Week 2 -Control-

   At the start of today's lesson I edited the pictures I had taken in the previous lesson. The first step was cropping. This is important to get rid of any unwanted elements, or to make the elements be on the lines of thirds. But for one of the images I didn't crop because I didn't think it was necessary. The second step was to change the curves. We were told that making an S with them would make them look nicer. I think this augments the tone and the contrast. These were the two main steps, even though I sometimes did some other changes. Here is an example:

                             I took a very focused picture of a fence. I think this looks nice because

                         of the spider web, it sort of creates an other sense of control.

                           This is after the edit. As you can see its in black and white. I also
                           augmented the brightness and the contrast(this brings out the spiderweb).
                          I also changed the curves. This gives more heat to the image.


 After editing, I did some research on images illustrating control.  It was very hard because "control" is a very vague word. Its very hard to actually define control, but I stuck with the control of yourself and objects around you, escaping the control...:

                                In my view, these are two examples of control of objects around
                                you. In the first case, he is controlling his skateboard and in the
                                second case the man is controlling machinery.

  I then went to take pictures after doing the research. I stuck with the same ideas. We went around the school and took some pictures. It seems like inspiration didn't come because I didn't take many good pictures. For me, only 3 pictures were worth editing. Heres one of them:




Next week I will edit them and try to experiment a bit.