A02

I used the sprots mode to catch series of photos. I tried several times and finally picked this one which is not blurred. I want to show the contrast between the girl and the busy people in a big city. In order to make the portrait focus on the girl, I used the adjustment brush to blur the background and reduce the contrast value of the background. The classmates suggested me to make a series of this photo, it is an interesting idea and I will try to catch a continuous series of this jumping girl. Also I will try to zoom out a little bit to include more backgrounds into the frame.

The car in the photo is one of my favorite car RollsRoyce, I encountered with one when I was walking on the street.  I supposed to show that I was standing with something I like. In such a big city, there was only me and something I like in the frame. To make the person outstanding, I adjusted the value of sharpness and contrast on the person much more than orignal. Next time I will try to catch a moving car behind the person, to make it a little blurred and has more contrast with the person.

For the intimacy topic, I chose to shoot some pictures of my best friends. I cropped the original picture to enlarge the two figures in the frame. The sky was getting dark when I was taking the pictures, so I use the adjustment brush to make the two people brighter than in the original photo. My classmates could read the "intimacy" topic for this picture, but they gave me suggestions about the framing. They suggested that the two people should be little smaller but not to big and occupied to much of the whole space. If I reshoot this photo, I will make the the two people smaller in the frame.

I took several pictures of the figure in the place with  such less light. I was wondering if there were some portraits could be randomly shoot but still very surprising. This photo was one of those ones. I used the adjustment brush to make the person's face clear and her hand much blurred. Also, I put more light on her hand and chest to make a contrast between dark and bright areas. The situation on Empire State helped me a lot to play with shadow and lights. If I retake this photo, I will try to focus on the girl's hand instead of her face, and put the new one together with this, to see what is the difference between those.