Project 9: Mysterical

Stained Glass Window

Model: Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Date: 11/25/2011

Shutter speed: 1/50 sec

F-stop: f/6.3

ISO:

Focal length: 6.6 mm

Tripod: No

Levels, saturation, cropping, straighten

Magical Rainbow Sunshine

Model: Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Date: 9/19/2011

Shutter speed: 1/640 sec

F-stop: f/8

ISO:

Focal length: 6.0 mm

Tripod: Yes

Levels, I used layers to add colors to my sunlight beams, also cropping was involved

Mysterical

            For this assignment I tried many things to try to create a fantasy but I didn’t like any of my ideas. Magic and imagination are in all of us, and finding a way to leash them to make an image is a hard task. There are many ways to express yourself and art is a great way to do it.  I am not big into science fiction and I wasn’t really sure how I was going to be able to express myself but in the end I found my inner imagination and turned an ordinary picture into magic.

            When I was home over thanks giving we went to a mission and although I have been there so many times I still found myself marveling at the paintings and the stained glass windows. So I took some pictures. When I got the picture back into Photoshop I made some adjustments but I just loved how the light created colors. I felt like the picture was already magical and I tried to add things but I found that as I added things it made the picture feel less magical a more staged. It just didn’t look natural and I couldn’t decide if it was my editing job or the ideas that I had.

            So I decided to move on and I again tried to add thing to make a picture I had already taken look magical.  But again it just looked staged and unnatural. Then I got the idea that I liked the light in both the pictures and decided to try to combine them into one. So I used many layers to change the rays of the sun into many different colors. I loved it and thought that it looked very happy and magical.  I love rainbows, colors and lights and feel like this picture is awesome at taking something cool and adding a little color to make it a dream.