Burning, Dodging and Filtering Stuff

Hello visitors,
Below lies what I have done this week for the Burn, Dodge and Filter assignment.

Burn:
First off will be my dodge and burn picture.  What I have done here is taken a picture of myself and made it highly stylized in a sense that it has very high contrast due to lots of use of the dodge and burn tools along with the cartoon filter also on top of it.  I increased the contrast of my face to the background via the burn and dodge tools, which led to a picture with a very dark background and a very bright face.  Lastly, I cropped it to be more focused and have better composition.

Original:

From Dodge Burn

The end result is mainly that I think it looks a bit like the figures you see in stained glass, which I find to be a cool look.  And while It does show many things such as my cheek dimples that I had no idea I had and how I didn't shave, I find this to be kinda cool as it adds more random details to the picture.  After all, I'm not trying to achieve perfection here.

Modified:

From Dodge Burn

Filtering:

Secondly in this assignment, we move on to the batch of pictures with the filters put onto them.
First off, this picture I took back in 2006 I believe with my first digital camera, a Fujifilm Finepix A400, a very basic point and shoot.  I hadn't realized how good the picture had come out until now...
The picture is one of the many I took on a cruise and this one happens to be Key West.  The picture is just of a few houses, palm trees and the road, but I like it.

Original:

From Dodge Burn

Now, what I did here was to boost the reds a considerable amount as to have the red flowers on the left stand out quite a bit.  Next, I changed the contrast around a bit... or maybe I did this before the red flowers, I cannot remember.  So, anyway.  Next, what I did was to apply the oil paint filter on it so that it looked like a painting.

Modified:

From Dodge Burn

If you don't think it looks a lot different then you are right, It looked considerably different at full resolution and full screen.


Lastly, of course I did yet another photo with a filter added to it!
This last one was not the most difficult ever, but I think the end result is pretty psychedelic, so it's fun.
I took a picture that I had of three crab apples and started away.

Original:

From Dodge Burn

First, I burned the background area with the burn tool and put a few layers of that there to emphasize contrast.  Before this I had cropped the picture in order to be something I was more pleased with composition wise.  Next, I took the predator filter and just slapped that right on there and the result was quite interesting.
Take a look!

Modified:

From Dodge Burn

As you can see, quite colorful to say the least.

I hope you enjoyed my photos everyone!
Have a good week.

Josh