows, it added to the difficultness of noticing them. Whenever I look at
windows I pay attention to what is behind the window, not what the window is
reflecting. Because you’re able to see what is behind the window and what the
window is reflecting, it gives the picture an almost double exposerd effect.
To make my photos black and white I edited them in
Photoshop. Once I had the image opened I went under Layer -> New Adjustment layer -> Black and White. There
I played around with the darkness of each colour to help make more contrast
between some images softer or more dramatic.
I also added some vignette to some pictures. To do that I
first used an ellipse tool to make the general shape of the vignette. Since
it’s just a big black oval, I change the layer from combine shapes to subtract
front shapes, reversing the oval, so the oval is of the picture and the border
is all black. From there, I increased the feather so the contrast wouldn’t be
so distinct. Sometimes when you adjust the feather the black disappears at some
ends. To fix this I went under Edit -> Free Transform Path and adjust the width/length to help the black fit better. Finally
I lowered the opacity the border to make the black more discrete.
