This document discusses various photography techniques including editing photos in Photoshop, composition techniques like the rule of thirds, and how to manipulate different photo elements like exposure, saturation, and lighting. It provides examples to illustrate concepts like how eye flow, contrast, black and white conversion, using filters and effects, erasing layers, and capturing expressions and portraits. The document covers both technical photography skills as well as artistic techniques.

1. Photography
By Alaya Verishine

2. Photoshop
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3. Photoshop
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 On the left of the previous slide that is camera raw
where the image itself was taken in a raw form and
the basics are edited in this window.
 Then you would take it to Photoshop where more
drastic changes can be made then saved in a Jpeg
form.

4. How It
Flows
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5. How It Flows
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 This is about the way your eye travels around the
photo.
 The one on the top left you eye will follow the fence
into the photo, same with the vine.
 The headlight your eye will circle the headlight and
reach the corners but you focus more on the light.
 The last one at the bottom left your eye will follow
the colour of the water and it takes your eye toward
the outside and then back into the middle.

6. Exposure
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7. Exposure
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 Exposure is the depth of your shadows and
highlights.
 Going from left to right the exposure becomes
brighter.
 The first is far to dark and you would use this to
create silhouette the middle is the correct exposure.
The darks and lights are nicely balanced and the
detail is clear. The last one is way over exposed and
is washed out and hard to look at, the leaves have
become hotspots which are highlights that have
become white instead of their original colour.

8. 
Saturation

9. Saturation
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 This is the vibrancy of the colour in your photos and
how you can change the whole colour of it.
 The top left has the leaves very bright and unnatural
looking and as they move right they become more
natural looking
 The truck has some of the colour leached out without
having the features losing shape and looking washed
out.
 The cross is only an example of the colour changing
to create a more dramatic photo.

10. Contrast
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11. Contrast
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 Contrast is conflicting colours. Usually it is a light
and a dark colour, the dark colour brings out the
lighter and makes it more noticeable.
 In these three picture it is an orange and a blue, the
blue brings out the oranges so they become the focal
point in the photo

12. Black and
White
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13. Black & White
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 Black and white can really bring out the light in your
picture and is a very formal, smooth way to present your
pictures.
 The dandelion, you can see the light is coming from
behind the fluff, by having it that way the seeds are more
pronounced and you get more detail within the fluff.
 On the right the picture is inverted so the blacks have
become white to show more detail in the trees and the
figure.
 On the saxophone the reflection becomes the focus and is
more elegant than in colour.

14. 
Erasing
Layers

15. Erasing Layers
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 Erasing a layer is a simple way to bring out a flower
or something colourful in a black background or
create a ghost look. If you don’t like something in a
layer, but you like the rest then you can always erase
the one piece that doesn’t work, and create a nice
image.
 The two on the left are examples of erasing on black
backgrounds.
 The barriers are leading your eye to see a soccer goal
in the image that has been faded out by adjusting the
opacity on that layer.

16. Filter Affects
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17. Filter Affects
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 These can be used in Photoshop as preset layers that
add interesting things to your photo.
 The horses have been blurred out so that they have
an aura around them.
 The bottle cap has a plastic layer on it so the dips in
the photo are highlighted as if shrink wrapped.
 The sax is pixelated so it looks crystalized, almost
like stained glass.
 The dog is a graphic layer so it looks drawn.

18. Rule Of
Thirds
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19. The Rule of Thirds
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 The rule of thirds is four imaginary lines, two
horizontal and two vertical. These lines create a nine
squared grid on the photo so you can keep the main
focus in a more proper place.
 The rule of thirds also applies to the content in the
image, instead of having two apples say, have three
so one is in the middle.
 All the photos follow the rule of thirds, all of them
are on the lines or in one of the nine squares.

20. Abstract
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21. Abstract
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 All abstract is, is a faint idea that can be perceived as
anything. Most abstract things can mean different things
to different people.
 All of these photos below have been thought of
differently.
 The top one seen as the barrier between winter and
summer or as a representation of the equinox.
 The middle one as man against nature and how we will
never win.
 The last one almost an illusion, for your eyes want to
focus on the nail but the drop of water is the focal point.

22. 
Reflection

23. Reflection
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 Reflection is exactly that, not only are you taking a
picture of maybe a scenery or in these cases cars and
a motorbike, but you are focusing in on the detail
inside them.
 All of these pictures are good examples. Most
reflections are done in black and white but they can
also be done nicely in colour.

24. 
Noise

25. Noise
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 Noise is the content within an image. If the image is
to busy then it can be had to look at and can take
away from the focal point.
 The picture on the top left has a car amid a lot of
vegetation. The plants really take away from the car
but by blending the colour it creates a frame around
the car to draw more attention to it
 The photo on the bottom has the bush around it, but
the three gravestones even it out so you look at the
middle gravestone.

26. 
Sharpening

27. Sharpening
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 Sharpening is increasing the accent on the lines of
images.
 The two images on the top have the detail brought
out so that the water and water drops can be seen
and the reflection is better and more clear.
 The same is with the snow, the sharpening brought
out a focal point in the image.

28. 
Lighting

29. Lighting
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 The lighting in a photo can cause it to be well
detailed with nice shadows and highlights or it can
wash the colour out and create hotspots.
 The dandelion has a few hotspots in the thicker
clumps of fluff but it suites the image.
 The barbed wire has nice lighting form above to
really define the shape and almost make a silhouette.
 The trees have the light filtering from the leaves
which makes the trunk darker and the further up the
image you go the light brings out more leaves.

30. Picture Perfect
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31. Picture Perfect
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 These are some images that didn’t have to be
touched in Photoshop or have very minimal
alterations.
 The less you have to play with an image the greater
the photo.

32. Simple
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33. Simple
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 In photography less is more and the simpler the
photo in most cases the better.
 The leaf the main focus is the amber coloured water
drops, it isn't touched to much just sharpened to
bring out the detail.
 The fence with the leaves in it is also very simple, by
slightly increasing the colour in the most frontward
leaves, you create a center point without changing it
to much and keeping it simple, but interesting

34. 
Texture

35. Texture
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 Texture is used to create a photo that you can almost
feel. Texture photos tend to be in black and white to
keep detail/
 All the black and white photos have no real focus
point but they are fun to look at.
 The one in colour can be a texture photo, but in
colour it gets a little harder to get the same feeling.

36. Brushes
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37. Brushes
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 You can use different types of brushes to reveal the
layer underneath, some brushes can add an
interesting element to the picture and make the
photo.
 On the bottom left the saxophone is green and is
being revealed from a black background, the brush
was in the shape of a leaf and creates a natural feel to
the image.
 On the top left the saxophone is black and white and
has black streaks running through it, this gives the
impression of blinds to make it edgy.

38. Portraits
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39. Portraits
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 Theses are very precise shots that focus mainly on
the triangle of the eyes and nose, so the face can stay
in focus.
 The dog is focused right between his eyes, this way
his whole face is in focus, that way his legs and the
ground are blurred slightly so they don’t take away
from his face.
 The statue however isn’t a headshot, it’s a full body
shot but the whole body and face is clear. To only
have shot the face doesn’t give the mood that the
whole body provided.

40. Expression
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41. Expression
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 To take a picture of an animal or a person it is best to
have an expression on their face, not only is it more
interesting but it can make or break the photo.
 The dog is the same in all the photos but his
expression varies from, really excited, to looking
embarrassed and asking for help, to being relaxed
and drowsy in the sun.
 All the differences in expression change the whole
mood of the photo, and make it more fun to look at.