Sun Shining through the Trees
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FIN 247 – UNIT 2- Assignment 5

  • 1 - Forest
    1 – Forest
  • 2 – Tree Halo
  • 3 – Sun Shining through the Trees
  • 4 – Moss
  • 5 – Smiley Face Rock
  • 6 – Mushroom Tree Stump
  • 7 – Wavy Log

My image edit intentions below:

  1. For this image I wanted to create more drama with the lines of the trees and contrast that with the green in the trees and the blue of the sky. I lowered the exposure and heightened the contrast slightly. I lightened the shadows quite a bit and lowered the highlights. I slightly increased the clarity, texture and dehaze. I then went into photoshop, and added a Hue and Saturation mask to the greens in the image and finally added a filter of “soft light” of 60%.
    1. EXIF Settings: SS 1/160 sec – ISO 400 – f/5
  2. This image I had the same goal. I wanted to dramatize the blues and the greens in the image to create a stronger contrast. I brought down the exposure and increased the contrast a bit. I lowered the shadows and increased the highlights. I also brought up the texture, dehaze and clarity slightly. In photoshop, I used 2 hue and saturation masks to brighten both the blues and the yellow/greens in the image.
    1. EXIF Settings: SS 1/800 sec – ISO 800 – f/5
  3. For this image, I went for a slightly different mood. I wanted to decrease the intensity of the sun exposure coming through the trees. I lowered the highlights quite a bit and increased the shadows quite a bit. I increased the texture and lowered the clarity. In photoshop I added 3 different Hue and saturation masks to increase the yellow, green and blue intensity. I also added a gradient mask which added a lot of mood to photo.
    1. EXIF Settings: SS 1/400 sec – ISO 800 – f/5
  4. This image, I wanted to decrease the intensity of the sun shining through and just make the green moss to really pop. I lowered the exposure but increased the contrast. I brought the highlight’s down dramatically and brought up the shadows. I also lowered the black in the photo and slightly increased the white. Texture and haze were both slightly increased and the clarity decreased. In photoshop I added 2 hue and saturation masks to intensify the greens and the yellows. I also added a Lighten filter to 65%.
    1. EXIF Settings: SS 1/15 sec – ISO 400 – f/5
  5. For this image, I wanted to make the smiley face more of the focal point in the textured rock. I brought up the contrast slightly, lowered the highlights quite a bit and increased the shadows. In photoshop I added multiple hue and saturation filters. One to lower the intensity of the rock, another one to increase the green shades, another to strengthen the yellow on the rock.
    1. EXIF Settings: SS 1/800 sec – ISO 400 – f/5
  6. For this image, I kept with the same theme of brightening and intensifying the colours. I lowered the highlights, increased the shadows and decreased the black within the photo. Texture and clarity were increased slightly and the dehaze was increased dramatically. I also increased the vibrancy and saturation quite a bit. In photoshop, I again added, hue and saturation masks. One to intensify the blues and another for the greens.
    1. EXIF Settings: SS 1/40 sec -ISO 400 – f/5
  7. For this final image, I wanted to continue with the same mood and intensify all the colours. I brought the exposure down quite a bit increased the contrast slightly. The highlights are lowered and shadows were increased quite a bit. I also intensified the texture in this image to bring out the texture of the wood. I brought down the clarity and added a dehaze to the image and also increased the vibrancy. In photoshop, I added a hue and saturation mask to increase the green vibrancy. I put a gradient mask on this photo to darken the left side of the image and added a final brightness mask to the image to brighten the right side and add a contrast.
    1. EXIF Settings: SS 1/15 sec – ISO 400 – f/5