Selfie

30.5.2014, Week 9
Tia Nellisa Binti Noor Badrol Akram (0320027)
Introduction to Photography
Exercise: Selfie (Not graded).

Lecture:
Today’s class, we learn about editing photo using Adobe Photoshop. Mr. Vinod gives us some briefing about how to use it and the tools in Adobe Photoshop. After that, he walks around to look at the selfie assignment photo he asked us to do last week, and give a little comment about our photo before we start on editing it. As we starting to edit our photo, Mr. Vinod helped those who are having trouble with their Photoshop. Before he dismissed the class for today, we were told us that the edited selfie photo we did, need to be set as our Facebook profile picture till the end of semester.

Instructions:

1. Edit the photo using Adobe Photoshop
2. Upload and set it as our profile picture on Facebook

Exercise:
Aperture: F5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/100, ISO: 200

Before editing

After editing

Prove:

(Screen Shots)Hardcopy of Exercise:

Reflection:
Experience:
I never use Adobe Photoshop before and it was quite difficult to edit a photo with it. But I was able to understand it in the end. I had fun playing around with Photoshop and I spend hours editing my selfie photo because I keep on redo it again and again.

However, Mr. Vinod said that my photo seem to be overly edit and tell me to use the photo as it is because editing is to enhance a photo, not to steal the show.  I guess I went overboard editing the photo until I forgot what the purpose editing is all about.

Observation:
In today class, I notice that everyone selfie was unique and different with each other, it was very interesting. As I am new with Photoshop, there was some trouble I come across when I want to edit my photo; luckily Mr. Vinod helped me out. During editing, I notice that editing using Adobe Photoshop was hard but as we get used to it, it’s not as difficult as it seem. We just need to do more experiment with it. That’s what an active learner really is after all. I also notice that from just editing a photo by adding filters, like we always do, are not enough to enhance the photo.

Findings:
From today class, I learn how to edit a photo using Adobe Photoshop. Editing using Photoshop leads to a whole new world of editing to me and it was fun. Even though, I had difficulties with it sometimes but it still quite fun. And what Mr. Vinod gave us tips about Photoshop makes it easier to understand it more. Editing a photo using Photoshop is not an easy job as it is time consuming and we need to have a lot of patient.  I also learn that we shouldn’t edit our photo too much until it steals the shot of that photo.